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=== Summary ===
=== Summary ===
Revision as of 16:16, 22 July 2013
Project Name
Kitchen Mission
Jarrod Hicks
There has not been a general agreement to remove the central island.
Based on discussion at the Rebase meeting and further kitchen meeting(s). I am proposing a single wall minimum storage kitchen layout. This would be a slimmed down kitchen with less to clean and maintain. It is focused on hacking and events. Items removed would be: food storage, closed cabinets, and the island.
See the plans below:
File:Noisebridge - Sheet - A507 - Kitchen Mission.pdf
What Will Be Done
(Based on the 07/09/2013 Rebase meeting, this proposal is being modified to include a refrigerator and no longer change the 3 compartment sink.)
I am proposing a quick initial demo phase and then a longer rebuilding phase.
Phase 01:
The first phase is a demo cleaning phase. While it may sound drastic, it will not leave the kitchen with any less functionality then is intended in the final phase.
Phase 01 includes removal of the food storage and a severe reduction of the cabinet space.
All food will be removed from the kitchen. Items in the cabinets will be reorganized, donated, or discarded. Temporary open wire shelves will be used to hold the remainder of the existing stuff. The kitchen island will be demolished except for the stove (The Noisebridge mosaic will be preserved). and the area of the island under the stove will be opened up. The cabinets will be removed from the kitchen, broken down, and placed in the dump pile for removal. A bracket will be installed to support the existing shelf over the sink. The remaining equipment, floor, and the area of the kitchen will be deep cleaned. Safe pest control stuff may also be used.
Phase 02 is a longer cleaning, improving, and rebuilding phase.
A period of cleaning and ongoing pest control will occur while the new kitchen equipment is being sourced, built and installed. The goal of phase two is to create a more useful and more accessible kitchen. All major equipment and counters conform, at least, to ADA guidelines whenever possible.
OVEN and MICROWAVE: The double oven should be replaced with a more reliable single oven and lower to the ground. This will go where the refrigerator is currently. This will be installed in a full height cabinet which will also contain the microwave. Above this will be shelves to hold the hacking/event equipment: chafing dishes, burners, fermentation tools and so on.
SINK: The existing 3 compartment sink will be moved and lowered for greater accessibility.
STOVE: The existing stove top will be mobilized; built into a new counter top with wheels attached. The stove will be outfitted with an electrical plug connector and outlets will be installed in areas likely for the stove to be used. An extension cable may also be appropriate.
STORAGE: Above the sink, sturdy functional drying racks will be installed for dish drying and storage. Storage for knives and utensils will be attached the walls near the sink.
What Areas in the Space Will This Affect
Who Will Be Doing It
Other volunteers to be determined
Why This Will Be Good
Removing food storage means less for pests to eat and less spoilage. Reducing size the of the kitchen will reduce the cleaning and sanitation burden of the kitchen. Removing storage and counter space will lessen the extents of the typical mess and clutter of the kitchen so that it has less impact on the east side of the Noisebridge space. Along with reducing the utility, removal of the refrigerator will lessen electricity costs.
Why This Will Be Bad
People like having a full kitchen and this will disappoint them. This proposal also may not be going far enough to make a difference.
How Long Will It Take
Phase 01 could be done in a day.
Phase 02 depends on availability of funds, appliances, and materials. Most of the work could be done in a few days and Noisebridge could remain open during the construction.
In A Fantastic World, What Extra Budget Would You Like
Money for counter and cabinet materials. Decent condition appliances.
Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Work Well With
Clean Machine
Trash Stash
Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Contradict
Probably none.


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User Comments for Week 16 RB Rankings
I'm on the fence... My RBs are A. Foster, K. Moreno and S. Ridley. I feel like Moreno is going to have a a third consecutive big day on Sunday. Part of me thinks Billicheck will reduce Ridley's snaps and/or touches because of Ridley's protection issues against the Niners. Your thoughts please...Oh, and I can only start two of the three. Thank you in advance.
nl1088 12/19/12 01:24 AM
Mid-season I would no doubt go with Foster and Ridley but this isn't mid-season. The safe bet would be Moreno and this is probably playoffs or your championship. I like Ridley's match up a lot and he probably will score 15-20 fantasy points but who knows what is going on in billy's mind. You know Moreno is going to get the most of the attempts and almost a guarantee 10 fantasy points, so you got a safe bet(moreno) and a risk but high reward(ridley). GL.
saland34 12/19/12 10:02 AM
I have pretty much done my own evaluations as I am in 5 Championship final matches and 3 Championship semi-finals on 3 different sites. I thought I'd share my thoughts for this weeks rankings. First, on Ridley. Bill is a stickler for RB's who fumble, and I expect Woodhead to get the lion's share of the carries. Knowshon running behind Peyton's Arm makes him the clear choice as defenses can't "stack the box". I also think RB Alex Green is rated way too high. I think DuJuan Harris will get a ton of work this week at Tennessee, as I expect Rodgers to work the running game extensively. There are some others I think are too high, and some too low. I think the Law Firm will do well this week as well. Pittsburgh's defense isn't as stout against the run lately as they once were and with the Red Rifle firing mostly bull-eyes, they will have to play the pass coverage tight, opening up running lanes for BJGE. I think the same scenario will be in play in Barbeque City with Vick Ballard having a banner day. Atlanta's HC Smith is driving me nuts concerning RB Turner. I thought he would be resting Turner more and playing Rodgers a lot more, but that hasn't come to pass. I thought Detroit had a good defense, until last week in the Arizona desert. If Smith watches that tape, I'd expect Turner to have a helluva day. In fact, it could be a banner day for all the Atlanta players. I also look for a blow-out in the City of Brotherly Booing. I bet most of that team has their bags packed and ready to get out of town. I fully expect Shanahan to rest RGIII another week, playing Kirk Cousins again. That helps Morris and the receivers since he doesn't run nearly as much, vulturing Morris' TD's. Well, I better stop writing or this will turn into an article by itself. Later fellow FF-erz. Good luck.
Huge decision between Doug Martin or Knowshon Moreno this week. Martin has been well not very good lately. Need one of these guys to pair with AP to send me to the promise land! Thank you for the help.
Troydd24 12/20/12 09:31 AM
Championship game: Trent Richardson or Vick Ballard? All the facts point to Ballard but it's hard to bench a stud.
anomz 12/21/12 12:37 PM
I think Denver's underrated defense is going to hold Richardson under 3 yards per carry and by doing this, holding Richardson under a double-digit performance. But if he is your stud then roll with him. I have a similar situation. I think Moreno and Ridley are going to go off but I can't bench Arian Foster.
nl1088 12/21/12 03:10 PM
Still looking for any insight on whether to start Moreno or Martin for championship game... Help
Troydd24 12/21/12 08:38 PM
Need an opinion or two: non-ppr
Have to sit one of the following: Peterson, forte, Moreno, Charles, McFadden
Also have to pick two of these: garçon Wallace Austin
Any ideas?
jeffdelgiudice 12/22/12 12:46 AM
NEED HELP!!! In my leauge u get .25 ppr and 3 pts for 40 yrd receptions or rushes and 40 yrd reception or rushing touchdown. Need to start 2 of 3 wallace,shorts,or garcon. Also need to start 2 of 3 forte,moreno, or mcfadden. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
CBen24 12/22/12 08:44 AM
Mcfadden, Morris or wilson? I can start two RB's.
TJC Roughriders 12/22/12 12:10 PM
Mcfadden and Morris definetley.
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I am a python beginner and I am trying to average two NumPy 2D arrays with shape of (1024,1024). Doing it like this is quite fast:
newImage = (image1 + image2) / 2
But now the images have a "mask" that invalidate certain elements if set to zero. That means if one of the elements is zero, the resulting element should also be zero. My trivial solution is:
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I don't know about you, but some people I know will freak out if I lift up the lid on a pot of cooking rice to stir or check its done-ness. They say "you should never ever ever lift the lid". It is like a commandment. Sure I can see that some steam will be released, and temperature lowered. But is it such a problem to lift the lid once or twice when cooking rice? Are there some consequences that I am overlooking?
I am going to assume you are cooking the rice on a pot rather than in rice cooker. If you are cooking it in the rice cooker, you wouldn't need to lift the lid to check for done-ness. However if you are cooking in a rice cooker, the lid should not be immediately lifted off after it says it is done cooking. You need to let it sit for about 5-10 minutes so the steam can continue to cook.
If you are cooking in a pot, the main reason why you do not want to lift the lid is because you want a even cooking temperature throughout. Typically when you cook rice(once again I am going to assume just plain white rice), you start the water/rice mixture by boiling it on high until it comes to a boil. I do recommend stirring it at this point. But not after covering. Then you set it to very low and cover and let it simmer for about 15-20 minute or more depending on quantity. By doing this, you can evenly cook the rice throughout so that the rice isn't too overcooked on the bottom. If you continue to lift the lid, the temperature would drop, and the top would be less cooked than the bottom. So you would need to cook it longer for the top to be cooked while the bottom is being overcooked.
In addition, the steam that is escaping is the water that you put into the rice. thus when you lift the lid, the water is escaping and will result in the rice being dryer than optimal. If you want to add more water, this will slow the cooking process on top of it already being slowed by losing temperature when you lift the lid. This will result in slower cooked rice.
The effects are negligible, assuming you are not lifting the lid for more than a few seconds. There is a lot of liquid water in the system, so heat loss will be barely measurable. Same goes for the amount of water exiting the system in the form of steam.
Opening it once or twice shouldn't be a problem, as long as you do it fairly quickly. I've had to do that before when cooking rice on the stove simply because it was foaming up too much due to the starch. That being said, I haven't had to check rice for doneness before. Jay's instructions for cooking rice are the same instructions I've used and it cooks the rice just fine. Lifting it too much will result in rice as Jay noted, but once or twice, very briefly, shouldn't be a big deal.
Ok, here we go....my mom was a total tyrant when it came to cooking rice properly. Yes, she is Japanese. Yes, from Japan. And yes, I'm one of those people who freak out when people lift the lid when it's cooking.
Here is how it was explained to me. I have subsequently tested the theory and found hard, empirical evidence on why lifting the lid is BAD.
I agree with Jay on all his points. But here is the main reason for not lifting the lid:
If the rice is still hard in the middle of the grain, lifting the lid will cause the temperature to drop. Once this happens, by the time the temperature rises back to equilibrium, you will have OVERCOOKED the outside of the individual grains, which will become mushy. Conversely, if you lift the lid and cook the rice for the normal amount of time, the center of the grain will be hard and UNDERCOOKED.
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Looking for a rufflet!! PM ME PLEASE
Looking for a rufflet!! PM ME PLEASE
Hey, im trading Rufflet/Braviary for a Vullaby/Mandibuzz.
Can also trade Zorua of either one.
pm if interested
Last edited by Iridril; 14th March 2011 at 3:11 AM.
I am currently searching for a Shiny Braviary with a Jolly nature at any level, please PM if you have one for trade
I am looking for any rufflet, and am willing to trade a Vullaby, unfezant, druddigon, cubchoo, panpour, woobat, timburr. patrat, trubbish, audino, sawk, deerling, minccino, swadloon, munna, purrloin, herdier, drilur,and shelmet, for it. To contact me, please post here and then i will request a friend code exchange.
Here are its stats
Name: Vullaby
Gender: female
level: 34
nature: Naughty
Is sturdy
Moves: flatter(dark), faint attack(dark), punishment(dark), and defog(flying)
Last edited by pat0307; 14th March 2011 at 9:02 PM.
I'm Looking for a rufflet Lvl 1. I have a Zorua egg or lvl one to trade for it ^_^
Just looking for any old Rufflet, doesn't have to be anything special. I have a Vullaby for those who want to do an exclusives trade.
PM with details.
Edit: Trade completed.
Last edited by ShinyVaati; 15th March 2011 at 3:07 AM.
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can't trade much of anything except a pansage...but i really want a rufflet!!
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Looking for a Rufflet, preferably 30+. I will trade a Vullaby but I also have much more to trade, PM me.
Pearl Friend Code: 4640 1555 2847
Heartgold Friend Code: 4297 5980 4169
Black Friend Code: 3696 9700 0725
Offering Legit Jirachis from the Pokemon Coliseum bouns disc.
Looking for a Rufflet too. Hopefully someone can trade me, doesn't have to be any special. PM me. Thanks.
I am seeking a Rufflet, any level, any moveset. Message me for friend code / trading options. Currently finished breeding some Zorua, so those are up for grabs!
Hey I'm a very avid Pokemon player and I've been playing since it first came out. Ever since seeing the 5th Generation list of Pokemon I've fallen in love with one Pokemon from this roster: Rufflet and it's evolved form. The only problem is I have the black version of the game so is there anyone who can help me obtain one? Message me if you are interested in helping thanks.
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Looking for someone to trade rufflet for a vullaby my vullaby is 38 female.
I have Lv.1 Snivy and Lv.1 Tepig right from the egg. Looking for a rufflet (not Lv. 1 PLEASE) to join my team, any gender, nature, anyone will do. Can trade anytime, please PM if interested.
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Hi you all! I have used for a lot of time pinnacle and ulead software on windows for editing my home video.
Now I am trying kdenlive 0.7.7.1 on kubuntu 10.04. It is a good software.
But I would like some 3d transitions.
I have take a look on this project: http://gvfx.blogspot.com/, I think that this is a simple and good way for insert in kdenlive some 3d transitions.
So, I think that the kdenlive should to show, the transitions with a gif (or with another way) so, the user, know quickly the transition type. This is the same way used by pinnacle or ulead software.
I hope this help!
Sun, 05/16/2010 - 18:41
I think this was already discussed if not here then definitely elsewhere. Basically, I agree with the concept, but the way gvfx and blender works does not make integration simple and robust. In fact, as is, it will introduce a lot of usability issues and instability, which will add considerable overhead in support, testing, debugging and code to adress the kludgy integration. I occasionally revisit the Python API changes in blender releases to see if it ready, but I just do not have the time to develop the patches for blender especially as this has a much higher gimmick than true value level.
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 23:21
Emanuel Lopez (Timbis) also from argentina has been developing GVFX, and is about to launch 0.1.4, he made huges advances and soon I will create newer transitions
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Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/gvfx/
@ddkenedy, GVFX had been conceived as an external package as independent as possible so the NLE should have to fill a textfile and ask for a render all externally and no matter which blender/python version.
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Tue, 11/09/2010 - 18:26
it sounds interesting...
How is the integration with other video editors currently working?
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 18:42
but can you do a shell version of this stuff?
because... omg gtk.. i mean i have kubuntu without gtk stuff will be nicer if i could get that stuff without gtk ugly stuff
i know it's pity like thinking but... if i would do something i will do the shell version :D so it would be libraries independent
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 20:37
@gab3d statye of things:
-Cinelerra people too busy fighting eachother (2006)
-kinoDV people interested, but vanished on attempts (2007)
-OpenMovieEditor,working on some stuff I suggested, actually made a UV distorts based on blender UV render to get awesoime distorions and take all this into 2D (faster/realtime) and in time expected GVFX support.... RIP (2008)
-Kdenlive, people studiyng it (2009)
-GVFX declared death by Alex and Me (2008).
-Emanuel lopez (timbis) loves the software and brings it to life again,makes a GUI to make it easy for users to use since NO NLE would use it.
-Openshot interested on GVFX since they use a similar aproach for Titles on 3D (blender 3D)
@nowarDev the opriginal project was conceived to work GTK/QT free, you can still download the package from here: http://alexvaqp.googlepages.com/ProyectDir.zip
unfortunately many changes had been introduced by Emanuel Lopez since then so maybe would be easy to modify the new code to work without the UI than actually go into that old code.
Most of the process is actually calling a render from the commandline so...
to understand how theold ersion works I writed this description with the instructions to ask for a render in GVFX
it all comes to:
blender -b gfvx.blend -P gfvx_script.py
-b renders in background
-P call execution opf the script, it opens the txt file and loiads the videos from the IN frame to the OUT frame and replaces the clipA and clipB texturemaps.
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 21:09
mmm nice tested,
/me will start to integrate this with dolphin via akm-video-qt && kdenlive
but i have no time right now.
will see
for now akm-video-qt creates kdenlive video project with rando wipe effects
i will try to use your script
of course it's pity i mean with this way i have to encode before to import to kdenlive... so.. it's just to create automatically all the stuff.. but you can't edit it you have only to render... mm that doesn't make sense.. should be done from mlt maintener and i guess.. :D anyway your script first release that i have just tested is good for my own use :D
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 00:26
the original idea was, that the Editing Software had a dummy (empty) transition opn its timeline, once you put the clips and stablish how many frames are on the transition and which clips are on it, the Editing app sould fill a TXT file with the videofiles and the frames numbers for both clips, the onld one was only able to manage 100 frames, the newer made by Emanuel can actually rescale the whole animation up or down for different scenarios, once the render was called and completed inb the background the Editing Software should have to load that clip to replace the Dummy transition.
If you had worked with Hollywood FX or SoftXplode you get the idea, all the transition render is made OUTSITE the Editing App, so to have better/newer transitions, just change a file.
I made this video to show the Premiere/hollywoodFX worflow works:
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 02:02
"once the render was called and completed in the background the Editing Software should have to load that clip to replace the Dummy transition".
...sounds to me like the rendered transition clip would act as a "proxy" for the transition.
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 05:28
anubis4d, regarding "outside" and "external"
But that is what makes GVFX and interop with blender a problem to integrate! What if one of the clips the transition is using has filters (effects in Kdenlive) or is involved in a multi-track composite? The filters are not yet applied to the underlying clip - that happens in the processing software, which here is MLT.
OK, fine, you think, it is not perfect integration, and we can tell people to expect limitations, but in reality it becomes a support burden. Also, it is quite awkward to try to integrate this into the timeline - both in the code but also for the user experience - no other transitions require pre-rendering. What happens when one of clip ends involved in the transition is changed? If it is currently rendering in background, what happens when someone tries to export/render the kdenlive project before that is finished?
For now, I think a completely separate, standalone tool that outputs a clip that must be added in Kdenlive makes more sense. Congrats to Emanuel.
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 10:54
@anubis ok but i am a scripter i mean i love get the videos on dophin right button do the stuff for me ...
so basically i create a mlt file ... with that script.
i am not a skilled programmer like dennedy the only thing i can do it's try to create a mlt with transitions already encoded but... then does it make sense? i thought and i guess no... because if you can't see what you are doing it's just a bad thing.
i have to say dennedy has right it should be integrated on mlt but if he has no time xD why don't you think to give him a hand :) i know programming is hard but if you was able to use phyton...
my 2 cents
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 14:23
very valid points you bring, ddennedy!
it doesn't seem like a simple task.
do you think it is feasible, from a technological standpoint, to integrate this into MLT?
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 19:10
@gab3d "...sounds to me like the rendered transition clip would act as a "proxy" for the transition"
yep (sorry the "dummy", it comes from my past as 3DMax user).
Mlt integration don`t think is the best for this kind of tool, as I see MLT is meant to be Realtime, GVFX (as hollywoodfx was) were expected to be a slower kind of transitions, we expect to have render, and for all users realtime is fine but for certain aplicacions having the ability to work with several tools is better. What is faster? fork some 3d engine into the Mlt or Kdenlive or just use an external, well known and used on the comunity 3D tool as is blender to do the job NOW? that is a price to pay in the case of realtime I think... A long time ago I used hollywood FX and hated the fact that I couldn`t use 3D/max to make my own transitions, well seems like we have all the pieces scatered here right now.
the vale of such thing is this, many people payt A LOT of money for these kind of tools.
This is hollywoodFX
HollywoodFx transitions
The answer had been on HollywoodFX for a decade now, the Proxy(aka DUMMY) transitions is and empty object for the NLE, in the 90`s HolywoodFX had a RENDER NOW boton on it, so you can render and watch them on the timeline, buyt most of the times, the user simply selected the Transition pack and put the transition, pick a thumnbail and keep editing, NO PREVIEW were aviable in the former versions, but once you had yout timeline ready to render you could ask the external package (hollywood fx en that case) to render all the transitions BEFORE the actual NLEW render passes over, well, in the GVFX case if some NLE uses it you wouldn´t be able to see any difference on the timeline, just after the final render (all the GVFX parts woulkd be rended and THEN the whole project, of course, if you had an effect applied on a part of a transitions you should have that fragment donde first)
Is you change the duration on a GVFX transitions the NLE should have to modify the values on the textfile... if THAT transitions had already been rendered, well you will have to mark it as unrendered and create the script to process it again.
HollywoodFX worked that way and they wasn´t able to touch Adobe Premiere code, so they made their own 3d render engine with the transitions in that EXTERNAL WAY so the plugin was able tu run with many different Premiere versions (well, at least until the CS versions appeared).
Being a complete separate app is the way users (like me) can add more cool stuff on a blenderfile not caring about the NLE versions (not having to code anything, just use blender and overwrite a file), if developers make the integration, all the changes and new transitions would be on the user`s hands, or even editr`s hands (emanuel is also a blender dude).
Unfortunatelly I`m not as coder, I was onm a time but nowadays video Editing, Motion graphics and 3D Animations are part of my life, just the guy wqith the crazy ideas Emanuel is the genius here.
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 03:56
From what I understand, for this to work from inside Kdenlive...
- MLT should independently process (apply effects, etc.) each of the overlapping frames of the clips taking part in a GVFX transition.
- Then those clips' frames would be passed on to GVFX to render the actual transition (via Blender).
- Then Kdenlive (or MLT?) would receive the rendered clip and automatically substitute the GVFX transition in the timeline with this clip, for compositing it with the rest of the clips of the timeline, as usual.
...is this correct?
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 19:37
1 - independent
2 - don´t have to pass any frames or prerender anything, just take the clip data and fill a text file(.txt in the older GVFX, or xml in the newer Emanuel`s version) and indicate clip name and frames in/out.
clipnameA, INframe, OUTframe
clipnameb, INframenumber, OUTframenumber
the only exception is when and involved clip has an effect applied then that part of the clip should be pre-rendered, and indicate in the textfile the filename/location of the tempfile as clipnameA, or clipnameB. The GVFX old version couldn`t work with paths, the newer version can take filenames as /home/meuser/.kdenlive/temps/temporatryclip0001.avi and use it, actually Emanuel uses an open dialog to indicate which clip to use.
3 - It wouldn´t receive nothing, render makes a render to a path as framesequences or videofile, you can indicate that in the textfile (whichever is faster, or more convenient for quality/speed, the user may want to use framesequences in PNG despite the diskspace for higher quaility or simpli use avi/mjpeg for faster renders if quality is not an issue). Once the render is finished, the editing aplication should manage to load the clip on the timeline.
"...is this correct?" you got the idea
Emanuel is working on GVFX 0.1.4 version: this is what he wrote in the maillist, actually this newer version gives more options that I have explained before. I will translate it into english for you:
------------------------Emanuel Timbis Lopez
So far, GVFX is an aplication that is able to generate a transition with the last frames of the first video, and the initial ones of the second video, this is for the user`s sake so it won`t be useless (GVFX was meant to work with an nlke, but now can be used in standalone way).
Mi "integration idea" to any video editing tool is as follows (image attached):
1º - open 2 complete videos on GVFX
2º - One transitions video is created
3º - 2 cutted videos are created also (both have the transition frames removed)
4º - when process is completed, a winbdow pops with the video insite to drag it into the video editing software of your choice (assuming all video editing tools supports drag n drop... looking at you cinelerra people! (anubis4d note)).
I think is more confortable now to work like this as astanbd-alone or with a Editing software, in the future I would love to have the variables from the Video Editing software automatically. If you had more ideas about how to simplify this process (4 points) and make it faster, that would be awesome.
this is the changelog and TODOLIST for 0.1.4
Implemented in thsi version:
* Instalable and portable single file code.
* Warning with unsupported fileformats (flv,3gp)
* Filenames with spaces are accepted
* Tilde is accepted in the code(spanish: á é í ó ú )
Still to implement in this version:
* uncomplete data warnings
* Video conversion tool integrated (in case the vide is not compatible with blender 3D ffmpeg internal texturemap engine, a CONVERT boton in the wasrning dialog, I already have the ffmpeg commands to do that)
* Make optional to generate 3 files (firstpartA/TransitionClip/lastpartclipB) or just create the transition clip (already have the ffmpeg comand to cutting videos)
* still image support (I know how already, but it`s getting complicated to implement)
changes for future versions:
-Elimination of the SAVE boton (is there to testing)
-full working with 2.5 (as editing the BlendFile as to render)
-Selectable transition duration (currently fix to 100 frames)
-Render progress Bar.
-Operative menubar
-System icon
-Drag and drop to support filesystremn tree in Video Editinmg tools.
-Simplified se-up in a single combo-box
-Check for all the transitions to be well assigned
-the resulting video appear to be dragged and previewed
-Realtime preview (using Blender 3D GE, now supports video http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/)
-tilde in filenames
-translation Files
Sun, 11/14/2010 - 05:36
"2 - don´t have to pass any frames or prerender anything"
If the video in a track that is involved in the transition has any effects on it, then it must be processed/rendered before handing it off to GVFX. And guess what? In MLT, ALL videos have hidden filters on them to conform them to the project settings (crop, deinterlace, scale, change field order, and pad). If we give GVFX filenames and position data, what will it do when the 2 clips have a different resolution or different framerate? How will the result of the 3D transition look if the video is interlaced?
Now, with all that I have said in opposition, I also keep on saying that I like the concept. I like the idea of inter-operating with other tools. I especially like it when those tools have a good UI for designers and when it includes scripting! For example, I recently added support for Flash animations in MLT. This was possible in a very easy way due to swfdec, which is a library.
My daughter has been very eager to get into graphics and programming, and she has done good things in Scratch and has been learning Blender. Tonight, she expressed again that she really wants to get into coding. I told her that I will help her, and I planned a 3 step approach.
1) Make an animated title in Blender and integrate it into OpenShot.
2) Make a simple UI using python MLT API to define a transition between 2 clips.
3) Integrate GVFX into result of step 2 using lessons learned from step 1.
I know this is similar to what Emanuel is working on, but it is a project to teach my daughter and for me to learn what might be possible. Who knows? Maybe I will discover or create the new Blender Python API that lets me integrate into MLT the way I would like.
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 21:19
Here is a tutorial, I have used Kdenlive for the workflow (the post is on spanish but also in ENGLISH grey text).
here is described how this CAN BE DONE NOW by hand.
Emanuel had tweeted that the 0.1.4 version is ready, with format converter and many other cool stuff.
ddennedy, the videos are maped into planes by BLENDER 3D so any video is OK (as long as is supported by the "movie" material), and the same transition can be rendered to any size. Play with it.
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 21:21
hey people, Emanuel (timbis) has been working on 0.1.5, check it out, I wrote another tutorial about the HORPHAN clip generation of the newer versions, that is a cool thing.
Tue, 11/30/2010 - 14:33
I try to make a transition, but nothing append, I am under Kubuntu 10.10, when i drag a clip, i have answer in window terminal,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gvfx/gvfxgui.py", line 394, in got_data_cb
archivo_namepre1 = archivo_namepre.replace("%20", " ")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
can you help me
Wed, 12/01/2010 - 23:46
I will check it, I have an ubuntu somewhere to install a virtualbox machine somewhere.
Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:05
Hello anubis4d,
Thank you for your answer. I am very interesting for using this 3d transition.
Sat, 12/04/2010 - 02:31
Hi everyone!
Etienne, the problem are the libraries GTK, i will treat to finish the next week the porting to QT.
Thanks for use GVFX! Regards all!
Sat, 12/04/2010 - 04:35
That'd be great!
Sat, 12/04/2010 - 09:36
Hi Timbislopez,
Nice, thanks for your job, I think this will be great.
Best regards.
Fri, 09/21/2012 - 11:28
Hy is possible to integrate gvfx or other 3d transitions with current kdenlive ?
i try install it on ubuntu 12.04 and have problems.
here is error (gvfx not work) http://code.google.com/p/gvfx/issues/detail?id=2
when i resolve this error is any kdenlive gui to setup transition ?


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Is open ID secure, for example can you use it to log into bank accounts?
OpenID is as secure as the OpenID provider (i.e. "If someone breaks into your Myspace account they've got access to your OpenID & everything that uses it").
Personally I wouldn't trust it with anything valuable. Most of the OpenID providers have a pretty lousy security track record.
While I agree with voretaq7 that OpenID is only as secure as the OpenID provider, I would have to say that when selecting an OpenID provider to use, care must be taken to ensure that you are using a reputable provider. This same idea applies to everything having to do with security. Google, AOL, and I think even Verisign now offer OpenIDs and these companies / providers do have a good track record.
One of the major advantages of OpenID over home-grown security or some other third-party package is that it puts the authentication aspect of security in the hands of companies with more experience and more resources to handle it than most smaller entities have. They tend to have a better ability to protect their servers and data. As an employee of a small shop, I would certainly trust Google more than myself to correctly configure the servers, firewalls, etc necessary to protect this data.
However, OpenID is just as vulnerable to the most dangerous aspect of all -- the users who pick weak credentials.
OpenID is a way to delegate authentication to a third party. For a high trust application like banking, who you delegate authentication to is a major, major security decision. The openID protocol as it stands is sufficient for any standard that permits either single-factor authentication (the openID auth-token) or delegated authentication to a system that has sufficient authentication safeguards.
The next question: Are any current openID providers secure enough for online banking?
That's a different question, and is probably negative right now. However, there is nothing (technical) stopping, say, a consortium of American banks pooling resources to create a single banking openID provider that follows a stated standard and is audited. That openID provider can use whatever authentication methods it needs, be it SiteKey, SecureID, Smart Card swipe, or whatever else is demanded. I consider this possibility unlikely for the major commercial banks, but the Credit Union community might just try it.
OpenID is as secure as the weakest of (1) the site you are attempting to log in to; (2) your OpenID provider; or (3) the DNS system.
An immediate consequence of this fact is that OpenID can at best be as secure as the site you are trying to log in to; it can never be more secure.
In the OpenID protocol redirection to your provider is under the control of the site you are logging in to, which leads to trivial phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks. Such attacks will allow a hostile site to steal your OpenID credentials without you knowing, which they can then use later to log into any other OpenID-enabled site as you.
DNS attacks are more complicated, but will allow an attacker to convince your bank that he is your OpenID provider. The attacker logs in using your OpenID, and has his fake provider give authorisation to the bank. In this case the attacker doesn't need to phish you or learn your password or install anything on your computer - all he needs is your OpenID.
Similarly an attack on your OpenID provider will allow the attacker to log in as you on any OpenID-enabled site, without knowing your password.
More info on OpenID weaknesses and attacks at http://www.untrusted.ca/cache/openid.html .
OpenID is a protocol. The protocol is very secure, however the backend-auth method doesn't have to be. You can run an OpenId portal that will validate a user from a dos box over telnet in Bangladesh.
Is it secure enough for banking? Yes. In fact I wish all banking providers would permit it. Furthermore, if you want to trust banking providers more than other technology providers -- wouldn't it be nice if they would provide it?


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MARTINS FERRY - The Belmont County Board of Elections is on the hunt for a potential new polling location in Martins Ferry.
The uncertainty surrounding the availability of South School, the current polling location now owned by a private entity, has forced the search.
Bill Shubat, the director of the election board, noted that South School may still be available and that option is still being explored.
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THE?USAGE?of South School as a polling place in Martins?Ferry is in doubt, necessitating the hunt for a possible new building.
But Shubat and the board want to ensure that a proper facility is available come election time.
Shubat had previously met with Martins Ferry City School Superintendent Dirk Fitch about possibly using a facility up at the school's complex as the new location.
While those talks were beneficial, nothing concrete came from them as the Fitch and the district naturally have some concerns, especially in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
"One of our questions was about the security of the facility because the students would still be in session," Fitch said. "Our resource officer would probably have to be there all day and we'd have to figure out how to block off the voting area from the rest of the school and students.
"We mentioned to Mr. Shubat about the possibility of using the recreation center. One of our (school) board members is on the recreation board."
There's a few issues with the rec center that has Shubat and the election board wanting to go elsewhere.
First is an issue of parking. All five precincts voting in Martins Ferry have been housed under one roof recently at South School. Doing so at the recreation center would likely create a parking fiasco as spots are limited.
Shubat also explained that the board didn't want to force voters to utilize the elevator or stairs to make it to the second floor gymnasium in order to vote.
Shubat is looking to get on the agenda for the Feb. 11 school board meeting in order to try to come to an agreement.
He's proposing that possibly the district hold an in-service day on the day of the election. That way, there won't be any students in the building and security won't be an issue.
That's what the Bridgeport Exempted Village School District is doing in order to allow the election board to use their facilities.
During the election board's recent meeting, the worst-case scenario idea of having Martins Ferry residents vote in Colerain was tossed out. That is far from set in stone and was more of an idea in case nothing else comes to fruition.
Shubat stated that in the past, the firehouses in town were used as polling locations but with regulations coming from Americans with Disabilities Act, that is no longer an option.
"I have searched high and low, all over Martins Ferry and I even have the Mayor (Paul Riethmiller) looking for me," Shubat said. "South School was ideal. The board really liked it, having all the precincts under one roof but we're not sure if that will be an option."
Ideally, the election board would like to keep all precincts voting in the same location. It's easier for the voters in knowing where their polling spot is, as well as making tabulation faster and easier.
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I'd like to keep track of my finances better and wondering what good options there are out there. Preferably something that isn't geared towards Americans as my dollars tend to be Singapore ones and it'd be nice if also could track my finances in other countries in their native currency. :)
iBank sure does:
MoneyWell does as well:
Squirrel does as well.
It's got a clean interface and is easy to work with. If you're on Lion, you might want to grab the version from the Mac App Store (0.8.8 at the time of writing) instead, but that one does not currently support syncing with the iPhone version of Squirrel. iCloud based syncing will be in a coming update.
The version on the web site (0.8.7) has some small issues on Lion but can sync. It works like a charm on Snow Leopard.


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Possible Duplicate:
Why don't CSS resets use '*' to cover all elements?
I'm doing a page that have a lightweight HTML.
I have seen gurus saying that universal selector is a bad thing and is better to use like that (From: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/):
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed,
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup,
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
Using universal selector:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
Why universal selector is a bad thing?
Considering the performance for page load I prefer the universal selector. Is there other thing that I'm not considering?


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Why is it that mirror symmetry has many relations with algebraic geometry, rather than with complex geometry or differential geometry? (In other words, how is it that solutions to polynomials become relevant, given that these do not appear in the physics which motivates mirror symmetry?) I would especially appreciate nontechnical answers.
Here are a few scattered observations:
I was hoping to unify these idle thoughts into a coherent response, but I don't think I can. Maybe the algebraic geometric aspects just grew faster because the mathematics is "easier" (or at least better understood by more mathematicians): witness the slow uptake of BCOV and its antiholomorphicity within mathematics.
To respond personally: these days, I try to transfer the algebraic and symplectic structures to combinatorics so that I can hold them in my hand and try to understand them better.
Here is my impression ...
(I am very much a non-expert in the physics (and probably the mathematics too) so I may well be wrong about some of these things.)
Algebraic geometry sometimes enters the picture in string theory and physics because, while we start with, say, a compact Kähler manifold, for some reason or another we maybe get an integral Kähler class (for example see this MO question), and thus our manifold is projective by the Kodaira embedding theorem, and thus it is algebraic by Chow's theorem. Conversely, we may be actually interested in possibly non-algebraic compact Kähler manifolds in the physics or string theory, but the algebraic manifolds will provide at least a pretty big class of nice examples to play with.
And at least for smooth projective algebraic varieties, GAGA theorems tell us that many things (like for example, sheaf cohomology) are the same whether we consider our space as an algebraic variety or as an analytic thing. For the B-model side of mirror symmetry, I think this is how algebraic geometry (as opposed to complex analytic geometry) generally comes into play --- via GAGA theorems or at least "GAGA principles". For example, it is a fact that analytic coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties are algebraic. From this it follows that, at least for smooth projective varieties, the derived category of coherent sheaves is the same whether we look at things algebraically or analytically. (I'm guessing, but I don't know for a fact, that in the physics the analytic objects are the a priori relevant ones.)
Another interesting issue is the fact that algebraic geometry often appears even on the A-model side of mirror symmetry, which is supposed to be the symplectic side of the story. I don't really know anything about this, so maybe someone else can say more, but there's some work on, for example, the relation between the symplectic version of Gromov-Witten theory and the algebraic geometry version of Gromov-Witten theory -- they're supposed to coincide in the case of smooth projective varieties. It's perhaps not too surprising, since the symplectic version of GW theory involves J-holomorphic curves after all, but it's definitely not a trivial result.
I suppose the naive explanation for the appearance of surfaces is that they're worldsheets of strings, but I don't really know the explanation for why the surfaces should have complex structures, i.e. why they should be Riemann surfaces (and by the way, it is also a basic fact that any compact Riemann surface is algebraic) nor do I know why the maps from the curves to the target manifolds should be holomorphic or J-holomorphic. I hope that other MO users, especially people who know about string theory and physics, can say more about these things...
Kevin Lin gave a great technical answer to this question (which should be accepted) but I would like to add some more "philosophical" reasons for this:
[1] algebraic geometry methods are easier to apply and much more well-developed. I don't mean algebraic geometry is easy, I just mean that the tools, by their nature, give more concrete results (for example, on toric varieties), as opposed to geometric analysis methods, which by their nature often yield non-constructive or non-explicit results.
[2] the algebraic geometers got into the Mirror Symmetry game much earlier and made more rapid progress than the differential geometers. (And they wrote many of the books.)
I would still appreciate more answers, though. Perhaps people who are very adept at having a dual existence (like Eric Zaslow) can contribute their opinions?
Part of the physics motivation for mirror symmetry involves properties of the chiral ring of N=2 superconformal field theories. Some of these have a description in terms of the polynomials appearing in algebraic geometry. One of the earliest references on this is Algebraic Geometry and Effective Lagrangians, Emil J. Martinec, Phys.Lett.B217:431,1989. There are many papers discussing the relation between these "Landau-Ginzburg" models and mirror symmetry. See for example the paper by Berglund and Katz, http://arXiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9406008.
The following is a rough outline of the most elementary structures that appear in a physics discussion of mirror symmetry. It turns out that the physics actually leads in two ways directly to polynomial equations that describe the varieties. On the most basic level string theory deals with Calabi-Yau manifolds that provide the extra dimensions needed to go from 10 dimensions to the physical 4 dimensions that we live in. Calabi-Yau manifolds are described by polynomials, hence it is not too unexpected (in retrospect) that the pheonomenon of mirror symmetry would be discovered by constructing enough polynomials describing enough Calabi-Yau spaces. And so it was. On a more fundamental, string theoretic level, the conformal field theory on the string worldsheet has a mean field theory limit in which is described by a so-called Landau-Ginzburg potential. This Landau-Ginzburg potential in turn has a classical limit in which it describes a polynomial that defines a hypersurface in a toric variety. It is precisely this polynomial that describes the Calabi-Yau variety corresponding to the underlying conformal field theory. Mirror symmetry is a simple operation on the worldsheet, defining a sign flip in the charge of the fields, but it is not too surprising that this operation on the worldsheet is reflected in the form of the polynomial, hence the precise structure of the Calabi-Yau space.
It's probably slightly offbeat, verging on the mystical, and my apologies if it sounds a bit ridiculous, but I reckon mirror symmetry may ultimately derive from sets of degrees of freedom $x_i$ satisfying:
$ x_1 + x_2 .. + x_N = 0 $
$ x_1 x_2 .. x_N = 1 $
For small N, such as N = 4, this variety is birationally equivalent to all kinds of different forms, some with a tantalizingly "physical" appearance.
Also, for larger N, it can clearly "split" (either exactly or approximately) into the union of lower-dimensional varieties of the same form.
Obvious symmetries are $ x_i \rightarrow 1 / x_i $ and (for even N) $ x_i \rightarrow - x_i $, and I dare say there are others.
It would be very interesting to know if these varieties are Calibi-Yau manifolds. But that would be better discussed in another thread.


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STEUBENVILLE - Dr. Edward L. Florak, president emeritus of Jefferson Community College, now Eastern Gateway Community College, was chosen by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges for the Terry M. Thomas Friend of Community Colleges Award.
The award, announced during the OACC's annual Excellence Awards Banquet in Columbus, is a singular honor presented "to someone who has had a major, positive impact on community colleges in Ohio."
The award was named in honor of the OACC's founding executive director, who was a champion of higher education, serving the OACC for 14 years. Among his many accomplishments was his work to improve Ohio's articulation and transfer of career-technical coursework and college and university credits; as well as the establishment of the OACC's annual All-Ohio Academic Team Scholarship Recognition Luncheon. After his tenure, Thomas remained committed to higher education, going on to serve as associate vice chancellor for adult workforce development at the Ohio Board of Regents.
Individuals selected to receive this award embody the qualities and characteristics Thomas has demonstrated throughout his years of service, according to the OACC.
Florak served as the college's second president from 1985-1998 and also served the college as assistant to the president/vice president and dean of student and academic affairs and held the rank of professor of general studies. He joined the then Jefferson Technical College in 1971. Also, he is a charter trustee for the Eastern Gateway Community College Foundation Inc.
During his presidency, Jefferson Technical College became Jefferson Community College and moved from quarters to semesters. His leadership was instrumental in accomplishing these strategic moves to align the college with state universities and four-year institutions across the country. His efforts were successful in securing state funds to improve the college's facilities, including a new student lounge, courtyard and computer center, and additions to the health wing.
Florak championed workforce development training in its infancy at the college and lead that charge across the state in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He guided two successful operating levy campaigns in 1986 and 1996.
A long-standing member of the Ohio Technical and Community Colleges Association and then the Ohio Association of Community Colleges, Florak served the former group as vice chairman from 1990 to 1992. He chaired the Ohio Student Loan Commission in 1991.
As president emeritus, Florak served on the exploration committee for the expansion of the college's service district. His guidance was instrumental in the decision to expand from one county to four counties in the service district and the growth into Eastern Gateway Community College.
He served as a two-year representative on the Ohio College Association Executive Committee, served on the board of directors of the Ohio Appalachian Commission on Higher Education and the board of trustees for the Consortium for the Health Education in Appalachia Ohio.
During his retirement, he is providing training sessions and consulting services to business and industry.
In 2008, he served as interim director of Progress Alliance, the economic development organization in Jefferson County. He is a past president of the Jefferson County United Way board and served two separate terms as campaign chairman. He is treasurer of the Community Improvement Corp. He served on the Jefferson County School and Business Partnership and was a member of the Jefferson County Industrial Park Blue Ribbon Committee.
He serves on the Jefferson County Prevention and Recovery Board.
Florak is past president of Steubenville Kiwanis and has held memberships in the American Management Association, American Counseling Association, Ohio Psychological Association and American Psychological Association.
Florak is a licensed psychologist in Ohio and serves as a consultant to the Family Services Association of Steubenville. The association presented him with its service and leadership award in 1996.
He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Villanova University and a master's degree and doctorate in counselor education from the University of Pittsburgh.
Florak and his wife, Barbara, live in Steubenville and are the parents of three sons, Mike, Mark and Tim. They have two grandchildren.
Also at the banquet, Vincetta Savinell Tsouris, a 1979 EGCC alumnus, was recognized for being nominated for the OACC Distinquished Alumnus Award.


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5 Iconic Characters You Didn't Know Were Ripoffs
Ah, who can forget that world-changing childhood moment when you first picked up a comic book featuring a truly unique superhero character? Not comic book creators, apparently -- because it turns out they straight-up jacked many of the heroes you know and love from earlier works. And no, we're not about to list the knockoff brainchildren of Rob Liefeld. We're talking A-listers, like ...
#5. Captain America
Captain America arose during World War II as an inspiration for John Q. Public to do way more Nazi face-punching, and there's no hero more American than the red, white and blue Captain.
"This looks as ridiculous as it does awesome!"
Cap is so well known, in fact, that no one else can successfully pull off the stars-and-bars look anymore -- if they try, they may as well just print "RIPOFF" across their chest in place of the big white star. And God help them if they had some kind of trademark red, white and "everything-proof" blue shield.
Except ...
It turns out ol' Cap actually showed up a little late to the Stars 'n' Stripes toga party. In fact, he was beat by two other dudes decked out in Old Glory -- the first of whom was the Shield, whose January 1940 debut landed a good 14 months before el Capitan. The Shield wore an armored costume shaped like a -- wait for it -- shield that repelled bullets and also prevented him from clapping or holding babies.
Thus making him the perfect 1940s father.
Curiously enough, in his first issue, Captain America had a shield shaped just like that (although he had the good sense to carry it instead of using it as a fashion statement). It was such a conspicuous copy that the Shield's publishers complained, resulting in Marvel changing it in the very next issue to the more practical patriotic Frisbee Cap carries to this day.
Apparently Adolf's only weakness is a telegraphed haymaker.
But the similarities didn't end with the characters' amazing fashion sense. Cap and Shieldy also both took a serum that gave them their powers, and in both cases Nazis killed the doctors who created the superjuice. And the name of the Shield's formula was the clever acronym S.H.I.E.L.D. (Sacrum, Heart, Innervation, Eyes, Lungs and Derma), which you might recognize as the name of the organization Captain America would eventually come to work for under the command of Nick Fury (the pasty one with all the belt pouches, not the Sam Jackson one).
"The Shield is unstoppable! Unless you happen to angle your gun up or down, slightly."
The Shield's initial run came to an untimely end when the publisher, having recently changed its name from MLJ Magazines to Archie Comics due to the popularity of a certain other character, decided to switch their focus away from superheroes. And despite several attempts to revive the character over the years, Captain America has easily retained his ear-winged crown as the usurper king of the patriotic Hitler-punchers.
#4. Aquaman
Back when Aquaman debuted in 1941, he was just a normal human whose scientist father had used him as an aquatic guinea pig, granting him the power to survive better down where it's wetter. The Aquaman we all know and love didn't come about until they retconned him in 1959: That's when he became a full-fledged Atlantean, gained the ability to telepathically talk to seafood and eventually became king of the seas.
Except ...
The Shark had already done all that -- 20 years earlier. The Shark debuted in Amazing-Man Comics in 1939 and is widely considered the first real aquatic superhero (although Marvel's Sub-Mariner came in a close second in the ultra-competitive underwater superbeing race). The Shark watched lots of "super-television" and fought crime with an assist from his dear old dad -- Neptune himself. The reason they called him the Shark might surprise you: It's because he liked to hang out with sharks. OK, so maybe that didn't surprise you.
"Dude, be honest, how big does my package look in this Speedo?"
But the similarities end with their powers and origins, because Aquaman and the Shark look nothing alike. The Shark wears a blue bathing suit and a mask -- although, as far as we know, he has no secret identity to protect. Maybe he's just into masks.
"Oh, yeah, us dead sailors are totally better off. Yaaay."
Aquaman, on the other hand, sports a more distinctive look. In a world where the good heroes apparently snatched up all the red and blue spandex, Aquaman decided to take the road less traveled: He fights sea-crime in a long-sleeve, traffic-cone-orange top, above a pair of dark green pants. He's also got a few gold accessories to really make his fabulously flaxen hair "pop."
"Although spears are used to hunt whales, I use mine in a way that is not like that."
However, if you flip a few pages past the Shark in Amazing-Man Comics, you'll find a familiar face. Minimidget is a 2-inch-tall man, but if you overlook that one slight discrepancy, he and Aquaman have a lot in common.
He tragically dies several issues later when he's accidentally eaten by a sea sponge.
First, they're both almost as useful as a sex swing in a fight, and second, they look like twins. Blond hair, orange long-sleeve top with green pants and a gold belt? Yeah, all DC added was some scales and the letter "A." Pick up any issue of Amazing-Man Comics, and you're holding the complete recipe to whip up your very own Aquaman.
#3. The Punisher
Back in the early '70s, a black-clad assassin came gunning for Spidey in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 129. Marvel liked the character so much that they spun him off into his own series, turning this skull-wearing gunslinger for hire into a one-man army fighting his own personal war on crime. The Punisher was the first real antihero in comics, and everyone has tried to copy him since.
Except ...
The Punisher was actually greatly influenced by (read: shamelessly carbon-copied from) author Don Pendleton's Executioner, who first appeared in the 1968 novel War Against the Mafia. Like the Punisher (aka Frank Castle), the Executioner (aka Mack Bolan) is a Vietnam vet who keeps a "War Journal," drives a high-tech "War Wagon" and tends to shoot lots of bad people to death.
War death.
But while characters in novels generally aren't known for their outlandish attire, the Punisher is easily recognized by his trademark black suit with the leering white skull that makes him seem more villain than hero. It's a very memorable look -- as well it should be, because it's been around since the 1940s. You see, the costume borrows heavily from a popular hero of the golden age of comics called the Black Terror. This series featured Bob Benton, a druggist who created a formula that gave him super strength and invulnerability. For reasons never explained in the original comic, this also gave him an overwhelming compulsion to dress up in pirate tights and fight crime.
With a name like the Black Terror, we expected way more old-timey racism.
Despite his relatively run-of-the-mill powers, the Black Terror was pretty popular for a while -- perhaps due to the fact that he had the bitchingest duds around. In an era when all the other heroes wore garish colors, the Black Terror was a dark, menacing figure, rocking the skull and crossbones and a mismatched cape that he presumably lifted from some wimpier superhero to set an example that nobody fucks with the Black Terror.
However, unlike the Punisher, the Black Terror wasn't really an antihero. He was just your average do-gooder, trying to make a difference in the world by savagely murdering bad guys with his bare fists while wearing the universal symbol of death. Also unlike Frank Castle, the Black Terror had superpowers and didn't typically use guns -- but he certainly wasn't opposed to employing them when he had to. In fact, during some of his more trigger-happy moments, he could put even the ruthless Punisher to shame. After all, when's the last time you saw the Punisher do something like literally steamroll a group of offensive Asian stereotypes while simultaneously Swiss-cheesing them with a Tommy gun?


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"Barbecue so good it should be outlawed"
Recently I had occasion to finally visit a friends restaurant. Bill & Shelly from Desperado's Barbecue do a lot of catering and I have had the chance to eat their BBQ often. They run on Friedrich Smokers that produce excellent results. They use local craft brewery beers and wines. They support their local community in every way possible. Shelly has always been after me to visit their Angola location. They have every reason to be proud of what they have turned this once derelict building into.
The restaurant is warm and inviting. Every area of the restaurant has a unique assortment of memorabilia, antiques and kitschy stuff that keeps a persons interest.
Its the small details that make this restaurants decor really stand out. From the iron star hooks at the perfect height in the ladies bathroom to the unique lighting and polished bar mirror back splash everything has been carefully added.
They opened a few years back to little or no fanfare. They don' t even have a permanent outside sign yet but word of mouth travels fast and people come from all over for their food.
They serve straight up BBQ. There isn't even a fryer in the place. I can attest the food is always awesome and a lot of local BBQ competitors eat there. I believe they are always trying to shig Shelly's brisket recipe and flavor profile. Its wicked good.
One of the neatest things is that every piece of memorabilia in the place has a story with some of the pieces even coming from loyal customers. They have all been carefully chosen accumulated over time on one of the many trips they have made to BBQ meccas throughout the US and locally.
One of my favorite parts of the restaurant has to be the fireplace and the saddle area. So warm cozy and inviting. Stop by ask Shelley where the saddle came from she has a great story to tell you about it.
If you are in the area make sure you stop to see this fantastic BBQ location that is a legendary joint in the making. You won't regret it. You will eat well be treated with the utmost in hospitality and have a blast while doing it.
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I'm hunting for a simple web app that maps tasks, people and time.
Let's say you have 3 large tasks (draw a logo, write documentation & build website) and two people (John & Jane). You know that these 3 tasks need to be completed next week. Let's say that you want John to work on "draw a logo" on monday and tuesday and Jane to work on "documentation" mon - wed. Then they both spend tue-fri on "build website".
What is this kind of app called? Is it HRM?


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I'm to the point in my Spanish study that I'm reading books. I often come across words that I might know (such as repartir - to distribute) but the specific form is confusing. I'm hopeful that someone can, first, help me understand this specific instance and, second, recommend a way to understand what all of this means. Simply looking at verb conjugation charts does not help. Most sites on the 'net seem to only provide this. Do I have to go back to school to understand this? I did well in English but these forms are lost in the cobwebs. How did you overcome this issue and effectively study this? Thanks!
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This question is over one month old, but let me enter the conversation, as I do not fully agree with any of the previous answers.
The original sentence seemed to be
which might be translated as
So let's go for it...
Stealing @McArthey's sentence, I agree with the sample sentence. Repartiera is more like "To Distribute" or "To Hand Out" in a preterit or past representation of a verb.
So translating his sample sentence is like "It would be better to [pass out | hand out | distrubute] newspaper instead of looking for a job."
In the sentence "Sería mejor que repartiera periódicos..." the word "repartiera" is in conditional form, indicating that it's an improbable thing to happen...
The sentenced is a transformation of this one: "Si yo repartiera periódicos sería mejor que buscarte trabajo".
Sorry for my english ;-)
From your comment "Sería mejor que (yo) repartiera periódicos en vez de buscarte trabajo."
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Actually Subud is a sect, based on the Islam, with myriad members, who can govern using financial dependence and psychical effect (Lathian
trance) too.
The official founder was R.M. Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjujo (1901-1987), known after the World War II. as Pak Subuh from Indonesia. At the
beginning the sect existed only in Java, but in the 50's – 60's it extended word wide, taking out influential people to be their supporter
directly or by implication. However the real intellectual leading and ideology bases came from a totally different direction. Doctrines,
worded by the well-known Russian dancer Gurdjieff, has been translated to the sect in the 40's – 50's by John G. Bennett, who was the
disciple of Gurdjieff with a very interesting intelligence past and can be correlate with more organizations. Since the tsarist period ends
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ksplice is an open source extension of the Linux kernel which allows system administrators to apply security patches to a running kernel without having to reboot the operating system. (From Wikipedia.)
Is there a downside to using ksplice? Does it introduce any kind of instability? If not, why is it not included by default in more Linux distributions?


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I discovered the 'More Fields' plugin which allows an editor to control which fields appear on which types of items in WordPress. Problem is, I would like to control which pages appear on just ONE page.
Example of this: - About page has WYSIWYG editor & Image - Contact page has multiple text fields
From the looks of it, you have to create new page types, but each of them show up in a separate section in the sidebar. I would like everything to appear under my pages tab.
Any help would be great.


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April 17, 2012 -- The pleasant temperatures of this past winter may be giving way to unpleasant consequences, as the warmer weather has encouraged the early emergence of ticks. That means greater chances of contracting Lyme disease, particularly in the Northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and North-Central U.S., where it's spread by Ixodes scapularis, often called deer tick or blacklegged tick. (Western blacklegged ticks, Ixodes pacificus, spread the disease in California and the Pacific Northwest.) Ticks can also transmit other diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
WebMD talked with Todd Barton, MD, an infectious diseases specialist and Lyme disease expert at the University of Pennsylvania, about the possible uptick in health risks from these bloodsuckers and how you can protect yourself.
What does the warm weather mean for the tick threat?
"One would expect to see them earlier this year, but in theory there won't be more ticks than usual," Barton says. "However, given the warm weather, people will be outdoors more frequently and therefore more often exposed to ticks, and the number of opportunities for infection is more important than the number of ticks."
How will I know if I have been bitten by a tick?
"Ticks have some sort of anesthetic in their spit, so you are not going to feel it when it bites you," Barton says. "That means you have to check yourself thoroughly. They can be hard to spot. Nymphs, which are the size of a poppy seed, spread the most infection to humans because they are harder to spot and less picky about what they eat -- they are teenagers, desperate and hungry -- while larger adult ticks tend to favor smaller mammals."
What should I do if I find a tick on me?
"First, it's not a medical emergency, so you don't need to dial 911," Barton says. "In most cases, ticks take an hour or so to crawl somewhere dark and warm -- the back of your knee, your groin, the crack of your butt -- and start feeding. If it hasn't settled in to feed, you can brush it off. If it is already feeding, it takes more than a day to pass along any infection it might be carrying."


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When I boot Ubuntu 11.04, GRUB shows me a nice, blank pink screen, until most of the OS is loaded, after which I can see some output text.
I can't fix it unless I switch to console mode instead of graphics mode, but I don't want to do that because then I can't change the screen resolution.
This used to work correctly in version 10.04 and 10.10.
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debug --verbose boot option, but it only displays things on shutdown, not boot. Removing
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In the song Great is Thy faithfulness there is a line that reads
Join with all nature in manifold witness
What does that mean? What is manifold witness?
"Manifold" has the meaning of :
The fact that the "sun, moon, and stars", are joining the whole of nature as a witness(like in a court)of God's great faithfulness, mercy, and love. Because it is the "whole of nature", this witness is bound to be composed of "many different elements".


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It is fun to get outside and record, but I often have to get super motivated to edit and catalogue a bunch of my recordings. My blog has helped me with that, but I'm curious how folks catalogue their sounds and what library tools they are using.
On Windows I use Basehead and totally fits my needs. The next option would be Soundminer, but Basehead works well for me for now... On Mac I use AudioFinder and like it a lot. MY main machine is on Mac, so it's a program I use all the time.
Also, recently West Latta published a nice article on "library organizing" at Audiotuts... Check it here: http://audio.tutsplus.com/articles/general/the-good-librarian/
Throwing your sounds into a library program is easy, it's developing and sticking to a meaningful naming scheme that's hard. Some common conventions are:
• Use an alpha-numeric code derived from the project as a prefix, such as SW001 for Star Wars, recording session #1; then add a short description afterwards (SW001 Laser Shot 06).
• Your initials as a prefix so you can immediately find your own material amongst others, such as JWJ02 Laser Shot 06.
• Code your sounds by catergory, such as TRAF_Pacific Coast Highway Busy (for Traffic), or CRWD_Shopping Mall (for Crowd).
• Or skip coding all together and just use a concise description of 3 or 4 words, such as Expressway Traffic Busy, or Dog Barks Distant Night.
(As a sidebar, I believe the coding techinque was most valuable when sounds were stored on film or tape and the "library programs" were nothing more than 3-ring binders. Also when computers had a max file length of 31 characters.)
Regarding library software, I use Soundminer exclusively and find it to be not only and excellent for that express purpose but also as a sound design tool. (There is a thread addressing that topic on the SSD site.)
The most important aspect of file naming is so that you can find the material later... & possibly much much later ie decades.... I have a chronological library so as I record new material it just gets added to, and then I add additional copies of material as I clean it up & master/output it... so the original recordings will more likely be tagged with the location or recording session but the main naming is as per Sepulchras ie broad term -> specific... I also sometimes name files with a short abbreviation at the front eg AMB for ambience etc..
I use SoundMiner to access the library, which works well (although I wish they would keep developing it) and use it to add metadata to files, especially if the sounds were used in a specific film eg I usually transfer all the ambiences from each film back into the library as a self contained section & tag it with the films name, as that can be a quick way of finding something....
Basehead is currently in Beta for Mac. I've been playing with it, and it seems quite nice and affordable. I can't really tell fully because not all the features are yet implemented in the beta.
The guy Steve, has been super friendly and responsive with email -- that's always a good sign. I just wish I could run plugins or re-wire directly from within Basehead, unless I can and I haven't yet found how. You can open a wave editor but it's not the same as running a batch process or running a standard plugin directly from the software.
I use Audiofile Engineering's Sample Manager. It is designed great, but at this point has become almost useless. It must have a hard time managing very large banks of soundfiles. Prior to lately, I have loved it for cataloging and batch processing.
You can always go the simple route and maintain an excel sheet. Columns for category, sub-category, filename, title, description
Name each file beginning with a sku and brief title
That's what I do to manage about 4,000 sfx and it works well
In a perfect world, I name them with my initials, then a code, AMB, FOLEY, VEHICLE, HORR, PAD, Perc, ect. Then a Short description of the sound, and then I go ghetto style and drop the sounds into itunes and add a better meta-data. I also keep my Commercial library's in the same place.
Unfortunately, for many of my projects, I just have a project folder with Hundereds of sounds organized with in subfolders. The folders are named well, but the files often get named too generic. I. E. ControlPointStart001.
I currently use this scheme:
General to specific for example:
Tank, M60, Treads, Close, Away
As of now I am just using the finder on my mac, and I'm adding metadata with Sound Devices Wave Agent