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They weren't a bad team with quite a big Reputation compared to the other available teams!
Managing in South America in the long term is something I've never got round to doing, perhaps I'll do it with FM09.
Btw dafuge, the discussion over club threads and career threads seems to have gone quiet. Have you and the mod from GPTG (Cleon was it?) had any further ideas about it?
I don't think anything will be happening.
I'm still hoping that the cross forum short term challenges will go ahead though.
Match of the Day inspired me to this...
The Hull City Challenge
The name is a bit misleading as you don't have to be Hull City to do this...
Take a team who are bottom of League 2 and within ten years be at least joint top of the Premiership at the end of October....
It'd be tough... but that's the point, isn't it??
not sure about the 'october' bit, but you could adapt it to where Hull finish this season.
Another thing is you could sort of have it so, not neccessarily within 10 years, but say, have a race to who can do it quickest?
just a couple of ideas though, and good initial concept
I was thinking about a challenge request thread. There is the guide to the challenges, but as that isn't posted in, it would disappear from the front page rather quickly meaning those people who don't bother to read the forum sticky won't find it, and end up starting a new thread saying 'I want a challenge' (or, even worse, 'i want a challenge').
How about a challenge request thread? Started with a link to the challenges guide, but then if anyone wants a particular type of challenge, they post their request in there. If such a challenge already exists, someone comes along and directs them to it. If it doesn't, it could be seen as an idea if someone wants to create a new challenge. What are people's thoughts?
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I've found recently a lot of people saying 'I want a challenge' but wouldn't the ideal solution be to have the guide to the challenges as a sticky?
Yes - and have someone keep it a bit more up to date...
If there's a challenge you want added to the guide to the challenges you need to PM dafuge about it...same as if you want a sign-up added to the guide to the sign-ups you need to PM me about it.
Of course stickying the guide to the challenges is an option - but what if said challenge isn't out there? It would be nice to make it more user-friendly, particularly new-user-friendly, in that someone can enter the requests thread and simply ask for a type of challenge.
dafuge, what are your thoughts on the Challenge Requests thread?
I think canvey!! was implying it would be a sticky
And that's true about reading the welcome thread. There isn't really much you can do about that, I suppose. Getting ultra-strict on that might help, but that isn't a direction we want to take.
dafuge - not trying to have a go or anything, it's just that as it's not a sticky, noone knows about it to be requested (if that makes any sense)
tbh, though, ignorance isn't an excuse. If people don't read the welcome sticky, and subsequently don't know about the guide, it is their loss as they won't get into the guide.
It was better before when I could edit the forum header but with the new forum software this looks like the best way of doing it. It's not ideal but I think it's better than having loads of stickies, that just annoys me when I have to scroll down to see the actual threads that have been posted in.
Too true, there are presently 9 in the GQ Forum and it's awful; you really have to scroll down to take a look at the threads.
I just use the archives for looking for new threads, much easier tbh.
How about we have another demo challenge like we did with Barrow on the 08 demo?
Will keep people interested for the next 2 weeks.
Good idea any ideas?
a Hull challenge would be popular I imagine
Isn't it enough of a challenge getting the demo in the first place? Is for me anyway
How about something with the Three Newly promoted teams? like being top by Christmas
PS. I downloaded the Vanilla Demo because it was a lot smaller, and I am seriously loving it like nothing else, I just hope that NZ release is not too delayed cause that would suck or I might have to get it online :P
I think Luton would be a wise choice for a challenge, starting on -30 and all.
I'm sure some brainy soul could come up with a decent challenge for them.
http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=54705 not very well set out mind.
Well, you guys can always setup a challenge in Indonesia.
I just finished downloading the demo and now installing.
How about one to topple the Old Firm? I think it'd be best to do the challenges in either Scotland or England as they are in both demos
Or maybe a challenge in South America or Scandinavia...but I think roberto's idea is a good one.
Promotion Celebrations
I will be doing a collect trophies from around the world challenge and a get a player to play 1000 games or score 1000 goals challenge? Anyone interested and what are your thoughts/suggestions?
that's already a challenge iirc
Which one is already a challenge? The 1000 goal challenge is good I think because people can if they want run it with another challenge.
The 1000 goal challenge is. It's either the Danny Roberts or Paul Wallace challenge, can't remember which one.
Wasn't it the Pele challenge?
And Wallace completed it
Ha HA. was just thinking about redoing the south american challenge for FM09 and then come on here and see Razer is planning on doing it. saved me doing some work for it i guess....
Don't how I thought of this, but was messing about on youtube and suddenly thought of a potentially cracking idea for a sign up for FM09 (although yet another around a TV show however! )
First of all, any contestants would have to answer the following questions to see if they fit the bill:
Do you have the will.... and the skill?
Do you have the speed?..
the stength?..
and the heart to beat a..... Gladiator!!!!
Oh yes, it's the turn of the CSE forum to take on the challenge and see whether they have the power to beat the Gladiators!
The idea is that people (probably 16 or 32 people) would sign up all as midfielders (best as you would need to be an all rounder to compete in the events) and would be drawn against another forumer each round, with the winner going on to the next round.
A knockout format being followed, with a contest against each other would last the course of the season, and a 'series of events' being created for people to do battle over. Each event would score players points which would give them an advantage for the end of season 'eliminator' course which would decide who progresses to the next round!
The Gladiators would be in the form of AI players and I would take on the role of mentoring them. My aim would of course be to batter the contestants (yourself).
If people like the idea, I don't mind someone else running this sign up and I would be willing to offer tips as to how it would run.
What do people think.... do you think you have the power to beat the Gladiators?!
I like it, nay, love it! There's obviously still work to be done on the details as it's such a grand project - but it sounds great fun. I assume this isn't related to the one you were talking about earlier involving captains?
BTW, was it me who started this craze about sign-ups being based on TV shows? I think elimination sign-ups are much more fun than bog-standard "let's see how the team do" sign-ups.
Oh yeah, its still a very rough idea - only came up with it a very short time ago.
No it isn't the sign up I had in planning and to be honest I'm more than willing to let someone else do something based on my Gladiators idea.
I still like the 'follow a club / player' sign ups, I think you just need a decent enough idea to have a good sign up.
There is a certain trend at the moment to have TV style sign ups.... I blame reality TV
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Is that my Championships you're talking about? It's gonna be the World Cup this time and they will be monthly this time
only thing would be the differing level of difficulty depending on the club.... although i guess would be good for differing levels of gameplaying experience.
there, that's it!!
if a few of you reckon that my challenge has potential as a challenge, i think i might go for it... let me know what you think (positive and negative) as i want to get it right if i do launch it.
i think it sounds like a good idea. Only problem is what you have spotted being the various different levels these clubs are at because it would be much easier to complete with cardiff and wales than the two san marinos
more comments please!
Sounds like a brilliant idea rlipscombe, what would the 15-20 clubs be?
I think that there being different levels of difficulty is a good thing as it will attract all sorts of players and offer very different types of games!
quite a few of the teams are Asian teams although there are also English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, American and Australian games to be played...
I'd do it and have a go with Toronto although what league do Albirex Niigata play in?
"Albirex Niigata FC (Singapore) is a soccer club which plays in Singapore's S.League. The club is a satellite team of Albirex Niigata of Japan, and its players come from Japan.
The club joined the S.League in 2004, and has succeeded in winning over the local Japanese community in Singapore, and has also attracted praise from the local media for their professional approach to running a football club."
Hmph, it's a challenge for me to get through a month on MLS Terrible league *shudders*
i've had a couple of gos previously as well and it's a lot to get you're head around. SI have supposedly improved it though this season...
Right some advice please.
I'm thinking of basing a sign up in the french league ( not that it really matters which league) It's going to use 10 teams. Would I be best to use the top 10 clubs, the bottom 10 clubs or the middle 10?
wouldn't you be best just to make new teams?
Unless you have to have 10 teams, I would suggest filling up a small league with your teams, as this will mean there won't be any AI teams. Although, I may be wrong.
Use what PaulHartman said or just edit all of the current teams.
Just to tell you guys, I have just launched my 1000 goal challenge.
Tell me what you think.
Sorry I didn't make it very clear. It isn't a team based sign up
, it's a player based sign up
use the top 10 then imo
Early shout for an idea of a new award in next year's Forum Awards:
Most OTT post of the year
canvey!!'s nomination
Subtle closing post from canvey!!
Fantastic post that, wp sire.
I went a bit OTT with one of my posts in the All American Managerial Contest
I thought I was never gonna find out who had 12 points then!
I like the Hull city challenge
Nothin like a bit of Arse licking
dafuge, the legendary moderator
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canvey!!'s super-dooper first ever challenge (working title) will be posted tomorrow \o/
No doubt it'll be good.
Depending on if I'm out or not tomorrow night, my challenge will be up either tomorrow or on Saturday morning.
Slight addition to it now, after some discussion with Rancer, I'm going to add MLS into it too, making it a Small Club to Big Club Americas challenge, unconfirmed title though.
Well considering the fact that the Americas are now one continent that would certainly make sense.
Oh, and there will be some changes to my challenge, tentatively titled rancer890's small club to big club Asian and African challenge.
Think all the continents are now playable as a challenge, unless there's an Antarctica football league hiding somewhere.
Africas always been playable...
No, they simply are described as a single continent
One little bit of proof: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/continents.htm
I'm basically going by what the historian said in the Mexican museum
A few different ways to distinguish the continents Wiki
I will forever consider myself a North America and Canadian.
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I know I said I would make the ciabatta again and post the recipe, but I totally lied. I saw this bagel recipe and knew I had to make it. Now, I have never been to New York City (I have said, "Hey! Can't you see I'm walkin' here!?" a few times, but that's about it) so I am not going to call these New York style bagels lest Lindsay drive up to Canada just to kick my butt. I will say, though, that these are the best bagels I have ever had. I now utterly shun and reject those round pieces of garbage they are passing off as bagels at the grocery store.
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2. Remove the plastic wrap and stir the additional yeast into the sponge. Add 3 cups of the flour, sugar, and the salt into the bowl and mix until all of the ingredients form a ball. You need to work in the additional 3/4 cups of flour to stiffen the dough, either while still mixing in the bowl or while kneading. The dough should be stiffer and drier than normal bread dough, but moist enough that all of the ingredients are well blended.
3. Pour the dough out of the bowl onto a clean surface and knead for 10 minutes.
4. Immediately after kneading, split the dough into a dozen small pieces around 4 1/2 ounces each. Roll each piece into a ball and set it aside. When you have all 12 pieces made, cover them with a damp towel and let them rest for 20 minutes.
5. Shape each bagel by punching your thumb through the center of each roll and then rotate the dough, working it so that the bagel is as even in width as possible.
6. Place the shaped bagels on an oiled sheet pan, with an inch or so of space between one another (use two pans, if you need to). If you have parchment paper, line the sheet pan with parchment and spray it lightly with oil before placing the bagels on the pan. Cover the pan with plastic and allow the dough to rise for about 20 minutes. Refrigerate overnight.
4. Before removing them from the pot, sprinkle corn meal onto the sheet pan. Remove them one at a time, set them back onto the sheet pan, and top them right away, while they are still slightly moist. Repeat this process until all of the bagels have been boiled and topped.
5. Once they have, place the sheet pan into the preheated oven and bake for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to 450 degrees, rotate the pan, and bake for another 5 minutes until the bagels begin to brown. Remove, cool on wire racks, and eat.

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More Pregnant Women Getting Flu Shots
Oct. 20, 2011 -- Pregnant women are more likely to get a flu shot than they were a few years ago, and for good reason: Evidence continues to mount that the vaccine safely protects both mother and newborn from influenza and its complications.
One new study shows that pregnant women who get a flu shot are no more likely to miscarry. A second, small study shows that babies of moms who received the vaccine retain some immunity for two months after birth.
In a third study, more than half of the pregnant women surveyed were immunized in the 2010-2011 flu season. Historically, the figure has hovered at a dismal 15%, researchers say.
"We're building a large and consistent body of evidence regarding the benefits and safety of flu vaccination in pregnancy," says Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA) pandemic influenza task force and director of the influenza vaccine project at PATH, a nonprofit agency aimed at improving global health. Neuzil was not involved with any of the new research.
Past research has shown that pregnant women who are immunized are less likely to have babies who are premature, develop respiratory disease, or need to be hospitalized, she tells WebMD.
Neuzil and other experts meeting at the annual IDSA meeting in Boston say they hope the new findings will convince more pregnant women to get the flu vaccine.
Improvement in Vaccination Rates
Marci L. Drees, MD, chief epidemiologist at Christiana Health Care System in Newark, Del., and colleagues surveyed about 300 women who had just given birth during the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 flu seasons.
During the 2009-2010 season, 191 of 307 (62%) said they had received the H1N1 swine flu vaccine and 186 (61%) reported they got the seasonal flu shot during pregnancy.
In 2010-2011, 165 (55%) of 300 women surveyed said they received the seasonal flu vaccine.
Drees tells WebMD she "was pretty happy" vaccination rates didn't drop even further last year.
"In 2009-2010, there was so much attention paid to the H1N1 pandemic," she says. "This past year was not as exciting of a flu season. People forgot how sick unvaccinated people were the year before."


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On October 10, 2012, New Hampshire Governor John H. Lynch was joined by members of the New Hampshire Credit Union League (NHCUL), representatives of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Hampshire credit union employees from throughout New Hampshire, and local guests, to launch the sales season of the Make-A-Wish® 2013 Calendar Raffle. The event to launch the 2013 Calendar Raffle, limited to 2,500 calendars, featured speeches from representatives of both the NHCUL, Make-A-Wish®, and Governor John. H. Lynch. Governor Lynch commended New Hampshire credit unions for their corporate social responsibility and for making a difference for non-profit organizations in New Hampshire – including Make-A-Wish®. In addition, Governor Lynch shared the podium with the five Wish Children in attendance, and asked each to share details on the Wishes they received.
Lynch commented, "I believe there is nothing nobler a person can do than to help others. The credit unions' support of Make-A-Wish® and these remarkable young people is a fantastic example of that." Governor Lynch then purchased the first 2013 calendar and Wish Children – David, Jessica, Corey, Stephanie, and Megan (Miss New Hampshire) – were on hand to autograph the Governor's calendar. The group presented the Governor with a special photo memory book from the previous 3 calendar event kick-offs.
Gerald Dumoulin, NHCUL Board Chairman, informed guests of the significance of fundraising initiatives by New Hampshire's credit unions, and praised Governor Lynch for his support of the Calendar Raffle. "Starting this month and throughout the year, the credit unions of the NHCUL are joining forces to raise funds for Make-A-Wish®. The Make-A-Wish® Calendar Raffle is in its fifth year and a total fundraising goal of $155,000 has been set to support Make-A-Wish®. To achieve this goal, New Hampshire credit unions participate in a variety of fundraising programs, which include: The Richard D. Mahoney Memorial Golf Tournament; candy bar sales; League Chapter and state convention auctions; and theme park ticket sales. The NHCUL is grateful for the support of the more than 500,000 New Hampshire residents who are credit union members, and for Governor Lynch, who has been a steadfast supporter of Make-A-Wish® and the fund raising efforts of New Hampshire credit unions," added Dumoulin.
Julie P. Baron, CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Hampshire, praised the philanthropic spirit and philosophy of New Hampshire's credit unions. "The Make-A-Wish® Foundation of New Hampshire is so appreciative of the amazing partnership we share with the NHCUL. New Hampshire credit unions "live" and exemplify their sense of corporate social responsibility -"people helping people" - throughout the year. Their impact has reached every corner of the state – and is key in assisting Make-A-Wish® grant beyond 1,000 wishes and celebrating our 25th anniversary in 2012," said Baron.


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What is the differences in nuances between とうとう and やっと?
is it true that やっと has a more "happy" feeling attached to it?
やっと means that something realizes after spending/waiting a long time for it or making a lot of effort for it. Therefore it is understandable that やっと has a happy feeling attached to it. If I understand English correctly, "at last" has a similar meaning.
とうとう means that something happens as a final outcome, and what happens can be either a good thing or a bad thing.
For example, suppose that some company has been financially in a trouble for a while. Today you heard that the company went bankrupt.
is a usual sentence. If you say
that means that you were waiting for the bankruptcy of the company.
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Vatican Says Pope Allegations Have No Merit
ROME—The Vatican on Friday moved to discredit allegations that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis this week, didn't do enough to protect a pair of activist priests during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 through 1983.
The Vatican said the "campaign against Cardinal Bergoglio is well known and goes back to many years," and that the allegations have no merit. He has been questioned about the situation by Argentine authorities and has made many public declarations that he protected people during the dictatorship and "promoted the whole cause of reconciliation in the church of Argentina," the Vatican said.
The allegations, from an Argentine journalist who published a book on the country's Dirty War, which was fought in the 1970s, have created a small cloud over Cardinal Bergoglio's otherwise well-received election as the 266th pope. In his first days in the job, Francis has set a tone of humility and spontaneity by at times shrugging off the trappings that typically accompany the papacy and giving off-the-cuff remarks during Mass.
- Humility in Pope Francis' First Hours
- Bid to Remake Church Will Focus on Vatican Administration
- Essay: Pope Francis, the Disappeared, and the Questions That Won't
- 'Father Jorge' Rose From Modest Roots
- New Leader Elicits Pride Back Home
- Jesuits Had Past Struggles With Popes
- U.S. Catholics Express High Hopes for New Pope
- Photos: The New Pope
- Video: Papal Conclave
- Live: The Next Pope Stream
The Changing Church
The population of Catholics around the world has grown dramatically and shifted southward, while the cardinals who elect the pope remain mostly European.
But his behavior while provincial superior of the Jesuits in Argentina as the military dictatorship was in place has received enough attention that Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi took time during his daily press briefings to address it. At issue is whether Francis took aggressive enough action to keep safe two priests that were kidnapped and allegedly tortured by the regime.
The Vatican characterized the allegations as having a left-wing anticlerical motive and being carried out by a publication that specializes in campaigns that are at times filled with lies. "There has never been an accusation concrete and credible in this regard," the Vatican said, adding that the allegations are "firmly and clearly denied."
Father Lombardi also noted that Argentine peace laureate Perez Esquivel absolved Francis of collaboration with the dictatorship. In a column on his official website, Mr. Esquivel said he did not consider the new pope "an accomplice" of the dictatorship, but added that he wished Francis had shown more courage at the time in confronting the regime.
In the Vatican's response to the allegations in the kidnapping situation, details continued to emerge on Francis' modest papal style. According to Father Lombardi, Francis has been sitting and eating casually with cardinals before they return to their homes to prepare for Holy Week.
On Wednesday night, shortly after being named pope, Francis called bishops in Argentina asking them to not attend the coming papal installation because the money would be better spent serving the poor, Father Lombardi said. On Thursday, when Francis returned to his former living quarters to collect his bags and settle accounts, his actions inspired tears of staff members as the pontiff remembered names of employees and inquired into the well-being of their families.
Father Lombardi said Vatican officials are preparing for the "spontaneity" and "openness" that are hallmarks of Francis. During a speech on Friday morning, Francis took a step that is uncharacteristically casual for the papacy by calling the cardinals "brothers." During the speech, Francis often strayed from prepared remarks, calling on cardinals to evangelize, remain optimistic amid storms, and citing work by one of his favorite poets, the German Friedrich Holderlin.
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Fruit 'n' Chicken Salad Stuffed Pitas
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Pineapple chunks, water chestnuts, and red bell pepper add some punch to this all-American chicken salad.
Serves: Serves: 6
- 2 cups cooked low-fat chicken cubes
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped canned water chestnuts
- 2 tablespoons chopped red bell pepper
- 8-ounce can pineapple chunks in juice, undrained
- 1 cup red or green seedless grapes
- 2/3 cup nonfat ranch salad dressing
- 6 whole-wheat pita breads, cut in half
- Lettuce leaves
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- Cover and refrigerate up to 3 days.
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- Grapes contain ellagic acid, a substance that may kill certain cancer-causing compounds in the body.
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Welcome friends and family with beautiful décor for your porch and front door
Make your home the envy of the neighborhood this holiday season. The Home Depot offers a large selection of unique outdoor decorations to help spruce up your yard for Christmas. Choose from our playful line of inflatables to add a quirky twist to your home's curb appeal. From our animated to animal to classic versions, you can find inflatables that will perfectly match you and your family's personality. And if you're looking to super size your holiday fun, we can help you with that too. Our collection of oversized Christmas decorations will easily add wonder and drama to any yard this season. We even offer popular versions of licensed characters like Snoopy, Yoda and Frosty the Snowman. Similar decoration styles can also be found in non-inflatable versions for a more traditional outdoor décor look.
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I am trying to figure out the best way to learn new things on Stack Exchange, and ultimately design a study plan to help myself and others. To this end, I'd like to hear how others use these websites to achieve this end.
I am a programmer, and thus naturally inclined to use Stack Overflow.
Here is what I currently do:
- I have a list of interested tags
- I try to read questions from each tag, as much as I can (sort of random)
- If a question that I can answer catches my eye, which happens rarely, I give it a shot
- I occasionally ask questions regarding problems I confront at work or encounter while reading technical books/articles or watching video lectures
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localStorage["search-engine"] sometimes gets reset, possibly after an update. I would like to avoid creating a Greasemonkey script that scripts on
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I am in the process of deciding which product is suitable for a 30D coupled to a 24-105 lens. Does anyone use this combination with a NN3 and if so is there any problems with weight?
I am in the process of deciding which product is suitable for a 30D coupled to a 24-105 lens. Does anyone use this combination with a NN3 and if so is there any problems with weight?
Weight is not a problem. I personally have not used this lens nor have we heard from customers not being able to use it (which is good news). It does appear the 24-105mm lens will work for single row or multi-row panos. However if doing full 360x180 spherical panos, this lens "may" only allow for partial tilt up. To shoot the zenith (up shot) with this lens you will either need to move the camera/lens forward on the upper rail to allow for full rotation or simply shoot manually (as most do). You could also shoot two rows - one row to catch the zenith (top) and one row to catch the nadir (floor). For many this is not a big deal but thought I would share this.
NN5L does not have this limitation.
If anyone know first hand please feel to share your expereinces.
howdy my nikon 300d sits on it pretty nicely and the size is just right for lugging around if im right thats L series glass she would be getting tight theres 90 mm of travel on the top rail from the tripod screw point
from my calculations though im just a roof plumber with a rusty old tape i rekon if ya measure from tripod screw to were your noodle nodal point will be on that lens is if its under 90 mm you will be stylin
Thanks guys for the replies. As part of my general kit I have been thinking I should have a wide angle lens as welll as the 24-105. The two that I have in mind at present are the 17-40 or the 10-22. Whichever one I end up with, I believe will be able to be used with the NN3 without a problem. At this stage I am leaning towards the 17-40 as I think it would be more versatile than the 10-22, plus I do not like the distortion problem with really wide lenses.
The 10-22 is high quality and a great lens for both wide angle and panos. For spherical, I shoot at 8 around at +30, 8 around at -30(-35), one zenith, one nadir which is 18 images. Using exposure bracketing the number of images is 3x or 54. Rather than one zenith, I often shoot 3 around at +60, then the image count goes up even more. This yields great detail and works good for subjects which are mostly static. The problem is the large number of images to process and the time required. If your main goal is spherical, you might find yourself looking at fisheye lenses.
I would recommend the 10-22mm too works awesome with the pano head.


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I would like to display my photo albums and photos that are in FB on my own website. However everything I have tried requires an access token that I seem to only get if I login to FB. I don't want visitors to my site to have to login to FB to see my photos.
Is there a way to get this data and not require a login? I want to pull data from my own FB account. Or is there a different way to authenticate my access behind the scenes so visitors don't have to login, to see my photos?


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Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Islands and nation, West Indies
There are few works that treat all the islands of the Lesser Antilles or describe a particular island comprehensively, although a number of broad overviews are listed in the earlier section on the region. An informative geologic survey is offered in J.H. Westermann and H. Kiel, The Geology of Saba and St. Eustatius, with Notes on the Geology of St. Kitts, Nevis, and Montserrat, Lesser Antilles (1961). Guy Lasserre, La Guadeloupe: Étude géographique, 3 vol. (1978), is a detailed geography. Studies of flora include Clarissa Thérèse Kimber, Martinique Revisited: The Changing Plant Geographies of a West Indian Island (1988); and David Watts, Man's Influence on the Vegetation of Barbados, 1627 to 1800 (1966).
The people of Barbados are discussed in Jill Sheppard, The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History (1977), which explores the history of indentured servants; Farley Brathwaite (ed.), The Elderly in Barbados (1986), a survey of social and economic conditions of the elderly; and Graham M.S. Dann (ed.), Everyday in Barbados: A Sociological Perspective (1976), which discusses social structures and recreational activity. Jean Benoist (ed.), L'Archipel inachevé: culture et société aux Antilles françaises (1972), is an anthropological study of the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, and Saint-Barthélemy. Stuart B. Philpott, West Indian Migration: The Montserrat Case (1973), explores the impact of migration on village population. Bonham C. Richardson, Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis (1983), focuses on migration as a response to degradation of environment. Karen Fog Olwig, Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life (1985), examines the society of one of the Virgin Islands.
Analyses of economic conditions include Delisle Worrell (ed.), The Economy of Barbados, 1946–1980 (1982), a study of the trends of the major sectors; Bonham C. Richardson, Panama Money in Barbados, 1900–1920 (1985), which discusses the impact of remittances on a wide range of economic activities and social attitudes; Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy (1988), which explores patterns of land ownership and agricultural production; and C. Bourne, E.R. Lefranc, and F. Nunes (compilers), Small Farming in the Less Developed Countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean (1980), which provides information on Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, and Antigua. Studies of individual island-state economies include John S. Brierley, Small Farming in Grenada, West Indies (1974); Deirdre M. Kelly, Hard Work, Hard Choices: A Survey of Women in St. Lucia's Export-Oriented Electronics Factories (1987); and Hymie Rubenstein, Coping With Poverty: Adaptive Strategies in a Caribbean Village (1987).
Historical works which concentrate mostly on slavery and plantation life include the following: Vincent T. Harlow, A History of Barbados, 1625–1685 (1926, reprinted 1969), an examination of the period of the early British colonies; Gary A. Puckrein, Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627–1700 (1984), a revisionist economic history, particularly strong on the creolizing process; Hilary Beckles, Black Rebellion in Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627–1838 (1984), a provocative interpretation of slave resistance. Jerome S. Handler, The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados (1974), which fills a gap in historiography; Karl Watson, The Civilised Island, Barbados: A Social History, 1750–1816 (1979), a study of the mature slave society; Claude Levy, Emancipation, Sugar, and Federalism: Barbados and the West Indies, 1833–1876 (1980), on postslavery adjustments; Gordon C. Merrill, The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies (1958), which discusses the colonial period on the islands; Lennox Honychurch, The Dominica Story: A History of the Island, 2nd ed. (1984), a well-illustrated study covering developments up to the 1980s and benefiting from the author's personal involvement in the constitutional changes leading to independence; and George Brizan, Grenada, Island of Conflict: From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498–1979 (1984), the work of a Grenadian historian and politician.


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One's first public performance can be daunting in terms of the amount of anxiety involved. How should first time performers who have never been on stage (or performed in front of unknown people) deal with this? What are some good tips that seasoned performers use?
The best thing you can do is to know your stuff.
Practice it well beforehand, and know your material very well. This way you can get into the groove and stay there (and not be thinking about how sweaty your palms are, or how you're certain the folks in the back row can see your limbs trembling from fear) and then the next thing you know will be along the lines of "oh, I'm done, and lightning didn't strike me dead."
Public speaking is another type of performing in front of others that takes a lot less practice than performing a recital. With the same fears, panic and stress. Acting classes, or Toastmasters can alleviate some of the fears of being in front of crowds. Since most office workers will need to stand up in front of groups and give presentations (or at least argue your point), they are skills you will have to know anyway. With the confidence of a couple of talks or improv sessions, you should be able to recognize that you can do it and go through more difficult or challenging situations. This is part of why "boot camp" in the military is so stressful - you learn to feel the fear and do it anyway. Then, when you are in actual combat, you've already been scared to death, but you know you can do what has to be done.
Don't rush. If you have seen a lot of live performances you know that professionals don't run in, sit down and start playing immediately. Take your time; sit or stand comfortably and check the instrument and the music to make sure everything is ready.
Remember that the audience is not full of critics and music teachers. It's full of people who are there to enjoy the music. If you make a mistake, don't let on. Keep going. Believe it or not, most people won't even notice the mistake. If you have a memory lapse, don't go back but instead skip forward in the piece.
Best advice anyone gave me: If you're playing a recital, get the whole thing ready to play ONE MONTH before the actual performance date, and then keep practicing every day.
I agree with what Tangurena and Mark Lutton wrote, but would like to add some thoughts. I've been playing the piano since I was nine and had a lot of half-formal performances (so mostly in front of other music school pupils and their family) during the ten or eleven years that I've had music lessons.
I'm generally someone who likes being on stage, so I never really minded playing in front of other people.
One thing I will always tell people is that there's basically nothing that can go wrong. Yeah, you might forget the words or might mess up that part of the piece or forget where you are and start over or something. That might happen. But even if it does...
a) You won't die. Nobody will die. Nothing considerably bad will happen just because you didn't get that one little part right.
b) 99% of the time the people listening to you are already giving you credit for going up on a stage and performing for them. So, they will forgive. They already think what you're doing is cool and brave and they don't care if it's not perfect. Chances are you're already showing them something that they can't do but wish they could.
c) If you don't let it on too much or really have to start over again, people won't even notice when you mess up. I've had performances where I totally forgot the words and started a song over again from the start and people forgot that that happened by the end of the song. Either just be cool with it and say so ("Sorry, but I messed up. Have to start over, but this time I'll get it right") or - if you can - just keep on playing.
This sounds a bit pessimistic as I'm actually referring to how to deal with failure, but this is actually meant as encouragement. The best advice always is "Know your stuff". Practice. But if you're still nervous and unsure, understand that failure on stage is not the end of the world. It hardly ever actually is failure after all. If you can remember that, you're more likely to be calm and cool on stage and less likely to actually forget anything.


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WEST LIBERTY - Through the first two days of the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Tennis Championships, one school won two-of-three doubles championships each day at West Liberty University.
Monday it was the University girls, Tuesday it was the Cambridge boys.
No. 1 seeded Cody and Connor Engstrom earned an 8-6 victory over University's Abe Valenzuela and Sven Wermuth and the unseeded duo of Aaron Ruby and Kamden Payton toppled Parkersburg South's Grant Tebay and Juan Cardenas, 8-6.
At No. 3 doubles, Brooke's Austin Barnhart and Chris Beaman dropped an 8-4 decision to Morgantown's Andrew McQuain and Iain McKay.
Cambridge leads the boys team title with 10 points. Morgantown and Parkersburg South have six, Brooke and University five, Wheeling Central and Wheeling Park three, Weirton madonna two and East Liverpool, Indian Creek, John Marshall, Linsly and Weir High one each.
The girls singles are today and boys singles Thursday.
The University girls tennis team won two of the three doubles championships Monday.
Morgantown's Stephanie Arnold and Abby Rosiello prevented the sweep with an 8-5 victory over the Hawks' Ally Rees and Alyssa Reese at No. 1 doubles.
At No. 2, University's Cassie Seamon and Meghan Zerkel defeated Olivia Osborn and Megan Galici of Parkersburg South 8-5.
At No. 3, University's Shae Chico and MacKenzie Buck stopped Parkersburg South's Ally Monroe and Kaitlyn Fleak 8-2.
Oak Glen's Haley Spurlock and Madison Juszczak, the No. 4 seed at No. 1 doubles, defeated Parkersburg South's Regan Hanlon and Jessie Mongilio, 8-3, then fell to John Marshall's Alaina Pauley and Brittany Anderson, 8-4.
Weirton Madonna's Ale Welch and Tina Conforti earned an 8-5 win in the first reound, before an 8-0 loss in the quarterfinals.
At No. 2 doubles, Oak Glen's No. 2 seeded Anna Crawford and Abbi Sayre defeated Weirton Madonna's Morgan Duerr and Elizabeth Conforti, 8-6, in the quartterfinals, but then dropped an 8-6 decision to Osborn and Galici.
Duerr and Conforti won their first-round match, 8-0, over Weir's Christine Robinson and Hannah Hinerman.
At No. 3 doubles, Oak Glen's Lauren Pizzurro and Madison Hill, the No. 4 seed, beat Linsly's Rosalie Hazlett and Detatola Johnson, 8-2, in the quarterfinals.
Chico and Buck then elimnated the Bears pair, 8-1, in the semifinals.
Haizlett and Paige downed Weirton Madonna's Emily Fournier and Bailey Roberts 8-0.
Brooke's Sydney Stewart and Kylie Greathouse earned an 8-3 win in Round 1, but then lost to Chico and Buck, 8-3.
University leads the team race with 11 points. It is followed by Morgantown (8), Parkersburg South (6), Oak Glen (5), Linsly (4) and Wheeling Park (3). Madonna, John Marshall and St. Clairsville have two points and Brooke and Wheeling Central one point.


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DIPAOLO, Richard J. "Dick" Sr., age 77, of Worthington, OH, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012.
He was born in Steubenville, OH, on Nov. 28, 1935, to the late John and Ellen (nee Dugan) DiPaolo.
He graduated from Catholic Central High School in Steubenville in 1953 and served in the United States Army during the Korean War.
He went on to earn his degree from Steubenville University, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity and later assisted in reopening the chapter at OSU.
He retired as vice president of First Investors after 30 years of dedicated service. He enjoyed sports and coached his children's football and baseball teams.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Martha Jean DiPaolo; and brother, Harry Meagher.
He is survived by his wife, Valencia DiPaolo; children, Theresa, Lisa, Gina, Rich (Jessica), and Maggie DiPaolo; grandchildren, Rick, Anthony, Molly, Danielle, Cassandra, Michael, and Nick; great-grandchildren, Jacob and Melody; brother, Ron Meagher; sister, Cheryl Meagher; and nieces and nephews.
Dick will be remembered as an honest, hardworking, and fun loving family man who loved to tell stories and make you laugh.
Friends may call on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, from 6-8 p.m. at the Schoedinger East Chapel, 5360 E. Livingston Ave., where the funeral service will be held on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at 10 a.m. Celebrant Mark Dettmer officiating.
Interment will follow at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Pataskala, OH.
Contributions in Dick's memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 5555 Frantz Rd, Dublin, OH 43016.
Visit www.schoedinger.com to share a favorite memory of Dick.


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7 Feb 2007 1:25 PM #1
getWidth method in YAHOO.ext.Element
May I suggest that you add the following "|| this.dom.width". If the element is not attached to the document and you:
elem.setWidth(100) alert(elem.getWidth());
getWidth : function(contentWidth){ var w = this.dom.offsetWidth || this.dom.width; return contentWidth !== true ? w : w-this.getBorderWidth('lr')-this.getPadding('lr'); },
8 Feb 2007 12:57 AM #2
0 is the correct return value. An element that is not in the document has a 0 width.
8 Feb 2007 10:15 AM #3
width is not 0 and it should not return 0.
If the element is not attached to the document it can still have a width. It doesn't have an "offsetWidth" but it can still have a "width".
A call to setWidth(100) and then a subsequent call to getWidth() should not return 2 different values so long as the units are not a percentage type or width is not blank or auto.
This is an important distinction especially when using your button class. If the button is not appened to the document body before rendering, it will be drawn incorrectly. My suggested fix may be a little immature in that you should test for units prior to deciding which width value to return.
Of course this goes for setHeight as well.
Oh... I meant dom.style.width not dom.width before
9 Feb 2007 3:44 AM #4
A still stand by what I said. An element that is not part of the document is not rendered, and therefore doesn't have a width (or height). It doesn't have a clientWidth or clientHeight either (properties that don't have to do with offsets).
If what you want is the value of height in the style, then you can fetch that value with getStyle very easily.
The reason I am banlking on this is 4 part:
1 and most important) The value returned by the style is NOT the correct width a lot of the time. If you append the element to the document and then call getWidth() it will return a different value if the element has any borders and padding. This is bad.
2) (less important) the spec is that an element that is not part of the document has no dimensions.
9 Feb 2007 11:57 AM #5
If you are going to argue standards... neither clientWidth nor offsetWidth are defined by the W3c. They are both a Microsoft invention. If anyone is interested thsi document explains how width is supposed to be calculated... though in the real world this isn't so: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visude...width-property
The only time offsetWidth will be 0 is:
1) the style width is set to 0
2) width is set to a percentage unit and its parent's width is 0
Given this... If you want a truly accurate width you should implement the fix I suggested with the style.width units check.
It don't need to call getStyle. This is all internal to your things. Right now I am running the patch I suggested and everything works great. Though, this should be a temporary solution.
Specifically your button class is affected because you call setWidth and then immediatly call getWidth (a couple lines later in the same function). getWidth will always return 0 and your button will draw incorrectly.
If you don't want to do this, you may consider a fix to your button class. I will look into this... perhaps I can help you.
12 Feb 2007 12:12 PM #6
A call to setWidth and then a call to getWidth will indeed fail. This has nothing to do with Ext though. All major browsers implement "lazy styling" and don't actually perform a "reflow" until the JS thread is completed. This is a common problem in all JS and the way around it is to use defer() or setTimeout(). Fetching the style attribute is not the way to get the width of an element. Let me explain:
A div element has a border 1px, padding 2px.
You call div.setWidth(100)
Then you call getWidth() and lets say as you suggested, I return the width style attribute. In standards compliant browsers, the width returned will be 94px. In IE it will be 100px. This is unacceptable. I would rather return 0, so you know you need to change your logic then return incorrect/inconsistent values. getWidth() should always return the same value in all browsers.
In my experience, "auto correcting" stuff results in bugs that are difficult to trace. If I was developing something that was highly sensitive to a 6px difference (like a BorderLayout component) imagine the time that I would spend trying to figure out why my widths were off by 6 pixels.
4 Mar 2007 11:52 PM #7
Just wanted to let you know, in the next rev of Ext 1.0 Alpha, there are two functions getComputedWidth/getComputedHeight which return the offsetHeight/offsetWidth if available OR return the style width adjusted by borders and padding where needed to simulate offsets. It has a note that it won't always work (e.g. div that has display:none and auto width in IE).
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ROCK HILL, S.C. – After going down early in the doubles round, fifth-seeded Anderson University men's tennis fell just short of its comeback bid in a marathon match, dropping to fourth-seeded Queens, 5-4, in the quarterfinals of the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference on Wednesday at the Rock Hill Tennis Center.
With the setback, the Trojans close their 2014 campaign with an even 9-9 record, while the Royals, who defeated Anderson in its regular season finale on Sunday, improves to 13-5 on the year and advances to Thursday's semifinal match against top-seeded Wingate.
To begin the doubles round, both teams jumped on the scoreboard early when the Queens tandem of Andre Bafume and Ole-Jacob Meum defeated sophomore Paul Michael Calhoun and senior Danilo Faria at the No. 2 position. Despite the loss, the freshmen team of Juan Carracedo and Mateo Rivas earned AU's first win of the day with an 8-4 triumph over Per-Erik Soler and Jules Athalis at No. 1.
At No. 3, Queens took the 2-1 lead when Ignacio Casli and Will Roberson knocked off AU's pair of sophomores in Tomas Passalacqua and Inaki Iriberry, 8-6.
Anderson began its attempt at a rally in the singles round as Calhoun earned the first singles victory of the day at No. 4 with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Bafume. Later, Iriberry followed the Calhoun triumph with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 win over Williams at No. 5.
Rivas continued Anderson's winning ways with a three-set 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 win over Casali, but the win would be AU's last of the contest. Queens began to chip into AU's lead when Soler defeated the SAC Freshman of the Year, Carracedo, at No. 1, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. Athalis evened the score at 4-4 with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 victory over Passalacqua, setting the scene for the No. 6 match.
After Roberson opened the match with a 7-6 (7-3) first set win, Faria charged back with a 6-4 victory, forcing the final set the deciding factor for a trip into the semifinals. Faria captured a quick 3-2 advantage, but Roberson was able to break serve, taking a 4-3 lead. Roberson never looked back in the set and sent the Royals into the semifinal with the three-set victory.
With the win, Queens advances to face the top-seeded Bulldogs as the first serve for the semifinal round is slated for 1 p.m.


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I really need some help, I dont know where else to turn with this request. I'd like to add a shortcode to one of my posts. The template tags get_next_post() and get_previous will not work for me since I dont want post navigation on each post page and I want to control where it displays. In a DIV in an HTML structure I've created in a post.
So what I need is to generate shortcodes from get_next_post() and get_previous_post()


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I am using kdenlive in linux and lightworks in windows.
I think kdenlive is better to work in total, but edit, cut, paste, move, adjust... is better in lightworks.
Tue, 11/13/2012 - 00:11
What Kdenlive lacks (and really it's essential it gets added) is proper three point editing. Mark in on the clip, out out the clip, in on the timeline, click insert or overwrite and boom. Similar the there need to be a two point extract edit function on the timeline.
Currently I find I need to mess around with the razorblade tool and dragging and dropping far too much for my liking. It makes for sloppy imprecise editing and far too many mouse clicks and moves per edit.
it's one of the three features that Kdenlive really needs in order to to move up, along with realtime monitor feedback for timeline trimming and rendered effects proxies.
Tue, 11/13/2012 - 13:24
I'd suggest there's a fourth feature for that list: smooth keyframe interpolation for pans & zooms. Lightworks has it.
It's been mentioned on this forum before, but I wanted to cast my vote again. :-)
Tue, 11/13/2012 - 20:01
@jjfro - Maybe but it's a fairly minor feature compared to lacking fundamental editing tools like insert editing. Don't get me wrong Kdenlive is great and the features I mention are probably non trivial to implement.
Complex panning and zooming is something I'd probably do in Blender anyway.
Sun, 11/18/2012 - 16:44
There is a mark in and out points and then insert the edit to timeline. Click on the footage watch the monitor window, in there u can make in and out point. But it doesn't have shortcuts i suspect. Thats the main thing missing. I divide monitor and project window for this specific workflow purpose
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 10:33
@Mohahoni - I wasn't clear but I realise I'm using Adobe/Final cut terminology which maybe not everyone is familiar with (heck even Avid uses a different term, for what I'm referring to) What I mean is the ability to insert a clip on a track timeline, and it push aside the material after it, other tracks affected depending on whether they are locked, or synced in Premiere and FCP. This is referred to as an insert edit, on Avid they refer to it as a splice in (the true technical term dating back to all three machine offline online decks running off EDLS is a "ripple edit"). With Kdenlive you have to open a space in the timeline using the spacer tool, place your clip in the timeline in the new gap, then again use the space tool to close the space.
What there needs to be is a function that somehow automatically invokes the spacer tool to shift the relevant clips along the timeline by the same distance as the mark in mark out points on the clip.
So, after you have marked in to out on your clip, and possibly mark an in on your timeline, on the keypress for insert edit
1. Kdenlive gets the time from the in to out on the clip, lets call that value X.
2. If necessary it marks a cut in the on the timeline at mark in point, (if there is no mark-in, default to the playhead).
3. Shift all relevant the footage (i.e everything on unlocked tracks after the mark-in or playhead) forward by X*
4. Insert The clip from in to out into the new space.
Presently you have to do all this manually and it's not fame accurate so you have to clean up a bit after you've made the edit, which doubles or even triples the number of mouse and keyboard actions associated with one edit.
*of course this might get more complicated with regard to which tracks have split, grouped clips, but frankly this happens all the time on Avid and FCP, and the reply is "learn to organise your video and sound tracks properly!"
You're right that What Kdenlive can do an overwrite edit, where you mark in and out on the clip, and then hit V and it will place it at a mark in point on the timeline laying over any existing footage. However three point editing should mean the points could be one point on the clip and the in and out points set on the timeline, Kdenlive lacks this, and as well as no insert/splice in capability, lacks the ability to lift/extract based on mark-in/mark-out points too.
What you can do on Kdenlive is drag your timeline playhead to a point, place a cut in the clip by click-selecting the clip, then hitting shift-R, going to the second point, Shift R, then selected in the footage between the two new cuts, and hitting delete, then selecting the space if you want to close the gap and deleting the space.
Another editor FLOW BLADE is attempting to use these editing but currently it's less reliable and lacks other features that still make Kdenlive preferable.
Having said that I'd really rather see live updates in the monitor of edit trims introduced, so for example as you're are dragging the start or end points of a clip on the time line back and forth, you'd actually see the frame updated live in the monitor. Currently no NLE that I've tried on Linux seems to have this capability.
Sun, 11/25/2012 - 13:06
"What Kdenlive lacks (and really it's essential it gets added) is proper three point editing. Mark in on the clip, out out the clip, in on the timeline"
I was only answering for this question. Yes, i know kdenlive misses insert edit, overwrite edit.
Flowblade. Yes, its far from finish. But it is a good start and i think avid users like it. I can do realtime edit with flowblade where kdenlive doesn't do that job. Though i miss EDL import export, timecode management in flowblade.
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 09:27
Kdenlive has an "Insert mode" option http://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing#Insert_Mode in its toolbar. But it is apparently not implemented yet. Perhaps JBM has something like what you describe here in mind when he gets around to implementing it. The implemented modes are "normal" and "overwrite". See link above for what the difference is.
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 10:34
@ttguy -- Indeed, it's been there a while as a greyed out option, but I understand it might be extremely tricky to implement, seeing as how many subsequent clips a given ripple edit might need to affect, but it seems to me using some of the functionality of the spacer tool might be the way forward.
However overwriting between in-and-out points on the timeline seems to would be far easier to implement and these things are and still very useful (though I say this as a total novice programmer, and things always seem easy when you're asking someone else to do them)


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-- "Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)," the first film featuring the character Indiana Jones, was crawling with four-, eight-, and no-legged creatures: Number of boas, cobras and pythons used in the film: 7,500; number of tarantulas: 50.
-- The first ever televised murder case appeared on TV in 1955, Dec. 5-9. The accused was Harry Washburn.
-- Beaver Cleaver graduated in 1953.
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-- The person who performs the Muppets - Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Animal and Grover - is Frank Oz. Oz also is the voice of "Star Wars" Yoda. By the way, his real name is Frank Oznowicz.
-- The 1997 Jack Nicholson film "As Good As It Gets"- is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop."
-- Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
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-- A theater manager in Seoul, Korea, felt that "The Sound of Music" was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.
-- Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies.
-- The original title of the musical "Hello Dolly!" was "Dolly: A Damned Exasperating Woman." Why did they change it? The original had such music, poetry and pizzazz.
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-- A two-hour motion picture uses 10,800 feet of film, not including the previews and commercials.
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I am a father. I did not know that I was one, but I am. Not even sure when it happened, but, alas, it is a reality for me now. I did not ask for it, nor was it planned. And, to be brutally honest, I scratch my head and wonder how this came to me. I mean, for sure, I have a vague idea, but I am struggling to recollect what led to this.
This is especially profound for me because I don't know my own father. Yes, I knew him in passing, as a child. He was about a dozen years older than my early 20something mother when they met. They both hail from South Carolina, but met in my hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey. My father swept my mother off her feet, made her fall in love with him while he was simply in lust with her, and there I was nine months later. To say my biological father did not bother would be a grand understatement. My single mother, armed with nothing more than an eighth-grade education, sheer will, and countless prayers to God, was forced to raise me in dire poverty, with the aid of welfare, food stamps, and government cheese. And with the kind of relentless hardships I would not wish on anyone. I still am amazed, all these years later, with all the miracles my mother made happen.
My father did make a few select guest appearances the first eight years of my life: to purchase my first bike, my first watch, to ride me, once, in the truck he drove long distance for work. Yes, he had money, a home he owned in Jersey City, and could have co-parented and co-supported me, his child. But for reasons only he knew, he chose not to do so.
The one thing that he did do over those first eight years of my life was play with my mother's mind, leading her, time and again, to believe he would eventually marry her. I remember how my mother's eyes would light up when she talked in the kitchen with my Aunt Cathy about marriage. But because my father was, among other things, an incredible liar, it never happened. What did happen was a day I shall never forget for the rest of my life: Because my mother and I were so poor we did not have a home telephone at least until I was about 10 or 11-years-old (and we would not get a color television until I was off to college years later, thanks to a full financial aid package). So "home phone" was the phone booth of the local pharmacy around the corner from our apartment building.
These were particularly desperate times for us, so my mother swallowed her pride and dignity and called my father for help. I could not hear his side of the conversation but I could sense something was terribly wrong, as my mother's body seemed to shrink in that phone booth and she was visibly upset. Then my father hung up the phone on my mother. She told me, immediately, that my father charged her with lying to him, that I was not his son, that they were never going to marry, that he would never again give her "a near nickel" to help us, me, his son. And he never did. And over three decades later I have not seen nor heard from my father—
I felt abandoned, hurt, embarrassed. At school I had long taken to the practice of making up a different name for my father each year because I was too ashamed to say, "I don't have one." As I got to my teenage years the father absence and hurt only intensified. No dad there to show me how to tie a tie as I prepared to graduate from grammar to high school, so my mother had to ask a male neighbor to show me. No dad to play catch with in spite of my great love of baseball. No dad to ask questions of as I passed through puberty, and those weird sensations and intense attractions to girls really kicked in. I was completely clueless about what it was to be a man, and there was no guidance whatsoever, not even from my sports coaches.
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If I take a nature landscape photo using long exposure (tripod+shutter release), would that help me get more details in my photos? Example: (I don't have the high res version handy right now, sorry for that). If you look at the trees in the valley(or all around the photo), they are simply not clear enough. Not pixel peeping, just a normal look at larger size of photo shows it. They simply look like dark green blobs made of weird spotty stuff. So what am I doing wrong here? This was stitched from 3 handheld shots taken at minimum aperture my kit lens allowed.
I came across this question which is same as mine: (http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/19612/does-long-exposure-affect-the-sharpness-of-a-picture-assuming-no-camera-shake) I want to know if long exposure doesn't get more details, then what does? A better lens?
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I have a Textbox, a LinkButton and a RadioButtonList inside an UpdatePanel. When the button is clicked, the UpdatePanel shows matching items in the radiobuttonlist.
This works fine, but I now need to make the same happen OnKeyDown on the TextBox. I'm trying to cancel all AJAX requests in progress but not having much luck. Firstly, on every keypress the UpdatePanel posts back, so only one letter can be changed at a time. Secondly, the textbox loses focus on postback.
I need to show the list as normal, but OnKeyDown as well as when the button is pressed. This is what I have (control IDs shortened)
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- "Make that Bitch SHUT UP"
- ―The company's slogan.
Bitch 'n' Dog Food is a dog food producing company first introduced in Grand Theft Auto III.
The company has a factory in Trenton, Portland, Liberty City which gets its name from both "bitch", which is a female dog, and "bitchin", a slang term for something that is very good.
The ownership of Bitch 'n' Dog Food is unclear in 2001 (the setting for GTA III), as Marty Chonks says that he owns the factory. However, the Love Media website says that Donald Love owns the company.
The factory formerly belonged to Don Kiddick's Sausage Factory, but was bought by Bitch'n' Dog Food sometime between 1998 and 2001. The factory is not making money, as suggested by Marty's bad financial situation (which leads to him killing his wife, Mrs. Chonks, to cash in on her life insurance). This is more than likely down to the ban on dogs in Liberty City, although Marty says that the dogs will get a new "flavor of the month" after killing his wife.
The slogan of Bitch'n' Dog Food Factory is "Make That Bitch Shut Up", and claims to use "tasty bone meal, chicken carcasses, the scrappings off the abattoir floor and lots of other nutritional goodies". In GTA III, Marty's accountant, two thieves and Mrs. Chonks were all turned into dog food after Marty ordered Claude to drive them to the factory and use different means to get rid of the car as evidence.
He first sent for the bank manager in a Perennial. Marty accused the accountant of stealing Marty's money. When he kills the manager, he sends Claude to dump the car in a junkyard. Next, he sends for the two thieves he hired to break into his house (so he could get insurance money) who are now planning to blackmail him for more money. Claude delivers them in a Sentinel, and they perish. Claude is ordered to respray the car and return it. The third time Marty sends for Claude is when he wants his "good-for-nothing" wife delivered so that Marty can have the money from his wife's life insurance. Claude is ordered to dump the car in the water, Finally, Claude is ordered to bring Marty's wife's lover, who found out about Mrs. Chonks' death and is blackmailing Marty. Because Marty waited outside of the factory for his wife's lover, a short cutscene is played showing the lover brought a shotgun and killed Marty, ending his missions.
Bitch'n' Dog Food is sold in Vice City in 1984, the time of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, cans with food can be seen in 24/7 shops. Also, on the advertising at the bottom of the screen in the Inside Track horse racing, has an advertisement for the dog food, saying "Buy Shares in an Ex-Champion".
Bitch'n' Dog Food is mentioned on the radio in Grand Theft Auto IV and food cans can be found during gameplay. The company claims its products are more nutritious than Wigwam Burgers and advises parents to shell out the extra so that their offspring will reach the age of 30.
Pay Phone Missions
Marty Chonks Missions
- In the I'm Not a Hipster Update for Grand Theft Auto Online, the Bitch'n' Dog Food logo was on a T-Shirt that was obtainable in a special crate drop. This was also available in the same manner during the Festive Surprise update during Christmas of 2014.
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, at the Betting Track, it is advertised.


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I'd like to know how much internet data is downloaded during an Ubuntu installation.
You can install Ubuntu entirely offline if you want to, as long as you have an install DVD or USB key.
You can defer the installation of the updates until after the installation. Then via package updater, you can see the packages to be updated. Underneath the list of packages, you will see the total amount of data to be downloaded stated in MBs :)
No data will be consumed while installing Ubuntu (offline). You can download any linux distro & install it via USB or live CD/DVD's.
The answer to this question will vary a lot. You can as pointed out by other answers you can install Ubuntu without a working internet connection so the answer is zero.
But if you choose to let it update as its installing which many people do then it will download the updates to the packages you have since the DVD image was produced. The older the image the more updates there are likely to be.
If you do decide to install offline then Ubuntu will download all the updates the first time you run Update Manager.
Assuming you want to know how much data is downloaded and also assuming you are installing Ubuntu while connected to the Internet (Not offline) then the amount will vary depending on the following:
So in general, depending on the time of release, the delta between installation time and release time, the Ubuntu version and the Ubuntu distro you will have to download data sizes that can change from 1 KB to 1 GB (Am exaggerating with the 1 GB but the point being that it varies a lot).


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Savion Glover on Stephen Colbert
Posted 10 August 2010 - 02:56 PM
And he was absolutely wonderful.
Perhaps someone here can track down a link?
Posted 10 August 2010 - 03:32 PM
I'm not sure exactly when he appeared (my son time shifted the program) but Glover was amiable and articulate (discussing the aural nature of tap dance, Colbert asked if he'd rather have an all-deaf audience or an all-blind one -- Glover immediately said "all-blind," which is very interesting in light of the recent comments on his new show), and then he started to dance...
And he was absolutely wonderful.
Perhaps someone here can track down a link?
Try this: Savion Glover - The Colbert Report
Posted 10 August 2010 - 04:39 PM
(Although it won't load for me...)
Posted 10 August 2010 - 04:57 PM
I'm interested in how people feel about the choice that Glover made (when pressed): preferring an audience that does not see to one that does not hear.
First I listened with my eyes closed. Then I watched with the sound turned off. I KNOW I am missing something here, but both struck me as highly tedious, though for different reasons.
Combining sight and sound was better. However, I found my mind wandering after a couple of minutes. What am I missing that I might look for next time?
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Posted 12 August 2010 - 01:25 PM
Since it's been taught in a very individual (one on one) fashion, and been used often in solo forms, there's incredible variation in style between performers. Early films show work that is very upright, rebounding off the floor, which I think comes in part from the clogging part of its heritage (think about the solo Ashton made for the Widow Simone in Fille). That expands later to include work that reaches out and down, so that you really see the dancer 'make the sound,' and there have been exponents of both views ever since. For quite awhile, Bill Robinson was the ne plus ultra of tappers, and his upright, delicate style is the one that many people associate with tap dancing (all those films with Shirley Temple), but really, think about the difference between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly -- Astaire barely seems to contact the floor in some of his work, so that you're not really sure where the sound is coming from, while Kelly is much more grounded.
Bart, I'm so impressed with your experiment. I absolutely understand Glover's response to Colbert's 'either/or' question, but I admit I have incredible trouble closing my eyes when Glover is performing. He's bringing his Bare Soundz show to Seattle again this year (big chunks of the program are danced without any music at all) and I'm really looking forward to seeing it again -- in a funny way the whole thing reminds me of Mozart and the structural games he plays.
Posted 12 August 2010 - 03:29 PM
Although Glover does not carry himself like a flamenco dancer, and although what he does with his feet is not the same, I do see the similarities you point out.
This confirms my recollections of flamenco performances outside Granada during the Franco era. One could indeed appreciate these performances without seeing them. My impression was that the most important and admired performer was actually the singer, some of whom were local cultural heroes. The dancer (often limited by a small "stage") seemed to be more of a supporting artist, and definitely a percussionist, just as you say as you say. Complicated clapping was also part of this.
I saw Savion's recent show at the Joyce in New York. He regards tap as the use of percussive instruments (his feet), and he wants the audience to focus in on the sounds and rhythms he creates through tap. Visual elements, such as his dreadlocks, his costume, are a distraction. To his mind, visual elements distract from the core component of tap, which is based on hearing the sounds made by the feet. This is similar to flamenco dancing, in which the sounds made by the feet are an essential component of the performance, although flamenco also incorporates many visual elements (like spinal flexibility and use of the arms, especially of the women dancers.)
Authentic flamenco was strongly discouraged by the Franco regime when I was there in the mid-60s. (I don't count the pseudo-flamenco tourist versions that were starting to pop up in places like Madrid.) Flamenco was seen as subversive of genuine "Spanish" (i.e., Catholic, Castilian, centralising) culture. It was associated with too many things the dictatorship feared and therefore hated: Gypsies, southern resistance to central government, lower-class radicalism, regional patriotism.
The polyrhythms from African dance, that were translated into percussive music (instruments and bodies) when slaves were forbidden to practice the dance they brought with them to the Americas, ...
I don't know whether flamenco was "forbidden," but I do recall the feeling of something private and almost secretive about these performances and the places where they took place.
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I don't know whether flamenco was "forbidden," but I do recall the feeling of something private and almost secretive about these performances and the places where they took place.
My understanding is that it does have a very private history, and has acted almost like a shibboleth for the groups who practice it. There is a huge distinction between 'the real thing' and the forms that are seen in tourist venues (like the differences between what is often called airport hula and the more authentic dance that is being revived and taught by new generations of kuma hula) Flamenco clubs often have the same feeling as the old speakeasies in the 1920s -- that you might need to know the right password to get accepted.
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As is well known, maximal compact subgroup of real Lie group is just the fixed points of Cartan involution.
Now the question is what's the possible p-adic analog?
As is well known, maximal compact subgroup of real Lie group is just the fixed points of Cartan involution.
Now the question is what's the possible p-adic analog?
There are some complications in the p-adic case. For GL_n, every maximal compact subgroup is conjugate to GL_n of the ring of integers, but for more general groups (eg PGL_2, SU_3) there can be more than one conjugacy class of maximal compact subgroups. One thing that you can say is that every maximal compact subgroup is the stabaliser of a point on the Bruhat-Tits building.
Here is how the real and p-adic situations are the same.
Let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group defined over a field $F$ not of characteristic two. Let $\theta$ be an involution of $G$ defined over $F$. Then the group $G^\theta$ of fixed points is a reductive algebraic subgroup of $G$.
Here are two ways in which they are different.
In the real case, one can always choose $\theta$ so that the group of rational points of $G^\theta$ is compact. In the p-adic case, compact reductive groups are quite rare, and so in most cases there is no analogous way to choose $\theta$.
Second, compact subgroups do not play the same roles in the real and p-adic cases. Think of the fields themselves. In the p-adic case, the maximal compact subring is the ring of integers. In the real case, there are no nontrivial compact subrings. There is a ring of integers, but it is not compact. Moreover, since $G^\theta$ has smaller dimension than $G$, it cannot be an open subgroup, and maximal compact subgroups are always open in the p-adic case. Thus, even in the rare cases where $G^\theta$ is compact, it is not maximal.