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Could you, for example, have one of your craft skills filled in as carpenter, but have no ranks in it? Being a very bad carpenter, but a carpenter nevertheless.
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Not only can you, you have to. You never roll a "Craft check" or "Perform check," those skills don't exist. Rather, they are categories of skills, like "Craft (basketweaving)" or "Perform (underwater basketweaving)." That's still true even if you have no ranks, and it's relevant for things like feats or instruments, which may need to be compatible with the chosen Craft or Perform skill.
Craft and Perform may be used without ranks, so if you have high Intelligence or high Charisma, and/or other bonuses to those skills, you could even be good at them without any training (e.g. ranks). It'd be hard to keep up with someone who is actually training it, though.
Profession's much the same, but unless you are trained, you cannot roll the specific Profession skill at all (instead, you just get a flat 1 sp/day as unskilled labor). So having ranks in Profession (woven-basket critic) doesn't let you roll for Profession (woven-basket recycler) checks; they are separate skills, and you have no ranks in the latter. But you still have to make the distinction between the two.
You can Craft and Perform, but you can't use Profession;
As stated here, Craft and Perform can be used without training. This means that you don't need to have ranks to use any of the Craft Skills (not limited to Alchemy, Armors, Bows, Traps, Weapons, Varies) or Perform Skills (not limited to Act, Comedy, Dance, Keyboard Instruments, Oratory, Percussion Instruments, String Instruments, Wind Instruments, Sing).
Unfortunately, this does not apply for Profession, and you'll have to get at least 1 rank in a Profession to use it.
It's worth noticing that every failure in a Perform check will give you a -2 when trying to Perform in front of the same audience (because they were not impressed by you and now have prejudices). Be aware of that and use Perform wisely when you don't have ranks in it.
Misc Bonuses
If you don't want to get ranks in these skills, there is still something we can do to improve your checks.
Artisan's Tools: You may want to get these to get a +2 on every Craft check;
Gnome Racial Trait: Gnomes get +2 to a Crafting Skill of their choice.
Masterwork Musical Instrument: If used during the performance, it will grant a +2 on the Perform check.
Skill Focus (feat): Choose a Skill; Without any rank in it, this feat gives you +3 on every check for that Skill (you can get up to +6 when you have 10 ranks, but this is not the case).
Yes: from a roleplaying point of view, you can say that your character is a carpenter by trade, but one who never actually learnt any carpentry as such and just got by on intelligence (literally).
As far as I know, there is nothing special about "filling in" a Craft skill on your character sheet; sheets just have several Craft slots in the skill list so that you can fill them in if/when you take ranks. There is no reason I know of why you can't fill one of these in without actually taking ranks, and several reasons why you might want to: for the above roleplaying reason, or because you're a gnome and need somewhere to put your racial bonus.
Yes, and you don't even have to be a bad carpenter, except that everybody who is not a good carpenter, is a bad carpenter. All skills you haven't put any points in, exist as untrained skills. And if it's a skill you can use untrained, you can use it. All sub-skills of Craft and Perform exist, you have access to them, so feel free to write them on your character sheet if you expect you may use them. Though rather than Craft (carpenty), it might be better to write down Craft (untrained), because the same number will apply to all your untrained Craft skills. Unless you get specific bonuses for one, or you want to write one down now because you expect to put ranks in it later.
If you get any bonuses to skills, you get them also to untrained skills. If you can use the skill untrained, you can use that bonus. If you can't use the skill untrained, you can't make use of the bonus (but you can as soon as you put a rank into it).
Anyone can try to make a table, weave a basket or use any other craft skill. And with enough talent (high ability modifier, or misc bonuses), it might even be a good one, despite the lack of training. Same goes for Perform. Profession skills can't be used untrained, however, so if you list it as a skill, you might forget that you can't use it, and accidentally use it untrained.
Using untrained skills is also relevant for Bards. The description of Bardic Performance suggests they need to use a Perform skill, but they usually don't have to make a skill roll, and it doesn't matter which Perform skill they use. So a Bard whose best skill is Perform (strings) can choose to use his untrained Perform (oratory) or Perform (comedy) for his Inspire Courage.
Knowledge skills also have a lot of subskills, and while they normally can't be used untrained, a Bard can. And considering how useful knowledge skills can be, it can be a good idea to write Knowledge (untrained) below all your trained Knowledge skills. In fact, PCGen does that for you automatically.


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1. If you have never RPed with me before, then you MUST PM me with your intro for approval. Do NOT post in the RP until you have been approved; if you do, then your post will be deleted. Repeated offenders will simply be disallowed from joining the RP.
2. Obey the main RPG forum rules. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus.
3. Please don't post a Diclonius character without asking me first. I do not want the RP to be overrun with Diclonii and no humans.
4. This RP is very loosely based on Elfen Lied, however it is set in America, not Japan so please create characters accordingly. The RP is based in the near future, so technology is fine. However, characters are not permitted to have powers.
5. This RP has violent themes so is rated M. There are no character profiles; please introduce your character in your intro.
In Murder City, there are thousands of people, each with their own story to tell. The people are crowded together in high rise flats, slum areas and also in the various motels scattered around. All save the rich, who live in the exclusive houses with their perfect security, and the five star hotels with their view of the city spread out below. The city's real name is the less frightening Metaro City; however, few refer to it by that name now. Not after what happened thirty years ago. A series of murders. A murderer who was never caught, who roamed the city killing people at random by strangling, and then removing the head and hands. After eleven months where the residents of the city were terrified, and the police overworked and baffled, the murders suddenly ceased for no apparent reason never to resume. The murderer also vanished without trace and despite the large amounts of attention seekers who appeared after, claiming to be the elusive killer, none of them was the murderer. Eventually, memories of the series of events began to fade and the killings were half forgotten. However, one thing remained to remind the residents of what had happened; the city ended up being nicknamed Murder City rather than Metaro City, and that was the name that it was known by forever after.
Secrets litter the city, some good and some bad. And some that are evil beyond comparison. One such secret is the laboratory that resides in the centre of the town. To the public, the laboratory's function is to research medicine and find cures for cancer. The labs are regularly inspected, and nothing untoward is suspected. However, behind a door that is hidden behind the portrait of the founder on the first floor, is the secret. A staircase leads down to the hidden laboratory where the scientists perform far more sinister tasks. There is a newly evolved species of human, called a Diclonius. For years, this has been kept a closely guarded secret, on a strictly need to know basis. Diclonii look basically human, save for their brightly coloured hair and red eyes, and the two white horns either side of their heads shaped like cat ears. These are the base of the power of the Diclonius; the psychic arms that emerge from their backs with a reach of at least two feet. Diclonii have an urge to kill, especially humans, and will use their vectors for this purpose. The arms are invisible, so are impossible to avoid unless you happen to be beyond their reach. Diclonii can sense each other's presence, and mostly breed by using their vectors. The rare Diclonii that can breed normally are called queens; the vast majority are sterile and are called Silpelits. Diclonii are mostly female, but are as a general rule, dangerous. This is mainly to do with the treatment meted out to them, by the scientists who study them.
The Diclonii originate in Japan, and were studied in laboratories there. However, after an incident at one such laboratory, several scientists decided that it was far too dangerous to continue the research in the conditions they were being given, and defected to America, taking with them a group of Silpelits. The Japanese scientists soon chose the laboratory in Murder City, after rejecting several offers from other places, as it offered the most money as well as the secret lab to work in. The owner of the laboratory is a man named Charles Endevour. His laboratory is named Endevour after him and boasts the highest technology as well as the finest equipment. Therefore, it is only logical that he should want to hire the best scientists to work with said technology and equipment. He also craves power, and desires to create a set of living weapons with which to take over the government and satisfy his craving for power and dominion. The Japanese scientists, with their Silpelits, were the answer to his prayers. Charles soon persuaded the Japanese scientists to put the Silpelits thru a new technological machine that his top American scientists had created. It was called the Neogenic Recombinator, and rats who were put thru the machine soon developed strength and senses beyond those of normal rats. Charles wanted now to move up to human experiments and the Diclonii were near enough human for him to suggest putting them thru the Recombinator. After all, there were few who would object.
The Diclonii who were put thru the machine were subtly different from the control group. They had infinate vectors, which were not invisible; rather, they were opaque and coloured. Their vectors also had infinate reach. They also were fertile and able to breed in the normal way, as well as thru using their vectors. Due to these changes, the group of Diclonii who had been thru the Neogenics Recombinator were afterwards refered to as Enhanced Diclonii. They were kept under even more strict security measures than the control group of Silpelits. All the Diclonii were given names after weather conditions by the American scientists, rather than the numbers that the Japanese had used. Everything was considered to be under control, and experiments on the Diclonii continued. Until one day, when a slight power flicker was to ruin the plans of Charles Endevour. The power flicker affected two cells, each on different sides of the laboratory and each containing a Diclonius. The doors were unlocked and the restraints removed. The Diclonii were free, and with just one thought on their minds... escape. The laboratory guards could not cope; one perhaps would have been recatchable, but two escaping at the same time was too difficult. Also, they had been taken entirely by surprise by the unexpected power cut and were unable to get themselves together quickly enough to prevent disaster. Two Diclonii were out there on the streets of Murder City, and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it.
Who are you in this situation? Are you a reporter, chasing that ever elusive story to propel you to the big time? You won't know of the Diclonii, but you might well harbour suspicions about Endevour Laboratory. Nothing like this has happened since the murders thirty years ago. Perhaps you're a member of the public, caught up in the drama. Or, just maybe, you're a scientist from Endevour, determined to recapture the Diclonii; dead or alive, by any means necessary.
In a nearby alleyway, a runaway curled up on a pile of rags behind a dumpster. The boy was lean and tough, despite his youth; he was only fourteen years old and had run away from home three years previously, due to his mother being put in prison. The boy's name was Alonzo, tho he normally went by Lonnie, and he had never really understood why his mother had been arrested for his father's death. The police had simply assumed that she was to blame, even tho the murder had been unspeakably violent beyond reason...
Lonnie didn't know anything about the laboratory nearby, so didn't know what to think when the alarms rent the air. He assumed that a warehouse might have been broken into, and didn't know whether to stay where he was or leave the area. Lonnie didn't have much faith in the police and thought it likely that he might be arrested if he stayed in the area. Eventually, he decided to stay put; he was hidden where he was and was safest there.
Zoey Fitzpatrick was the lead news anchor for Metaro City News, or otherwise known as "MCN". Zoey didn't really enjoy being a TV news anchor, she would rather be out there getting all the dirt on everything going on in town, but the raise from a minimal salary to a six figure one was simply to hard to turn down. Instead, Zoey kept most of her story-sniffing to her free time and would give leads to some of the other journalists. The recent possibility of a top-secret lab hidden inside Endevour Laboratory was enough to keep Zoey's free time very busy.
Although not beautiful, Zoey was quite happy looking the way she did. She had a plain look, with straight mousey brown hair and glasses, which was ideal for wanting to stay unnoticed when going undercover. Of course, now that she was seen on TV everyday, she couldn't hide behind her boring looks but actually had to learn how to sneak around like a common snake looking for it's dinner.
Zoey lived in the high-end portion of the city, spending most of her time looking out at the city from a hotel room on the 42nd floor of Hotel Bella. It didn't matter that she couldn't hear the alarms ringing, because what she did see, people panicking, was enough to get her running out of the hotel and hitching a cab ride into the middle of the city. She had a gut feeling something had gone down over at Endevour Laboratory, and she wanted to be the first to find out just what that "something" was. She urged the cab driver to pick up the pace.
Sixteen-year-old Jerome du Chateau hated -no, detested- his last name; it was very, very French, despite the fact that his family had been diluted until it was a hodge-podge of races like many nowadays. And no one ever pronounced it right; the correct pronunciation was doo shat-OH, but most people said the second word as chat-er, or chat-aw.
In fact, Jerome didn't even look French; he had both African and Indian (but not Native American) ancestors on his mother's side, meaning he had smooth, milk chocolate skin and large, warm brown eyes. His nose was broad and flat, his eyebrows a bit feathery looking. His hair was, thank god, only slightly wavy; he'd have hated to deal with the odd curls other mixed kids got.
As he got frustrated with his Algebra 2 homework for the umpteenth time, he disgustedly shoved himself away from his desk and stood. I need a break, he muttered to himself. He decided he needed some fresh air, though the term fresh was relative within the confines of this city. He shoved on his shoes, made sure to grab the spare key, and headed out. Lazy, semi-rich boy that he was, he took the elevator to the first floor from his own floor, the tenth.
He stepped outside, wondering if he should go for a run, when he heard the sound of some sort of siren. But it wasn't a siren he recognized, like, say, an emergency vehicle, or even the tornado siren they tested on ever da.mn Wednesday at noon.
No, this one came from his right, and he shrugged it off; the apartment complex he and his father lived in was on the edge of the good side of town. Serving as a buffer between the good and the bad was a series of business buildings and a few warehouses. Oh, and that cancer-research place. His father often complained about living so close to what he sneeringly referred to as the Broca Divide, as if implying that the poor and destitute of Metaro City were somehow less than human.
Sometimes, Jerome actually agreed with his somewhat absentee, selfish father; today was one of those days. He snorted his disgust at the alarms, thinking Probably a bunch of stupid thugs, breaking into one of the warehouses, or even that doctor's place, hoping for drugs, he thought. He intensely hated how there were some with African heritage that only seemed to serve to perpetuate the stereotypes, stereotypes that had the other inhabitants of the complex and some students from school either snubbing him or clutching their purses/wallets more tightly.
Now, Jerome wasn't a mean or snobbish boy at all; in fact, he was really quite meek, and preferred to spend his time alone working on his character designs. But, raised as he was by a haughty, wealthy white man, some of the views of said man tended to rub off on him.
He tended to stay home during his free-time, wishing his father worked less, wishing he had the courage and sort of friends to go out more. Aside from runs or walks like the one he was about to do, he didn't go out on his own and deal with the outside world. As a result, he didn't have much life experience, and his views were shaped by those around him.
The boy had no idea how much of that was about to change, how the events of the recent blackout would serve to flip his world and rattle his views forever.
Zehira couldn't believe what was going on. She stared at the monitors in the security center of Endevour, her clipboard falling out of her hands and clattering to the floor. Watching Rain kill the guards was abomidable, the scene horrific - but the worst part was watching her own ward, small Nikita, escape behind her.
Something the Japanese scientists had started years before was a sort of surrogate parent program - fathers and mothers, scientists, would foster the Diclonius, try to train them to think that being tormented was beneficial somehow. It rarely if ever worked; Zehira had seen that firsthand when she'd worked overseas. She'd transferred here with a number of them - her ward Nikita being one of them - and while 'Niki' had been renamed "Snowflake" by the Americans, the name hadn't taken. She adamantly refused to answer to it or to any of them, only responding to her "mother."
Seventeen years old and small framed, Nikita had been a very tame subject among the unenhanced Diclonius; responded well to tests and was quite docile when Zehira was around. But whenever the blond woman wasn't around, something changed. Kita's eyes would dilate, she would freeze in place, and stare at whoever was left behind with her. But she had never attacked; simply had strange episodes where she'd laugh and laugh and laugh in the silence of her cell. Sometimes two voices could be heard - Nikita's quiet, scared voice, and another voice - a woman's, but darker, angrier, violent, telling Nikita to attack the guards. But the voice always went away.
Now, Nikita, wearing raggy pants and a plain white shirt Zehira had gifted her as a treat for being so complacent during a recent fairly grueling test, was making her way through the destruction Rain had waged. She had a wide-eyed Thousand Yard Stare, didn't seem to even acknowledge the gore around her as she found the exit, and she stopped at the exit. Her escape had been simple enough; the guards had been more concerned with Rain escaping since she was the one killing them all. Nikita was too docile to attack.
Zehira watched her ward walk through the door and stare outside, bloody footprints a trail behind her, and Nikita turned around. Zehira's heart stopped; the face was wrong. The smile was vicious, the eyes hard and full of malignant glee. But it disappeared and Nikita was back to her terrified, docile state, and she bolted like a startled deer when one of the guards twitched post-mortem.
"... We find Snowflake first. She... she is least likely to attack. Rain can wait."
Nikita winced as her feet scraped against hard concrete with each slam of her soles against the ground, running as fast and as hard as she could into the city slums. She managed to circle around and dove into an alleyway, sort of bodyslamming a dumpster as she did and collapsing near Lonnie. She sobbed and curled up into a ball, her hands covering her horns and her tiny frame shaking. She wanted Mom; Mom never hurt her, always made her feel better after the scientists tested on her. Mom wouldn't... Mom was... where was Mom?
The voice in her head just snarled at the thought and receded away.
"Owie," she mumbled; her feet were aching horribly and she twisted her leg a bit to inspect the bottom of her right foot. She'd stepped on glass at some point and her foot was now bleeding, the bright red a contrast to the darkening guards' blood.
Diane Eleanor heard the alarm and just pulled her pillow over her head. The thirty year old loathed daytime when she had migraines - at least, she thought it was daytime. She'd been laying in bed for so long, she had no idea what time it was. Her fiance Larry Copzer was quietly reading in bed next to her, his headphones on; being blind, he both read the braille on the pages and listened to audiotapes. It helped, apparently. She pulled on his arm a bit after finding it, and he tugged one of the speakers off his ear.
"Yes, love?"
"Can I have some more of that spiked cocoa you make? It helped last time." Her voice was muffled and he smiled at her, rubbing her shoulder.
"Of course. Captain or Smirnoff?"
"Whichever had the mulled flavor. Was kinda smokey." She whined a bit and buried her head deeper into the bed, though at this point that was rather difficult. "We need thicker curtains. I hate living in the Divide, those stupid alarms are so loud."
"We'll be moving next week, love. We're already packed up, just waiting for the furniture to arrive at the new place and we'll be right as rain."
"I know." She sniffed and peeked out at him; the dim light of the lamp was even too much for her and her eyes watered, but she just squinted to deal with it. They were both vibrant redheads, both tanned, and both enjoyed golf. She still wasn't sure how he played so well and he was also ridiculously good at cards.
Oh, well. She was glad for him; if not for him, she'd have stayed in Vice at the police station, never caring about the next day. Because of him, she'd finally slowed down, relaxed; and she'd requested a move in department as well, after a close call - not on her part but his. He'd been her partner; but a car crash and head injury took away his sight, she wanted to be there in case he needed her and working in Vice was a bad idea if she wanted to stay alive in the long run.
He came back a little bit later with a hot mug of his spiked cocoa, and she sat up to drink it despite her swimming vision. "I love your face."
"I love yours too." He kissed her on her one scarred cheek; a handful of lines marred it, a very narrowly missed shotgun blast from a traffic case a few years before they met. "Get some sleep, alright, Di?"
"Mhm." She settled back against the headboard, hands clasped around the cup and her eyes shut.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
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Rain fled thru the streets, not looking where she was going and not caring, either. Her white shift was spattered with blood, and her bare feet soon bled too as they were cut by the hard surface she was running on. The alarms screamed behind her; all Rain cared about at this moment was escaping the terrible sound. Soon she had left the laboratory behind and was deep within the anonymous streets. The diclonius girl collapsed on to the ground, gasping for breath. She stared around with wide eyes; Rain had seen nothing like this place before, all she'd ever known in her life was sterile laboratories. She caught her breath, staying in a sitting position as she tried to calm herself down.
Lonnie looked up with a jerk of his head as a girl collapsed next to him. The girl was small and slight and had blood on her legs. Something about her appearence almost triggered a memory from his past, something he'd pushed to the back of his mind... Lonnie shook his head, not wanting to remember and reached out a tentative hand to touch the girl's shoulder.
"You alright?" he said, while inwardly thinking that he'd never seen anyone less alright than this girl.
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Hi everyone I have a little problem.
When I try to extract a part of a clip, using the monitor clip, the final result is, very often, different from selection. The final extracted clip starts and stops one (or one a half) second before my selection. If I check with ctrl+space the selection from clip monitor is perfect.
The timeline have no problems.
Some guess?
Thanks averyone in advance.
Sun, 02/24/2013 - 01:12
I've been using the clip monitor to extract a portion of a clip heavily for the last couple of weeks. My method: use project monitor to mark in/out the area where I wish to drop the clip extract and make note of the begin/end times (hh:mm:ss,ff). Also the area will be highlighted green above the timeline and so I know the exact length of the area for the clip. Next I Go to clip monitor and use mark in/out for the extract boundaries and make the time to match the area where it is to fit. Then drag/drop to the area. But I'm careful that the properties for the timeline match the properties for the clip. If they don't match (the fps for the timeline is 24 but for the clip is 30) there will be a mismatch and the clip will have to be converted to match the timeline and project profile.
If you are driven from the opposite goal -- that is, you BEGIN with the clip -- make sure you do the same thing by making note of the begin/end times (hh:mm:ss,ff) of the extraction zone, and then mark an area in the timeline on the project monitor beginning at your desired drop in point and the end point will be determined by the length of the extracted area. The extracted clip should fit exactly into the area you marked thusly marked.
Sun, 02/24/2013 - 02:35
Works for me. Using the set zone start [ and set zone end ] buttons on the clip monitor. Then drag the clip window to the time line. I get exact match. Is this how you are doing it Castore ?
Sun, 02/24/2013 - 08:10
Castore, what is the format and codec you are using? Does it happen with any video clips or just certain ones.
Sun, 02/24/2013 - 15:19
What version of kdenlive and MLT are you using?
To try to understand, are you saying that you are dragging your clip to the Project Tree as a sub clip and that the selection in the clip monitor and timings of the sub clip slightly differ?
If so then are you sure that your Project Settings FPS and your source clips FPS match?
Perhaps what is happening is that you are using say 23.98 ie: 24/1001 in a strictly 24P ie: 24/1 project or 29.97 ie: 30/1001 in a strictly 30P ie: 30/1 project? And that playback of the original source in the clip monitor is say 23.98 but your subclip in the 24P Project Tree is playing back at 24P? Just a guess as I'm stuck for alternatives. :-)
Don't get too concerned by other methods using the timeline, it's as simple as ttguy explains, select the in / out points in the clip monitor, then either drag to the Project Tree to make a subclip or two or however many you want out of your parent clip or drag straight to the timeline.
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 10:53
Have you tried using native source files to test rather than transcodes to dv?
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 09:07
Where is the option "extract selected area" because I don't use that. So you might have found a bug.
Have your tried the alternate method I described at the start of the thread?
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 09:17
Wait I found the option.
But I can not test it because it errors out on me.
"Can't initialize DV format!
Make sure that you supply exactly two streams:
video: 25fps or 29.97fps, audio: 2ch/48kHz/PCM
(50Mbps allows an optional second audio stream)
Output #0, dv, to '/home/ttguy/Videos/light_sabre002_1713.dv':
encoder : Lavf53.21.1
Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, yuv420p, 720x576 [PAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 28800 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 32000 Hz, 2 channels, 1024 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)
But I can see what this feature tries to do - it extracts a sub-clip our of the main clip and puts it in the project tree.
I cans see that there are many work arounds for this problem. Why do you need these subclips in the project tree anyway?
You can use the select and and outpoints as you have been doing and then drag the part of the clip you want directly onto the timeline rather than have it in the project tree and then the time line.
You could also file a bug report if you so inclined.
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 09:20
Wait. I got it to work with a .mp4 clip rather than a .dv clip. And I see the bug you are talking about. I selected 2 seconds of clip and got 7 seconds in the project tree.
So you could file a bug and in the meantime use a workaround.
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 11:44
If I remember correctly, the keyboard shortcut ^i should trigger this function too to extract a marked clip region as a sub clip. However, from time to time, this function just refuses to work, maybe the same bug?
As for ttguy's question about what this is good for: I'm regularly using it to first go through my raw material (rather lengthy underwater footage) to extract the scenes I'm interested in. After that is done I'm only starting placing sub clips on the time line.
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 14:27
"Why do you need these subclips in the project tree anyway? You can use the select and and outpoints as you have been doing and then drag the part of the clip you want directly onto the timeline rather than have it in the project tree and then the time line."
For me I use it all the time that way dragging sub clips to the Project Tree first. :-)
I'll quite often leave the camera running between framing shots serves to capture reference audio to match with external audio recorder too, rather than trying to realign loads of short takes and separate audio for each short take, long audio also serves for ambient.
So when editing and I'm scooting through those sort of clips I mark in/out for each part of a clip that is framed and good, drag it to the Project Tree, might end up with four or five subclips per parent clip. Might also want to use a clip more than once and not have to go hunting for it on a busy timeline.
It's also not like we're duplicating clips taking disk space it's just lightweight XML file.
On more involved jobs where I sub divide shots which might serve more than one purpose and therefore very possibly in separate sub folders within the Project Tree I can duplicate a sub clip into multiple folders, still references the one 'real' source file.
I want to touch a clip once to establish the contents not keep fiddling with in/out points on the timeline although for fine tweaks for timing that always happens but only by a few frames at a time.
Depends on the time available to edit and size of project whether to organize sub folders and clips or just float the good stuff up the layers of video tracks, psuedo rating it for good shots, mediocre etc.
Different strokes for different folks. :-)
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Locksport and Lockpicking
Locksport and lockpicking
When: Sat Jan 31th, 5:00pm & TBD
Where: Noisebridge, 83C Wiese, San Francisco, CA 94103
What: Learn about locks and how to open them! -- limited practice equipment available
Learn about Locksport, where we learn about locks and how to open them! I'll be giving a quick overview including legality, different types of locks and how they work, and of course how to open them. The workshop/practice portion will focus on the standard Pin and Tumbler locks that are common on most doors.
Charlie will have approx. 8 sets of lockpick tools and around 4-6 practice locks
Wow, there's more interest than I expected. Given that I don't have that much equipment, I figure I'll split it up into two sessions. Go ahead and add yourself to one of the sessions just to give me an idea who might show up. (Sorry for the shifting times, my schedule is a mess right now)
Saturday Jan 31th, 5:00pm
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The Environmental Protection Agency has had a partnership with Bennington College and Professor Susan Sgorbati for the past two years. Susan teaches a class called "Solving the Impossible", where students look at intractable problems and develop skills to work towards solutions. The 22 students in last year's class decided to tackle the issue of climate change and energy efficiency.
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Designed by award-winning architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) is a state-of-the-art, green, academic facility that morphs the studio of the artist, laboratory of a scientist, workshop of a craftsman, and think tank of a policy wonk.
Informed by green building principles, CAPA's exterior is comprised of reclaimed Vermont marble and its heating/cooling system is geothermal.
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Move into new domains, ask the right questions, observe. Bennington students and fellows share seven capacities that will help individuals shape a better world.
How is building a chair like working in government? Where does a movement in music intersect with a social movement? Why does solving climate change involve more than the study of the environment? Bennington students describe the intersections.
During an annual seven-week internship period, called Field Work Term, Bennington students are able to bring their studies to the world, confronting the challenges of implementation firsthand and refining their questions to further shape their on-campus experiences.
The College's Center for the Advancement of Public Action: CAPA.
Since its founding in 1932, Bennington College has been a hub for innovators in every field who want to apply their individual talents to addressing global issues of urgent concern.
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At its core, advancing public action means addressing three fundamental questions: What kind of world are we making? What kind of world should we be making? What kind of world can we be making?
Bennington's Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) invites you to put the world's most pressing problems at the center of your education, or to incorporate these issues into your work in other disciplines. Poverty, war, the environment, public health crises, the struggle for democracy, even the state of education itself—imagine an education where the problems of the world are your subject matter and doing something about them is your aim.
That's the idea behind CAPA. Through the Plan Process you draw on the full breadth of the Bennington curriculum as well as a range of profoundly interdisciplinary public action courses to examine the complex variables that define critical social issues, unpack key concepts, and hone the capacities needed to effect positive and lasting change. In the short term, the aim is to develop frameworks that can generate the most effective solutions to consequential problems; in the long term, it is to become capable of designing and implementing systemic change.
During Field Work Term, you bring your work to the world, confronting the challenges of implementation firsthand and refining your questions to further shape your on-campus experience.


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Stocks slide on Wall Street, extending sell-off
|Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 in New York. U.S. stock futures rebounded Thursday from the worst plunge in the Dow Jones index this year, with the government reporting that record exports of U.S. goods narrowed the country's trade deficit. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
NEW YORK -- Stocks slid Thursday on Wall Street, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average logged its biggest one-day drop of the year, as investors fretted about the potential for gridlock in Washington.
The Dow closed down 121.41 points to 12,811.32, bringing its two-day loss to 434 points. The Standard and Poor's 500 index fell 17.02 points to 1,377.51 and the Nasdaq composite slipped 41.71 to 2,895.58.
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12/12 : How to Obtain Accurate Data from Your Activity Tracker?A fitness tracker isn't a device that cleans the air, its only purpose is to help you get fit. The first thing you need to do is calibrate it to obtain more accurate data. Usually calibrating requires a consult of the manufacturer's guidelines on this matter, or if you're lucky you can just download the app for that unit on your smartphone. Then, there's an option there that will help you select on which wrist you're going to wear your tracker.
Why is it important?
This is because, and you might not know this, one hand will move more than the other. So if you won't set it up that way it won't provide you an accurate figure of your fitness activities.
When selecting on which wrist you'll be wearing the unit on, you must choose the dominant hand. If you're right-handed, then you should choose right and vice versa.
For better tracking of your walks and runs, you should opt for an activity tracker that comes with a GPS. In this way, you can accurately monitor the distance you've travelled plus you're assured of finding your way back in case you run longer distances.
How to record your calories?
A fitness tracker won't record the numbers by itself. Instead, you'll manually input the numbers through its corresponding app, and then link that app to another app that can tell you how much calories you have gobbled.
12/12 : Taming your Tress with a Hair StraightenerIt is said that looks can be deceiving and nothing hides your beauty like an unkempt curly hair. Your looks say much about you and it's only good to convey the intended message. A fabulous look on the face with straight and sleek locks of hair will demand a second look. An amazing tress will keep the eye focused on you and draw people's attention on you. This can be achieved without necessarily sitting in a salon for hours to work on those curls but by simply passing through the hair with a straightener. Two to three passes on your hair and you are good to go.
Polished Look
As a lady, you deserve a polished look that speaks of the confidence in you. Modern day flat irons work through your hair to give you beautiful tresses within seconds. Unlike the traditional burning irons of the previous century, modern day straighteners heat fast to give you a fine finish. For those who keep long ringlets, the hair straightener banishes the ringlets giving you that amazing look and your hair can stay gorgeous and intact for the rest of the day.
Whether you want to make a transformation on the wave or convert the frizz hair to beautiful sleek locks, a hair straightener will serve you right. The first styling iron here is best for wavy hair, and testimonies from many others indicate that the straightener has the ability to change your look just by taking a few passes through your hair. Some people exclaim that their long curly hair would take a miracle to straighten but modern day hair straighteners have proved to be miracle workers when it comes to polishing you look with amazing sleek locks. The straighteners are wide enough to allow a quick pass through your hair. This implies that you can use them for any size and type of hair and be sure of perfect results.
Glossy and Shiny Look
Some flat irons contain oil for a glossy and shiny look upon making a few passes through your hair. Others are more advanced with modern day ionic technology that ensures a shine look upon using the straightener. It does not matter the nature of your hair, whether nappy, thick or even short, all you need is a perfect straightener for enviable sleek locks. You do not even need a lot of chemical application to make your hair soft; three passes through your hair per day saves you the hustle of constant hair treatment and makes it smooth and soft.
Flat irons are made to work all day, from getting getting out of bed to going out late. for all types of hairs with flawless results no matter the texture of your hair. The straightener has temperature control system to allow for heat regulation depending on type and texture of your hair. The device has an automatic shutting off system and is effective for an all-day fabulous look courtesy of beautiful sleek locks. The hair straightener is narrow enough to pass through your hair to convert the dull and frizz hair to fine looking tresses.
You deserve a fabulous look and a hair straightener is the answer to taming the tress. Grab one at an affordable price and live to tell the tale.
15/11 : What Whole House Air Purifiers Can be Used ForNow that you worked on cleaning the water, it's time to focus on the next thing: air. More and more households are opting to use an air purifier to help them breathe easier while they're inside the house, especially if they are allergic. As a result, sales of purifiers of air are rising. Aiming to have a better indoor air quality can be achieved through the use of a whole house air purifier.
Manufacturers that make this type of purifier are marketing their products as a unit that can do more than just purifying the air. According to them, a whole house air purifier can reduce your risk of suffering from a chronic respiratory illness.
Can it remove a flu virus, like H1N1?A whole house air purifier can't eliminate such type of virus, you can only find that type of unit if you are seeking a commercial-grade purifier. As of this date, there's no household air purifier unit that can prevent or remove H1N1, but different types of allergy can effectively be treated even with the most basic air purifiers.
Can it address ozone problems?The very best allergy air cleaner these days can also address ozone issues. Most advanced units have carbon pre-filters, and they can remove odors from tobacco smoke and cooking and capture ozone and other volatile compounds.
The prize of this type of whole house air purifier can start at $200-$300. It may be more expensive than a standard filter, it's worth the investment.
10/10 : The Main Features of a Garbage Disposal
Modern day homes all have garbage disposal system installed. There are many brands and models available on the market but make sure that the unit you choose has all the features that you need to help you get rid of your food waste effectively and efficiently in your kitchen.
Each model has its own features and benefits. One of the features you must consider from this type of appliance is sound technology. Having a unit that operates in complete silence is an ideal choice.
It's also ideal to opt for a unit that has multiple grind stages or features. In this way, you can throw whatever size of food you want to grind, be it big or small. With multiple grinders, you can grind food without delay.
The warranty of the unit must be good enough as well. Else, you'll be paying for something that won't last for month. You need to choose a unit that comes from a company like InSinkErator that's known for excellent customer satisfaction.
There are other things that you should look into when buying a garbage disposal unit. The features and the warranty of the product are your top priorities when deciding which one is the best for your kitchen that can grind food waste.
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30/08 : What Kitchen Design Layout to Choose with Small Space
Whether you're renovating your old kitchen or not, it can be difficult to find a design that fits the space. If you have a kitchen that's small, a U-shaped layout can be done. It's a type of layout that joins walls: two parallel and one perpendicular.
There's no traffic lane within the work area. This is because the area is only 10 to 18 feet wide.
What are its benefits?
What's best about having this type of layout is that you can make a small kitchen look large. The space will be utilized more efficiently.
Then, you can divide its section into various work sites to maximize the space. Because there are no traffic lanes, the work zones won't be disrupted.
The U-shaped kitchen can have two sinks with different types of faucets (preferably of course with a water filter). When it comes to finding the right faucet for this layout, style and size matter a lot. So, make sure that the style will fit your kitchen décor. The size must be enough to fit into your small sink.
If you don't like a U-shaped kitchen layout, you can opt for a peninsula-shaped layout. It's a versatile layout. This is ideal if you have an open floor plan. You can also opt for it if your kitchen has rectangular space. And you can divide the area into various work sites.
How to hide appliances?
These days, you can hide your appliances in your kitchen within cabinet doors, which can make your kitchen look nicer and sleeker. And when you add appliances that utilize high-technology, you can make this room the "coolest" part of your house. You can purchase a fridge with built-in TV, for instance, or an oven from Oven Shopper that you can connect to your Internet to find recipes.
With the latest technology, you can make your kitchen more efficient.
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24/08 : When to Replace Your Foam Mattress]
A memory foam mattress is one of the most expensive beds, but the price is worth it (considering its benefits). Although it's a great bed to rest your body after a whole day's work, you may need to replace it when the time comes.
This type of mattress may not be an ordinary bed but it has its own expiration. But how often should you replace it with an new one?
Well, the good news is that you don't need to chance it as often as a comforter, but you won't be able to sleep on it your whole life either.
Some experts believe that replacing it every 5 or 10 years will help you get a good night's sleep. However, other experts think that replacing it doesn't depend on a certain date. Rather, it depends on whether or not you're still comfortable sleeping on it.
When is the right time to replace your memory foam mattress?
Your bed may still look firm. However, when you wake up tired and achy, it might be time for you to replace it. This is an indication that your bed is no longer comfortable when you sleep on it or simply lie down.
You may need a new bed if you already see some signs of wear and tear. These signs could be lumps, or it's already sagging, although it's not common for a memory foam mattress to sag.
Have you tried flipping or rotating it? If you are still uncomfortable lying down after rotating it, then you should save some of your money to buy a new mattress of this type. There are plenty review websites that can help you make a decision.
If you have been sleeping on your bed for 10 years, it is time for you to replace it. Memory foam mattresses can last for a decade, but no matter how durable it is, you still need to buy a new one if it's been with you for more than a decade.
Replacing a memory foam mattress can be a huge investment considering the price of this bed, but if you want a good night's sleep you should really replace it every now and then. It's definitely more comfortable than an inflatable bed, so make sure to change it in time.
19/08 : How to Look for Leaks in Your Air Mattress]
An air mattress is your best bet if you don't want to spend your money on another bed for the people who'll stay in your house for a few days. It's very convenient and it's easy to store. This type of bed is also very flexible.
Unfortunately, it's prone to leaking, and a tiny leak can already leave you flat on the floor the following morning. And when you look for leaks, it's like you're finding a needle in a haystack.
But before you even start looking for the leak, make very sure that the mattress is indeed leaking.
How to look for leaks in your air mattress?
1. Remove everything from the bed, including bed sheet, pillows, and blankets.
2. Move it to a spacious place where you can easily flip, rotate or turn it to find the leak.
3. Fill the bed with air without risking it to burst, but avoid using an air compressor as it's not designed for high pressure.
4. Make sure that the bed is full of air before you look for leaks. As long as it's full of air, a tiny pinhole can become very visible to your naked eyes.
5. Add dish soap and water to form bubbles to reveal the leak. An air leak can be easily found using a soapy water.
6. Put it in a pool of water to see if bubbles are rising from the bed to indicate that there are leaks in those parts.
7. Place your hand along that area and feel whether or not there's an air brushing against your skin.
8. Hear the air escaping from the air mattress.
Now that you've found the leaks, what should you do next?
-First you'll need to circle the area so you can easily find it again.
-Dry that part where the leaking is found.
-Get a hot glue gun and put a small amount of glue over the leak you've encircled.
-Force the glue into the hole by pushing it down lightly.
-Allow the area to dry fully before you sleep on it.
If you're not sure whether or not a glue can patch a leak, you may consult the manufacturer's guidelines on how to repair a leak.
05/08 : The Key Features to Look For in Baby Monitors
A baby monitor is an amazing device for mothers who want to keep an eye on their kids when they're not in front of them. With it, you can easily take a nap or clean your house without worrying about the safety of your baby. If your infant wakes up, the device alerts you.
What are the key features you must look for in a baby monitor?
1. Design
Go for a unit that matches the design of your baby's room. Make sure that it's small enough for it to be easily installed. It must also have a design that makes it easier to connect to your computer.
2. Tilting and rotating feature
Advanced baby monitor models can be tilted or rotated automatically through a simple button via your computer. Make sure that it comes with an optical zoom that lets you zoom at least 4 times more.
3. Two-way mic
This is essential so you can speak to your child even if you're far away from him/her. You can also hear what's going inside that room and talk to the people in the room via the baby monitor camera.
4. Image quality
The camera must have high-definition quality with wide angle lens that offer sharper images. This means that you can make a bigger photo with more depth, even though you don't have a decent Internet connection.
5. Night vision
This enables you to keep an eye of your newborn during night time. Make sure that its night vision capacity is of high quality.
Not all baby monitors are made equal. When you purchase one, you have to know what your needs are to help you keep an eye of your baby while you're away from him/her. Those features can help you get started when shopping around and finding the right unit.
01/08 : What Contaminants Can a Water Filter Remove?
A water filter is becoming easier to install and maintain these days. What it does is that it removes common contaminants in the water to make it safer for you to drink water from your faucet.
With the latest technology, new filters have new features that make elimination of impurities as easy as turning on your tap. Even the models that directly connect to the plumbing system are now easier to install. Some models you can find have electronic indicators that can tell you when you'll need to replace it.
So, what contaminants are removed?
The purpose of a water filter is to remove contaminants that can cause harm to your health. Lead, nitrate, radon, escherichia coli bacteria, chloroform and arsenic are common contaminants fond in tap water, and these are removed through filtration.
The bottled water that you see in a grocery store is a great alternative to tap water. It's safe but it's not regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Furthermore, most bottled water that you find is only filtered tap water.
It's important to know the type of contaminants that you have in your tap water so you can find a filter that can specifically remove them. You don't have to test your tap water, all you have to do is check your CCR or consumer confidence report. If you don't have it, you can check your local government site.
If you're looking for the best home water filter of 2014 then make sure that you read the fine print before choosing a modelr. This is because every product has its own claims regarding the removing of contaminants.
Another important thing to remember when buying a filter for your tap water is your water consumption. You also need to assess how much effort you can tolerate in order to obtain filtered water. Keep in mind that the more contaminants the water filter can remove, the more complicated the process can be.
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Three Outstanding Alums, Three Different Paths to Distinction
The opportunity to pay tribute to the Honorable Patricia K. Costello '78, the Honorable Oliver B. Quinn '75, and William S. Greenberg '67; to reconnect with old friends and classmates; and to support the missions of the law school and its Alumni Association brought almost 350 people to the Hilton Short Hills on October 14 for the 2010 Annual Alumni Recognition Dinner. Click here for photo gallery.
|With Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. are (from right) dinner co-chair Linda Torres '80 of McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP; Alumni Association president Patrick C. English '78, Dines and English, L.L.C.; dinner co-chair Sumeeta A. Gawande '95, Greenberg Dauber & Epstein, PC; and scholarship winners Natalae Anderson '11 and Brett Pugach '11.
Costello is Assignment Judge of the Superior Court, Essex County. Quinn is senior counsel, Taft and Partners; and Greenberg is a partner at McCarter & English, LLP. "Their accomplishments and contributions to the profession, the law school, and their communities have earned tonight's honorees a place among the very best of our alumni," said Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. "They remind us of what Rutgers Law School has been, and point us toward what it can become."
The Distinguished Alumna Award was presented to Judge Costello by the Honorable Jaynee LaVecchia '79, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. In her acceptance remarks, Judge Costello spoke of various turning points in her career and of making the most of the curve balls that life inevitably throws. Noting the opportunities provided by a legal education, she urged law school graduates to support their alumni association.
|Justice Jaynee LaVecchia (left) presented the Distinguished Alumna Award to Judge Patricia Costello.
Judge Costello clerked for the Honorable John McCole in Hudson County and was in private practice at McAlevy & Costello, attaining certified criminal trial attorney status in 1986, before being appointed to the bench in 1989 by Gov. Thomas Kean. She served first in Hudson County in the Criminal Division and became Presiding Judge, then in the Civil Division where she directly supervised the Special Civil Part, and in the Family Division where she again became the Presiding Judge. In August 2004, Judge Costello was appointed Assignment Judge of Essex County, the largest vicinage in the State. She has served on and been chair of numerous Supreme Court committees and is currently the vice chair of the Judicial Education Committee. In 2008 she was the recipient of an achievement award at the Peter W. Rodino Dinner.
Oliver Quinn accepted the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Marcia W. Brown '94, vice chancellor for student and community affairs at Rutgers–Newark. "Our alumni have been leaders and impact players in the public, private and not-for-profit arenas," said Quinn, "not just as practicing attorneys and judges but as businesspeople, educators, elected and appointed officials, entrepreneurs, and advocates for social justice across the political spectrum." Noting that he had recently read Professor Paul Tractenberg's A Centennial History of Rutgers Law School in Newark: Opening a Thousand Doors, Quinn said that the book's subtitle describes what the law school meant to him.
|Rutgers–Newark vice chancellor Marcia Brown with the Distinguished Alumnus Award she presented to Oliver Quinn.
"My Rutgers experience," he explained, "provided me with opportunities, helped prepare me to take advantage of opportunities, and equipped me to create opportunities for myself. My Rutgers legal education developed my ability to think analytically; to apply laws and rules to facts; and to understand that the law does not exist in a vacuum, but is affected by the social, political, economic circumstances in society – that the law has texture."
Quinn heads the Corporate and Public Affairs Group at the communications firm Taft and Partners, and advises clients on compliance, ethics, dispute resolution, and risk, diversity, and conflict management. He began his career as a civil rights enforcement attorney with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Among other positions, he has served as Assistant Dean of the law school's Minority Student Program, Administrative Law Judge, Deputy Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Labor, and Deputy Solicitor for national operations at the U.S. Department of Labor. Most recently, he was corporate vice president and chief business ethics officer at Prudential Financial, after having served as chief regulatory compliance officer at Prudential Healthcare.
William Greenberg received the Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service in recognition of his patriotism and longstanding support for members of the military. The award was presented to him by McCarter & English partner Susan A. Feeney. Greenberg thanked U.S. Senator Robert Menendez '79 for recommending to the White House his 2009 appointment as chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board. A retired Brigadier General of the New Jersey Army National Guard, Greenberg spoke warmly of the men and women in service to their country and of the country's support for them upon their return from Iraq and Afghanistan. He noted the welcome difference from the reception given Vietnam-era veterans.
|William Greenberg accepted his Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service from McCarter & English partner Susan Feeney.
Greenberg has been a partner at McCarter & English since 1993. He is a certified civil trial attorney and has been an active business litigator for more than 40 years. He has more than 100 published court opinions to his credit, has presented or written more than 50 litigation articles, and is the author of The Trial Handbook for New Jersey Lawyers and The Civil Trial Handbook. He is a former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, New Jersey, and former trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Bar Foundation. In 2009 the Foundation gave Greenberg its highest award for establishing the NJSBA program for military legal assistance and for his public service representation of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He has served since 2001 as special assistant to the adjutant general of New Jersey for Homeland Security and Military Legal Assistance and is a member of the Rutgers–Newark Veterans Advisory Board.
The Alumni Association, in addition to honoring three remarkable graduates, also recognized two outstanding students with special awards. Natalae Anderson, Class of 2011, was the recipient of the first Fannie Bear Besser Scholarship for Public Service. Before law school Anderson spent two years in the Peace Corps teaching English in Chengdu, China. Last summer she was a legal intern in Phnom Penh with the Documentation Center of Cambodia, where she researched and documented the war crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Among other honors, she is research editor of the Rutgers Law Review and a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court team. Anderson received a bachelor of arts in theater from Michigan State University and a master's in library science, summa cum laude, from North Carolina Central University.
Brett Pugach, Class of 2011, was awarded the Alumni Recognition Dinner Scholarship. Pugach is a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University where he received the Political Science Department Award for Best Contribution to Supreme Court Simulation. He spent the summer before entering Rutgers as an intern in the office of the attorney general, District of Columbia. An argument he developed distinguishing complex from non-complex federal litigation was adopted by the U.S. District Court. Pugach is managing notes editor of the Rutgers Law Review and co-chair of the Moot Court Board. He was also a semi-finalist in the 2010 David Cohn Appellate Advocacy Competition and was selected to serve as a member of the law school's National Appellate Advocacy Team.


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I have signed up with Ubuntu One (20GB) and I'm having the following issue:
I basically cannot add folders through the panel interface. I have been able to add five folders so far, but I'd like to add some more (yes, they are inside the home folder). I don't get no errors, but nothing is added to the folders list.
By using the command line interface like this
u1sdtool --create-folder /home/alex/Web
it basically hangs. Nothing happens. If I then list the folders with command line, my folder is not there.
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Oracle Coherence: First Steps Using Clusters and Basic API Usage
By Ricardo Ferreira-Oracle on Feb 22, 2012
When we talk about distributed data grids, elastic caching platforms and in-memory caching technologies, Oracle Coherence is the first option that came in our minds. This happens because Oracle Coherence is the oldest and most mature implementation of data grids, creating successful histories across the world. It is Oracle Coherence the implementation with the bigger number of use cases in the world. Since it's aquisition by Oracle in 2007, the product has been enhanced with powerful enterprise features to remain it's position of the "better of the world" against it's competitors.
This article will help you given your first steps with Oracle Coherence. I have prepared a sequence of three videos that will guide you in the process of creating a data grid cluster, managing data using both Java API and CohQL ("Coherence Query Language") to finally test the reliability and fail over features of the product.
Oracle allows you to download and use any of your products for free, if you are interested in learning or testing the technology. Different of other vendors that put you first in contact with a sales representative or simply not put their software available for download, Oracle encourages you to use the technology so you gain confidence with it. You can download Oracle Coherence at this link. If you don't possess a credential in the OTN ("Oracle Technology Network"), you will be asked to create one.
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The calcium-bearing component of a two-part method for dosing calcium and carbonates (the substances largely responsible for increasing alkalinity ("buffering capacity")) in the same ratio as that found in natural seawater.
Ionically-balanced with respect to natural seawater concentrations of calcium and carbonates when used in equal amounts with Reef Code B.
Benefits reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, calcareous algae, etc.
Simplifies calcium and alkalinity maintenance.
Stronger than most competing products.
Contains no phosphate, silicate, or organic material.
Formulated by a marine scientist.
Technical Background
This method of calcium and carbonate supplementation is advantageous to hobbyists interested in a simple and effective means of providing the very elements and molecules required for growth of reef-building organisms such as corals, clams, and their allies. Corals and other reef-building organisms require adequate and stable available calcium and alkalinity if they are to thrive, regardless of how perfect the remainder of their environment is. Under most conditions, the mineral that is secreted as skeletal material is known as Aragonite, composed mostly of carbonate and calcium by weight. Reef-building organisms must extract these substances from the surrounding water in order to secrete new skeletal material for growth. By maintaining the same ratio of calcium ions and carbonates in an aquarium as that found in natural seawater, these organisms have the necessary building blocks available in the proper proportions, even if the hobbyist chooses to maintain higher concentrations of these substances.
For maximum effectiveness of the Reef Code method, the magnesium concentration in reef aquaria should be adjusted to, and maintained between, 1,290 - 1,320 ppm before using these products (alone or together) or any other calcium and alkalinity products. Doing so helps prevent unwanted precipitation between calcium and carbonate ions. Additional information on this subject is available on our website and on the label for Brightwell Aquatics Magnesion.
The rate at which calcium and carbonates are extracted from the water is determined by the stocking density of reef-building livestock, type of lighting, and other conditions; therefore, each aquarium will have different requirements for the rate of supplementation. Once the rate of calcium uptake in the aquarium has been determined, the proper dosing rate of this product can be easily calculated.
Instructions and Guidelines
Basic: Shake product well before using. Add 5 ml (1 capful) of product per 25 US-gallons of aquarium water every other day or as needed to maintain the calcium concentration within a range of 412 - 450 ppm. When used in this fashion, 250 ml treats up to 1,250 US-gallons (4,732 L). When used in equal amounts with Reef Code B, the calcium and carbonates being added are in the same ratio found in natural seawater. Do not mix products in the same container; this will cause the active components to precipitate and become ineffective. Allow 60 seconds to pass between dosing Reef Code A and B.
Advanced: Determine the calcium concentration in the aquarium using an accurate test kit before supplementing. Shake this product well before each use. Each ml of Brightwell Aquatics Reef Code A will increase the concentration of calcium ("[Ca2+]") in 1 US-gallon (3.785 L) of water by approximately 16 ppm. If the initial [Ca2+] in the aquarium is below 412 ppm, add this product at the maximum rate of 5 ml per 10 US-gallons daily until the desired calcium concentration is attained, then dose daily or weekly as needed (see below). Note that each aquarium has different requirements for calcium and carbonates (which largely constitute Alkalinity or Buffering Capacity, hence pH-stability); therefore, it is not uncommon for unequal amounts of Reef Code A and B to be required for obtaining and maintaining the desired calcium concentration and alkalinity. To determine the daily dosing rate for calcium maintenance: estimate the volume of water in the entire aquarium system; divide the daily decrease in [Ca2+] by 16; multiply this number by the volume of water in the system to get the daily dosage required (ml) to maintain a stable [Ca2+].
Caution: May cause eye or skin irritation. Flush with water for 15 minutes if in eyes, seek medical attention if irritation persists. Keep out of reach of children. Not for human consumption.
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Calcium (min) 1,774 mg/oz. (60,000 ppm)
Magnesium (min) 42 mg/oz. (1,500 ppm)
Strontium (min) 36 mg/oz. (1,200 ppm
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The goal of Brightwell Aquatics is to provide the absolute highest quality, scientifically-sound products and customer service of any aquarium water care manufacturer, and to do it all in a straight-forward and honorable fashion. All Brightwell products are formulated by marine scientists with a passion for the aquarium hobby. They utilize the highest purity ingredients in concentrations that provide the most use to hobbyists. Nearly all Brightwell Aquatics products are over 99.9% pure. The usage guidelines of Brightwell Aquatics products are written in plain language but the company is always available to answer consumer questions. All products are lot numbered for quality control and customer service.
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Brightwell aquarium friendly
2/24/2014 from Fallbrook, CA UNITED STATES
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These products are a great line to use, real easy to figure the correct amount to add to aquarium. Corals like it, and it doesn't bother the fish.
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Works like Advertised!
4/5/2011 from Cottonwood, CA UNITED STATES
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I recently switched to both the Code A & B system to dose my 125gal mixed reef tank. It works perfectly at bringing up the kH and Cal levels in no time at all. My corals have shown amazing growth since I reached higher calcium levels.
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Excellent supplement
6/7/2010 from DAVIE, FL UNITED STATES
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I have been using this product for a couple of years and Reef Code A and B has been great at balancing my CA and ALK.
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10/19/2009 from CHANDLER, TX UNITED STATES
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I have been using this along with the Alk. and I have to say its the best, I was using ESV and it kept clogging my doser. But the with the Brightwell I have not had that problem. Also my corals have doubled in size and there color is beautiful. I would HIGHLY recommend this product. Thanks Tonya
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With the ASCS-Northwest Region back in the house for another night of great racing at Relay For Life Night they were also accompanied by some terrific action in support classes on Saturday June 14th. Those classes included the IMCA Modifieds, Street Stocks, and Hornets. The Hornets were a late addition so it was a non-point contest.
In only a handful of starts in 2014 Gus Cooper from Creswell was impressive for several laps of the IMCA Modified main event. Cooper would grab the initial lead in his Eastside Rollforming Specialties/Raceprint.com/BBQ Oil Barbeque Sauces #10 Pro but would get passed by Mark Wauge. Wauge, from Jacksonville, would have to give it back due to a caution coming out before the lap could be completed.
On the restart Wauge would get around Cooper on lap thirteen and he would lead the rest of the distance. It would be the second win of 2014 at CGS for Wauge and the Dog House Racing/Payroll Specialties/Hoppes Construction/Schram Brothers Excavating #28M Impressive team.
Troy McElroy from Shady Cove was second in the Left Coast Motorsports/BSB Manufacturing/Siskiyou Pump Service/Rocket Designs #57M Swartz while behind him in third went to the Berry's Oak Grove Storage/B.R.E. Race Cars/GaryMorganGraphics.com/Napa Auto Parts of Klamath Falls #11X B.R.E of Tom Berry Jr. of Medford. To make it a complete sweep of the top five from Southern Oregon drivers Monte Bischoff was fourth in the Payroll Specialties Inc./Hoppes Construction/Lucas Oil Products #F1 Impressive followed by the Rich and Nicky Biehn owned Biehn Racing/Air Gas/Natures Images/Lithia Dodge-Toyota of Klamath Falls #54N Shaw driven by Nick Trenchard from Klamath Falls.
Despite not leading the first lap Evan Britton of Cottage Grove would dominate the Street Stock feature. Britton would cruise to his first career victory in the Street Stocks while chauffeuring his Dot's Trophy Shop/Ollivant Timber Management/Howell Logging/Gilkison & Dad Inc. #85 Nova.
Darryl Crooks of Cottage Grove was second in the Nathan Anderson Dentistry/Platinum Hair of Creswell/Stacey Graves Massage Therapy #00 Nova and in third Mark Henderson from Cottage Grove in the Henderson Racing #0 Nova. Completing the finishing order was Creswell's Brad Green in the #1 entry in fourth.
In the Hornets Eric Cooper of Cottage Grove in the Eastside Rollforming Specialties/R&D Specialties #32 Nissan 200SX would lead the entire distance of the main event. It would be Cooper's first career win in the division despite on half a dozen or so starts total.
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Cottage Grove Speedway will host the rescheduled Fan Appreciation Night on Saturday June 21st after the original May 10th date was rained out. Just before opening ceremonies we will have all race cars in the pits on the track for fans to get autographs, pictures, hero cards, etc. from the drivers and also the first five hundred fans through the front gates will get a FREE autograph book. Classes in action include the Huddle Automotive Repair 360 Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, Street Stocks, and Hornets. It will also be a Pepsi Family Night so that means folks that purchase a Family Pass get complimentary soft drinks courtesy of Pepsi and the Bigfoot Beverage Company.
Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 4:00, and Racing starts at 6:45. Tickets are Adults $12.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $10.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $5.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE. And as mentioned before we will offer our normal family pass for two Adults and up to four Youths for just $35.00. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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Saturday June 14th, 2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
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IMCA Modifieds
A Feature: 1. 28M-Mark Wauge; 2. 57M-Troy McElroy; 3. 11X-Tom Berry Jr.; 4. F1-Monte Bischoff; 5. 54N-Nick Trenchard; 6. W6-Kelly Williamson; 7. 77-Kreg Britton; 8. 33C-Craig Hanson; 9. 5-Braedon Hand; 10. 68-Jesse Bailey; 11. 9-David Schmidt; 12. 11-Steven Sturdevant; 13. 10-Gus Cooper; 14. 5M-Jake Mayden; 15. 84-Eric Ashley; 16. 44-Greg McDonald; 17. 21C-Curt Coggins; 18. 21-Jeremy Ohlde; 19. ZERO-Dustin Comer
Street Stocks
A Feature: 1. 85-Evan Britton; 2. 00-Darryl Crooks; 3. 0-Mark Henderson; 4. 1-Brad Green
A Feature: 1. 32-Eric Cooper; 2. 41-Jim Simmons; 3. 23F-Marcel Forte; 4. 28-Chris Pierce; DNS 7-Josh Corley
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I was given a puzzle to solve which goes as:- Can a knight start at square a1 of a chessboard, and go to square h8, visiting each of the remaining squares once on the way ?
I reasoned that this won't be possible because both the squares a1 and h8 have the same colour ( say, black ). If we are not considering these squares, then the remaining chess board has 62 squares which means that there are 30 black squares and 32 white squares. If the knight was to visit each of these squares exactly once, then this would mean that we would be having the sequence WBWBWBWB.....W where the pair "WB" would be occuring 31 times. However, this is not possible as there are two extra whites than black. When I submitted this solution, I was told that it is wrong but no explanation was given. Can you help me out?


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According to the Free Dictionary, the figurative meaning of to give a run for someone's money is "to be as good as someone."
But what's the literal meaning of the sentence?
I actually think the "figurative meaning" you cite isn't quite correct. I would say that the (most common) figurative meaning of "to give someone a run for their money" is "to challenge someone."
But the literal origin of the phrase comes from horse racing. To want a run for your money is to want a horse that you have placed a bet on to participate in the race. Sometimes a horse is withdrawn from a race after bettors have already placed money on it; those bettors did not get a run for their money. From the OED:
Conversely to give someone a run for their money is to give a good race (even if you don't win) in return for their backing. This latter usage also suggests challenging the other horses in the race; hence its contemporary figurative meaning:
Since you didn't ask for the origin, I will answer with a plausible story that fits the image:
A person pays a lot of money to get a ride in a jet fighter. The pilot can go as slow and level as possible for a short amount of time, or the pilot can do high G turns, fly at tree level, and generally induce air sickness. The second option is a run for their money.
From the very first Google result for "run for one's money":
The original meaning comes from the horse-racing world and just looking at the results in google books it was simply 'to give it a try and hope for some luck'.
The most literal meaning is that punters will get good value out of the bets they have put down.
This meaning is also naturally extended to competitiveness:
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The deactivated programs will remain in operation for three more years. All current students majoring in the programs will be able to complete their degree requirements within this period and graduate from Geneseo. However, effective immediately, no additional students will be accepted into these programs.
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"Geneseo has been entrusted to our stewardship by those who came before us, who took decisive actions to secure its future," Dahl told students, faculty and staff at a campus meeting. "We are obligated to do the same, no matter how difficult - especially given the depth and projected duration of New York's budget crisis. This is the most wrenching decision I've made in 15 years as president but, having considered all possible options, it was clear that this is absolutely necessary to ensure a stronger Geneseo for future generations."
Since 2008, Geneseo has incurred a 22.2 percent reduction in its base state tax dollar support because of repeated and severe budget cuts. In addition to these reductions, the college has been required to implement state-mandated expenditures of more than $6 million in areas such as contractual salary increases.
"The simple fact is that budgetary actions by the state of New York have consequences," said Dahl. "Our state has cut the SUNY budget by $680 million, and today, sadly, we are experiencing the very real and painful impact of those actions." Dahl noted that state funding at this point accounts for scarcely 25 percent of Geneseo's total college budget.
For the past three years, Geneseo has employed a variety of across-the-board measures to address reductions in state support, including hiring freezes; reductions in non-personnel expenditures; and use of College reserve funds.
"These temporary actions are unsustainable and continuing them endangers the quality of the College," Dahl noted. "We must implement permanent solutions to stabilize our base budget for the long term."
The decision to deactivate the academic programs was based on criteria developed in consultation with the college-wide Strategic Planning Group and Budget Advisory Committee over the past 12 months. Criteria included centrality to mission; inter-relatedness with other programs; program sustainability; quality, relative cost; and enrollment trends.
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