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Broccoli & Black Rice Salad with Tahini-Honey Dressing RecipeBroccoli & Black Rice Salad with Tahini-Honey Dressing
Black rice is a whole grain that is packed with antioxidants and important minerals. Its nutty flavor makes it a delicious side dish on its own, but it is even better when used in a cold grain salad with nutritious vegetables. This recipe combines black rice with broccoli and a slightly sweet sesame dressing.
Tips for the cook: Black rice is sometimes called Forbidden Rice. It can be found in most health food supermarkets or online. It's best served the day it is cooked because its dark purple pigment can color other ingredients when stored overnight.
Yield: 4 servings
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
- ¾ cup black rice
- 2 tbsp tahini (sesame paste)
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 tsp honey
- ¼ tsp low-sodium soy sauce
- 1½ cups broccoli florets, chopped
- ¼ of a red onion, thinly sliced
- To cook the black rice, bring 3 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the rice. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, until the grains are tender.
- Drain the rice in a colander, and quickly rinse with cold water. Let sit to drain.
- Place the tahini, garlic, honey, and soy sauce in a small food processor. Pulse until all of the ingredients are combined. If you don't have a small food processor, mince the garlic and whisk the ingredients together in a small bowl.
- Place the broccoli and onion in a medium bowl. Add the cooled rice. Pour in the dressing and toss to coat all ingredients. Serve at room temperature or cold.
Nutrition information for ¼ of recipe: Calories 164; Total Fat 4.4 g; Saturated Fat 0.4 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Sodium 50 mg; Carbohydrate 29 g; Fiber 2.2 g; Sugar 2.6 g; Protein 5.1 g


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I have a visual web part that has an update panel that has a button that performs an action. I want to prevent users from hitting that button more than once.
The problem with this that I am having is that my buttonclick method is getting called 2 times since it seems to go to Page_Load 2 times.
Here is my code. First the button and javascript then the Page_Load method.
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If it's not possible then maybe just the Dash show/hide animations. I simply find myself waiting for animations which is pointless.
1. Why you cannot disable this Dash animation in Unity 12.04
2. Alternative A: Switch to Ubuntu 2D
Ubuntu 2D has different Unity Shell code, and there, launching the dash via Super is instantaneous and does not animate anything.
3. Alternative B: Use a custom shortcut to launch the Dash by clicking on the Ubuntu Logo, thus bypassing the animation
We can exploit the fact that the opacity/fade animation does not happen when you launch the Dash via the "start" button, or, if your cursor is on/around the launcher bar, even if you press Super:
The animation will be delayed until your cursor actually moves inside the dash area.
Install Compiz Configuration Manager.
Ubuntu Software Center: Compiz Configuration Manager
Once installed open it and got to
From there you can set
Set the
If you want, you can change the panel and dash transparency to be full opaque.
Sorry, You can't. At this point (25th July, 2012) with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, There is NO easy way to disable Unity animations. (at least without recompilation).
And I don't think, there will be an option to disable animations in future releases. Because, One of the goal of Unity is to provide pleasing user experience and animations are considered one of the best way to achieve that.
A workaround:
The possible workaround for you is changing the dash animation to fade (cause, In my opinion, fades are quicker than sliding). You may also interested in disabling the animations for all windows also. To do this,
If you want to disable the animations in all window, you can disable the Animations plugin in ccsm. If you want to disable Fading, disable the Fading windows plugins.
Hope this will help.
Edit: As izx showed in his edited answer You clearly see that, the options of dash animations are hard coded in the Unity, and those cannot be changed with any configuration options, because those time durations aren't variable which can be changed. So, this means, You have to recompile unity by changing those time durations to 0 ms to completely disable the animations.
To add to Ángel Araya's instructions: I was able to disable all animations by deselecting
I think turning off fading-windows under effects in CompizConfig Settings Manager can make a difference in Unity. (A subtle difference in speed, but still a difference.)


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Battle for Naboo help with XP
Battle for Naboo won't start up at ALL. It gets to the first screen then goes black and I can't ALT-TAB
How DARE you ignore this topic!
Posting like that won't get you help any quicker, no spamming, try your compadibility or just get it for N64
Hey Murray the Chao! Just know that I don't appreciate the fake cussing, but I feel for you with this game. I have the solution, and your fake cussing did not increase your chance of me finding you and telling you the solution; just one post would have summoned me just the same. Case in point: http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=50595
The answer is to dual boot (or make a virtual machine, preferably dual boot) with Linux, and install WINE 1.3.17 (+, though beware of regressions) into Linux Mint 10(+) or an up-to-date Ubuntu. Then play Battle for Naboo in WINE.
For reasons and stuff like that, follow the link chain I gave you. I tried to tell you this solution before at Jedi Council (I hear your cries!), but the thread was closed. I tried to send you a private message, but I have to have at least 20 posts at Jedi Council to send you a personal message. Here's the message I tried to send you (ok, I cleaned it up a bit):
Private message to MurraytheChao (got nixed - need 20 posts first)
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Battle for Naboo works in WINE in Linux - TheTK421 gets the "prize" for being right about that - but I have to take that prize away when he says that Windows is DOS. Battle for Naboo is NOT a DOS game. Windows is NOT DOS. BFN works without compatibility mode or anything in Windows 7 as well as XP Service Pack 3. Windows used to run on top of DOS. Now it doesn't even do that (at least since XP). It is an NT kernel. It is much more stable now (but not anything close to the stability of Linux). I intended to reply to that thread you started about Battle for Naboo not working for you, but the thread is locked. Some people in there are flat wrong. But as far as a DOS emulator helping, there is a thing called DOSBox. It has 2 modes - emulating DOS, and something more like a traditional virtual PC. If you kick 'er into that 2nd mode, and install Windows 98, once 3DFX emulation gets implemented in DOSBox, Battle for Naboo will work in that, according to my friend DOS4Dinner (but I don't see how you'll get a joystick in there). So it would be working in a program with DOS emulation as one of its features, but not while it's actually emulating DOS. Note that you will still be running DOS under Windows 98. It's that DOSBox emulates an entire computer - not just a DOS shell or whatever you want to call it.
My experience is that the problem is that sometimes you get a graphics card not able to do the graphics calls that Battle for Naboo wants. People seem to be getting new computers with a later version of Windows, and those new graphics cards in those new computers don't do Battle for Naboo graphics calls - but the people blame the problem on the new version of Windows. I have seen Battle for Naboo work flawlessly in Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows 7 (no compatibility mode or anything). And it works pretty good in WINE 1.3.17.
WINE wraps (converts) graphics calls from whatever they are (like DirectX, 3DFX, whatever) into OpenGL. All modern graphics cards can handle OpenGL. So if it doesn't work on your computer, dual boot with some up-to-date Linux distro, put > WINE 1.3.16 in, and play Battle for Naboo. I think you'd have the easiest time with Ubuntu or Linux Mint - though I don't have much experience with other distros so I wouldn't REALLY know.
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How do you start designing a game?
This is not a question asking for help, is more of a question to learn popular opinion.
When you want to design a game from zero, how do you start?
-From the beginning of the story?
-From an event that would be epic to experience in a game?
-From the looks of a character and then create a story around it?
-From a personal experience?
Example: I read somewhere that David Jaffe designed God of War thinking of "Epic Events" and then attached them together through the Story.
I would like to know your answers!
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Location: Washington, DC
Re: How do you start designing a game?
My process lately is: I think of something that I find enjoyable, an experience or activity, and then try to think of how you could make a video game that captures that.
A game I'm working on right now is essentially PONG, but played with a group of people, and as people get eliminated they become spectators and watch/comment on the remaining matches.
I realized that I enjoyed playing video games more when people were watching me, and so tried to make a game that revolved around it.
Your example approaches all seem to be talking about the plot of a story, rather than game mechanics. If you used those approaches, you could come up with a story, but you still wouldn't have a game. At that point you'd need to invent the mechanics of your game.
I'm of the opinion that games do better when they aren't trying to tell a specific story. Other artforms do that better. I think games are best when you create a set of rules, and let players just go to town with it. If you have interesting rules, then players will begin to create their own stories by doing interesting/meaningful things in the game.
For example, Halo had really deep mechanics that allowed for all kinds of awesome stuff to happen in a match. Specifically, the multiplayer: Epic rocket launcher shots, harrowing escapes in Capture the Flag, huge killing sprees, etc. And it was always a result of player choice - it wasn't a scripted event written by the developers. I think because the players could feel like they had complete ownership of what happened in those matches, it was more meaningful to them. Just like some crappy Flash game has more significance to its creator than an epic AAA blockbuster, simple stories can be more meaningful than epic sci-fi arcs if you feel like you contributed in a real sense to them. Every moment playing Halo with my friends where something totally awesome happens that has everyone yelling, that's the players creating their own stories.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
Hey all you lurkers. Stop lurking and join the discussion. Seriously, you will enjoy yourself.
Bo B.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
1) What is the core of the game? Is there anything specific I want the player to feel/experience when making this? An easy way to decide the core is to make the elevator pitch: if you can sum up your game into one sentence, what would it be?
2) What mechanics support this core? What engine/program best supports these mechanics? What visual style supports this core? What are the most important sound effects+music that support this core?
If game has a story: what are the most crucial events and emotional beats I want the story to hit? How do I control branching? How do the mechanics/art/audio support this story? How does the story provide context for the mechanics/art/audio?
3) What is the scope? How long will I work on this game? What skills do I contribute, and what skills do I need from potential teammates?
4) Since I'm artist, sometimes I draw concept art of a still of the game and ask people that given this were on screen what they would do/try. This helps me figure out the most important things to communicate via UI and/or tutorial.
5) Make game. Bug test. Iterate. Playtest. Iterate. Playtest. Iterate. Repeat until investment spent on further fixes does not have enough bang for the buck.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
Hey Evillama,
Do you have a process for deciding what the core of your game is going to be?
Bo B.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
For example, Indigo Prophecy and Heay Rain both try to tell a specific story, almost all adventure games do this and end up being really good games.
I think all kind of games can be good, short story, long story, general or specific. It all depends on certain factors and how they are combined (story and gameplay, gameplay and graphics, etc.)
The game you are working on sounds cool, I also enjoy being watched while I play.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
I don't think its a multi-player vs single-player thing.
I mean, I hear Diablo 3 has pretty good story-telling in it. That can be a multiplayer thing. Same with the new Star Wars MMO.
I guess my problem is basically, I feel like we are still discovering how to tell stories in games. I think most games do it poorly. For instance, I thought LA Noire was a really weird mishmash of movie and game. The cutscenes would last multiple minutes, and were really good, and made me want them to not end... but when they did end, I was no longer in game-playing mode. I wanted to watch a movie!
Amnesia: The Dark Descent was a game with a cool story. It really let you discover the story as you went and never drowned you in exposition like a lot of games do. And the story was very subtle. And of course Portal is another game with a great story.
So you're right that games can have stories, but a lot of AAA games don't tell the stories too well, in my opinion.
Bo B.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
Re: story debate--a lot of books have terrible stories. Some games have good stories. However story is only one part of a game.
A game, or any creative media for that matter, ultimately delivers an experience. I like to think about the experience as a big fat bag of weight. The components of the game (story, art, mechanics, etc) are working together to try to carry that weight. Depending on your game, some of those components will need to have huge muscles to do the heavy-lifting, while others are just carrying the train. The less weight one component carries, the more another will have to carry to make up for it.
For example:
In text adventures the visuals carry barely any weight--basically just maybe the font or a title screen. Therefore they need better stories or word puzzles to make up for it.
Hidden object game rely primarily on story and visuals to make up for their lack of mechanics.
Arcade games such as pacman rely on polished mechanics and sound feedback, so they don't need to focus on story or visuals as much.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
First thing I do is I have a set of leisure activities that I partake on to help get the creative juices flowing, example taking a walk. Ones surrounds is a very good way to come up with a basic feeling or expression for the game, walking in a city as opposed to hiking will create several different ideas.
Once I have thought of a feeling I want the player to experience, I begin brainstorming specific ways to impose that feeling on the player. Take basic emotions and think of all the several ways this emotion can be generated, not just situations but mechanics.
Mechanics are huge, once I have in my head the emotion I want the player to experience I brainstorm how this can be achieved in different genres of games and then onto a new way of conveying this through GAMEPLAY in each genre. I emphasize gameplay because in conceptual phase it is very easy to forget about that and essentially I craft a film instead of a game. At this point I am sure you will be able to scratch off several genres that do not fit the experience you want to craft.
From here it is simple, list of mechanics, how they interact with the overall game experience. Then I begin my design document work, this is when visuals become important in order to convey them clearly to the artist reading the document and the mechanics become more fleshed out to describe the system and amount of interaction with the environment and any objects in said environment for programmers sake.
Story and visuals for me all hammer home the experience or experiences you are trying to convey to the player, they can either reflect the mechanics or vice versa depending on the game you intend to create.
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Re: How do you start designing a game?
I would agree with bob's #2 post. The first step you should take is to decide what kind of emotion you would want your players to experience by playing your games. Games are all about emotions, things like story, mechanics just act as mediums to deliver these unique experiences. Whether it's the feeling of overjoyed when achieve something or the bitter sadness of seeing someone die or the fear of ghosts... Just decide on at least one for your game. Successful titles didn't include innovative ideas from nowhere, their designers also had to work on this very first step before anything else. Then, after we have some kind of emotion we want our players to feel when playing, it's time to give it some physical elements, which are theme and mechanics. This is where most designers spend their time working on the most to ensure these elements blend well with the emotion. By "blend well", I mean you have to actually be able to feel that certain emotion through "theme" and "mechanics". Don't focus too much on additional stuff like "depth" or "logic" at this step, you can do it anytime.
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WHAT'S AT STAKE? — As always, the biggest issue is how lawmakers will divide state revenue, currently projected to be about $7 billion. Although the final amount the Legislature will have to appropriate won't be approved until later this month, it's expected they will have roughly $170 million more to spend on this year's budget than last year. But state agencies already have requested more than $1.4 billion in new spending, which leaves it up to lawmakers to determine winners and losers when it comes to the budget.
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I want to know how rand() works (even when I don't provide any seed how it produces PRNs?) thanks!
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Well, successive calls rand() just produce numbers that "look random".
Now, rand() doesn't take a seed; that means that everytime the program runs, calls to rand() will generate the exact same sequence of numbers. This is a deliberate design decision; that means that the program behavior is reproducible (which can be important if you're debugging). If you don't want this behavior, well, that's why srand() is provided.
As for what "looks random" means, well, it essentially means "if you eyeball the output, no obvious pattern jumps out at you".
When working with cryptography (you did ask in the crypto stack exchange), we don't have much use for rand(); even if you feed in a seed via srand(), that seed is generally too small to be useful, and even if the rand() output isn't obviously patterned, crypto has much higher criteria for randomness.
On the other hand, other uses need not have such high standards. I believe rand() may be useful within some randomized algorithms; just not cryptographical ones.
You can see in stdlib.c (I found it here) that rand() is defined as:
Of couse this may vary from disto to distro and version to version. You should find your local stdlib.c file (or the one that corresponds to your distro) to see how exactly it's implemented. srand() merely changes holdrand:
so as @poncho said it merely garbles the output. No true randomness whatsoever.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Brooke and Wheeling Park are two evenly matched teams and their quarterfinal match of the OVAC Cup Tournament looked like one that could go all night.
It almost did.
Instead, Haley Dalton scored off a perfect corner kick from freshman Cheyenne Hudson in the 76th minute and No. 6 Brooke upset No. 3 Wheeling Park, 1-0, on Thursday at Red Devil Stadium.
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KEEPING CONTROL — Brooke's Dynah Sayre is pressured by?Wheeling Park's Carly?Collins during the Bruins' 1-0 OVAC Cup quarterfinal win Thursday.
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Brooke moves on to play St. Clairsville, a 4-0 winner against Wheeling Central, in the semfinals Saturday at Wheeling Island Stadium.
''What an exciting game, and the girls played their hearts out the entire game,'' Brooke coach Lee Weppler said. ''We played a technical game, played it simple and followed our game plan. We had a great first touch and I can't say enough about their effort.
''We wanted to make sure - Wheeling Park is an extremely strong team possessing the ball - and we wanted to apply pressure and make it difficult for them. We wanted to make them think about their first touch.''
The match was back and forth for nearly the entire game and both teams thought they had broke the scoreless tie in the second half.
Wheeling Park's Rebecca Sellers had a goal called back after the officials called a foul in the box. Less than a minute later, Brooke's Michaela Hinerman came charging in on a corner kick, only to have her hard shot stopped by a Patriots defender before it crossed the goal line, allowing Park goalkeeper Devyn Nickerson to jump on it.
The Bruins (7-5-1) made good on an opportunity 10 minutes later.
Hudson's corner kick sailed over the hands of Nickerson and heads of many players in the box, only to come to Dotson, whose shot somehow got through a group of Wheeling Park defenders and into the net with 4:24 showing on the clock.
''We have a freshman, Cheyenne, who plays brilliant balls in, just phenomenal,'' Weppler said. ''I told the girls that its a 50-50 ball in the box and you just have to have that effort and want it more than they do. We finished that one.''
Wheeling Park (8-4-2) managed only two shots on goal in the match.
''We had a lot more possession than Brooke but we didn't get the goals that we needed,'' Wheeling Park coach Aubrey Taylor said. ''I thought too many of the calls went against us and that slowed down our play. Some of it was our own mistakes with our trapping and passing.
''They had more players in the back on defense and we weren't connecting our passes as well. Our midfield wasn't coming up and connecting with our forwards. They had a lot more numbers and always had the pressure on our forwards. We had some shots but they went over the goal.''
Brooke defeated St. Clairsville, 1-0, earlier in the season.
''St. Clairsville, another tough game,'' Weppler said. ''They are an extremely talented team. They give 110 percent effort every game and I'm sure they are looking forward to playing us. We are up for the challenge.''


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I don't ride down that way often but I think I know the road (two guys carrying an inflatable raft walked out in front of me there once nearly causing an accident). From a cycling perspective the closure would likely improve safety.
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This balanced chronicle of the distinctive naval character of Hampton Roads encompasses war at sea, courage, genius, leadership, and command entwined within a sometimes-stormy relationship between the Navy and its civic hosts. Some of the most identifiable names in American naval history--Decatur, Truxtun, Dale, Farragut, Buchanan, Halsey--have all made their indelible mark on Norfolk's legacy and some of the signature events of American history--the British surrender at Yorktown, the Battle of the Monitor and Virginia, and the defeat of the German U-boat--have all had a Hampton Roads focus. A discerning companion volume to the author's other illustrated history with a regional perspective, the award-winning San Diego's Navy, this work proves anew that the cities where American naval might is concentrated can influence it in fascinating and unique ways.
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When Uber, the car-service app, entered New York City about two years ago, some predicted it would disrupt the yellow-cab market. Instead, it has upended the city's livery car market.
In the past six months, Uber-affiliated cars have surged among the ranks of for-hire vehicles, the category that includes liveries, black cars and limousines, according to data from the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
There are now nearly 3,000 vehicles affiliated with the four dispatch bases owned by San Francisco-based Uber in New York City. That figure pales next to the roughly 40,000 for-hire vehicles licensed citywide, but it catapults Uber well past the two biggest for-hire operations in New York, Dial 7 and Carmel, which run about 830 and 700 vehicles, respectively.
The numbers tell a story of explosive growth and a changing industry, regulators and industry participants say, as the smartphone and web-based Uber has streamlined the process of calling for a car service, eliminating the need for human dispatchers and cash or card transactions, while shrinking the problems of geography.
"This is a classic case of somebody coming into the market and out-competing the previously existent businesses," said TLC Chairman David Yassky.
The rise of Uber has put new strains on companies like Carmel and Dial 7, which allege that regulators are giving an easy ride to a new service without considering the existing businesses it threatens. The two traditional car-service companies have also leapt into the smartphone app game.
Carmel and Dial 7 now allow customers to call for their services using apps, and say that they will remain competitive on price to Uber's flagship offering—the black-car service Uber Black.
The greatest sign of Uber's surging business is the growth in the number of drivers and vehicles who have signed on with Weiter, the biggest of its black-car bases. Starting from zero when it was created this spring, that dispatch base was affiliated with 1,377 cars by the end of September, twice the size of the long-established Carmel.
"There was an unmet need for riders in New York, and the same can be said for drivers," said Josh Mohrer, general manager of Uber NYC.
Generally, for-hire vehicle drivers in the city own their own cars. TLC regulations require the drivers to formally affiliate with a base, paying a variety of fees and commissions in exchange for business, which comes via the base dispatcher. (Unlike in other cities, New York's yellow cabs aren't permitted to use dispatchers.)
Uber's system has pared down the dispatch model, the company says. Instead of a dispatcher, drivers receive ride requests via smartphones.
Uber users have already uploaded credit-card information via the company's app or website, eliminating the need for riders or drivers to handle cash or cards at a ride's end. And drivers are paid via direct-deposit, Mr. Mohrer said, with Uber taking a percentage, which it won't disclose.
The company has also broadened its offerings, launching the UberX, with lower rates more comparable to an existing livery car or taxi, and has seen sharp growth over the past year, Mr. Mohrer said. UberX vehicles tend to be smaller and less luxurious than the full-size sedans used in Uber's standard service, Mr. Mohrer said, and draw a different clientele.
"You pick up your date in an Uber Black, but you go home by yourself in an UberX," he said.
The growth of Uber has accompanied a surge in the number of black cars on the streets, TLC officials said.
In the first nine months of 2013, the black-car segment of the for-hire industry, which would include Uber cars, grew more than 30%, to a total of 10,375 vehicles.
An industry veteran speculated that the business wasn't really new: It used to belong to the established livery leaders, this person said.
Avik Kabessa, CEO of Carmel, and Tarek Mallah, general manager of Dial 7, say their businesses charge less than some of Uber's offerings. They also question the rush to embrace a newcomer with a limited track record.
"Because of the noise that Uber knows how to create, people are missing the point that apps exist in liveries right now," Mr. Kabessa said.
Uber has been criticized in the past for its pricing structure, which raises fares at busy times, but the company says it is an efficient way of meeting demand.
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I'm trying to render a simple video that should be 1024x768 in size. My target viewing platform is WindowsXP Embedded on a thin client machine with screen resolution of 1024x768.
The video needs to loop forever in full screen and the best player I have found for this is MPlayer built for Windows.
I'm running kdenlive 0.8.2.1 on Ubuntu 12.04
My Render settings are:
Custom Size: 1024 x 768
Frame rate 30000 / 1001
Pixel aspect ration 8 / 9
Display aspect ration 4 / 3
Colorspace ITU-R 601
In the render dialog:
XVid4 is selected (but I've tried others with no better success)
Scanning is Auto
Encoder threads is 1
Export_audio, 2 pass, Rescale, Play after render and overlay are all unchecked.
Full project is selected.
The line that is built in the render dialog is:
acodec=libmp3lame ab=%audiobitrate+'k' ar=44100 vcodec=libxvid minrate=0 vb=%bitrate+'k' aspect=%dar mbd=2 trellis=1 mv4=1 pass=%passes
The resulting video .AVI file reports that the video is 1024x768 when looking at the video properties.
But when I play it on the target device with display resolution of 1024x768 the video does not fill full screen in Mplayer full screen mode. It has a fairly large black frame around it.
If I use another custom project profile and increase the width I can get rid of the black on the sides of the video but not the top and bottom.
I found a discussion about using crop with center checked but that didn't actually solve the issue for me.
I suspect that it has to do with the aspect ratios, but I'm not sure how to adjust those to achieve what I need to do. And I'm not sure why I should have to since the video should be rendering to the full size of the target display.
What am I missing?
Sun, 01/27/2013 - 13:36
Pixel aspect ratio should have been 1:1 rather than 8:9 ?
Sun, 01/27/2013 - 15:57
If the PAR is non square then there will be stretch or squash in vertical or horizontal as pixels are not square but for 1024x768 I assume for monitor display they should be square 1:1 PAR not 8:9 ratio. When you say you have letterboxing are you sure kdenlive or whatever you're viewing on is not also scaling to make it fit horizontally on screen perhaps?
Sun, 01/27/2013 - 20:00
Your project details from your first post state a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 8:9, not 1:1 so the pixel's are assumed not square but your display device is square pixels. You could try creating a project profile again and setting PAR to 1:1 and see if that solves it for you.
Using your current project settings your video file will be telling the media player that the video is not 1:1 PAR because you used 8:9 ratio in your project profile, so on play back that will be compensated for by stretching or squashing the assumed non square pixel nature of your source file so that it 'does' display correctly on a computer monitor because that does have a 1:1 PAR, inevitebly letterboxing or pillar boxing will be added by the playback device to fill in the unused screen space.
Tue, 01/29/2013 - 17:06
I'd go for 1:1 without doubt. :-) Good to hear your other problem is solved.
Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:02
burtbick; good to see that's solved,
can you change the initial post title to add some [solved] ? thank's


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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — More than 100 officers fanned out again at daybreak Saturday in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains, resuming the search for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a deadly rampage to get back at those he blamed for ending his career.
Authorities hope clearer skies will allow aircraft to help them in the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, which entered its fourth day Saturday.
Relentless snowfall on Friday grounded helicopters with heat-sensing technology and hampered their effort to find Dorner, whose burned-out pickup truck was found a day earlier in this ski resort town.
SWAT teams in camouflage scoured the mountains and went door-to-door examining vacant cabins, aware to the reality they could be walking into a trap set by the well-trained former Navy reservist who knows their tactics and strategies as well as they do.
"He can be behind every tree," said T. Gregory Hall, a retired tactical supervisor for a special emergency response team for the Pennsylvania State Police. "He can try to draw them into an ambush area where he backtracks."
As authorities weathered heavy snow and freezing temperatures in the mountains, thousands of heavily armed police remained on the lookout throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico for a suspect bent on revenge and willing to die.
Police said officers still were guarding more than 40 people mentioned as targets in a rant they said Dorner posted on Facebook. He vowed to use "every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance and survival training I've been given" to bring "warfare" to the LAPD and its families.
The manhunt had Southern California residents on edge. Unconfirmed sightings were reported near Barstow, about 60 miles north of the mountain search, and in downtown Los Angeles.
Some law enforcement officials said he appeared to be everywhere and nowhere, and speculated that he was trying to spread out their resources.
For the time being, their focus was on the mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles — a snowy wilderness, filled with thick forests and jagged peaks, that creates peril as much for Dorner as the officers hunting him.
The small army hunting him has the advantage of strength in numbers and access to resources, such as special weapons, to bring him in.
In his online rant, Dorner baited authorities.
"Any threat assessments you generate will be useless," it read. "I have the strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving."
Without the numbers that authorities have, Dorner holds one advantage: the element of surprise.
Authorities said they do not know how long Dorner had been planning the rampage or why he drove to the San Bernardino Mountains. Property records show his mother owns undeveloped land nearby, but a search of the area found no sign of him.
It was not clear if he had provisions, clothing or weapons stockpiled in the area. Even with training, days of cold and snow can be punishing.
"Unless he is an expert in living in the California mountains in this time of year, he is going to be hurting," said former Navy SEAL Clint Sparks, who now works in tactical training and security. "Cold is a huge stress factor. ... Not everybody is survivor-man."
Jamie Usera, an attorney in Salem, Ore., who befriended Dorner when they were students and football teammates at Southern Utah University, said he introduced him to the outdoors. Originally from Alaska, Usera said, he taught Dorner about hunting and other outdoor activities.
"Of all the people I hung out with in college, he is the last guy I would have expected to be in this kind of situation," Usera, who had lost touch with Dorner is recent years, told the Los Angeles Times.
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TYLER, Texas (AP) - The owner of an East Texas methadone clinic has pleaded guilty to trying to have a competitor's business torched and then seeking to have a co-defendant killed.
Prosecutors in Tyler say 43-year-old Edwards Jacobs on Tuesday pleaded guilty to attempted arson and murder-for-hire solicitation. No sentencing date was immediately set for Jacobs, who faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.
Investigators say Jacobs in March gave Daniel Kubisty about $3,000 to burn a competitor's clinic. Officers arrested Kubisty and seized a gasoline can with a saturated wick.
Jacobs and Kubisty were indicted in June on attempted arson and conspiracy to commit arson charges.
Authorities allege Jacobs then tried to hire someone to kill Kubisty to block his testimony. That person was cooperating with investigators.
Kubisty awaits trial.
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"They are getting votes, to be sure, because of their race or gender. That's why people tell me Hillary doesn't have a chance of winning here," the former president said at one stop as he campaigned for his wife, strongly suggesting that blacks would not support a white alternative to Obama.Clinton campaign strategists denied any intentional effort to stir the racial debate. But they said they believe the fallout has had the effect of branding Obama as "the black candidate," a tag that could hurt him outside the South.
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Clinton strategists can believe what they want. I dare say they have a vested interest in believing that their strategies are successful.The comparison with Jesse Jackson (I'm moving this from below to here, slap it back if you want), is so thoroughly off base as to be mind-blowing. The two candidates ONLY have their skin color in common and to try and compare them comes periously close to thinking that the ONLY thing that matters about Obama is his skin color. Cutty Sark and Lagavulin can both be found in scotch aisle.
That is, in the scotch aisle.
Also, Joe, it's interesting to note that Bill Clinton's response was an answer to a question that wasn't asked. He was asked whether it was fair of the two Clintons to gang up on Obama.
Now Grant, I'm sure our former president was simply stating a fact that happened to pop into his head at that particular moment; stream of consciousness and all, almost Joyce like. You seem to be suggesting that his words were strategic in nature, deliberately designed to associate Obama with extreme black activism (and politically hopeless black activism), and so alienating Obama from the average white voter by subtly appealing to their most bigoted fears. Yet, we have very sincere assurances from the Clinton camp that nothing could be further from the truth, so I guess one who takes people at their word, rather than one who assumes the people they vote for are lying, should not follow your line of reasoning.It's the pathetic vs. the prophetic.
No question Obama has more than Jackson. However, the clear fact is that the blacks in Carolina voted for him because he is black. That's the point. The only reason Hillary got 17% of the black vote was because of the great bond the Clintons have had with black voters. Blood is thicker than water, as the saying goes.
. . . . designed to associate Obama with extreme black activism (and politically hopeless black activism)
I wouldn't say Jesse Jackson represents "extreme" black activism.
Oh for Pete's sake...Look, if we want to start playing this game, why don't we start asking whether Senator Clinton's disproportionate dependence on women will hurt her in the general election. The chart below shows the relative share of the male vote for Senators Clinton and Obama, followed by the percent of the voters in the primary who are women. Clinton Obama Female Share of Democratic Primary VotersIA 29% 35% 57%NH 29% 40% 57%NV 43% 45% 59%SC 23% 54% 61%If it wasn't for the strong turnout among women, Senator Clinton would have been out of this thing a long time ago. Her presence has increased the female share of the Dem primary voters by about three percentage points in each of the primaries so far.But the national gender breakdown in the 2006 election was 51% female/49% male. I suspect the prospect of a woman president could tip that a bit. There is no question, however, that Senator Clinton will have to increase her draw among male voters.Now is this the worst sort of Sunday talk show pseudo-analysis? No question. But if we're going to spin Senator Obama as the "black" candidate, we might as well take a look at how Senator Clinton is the "woman" candidate. If this is the direction the Clinton people want to go, fine, but I don't think it's going to help them.
David, have you ever lived in Chicago?
Grant,No, I have never lived in Chicago, although I have visited and been very impressed.Whether or not that would give me a different perspective on Jesse Jackson, I don't know. But I don't see how that's relevant, since I don't think Bill Clinton was aiming his remarks at Chicagoans. As black activists go, as a non-Chicagoan, I would not call Jesse Jackson, or even Al Sharpton, "extreme." I would not even begin to compare Obama to Jackson or Sharpton, but I don't think Jesse Jackson is "extreme."
David, remember when he referred to New York as "hymietown"? I wonder if we'll see another round of paranoid e-mails about Obama's secret anti-Jewish impulses.
Grant,I am old enough to remember the "hymietown" remark, but that was 25 years ago. It was said in private, and Jackson apologized for it. Are you seriously trying to make the case that Clinton's subliminal message was that Jackson is an "extremist" and that Obama is like Jackson--an extremist and maybe an anti-Semite? Are you forgetting that Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton were personal friends? And are you ignoring the fact that Jesse Jackson has endorsed Obama, and that Jesse Jackson, Jr., is one of the Obama campaign's national co-chairmen? If there is an intention to smear Obama by associating him with the Jackson's, it can be done much more directly than saying they both won primaries in the same state.Now, if you want to argue that Bill was making a calculated effort to portray Obama as "the black candidate" who could win in South Carolina where there were a lot of black voters but was on shakier ground elsewhere, that's more plausible. I'm not sure it is reprehensible, though. It seems pretty clear that Obama is getting some votes because he is black, just as Hillary is getting some votes because she is a woman. (Which is what Bill said.) And if reminding people that Obama is black is going to hamper his chances of winning the Democratic nomination to any significant degree, what is it going to do to his chances of winning in the general election? No matter who is the Republican nomineee, don't you think the Republican campaign against Obama is going to find a way to use race as an issue (all the while denying that they aren't)?
David,I believe Jackson delivered the remark to a reporter, mistakenly believing it would remain off the record. Of course he apologized for when it became public. Lots of people haven't forgiven him for it. Likewise, lots of people--rightly or wrongly--associate Jackson with racial politics. I can't know what Clinton intended. (For the record I think it could be a lot of things, including the more plausible possibility you described--although I can't get on board the GOP Is Just As Bad excuse-making train. Sorry.) All I know, all you know, is that Clinton was asked about Obama being "double-teamed" and winning in SC, and the former president decided to take the opportunity to compare Obama's win and campaign to Jesse Jackson's. What do you think that was about, David? Seriously.
Wow. These remarks are all excellent evidence as to why Democrats could easly lose the race (for president, that is).
Just to weigh in on the "extreme" thing, since I started it. I, too, do not think Jackson is extreme, and I still think Clinton can be friends with Jackson and say what he did. If the strategic interpretation of his remarks is correct, Clinton need only be interested in what a significant portion of the American electorate (especially that portion voting on Feb. 5) think of Jesse Jackson. If it is believed by certain strategists that this portion of the electorate views Jackson to be extreme, then that will suffice.
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Wow. These remarks are all excellent evidence as to why Democrats could easly lose the race (for president, that is).
I would value knowing a little more about what you are thinking here. From my perspective, at least, I have been trying to express disgust at what I take to be some real low road strategic moves by the Clintons. I would not be expressing such disgust if Clinton and Obama (and even Clinton/Clinton and Obama) were arguing about things like like policies and electability. Do you find such expressions of disgust to be inappropriate?
I agree with David N's read of the Clinton comment. But I guess I do see it as reprehensible.
Grant, First I would refer you to the article posted by Margaret Steinfels, particularly this passage:
But while pundits debated the degree to which those comments were strategic and whether they helped or hurt Mrs. Clinton, those thrusts and parries made up only a fraction of his public appearances here, and voters were not that interested in them.Instead, they sat in rapt attention at Mr. Clintons town-hall-style events, which were essentially mini lectures on public affairs. Mr. Clinton would open by discussing various issues for half an hour. Occasionally he would say, Hillary thinks this, but their views are so similar, and he spoke for her so confidently, that he rarely bothered to say where he left off and she began.
How much coverage have we received of what Bill Clinton said about public affairs in those town-hall-style events? I think for one thing, reporters sift through hours and hours of what Bill Clinton says trying to find something sensational to report. Sound bites. As a consequence, we hear nothing of substance, but if there's a remark that can be interpreted (correctly or incorrectly) to cause a furor, that's what we hear. To read the press coverage, it's as if Bill Clinton is out there 24/7 ranting about Obama and making racially insensitive remarks. It is a false impression. (This also may explain some of my criticisms of Obama not being substantive. The press clearly loves him, but all they are interested in is his oratory and charisma. I watch a fair amount of political coverage and read a fair amount of news analysis, and I have seen very little in the press actually comparing and contrasting the candidates on their positions. And of course Edwards, whom I believe has many important things to say, it totally marginalized.)Here's what Bill Clinton said:
Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in 84 and 88. And he ran a good campaign. Senator Obama has run a good campaign here, he has run a good campaign everywhere.
Now, the pundits I saw on the Sunday morning television shows today, who were not very friendly toward the Clintons and many of whom clearly are quite taken with Obama (including George Will, of all people), agreed that there are not very many states with the same demographics as South Carolina. Was that race baiting? It seems to me perfectly relevant in assessing Obama's victory in South Carolina to point out that a black man has won twice there before. It's not as if that's a lie. Does that diminish the significance of Obama's victory? I don't think it's unreasonable to maintain that. If Edwards had won, would it have been underhanded to point out that it's his home state in order to minimize the significance of his victory? It is an undeniable fact that Obama got 81 percent of the black vote in a state with a large black population.I think at least part of what is happening is that Obama is so impressive--I see it too--that his supporters are deeply emotional about everything that is said about him that is not praise, and see "race baiting" when people are simply making observations of fact, or, at worst, doing the kind of spinning that is routinely done in important races. So I would say the press coverage has been very poor (but typical of press coverage of major elections), and I would also say that hard-fought elections are rarely all cordiality and high-minded rational debate. But nothing Bill Clinton said was untrue or out of the ordinary. However, if you want an example of an outright lie that nobody is complaining about, how about McCain saying Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag" or "surrender" in Iraq. It's just a preposterous lie, but McCain also is a darling of the press, and nobody is accusing him of being untruthful.
I will be the first to grant the possibility that I am too sensistive on the race issue, but something has yet to be explained that would lead me to believe that Obama is the "black candidate" only means that he will have much shakier support outside of places like South Carolina; namely, Obama won Iowa, thus, his ability to have support outside of states with high black populations has been clearly demonstrated. Given the demonstrably false character of the claim, I am inclined to see something more insidious going on.Now, back to my hypersensitivity on matters of race. Let's follow two possible implications of what B. Clinton said. First, by voting for someone who deserves a vote only because of his skin color, one seems to be suggesting that black folk are rather simple-minded when it comes to politics and (thank goodness) we have predominantly white states to sort out the really important issues when it comes to the candidates. Second, a landslide victory among black voters means nothing beyond South Carolina. But why shouldn't a landslide victory among black voters also signal to white voters who are receptive to considerations of racial justice that it is time to pay attention to this black candidate? Year after year, the black community gets taken for granted by the Democratic party. Why isn't the history of black support for Democrats, combined with a history of political neglect of blacks by Democrats, sufficient grounds for allowing black voters to say to Democrats, "Alright, give us a good reason NOT to vote for Obama, otherwise, follow our lead and vote for him"?Sorry, I will admit that racial analysis is dicey stuff, but I am inclined to think it remains important.
David Nickol: I will grant the bad coverage, but with one question of clarification: to your knowledge, how much these mini-lectures delivered by Bill Clinton actually draw clear differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? If they do not draw such distinctions, then it will be hard for the press to report on them within the context of a campaign between these two candidates.On Edwards, I think his decision to make his campaign the Voice for the Voiceless is fantastic, and I am glad that he is going to carry this all the way to the convention. Again, however, the problem is the extent to which Edwards can clearly show that but for his campaign, the voiceless would be ignored by both Clinton and Obama. I am not sure that is true, and I certainly have not seen Edwards make the case.
David: Like most people who read this blog, I am well aware of how the press tends to operate in campaign seasons. So are the Clintons. No one here needs to be reminded that what gets reported tends to be headline-grabbing and can't provide a full account of what's happening on the ground. That much is obvious. (Although CNN and MSNBC carried much of Clinton's Mississippi speech last night.) What troubles me about Clinton's answer to the question he was asked--which was definitely bait--is that it fits a pattern of referring to Obama's race in attempting to explain him or his campaign or its appeal. Never mind his having won more than double the white votes predicted by the polls--and double what Jackson pulled when the nominees were already set in '84 and '88. I have not said race should be off the table. How could it be? Nor have I said that elections must or can be 100 percent high-minded or cordial. (It would be better if you argued against what's been articulated here rather than a straw man.) It's certainly possible that Clinton believes Jackson is the best analogue. But he was asked what it says about Obama that it takes two people to beat him. Barely flinching, Clinton mentioned Jackson. I suspect it was an attempt to associate Obama with a marginal political figure.
Joe,In answer to your question, I don't know what was in Bill's mini-lectures, but wouldn't it be interesting to know, even if it didn't draw a distinction between Obama and Hillary Clinton? The ideas matter just as much if Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on them or disagree on them. And if there's no essential difference between Obama and Hillary Clinton's ideas, I think everybody ought to know that, too.One clarification before someone gloats that a Democrat (me) is finally admitting that the press is biased. In spite of the fact that we know most reporters are Democrats, I think it is much more the case (and you hear reporters say this all the time themselves) that what the press wants is a good story. It is not a good story that Bill Clinton is giving town-hall-style mini-lectures on public affairs to rapt audiences, and we don't hear what he's saying because you can't fit it into a two-minute news report. It makes for a sensational story if Bill or Hillary Clinton make remarks that can be interpreted as racially insensitive or racially charged, and then it echoes across the blogosphere. I think Ronald Reagan made a good story, which is why someone could write a book called On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency about how a largely liberal group of reporters treated Ronald Reagan. I think the press was personally charmed by George W. Bush during the first campaign and didn't care much for Al Gore, distorting the coverage in Bush's favor. And we've recently had a network reporter acknowledge it's hard to be objective covering Obama.
Grant,The question of why it takes two to beat Obama is a foolish one, and I don't blame Clinton for not answering it. No candidate campaigns as a single individual without any representatives, surrogates, and so on. And there has been many an election in which a sitting president campaigns for a candidate, and nobody says, "How come you need the president to campaign for you in order to get elected?" It seems to me the way you and I interpret Bill Clinton's remarks says more about us than about what the remarks themselves really meant. I think it's quite possible they should be taken at face value. I think it is also possible they were intended to minimize the importance of Obama's victory. I don't think that would be reprehensible on Bill Clinton's part. It is part of the game to lower expectations when you think you are going to lose, minimize the victories of the other candidates, and paint your own losses as victories. I see no more insidious intentions about analyzing the black vote in the case of Obama than I do in analyzing the Evangelical Christian vote in the case of Huckabee. People have been saying how dirty and nasty this race is. I don't see it. Dirty and nasty is what was done to McCain in South Carolina in 2000. Bill Clinton didn't say anything that wasn't a simple fact. I think way too much is being read into his remarks. He said somewhere that he doesn't need to defend his civil rights record, and I agree. But my primary concern, like that of a lot of other Democrats, is to have the Democrat nominated who has the best chance of beating the Republican in November. Come February 5, if I decide that person is Obama, I will certainly vote for him.
David,Yes, I agree that it was a dumb question, which is why I concurred with Bill Clinton's description of it as bait. But you're mistaken in comparing the manner in which Bill Clinton has campaigned against Obama (not merely for Hillary) with previous ex-presidents' efforts. He has attacked Obama very strongly (and not always honestly). That is why several Democratic Party leaders have publicly and privately asked Bill Clinton to give it a rest--including Ted Kennedy, who will endorse Obama tomorrow.
Joe, my thinking in the above comment (which will be my last on this issue, as the topic has become so poisonous) was really a reaction to the vituperation and exaggeration that has spun from discussions of Obama and Clinton. Labeling those who defend--or merely offer an opinion other than condemnation on Hillary Clinton--a racist or race-baiter is appalling, to my mind. And labelling those who defend or advocate for Obama a misogynist is equally so (even if racism is a worse thing than sexism). (I ma especially defensive, of course as I am a white male and despite my best efforts at re-education, I undoubtedly retain shades--and guilt--over racism and sexism.) These threads seem (to me) no better than the worst of right-wing talk radio. I have to say, as I have said before, that I think David Nickol was on the mark about the LBJ/MLK issue and now the Jesse Jackson issue. I think the Clintons have behaved abysmally, and I believe will wind up losing because of their tactics. And their behavior has gone a long way toward making me an Obama supporter, happily so. But here I am a white male who has come to put great hope in Obama being lumped in with "race-baiters" because I interpret something differently. I actually think discussions like these are developing in ways that even Bill Clinton at his worst could do--and that Barack Obama would not want to do. Yet here we are hurling mud, Ugly stuff, and depressing. I'll avoid these threads and prepare for class with a big glass of wine.
I suspect that, once the candidates are selected by both parties, each will behave as they have in the past. The Republicans will be in lockstep like storm troopers, and the Democrats will continue to behave like greased pigs in a county fair. Democrats, when they win, tend to do so in spite of themselves.I wouldn't be a Republican for all of the crab in Fisherman's Wharf.