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Minecraft: PS3 EditionWritten by: / / 1 Comment
- platform: PS3
- genre: RPG
- developer: 4J Studios
- publisher: Mojang
New to Minecraft? Be sure to read El33tonline's Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition review to see what Bryan thought of the block-based world builder on Xbox 360.
So there I was sitting in my three story house with stone security fencing, relaxing and watching the sunset. Out of nowhere and without warning, I saw a green square-ish zombie walking towards my house. This could only mean one thing: I have to relocate my awesome house to somewhere safer… somewhere with a view of the ocean, perhaps.
What You Need to Know
Minecraft: PS3 Edition is the PlayStation 3 version of the popular block-based world-building sandbox game that has taken the world by storm on PC and Xbox 360, and has already sold over a million units since launch on Sony's console. It's a game where you can set your imagination free – you mine what you need and craft what you desire. The whole world in Minecraft consists of 'cubes,' which makes it look very unique.
The game is made by 4J Studios, which handles the console versions of Minecraft for Mojang, and the PS3 edition plays exactly the same as the Xbox 360 version with the same tools and items. You can play the game on your own, co-operatively up to four players split-screen, or online with up to eight buddies. The game is split into two game modes; Creative and Survival.
You'll Enjoy Minecraft: PS3 Edition If You Like…
… any Minecraft on any platform.
… being creative and building stuff.
What I Liked
– 4.) The whole idea of letting my imagination take flight really got the creative juices flowing.
– 3.) I really like the visual style, it makes it a unique experience.
– 2.) It's a perfect pick up and play game, great for those moments where you just want to kill some time and build something.
– 1.) The total freedom you have in the game is great. You can go exploring, building and do basically anything you want.
Favourite Moment
Those moments when you take a set back after hours and hours of play to see your finished creation in all its glory, like when I finally finished my grand castle of a house with a giant lookout tower and a basement safe room.
What I Didn't Like
– 3.) I really didn't like the background music while playing as it is the same tune over and over. So I mostly listened to my own music to fix this.
– 2.) I have noticed that Minecraft won't be for everyone as it can get little bit repetitive at times, doing the same things over and over to shape your creation into what you imagine it to be.
– 1.) I know this was created to be a sandbox game to make you build and create stuff, but I would have liked some missions and tasks to complete.
Least Favourite Moment
I built this mansion of a place with a safe room and surrounded it with stone fencing and gates, but the fact that a random zombie could appear inside my house with no evidence of entry was really annoying.
Minecraft: PS3 Edition Launch Trailer
What's Extra?
The game is really done well on the PS3, and the control scheme is perfect and easy to use. Loading my world from the Minecraft servers is really fast and I never had any hassles with it disconnecting. I do like the little random messages they post on the main menu of the game, too.
The Bottom Line
Minecraft: PS3 edition is really a fun game and it's even better when you have a buddy helping you build cool creations… or when you do what I did and just jump into another person's world and build random stuff all over the place. I highly recommended you give this game a try.
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What makes you believe Dex is not a Wolf, Byron? Anyway thanks for saving me the trouble of looking into you. There has only been two deaths so far which makes a Wolf claiming Seer a pretty risky move. You could argue I inferred from Noobs death rattle that he was the Seer and took the opportunity to claim the role but that's not the case. I can understand why my word should be taken with a grain of salt but killing Floom Tacos will prove the validity of my claim easily enough.
There are seven remaining, if we kill Flamoctapus today and the Wolves get a successful kill tonight we are down to
fourfive with possibly two Wolves remaining. Judging from Byrons statement I can only assume he's a bad guy as well, normally this would be a decent position for us but I fear that Dex may be a Wolf and has double voting power to boot. If this is true even if we kill him now we will still lose tomorrow unless the BG saves someone tonight since he get's to choose his replacement and will give it to his buddy Flamoctapus.So I'm going to vote to Lynch Flamoctapus and hope against hope that Dex is a good guy.
EDIT: Messed up on the math, if we kill someone today and the wolves eat tonight then we are down to 5 instead of 4 which means we only lose automatically tomorrow if the Wolves kill the Lovers tonight.

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Northwest Wingless Tour Opens Up 2014 At CGS
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Doc's Photos)
Cottage Grove, Oregon- The 2014 season for the Northwest Wingless Tour is set to get underway at the Cottage Grove Speedway on Saturday May 3rd. Originally their season opener was scheduled for April 19th at Sunset Speedway Park but unfortunately that event was rained out. The first race will kick off the first of eight races this year for the NWWT and will be the sixth season in the history of the series.
The Northwest Wingless Tour will visit the Cottage Grove Speedway a total of three times in 2014 including this weekend. Also in the house will be regulars of the Oregon Double Shot Series which should provide a very strong car count for the evening.
Seventeen total NWWT sanctioned races have occurred at CGS since the series was formed in 2009. Kyle Miller has a firm grip of the win list with twelve triumphs including six times in 2013. Kyler Barraza is the only other multi-race winner with two while Roger Crockett, Dale Smith, and Kyle Mehner each have one.
In 2014 the Northwest Wingless Tour will participate in eight events at four different facilities in the Pacific Northwest. For the latest information log on to wingless.nwextremeseries.com. Also be sure and "like" us on Facebook.
Previous Northwest Wingless Tour Winners At Cottage Grove Speedway:
2013- Kyle Mehner on April 20th, Kyle Miller on May 4th, Kyle Miller on June 8th, Kyle Miller on July 19th, Kyle Miller on July 20th, Kyle Miller on August 31st, Kyle Miller on September 1st
2012- Kyle Miller on September 22nd
2011- Kyle Miller on April 30th, Kyle Miller on July 30th, Kyle Miller on September 24th
2009- Kyler Barraza on April 25th, Kyler Barraza on May 23rd, Roger Crockett on June 6th, Dale Smith on July 18th, Kyle Miller on August 15th, Kyle Miller on September 12th
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1) To parameterize the conic $x^2+y^2=1$, we can use $(x,y)=(\sin t,\sin't)$ ($\sin'$ meaning the derivative of $\sin$, namely $\cos$).
2) To parameterize an elliptic curve $y^2=4x^3-g_2x-g_3$, we can use $(x,y)=(\wp(t),\wp'(t))$.
(I know how to prove (1) and (2), and that it is possible to parameterize curves of higher genus using the unit disc.)
Question: Is there a common explanation for why both parameterizations are of the form $(F(t),F'(t))$? (as opposed to $(F(t),G(t)$) Does this phenomenon generalize to curves of higher genus?


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Heart of the Swarm introduces Primal Zerg. What are they?
Primal Zergs are also referred as "original zergs". They are zerg that never left their original home planet, Zerus, and thus never evolved/mutated
Source, SC lore (and the wikis, of course!)
BIG BIG BIG SPOILER (not really, you can find it in the wiki):
The primal zergs are the zergs that did not get corrupted by Amon (or whatever how we write the name of Dark Voice).
They are the original zergs that were made by the Xel Naga. The zergs we know that can be part of the Swarm were corrupted to be made into weapons. All the zergs in the swarm share a psyonic link with each others and that makes them dependent on their leader. A leaderless brood isn't more dangerous than wild animals (as can be seen in Flashpoint or the second book of the dark templar saga).
The primal zergs don't have that psychic link. Packs are made like wolf packs where there is an Alpha male (Brack in the Zeras mission is one of the alpha). From what I can see in the mission, most current Zerg units seems to have evolved from the primal zergs in some way. The primal zergs are also independent and only respect power. Also, each primal zerg have the ability to indivually evolve by absorbing essence while the swarm has to go through more steps to evolve.
tldr; They are the original zergs. Most zerg units have evolved from their primal zerg counsins.


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8 Cheap Ways to Fake Being a Pro Chef
Most cookbooks spend so much time telling you how many ridiculous tools and accessories you need ("Every chef should have two high-end potato peelers, one for your average potatoes, and another for the potatoes you just don't trust") that they barely leave any room for the actual cooking. That's like picking up a book on casual cycling that starts with "Want to see if you like cycling? Fantastic! Before we get started, go buy a custom-fitted carbon fiber road bike, then pick out your uniform and competition clip-in shoes, go to Lance Armstrong's house, leave a bag of (expensive) flaming soup on his doorstep ..." You'd close the book, precisely as I did with cookbooks my entire life. It had to be simpler. I mean, calculus is simpler.
So, while working on my book (The 4-Hour Chef, currently available wherever you keep your Internet), I sought out the people who do the most with the least: chefs like Jehangir Mehta of Graffiti in New York City, which has a broom-closet-size kitchen; food-truck operators; and caterers, who need to build a new kitchen at each gig. What are the lightweight and low-cost tools that serve as their Swiss Army knives? Even if you're starting from zero (perhaps especially so), here is the ultimate list of insider tools ...
#8. Lint-Free Surgical Huck Towels
$8.50 for 12
Forget about oven mitts and pot holders. You know who uses those? Your grandma, who is a very nice lady and a fine cook, but she probably never read this article when she was learning to cook (exceptions: grandma time travelers). Why use the frilly trinkets of an average cook when you can use what the pros use? The pros use folded towels for just about everything, and using them will teach you more than your grandma ever did.
"You're a chef, dammit. Folded towels are the only family you need now."
How do you tell the veterans from the noobs? The former have a neatly stacked pile of cooking towels, crisply folded at the edges and tucked into their aprons. The latter have sloppy messes pushed through string. In a world of high-speed repetitive action, the little things are the big things. Suffice it to say, if you grab something hot with a single layer of a damp towel, your hands will be seared like strip steak. (Not to worry: It's easy to avoid.)
You won't find the little blue towels that the pros use in any kitchen or restaurant supply store, but you can easily find them online by searching for "lint-free surgical towels." Order a dozen from Amazon to start. If you want something close, but -- in my opinion -- inferior, the long, narrow IKEA towels with red stripes will suffice. If you do go to IKEA, get those meatballs in their food court, but only after you've purchased the towels. You're gonna need them to wipe all the shit off your face. Goddamn, Scandinavians know their meatballs. Italians, what happened? Amirite? Italians?
The TEKLA, seen here being substantially more durable than a BILLY bookshelf.
#7. Zena Swiss Star Peeler, or Kuhn Rikon Original Swiss Peeler
Amazon.com and Amazon.com
$7 to $8
Joe Ades (may he rest in peace) made a fortune selling $5 Swiss-made peelers in New York City's Union Square. He was so good at it, he taught his daughter the art of the pitch, and she used it to put herself through Columbia University by selling children's books on the street.
Without Joe's daily demos, New York wouldn't have half as many rats as it does today.
The Zena Swiss may be the original, but the Kuhn Rikon version is cheaper and easier to clean. The latter was one of two items (the other a Microplane) an executive chef recommended when asked, "What do professionals use all the time that home cooks don't?"
No one likes peeling, and this gadget makes it a cinch. They're three for $11. Don't need three peelers? Boom, you've got Christmas presents for your two most potato-friendly buddies. For $11.
Buy a couple bags of potatoes to go along with 'em and your holiday shopping is done.
Even a cheap-ass bastard can afford these bad boys. Ante up and you'll use them forever.
#6. OXO Locking Tongs and Kuhn Rikon Slotted Spatula (Peltex)
Amazon.com and Amazon.com
$10.31 for the tongs; $17.25 for the spatula
Chefs are exacting, precise, delicate creatures when it comes to food prep. For instance, they don't pierce their meat like some sort of kitchen Hunger Games savages, spilling all the juices that should remain inside. To avoid that, you'll need OXO Good Grips Locking Tongs and the Kuhn Rikon SoftEdge Slotted 12-Inch Spatula (Peltex).
Tongs with tips that don't scratch, like the OXO nylon-tipped tongs, will be the easiest to use. Real chefs end up using a "Peltex," which is a brand name, but generically refers to a slotted fish turner. The better the cook, the fewer tools required. Only posers own more equipment than they can use. (See: Taylor, Tim "Tool Man.") If you ever walk into a man's kitchen and he says he's figured out how to prepare and cook every meal with just a single spoon and some salt, congratulations, you've just found the greatest living chef.
The best is the Kuhn Rikon Peltex, as it has silicone edges and can also effectively replace silicone spatulas. Don't waste money. Grandma would slap you with one of her stupid pot holders.
"I'mma choke you to death, mothafucka."
#5. Grapefruit Seed Extract
Grapefruit seed extract (GSE) is perfect for disinfecting heavier jobs, especially if you're cooking with a lot of chicken. A component of GSE, naringenin, is a potent antiviral and antibacterial agent; it also extends the effect of caffeine (see The 4-Hour Body). Add in hesperidin, also in GSE, and you can reduce everything from hepatitis C and E. coli to methicillin-resistant staph bacteria. If something tastes off, put a few drops of this in water and down the hatch it goes. This one guy said it made his dick bigger, and this other chick said it made everyone's dick bigger.
While traveling in India, this is how I prevented myself from dying. Street food? Enjoy it, but bring an insurance policy: GSE. If not, take photos of yourself in the Third World ER. I've been there. Highly overrated. Ganges River water makes horrible IV fluid.
It's a pretty decent combination national bath/toilet, though.


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Hi I am working with setting the parameter choices provider and I'm not sure whether I've encountered a bug or intended behavior. I invoke code completion for a function with multiple parameters and for each parameter I see the parameter choices appearing as expected. I use the up/down arrow key to navigate the parameter choices. When I select a parameter choice with the ENTER key the 1st parameter is correctly filled in with my choice and the highlight advances to the next parameter however the parameter choices disappear for the second parameter. Is this intended?
Also is code completion smart enough to detect the typing of an open parenthesis (specified in my parameterized completion params),read the token to the left and show the code completion prompts for that function, or is that behavior custom code I would have to write (and is there any examples?). I don't want to unfairly expect out of the box behavior identical to eclipse but I just want to understand where I would need to implement custom code for eclipse-like autocomplete functionality and not reinvent the wheel. Thanks!


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I want to see only my subscriptions on my YouTube home. Those recommendations are unnecessary pollution.
There is a filter at the very top of the homepage:
Switch to Subscriptions and you'll see only subscriptions...
Or you can add No Recommendation Chrome extension.
If YouTube doesn't provide this, its possible to make modifications to websites on a per-website basis using a Firefox browser plugin called Greasemonkey. If you use Firefox, go to userscripts.org and search for one that does YouTube modifications.
Ad-blocking plugins are also available for most browsers.
Since YouTube likes to force us to look at crap we dont like, I use the Chrome AdBlock extension which allows me to hide certain areas of web pages as if it was an ad. Basically all I had to do was right click the recommended channels area and select AdBlock->Block this add, and a little window with a slider comes up and i slide it to the right until the whole recommended channels tab disappears. Now every time I visit my subscription page its gone for good! Not sure what the IE or Firefox equivalent is though.
good luck!
In AdBlock Plus (ABP) or a similar browser extension that can use ABP filters, simply add one of the ABP filter lists at the Customize YouTube with Adblock Plus page. The ABP filter lists there can block the ff:
Use Adblock in chrome and in customize options
pass the code
for me it works superb as it shows everything as usual except the images so if u want u can still see the recommendations


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I'm running WP 3.5.1 and I've a menu with about 100 items. When I add new items to the menu older ones disappear.
I'm not running Suhosin or similar stuff. What can be the cause?
Note: I'm on a dedicated server.
The following has worked for some users with similar problem:
Try to increase the value of the
You can read more about it in the PHP documentation:
You could try to increase it to
Using the data below, we can try to estimate how many POST variables we are sending, given a certain number of menu items, when we press the
It seems to be:
which is equivalent to the line:
Then we can build the following table:
In your case, we see that if you need to save
Similarly when we add items to the menu (via Ajax POST)
we get
which is the line:
The corresponding data table is:
When we add
Just to show you the amount of
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For the last time to improve my videos I used a grey card and later ColorRight:
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KqIljDR5o
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_c-HQhvIQ
Few days ago I have found this video (English subtitels) about color reference chart:
something like grey card above, but with more options. From 2m35s in this film you can see use of it with video editing software and Vectorscope. Is someone using Vectorscope in kdenlive and can explaine some more how to calibrate video in kdenlive to such Reference Chart? As we can see from 4:00 the results of proper use those tools are huge.
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:58
And the links to Granjow's blog on that page might help somewhat.
But maybe you are the man to figure out how to do it and write the manual !!!
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 15:30
If shooting to a gamma encoded 8bit video or image format then white balance really needs to be 'right' in camera so the color adjust whatnot or any white card or 18% grey card and adjust WB in camera. Then shoot. Its too late really adjusting non decently white balanced 8bit video or images after especially with low precision 8bit adjustments like kdenlive has currently, when MOVIT coded filters in MLT is exposed in kdenlive then more precision but still on 8bit gamna encoded source.
If shooting raw image ie: 12bit unprocessed then no white balance or gamma has been baked in so shooting a test frame with color adjust or grey card in the scene helps set WB on raw data in the raw development process.
Interesting read is Shane Hurlbuts suggestions about WB on his blog.
And also Kevin Wang on Flickr with his Canon picture styles strongly suggesting achieving the look you're after by adjusting color temp in combination with certain picture styles.
If you need to reproduce the color of a logo or some memory color then WB before shooting will probably get you closer to that color with minimal grading.
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 16:44
If you have the color chart shown in your third video, AND if the six colors on the right side of the chart correspond to the six basic colors (hues) in a video color bar test signal of the same standard that your camera is using (rec 601 or 709), THEN the ANGLES of the blobs in the vectorscope should be the same as the angles of the color markers on the vectorscope. The radii will probably be smaller, as the colors on the chart do not seem to me as saturated as the color bar signal.
Best zoom in on your card, so that the part with the six colors fills the screen, otherwise you will get more blobs on the vectorscope, making it confusing.
For a simple white balance, the white and gray fields on the back of the chart, should both make a blob in the center of the vectorscope.
Use the vectorscope from View/Vectorscope, because the one under Effect list/Misc/Vectorscope is not correct: it uses graticule from an analog NTSC vectorscope, but equations from digital video. (I plan to fix that, sooner or later :-)
P.S. ColorRight: hahaha 20 years ago cameras had white translucent lens covers that were used this way. In fact, with such a device, you should do the reference shot from the model towards the light (as with an incident light meter), not the way shown in the video.
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 22:30
vylaern, the reference to BT.601 with Nikon and Canon DSLR's is with regard to the luma coefficients used not to be confused with color primaries. Regardless of luma coeffs Nikon and Canon use BT.709 primaries and getting the luma coeffs correct really only affects conversions to RGB, for such things as playback and RGB based scopes like RGB Parade & Histogram.
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 23:11
RGB is the primary color space from which all others are derived, both in theoretical colorimetry and in practical hardware (sensors have RGB filters).
601 and 709 are based on different RGB primaries, and the different luma/chroma coefficients are a just consequence of that.
Because the difference between 601 and 709 is mainly in the green primary, the luma coeffs are affected the most.
So, if your chart is 709 and your camera 601, green (and cyan and yellow) will be a bit off. If I remember right, the differnce is mostly in the saturation of the green primary, so its angle may not be significantly off.
As your link says, the angles are important, because the white/grey value is insensitive to rotations, it will only show shifts.
> P.S. ColorRight: hahaha
By laughing, I did not mean to say it is an inferior tool, I just laughed at the marketing, which is trying to sell a "new" idea.
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 23:46
Canon & Nikon DSLR's for which vylaern is discussing encode HD video using JFIF specification, http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-TR/TR-098.pdf
But BT709 primaries and BT601 luma coeffs, its in the metadata within the format, ffprobe, mediainfo, QT clearly state.
BT.601 is color primary agnostic, primaries are based on lines of resolution, so could be EBU or SMPTE and therefore regarding 720P and 1080P BT.709 primaries.
Chroma is normalized over full 8bit range, +-128, luma over full 8bit range, the h264 video stream is flagged with a h264 VUI Option 'fullrange' to signal to the decompressing codec to scale levels into restricted range before conversion to RGB. It's a bastard format :-)
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 00:52
1. RGB Parade, not luma waveform, two different color models.
2a. Undock it, freely resize it and move to a second monitor.
2b. ?
3. IRE is an analog concept. 100 IRE is equivilent to 235 YUV (analog), digital value 235 YCC and 255 in RGB. Waveforms vary, some show upto 100% on the graticule as 100 IRE others as 100% RGB or 100% YCC. Kdenlives waveform appears to showing RGB values and slightly incorrect in the low end, a value of 16 in a test file I use is appearing as 28 on the waveform, so the YCC to RGB calculation seems wrong. A YCC Luma waveform should show upto 120%. http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/video_levels_nattress.html
4. SOP/SAT effect.
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 06:23
So I am reading this thread in awe of the details on display.
As a newbie to colour correction is it true to say that a basic use of the stuff being described here be ...
1.Take video of your test card (be it White, grey, multi coloured) under the lighting conditions present.
2. Do the same thing for your next scene (under different light)
3. Get both lots of footage into kdenlive and view the test card footage with a colour scope and note the slope and location of the graph in footage A and then apply colour correction effects on footage B until the graph in the scope on that footage matchs that for footage A
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 14:57
2a. My apologies, I thought you wanted to zoom in on the RGB parade, make it larger.
So what about adding a video track as a mask using a shape or roto and inverting if necessary so the shape remains alpha so your chart shows and all around is black? Only problem, be careful with affine or composite if you have to use them as they can skew the image colors, I made a bug report a while ago.
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 16:40
Try "crop, scale and position" to zoom in on the chart.
However, I find it's UI (parameters) a bit clumsy, the scaling works from the edge (not the center) and shifts are called "tilt", and for big enlargements the shifts are not enough to bring any part in the center etc.
I tried pan&zoom too, but the scopes somehow don't change?? ***
For new shots, try to zoom in on the chart already with the camera.
Having the chart fill the frame, it is easier to identify the parts of the chart on the scopes.
Concerning point [5] above, it seems that the vectorscope, which the author used, has a "zoom in" option, this would be equivalent to chroma gain, or increased saturation.
On the Kdenlive vectorscope, you can do this using the slider on the right side.
*** playing with it some more, I found that the scopes (RGB parade and vectorscope) often do not react to the applied effects (like RGB adjust or SOPSAT), although I can see the colors change in the project monitor.
Switching to clip monitor and back seems to help...
This was with a script compile from 20130206
Compiled a new one today (20130225) Now the scopes are more responsive, but they seem to show the same signal in all three channels, R=G=B in the parade, and the vectorscope always shows a symmetric "mercedes star".
The channels on the scopes seem OK on the 20130206 version, but as I wrote above, they aren't always updated after the addition of an effect.
Disclaimer: I am compiling this on an old, heavily patched Opensuse system... although I changed nothing on the system between the two compilings above.
Mon, 02/25/2013 - 22:06
hi, the edge crop effect under crop & transform works fine for zooming in on the chart. You can control left, right, top & bottom, tick the use project resolution and you get zoom with those images.
Then the 3 point balance effect will let you sample, white, black and 18% grey for primary correction.
Tue, 02/26/2013 - 08:00
For manual correction, as in the first link (what good is....):
The signal in a channel is a product of incident light and object reflectivity. So, if the cast is the result of unbalanced light, the right thing for correcting this would be to change channel gains (the diagonal elements in the linear color transform matrix).
To do this you can either use RGB adjust, and set the mode to "multiply", or use the slope parameters in SOPSAT.
NOTE: the above is strictly true in a linear system. But a multiplication by a constant is still a multiplication with a (different) constant after applying a pure power curve, like gamma - so the above is true in a (purely) gamma corrected system too.
Now, the 709 "gamma" curve is not strictly a power curve, it has a linear section near black, to avoid excessive noise amplification. But the difference is probably small enough to not cause problems here.
Video cameras might use additional non-power curves to manage dynamic range, in that case you might be forced to adjust lows mids and highs separately, or apply appropriate curves.
P.S. apropos the first link, "what good is a macbeth color checker"...
The author works for a competing firm, so obviously he has to conclude that it's worthless :-)
Admittedly, the colors on the checker do not correspond to the markings on a vectorscope, making them less useful when using one.
But still, since the colors are specified (the link contains a link to a pdf file with the numbers), you could use them for a check, or to achieve consistency across shots. In Kdenlive, you can use the Pr0be (under misc) to read out the values. Note that in the table, the RGB values are for sRGB, which, if I remember right, corresponds to rec 601 primaries (not sure about gamma). So if you are using 709, you should transform the table.
Tue, 02/26/2013 - 09:25
re sRGB, BT Rec709 primaries and transfer.
BT601 has no defined primaries of its own, its agnostic and dependant on lines of resolution whether that be SMPTE, EBU or Rec BT709.
Vylaren, doing these Primary corrections is good to know but really if time allows it would be better to do white balance adjustment in camera before shooting video or jpgs. Not so much a concern for raw as no WB is baked in then.
Secondary 'corrections' ie grading is something else.
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 19:11
The tool you mention seems to be a "hue dependent saturation adjustment"
It could be probably done with the new "Region" feature introduced in Kdenlive 094:
which should allow selective application of an effect, exactly what is needed for secondary color corrections.
The procedure would be: (but I could not get it working yet...)
1. use the color selection effect (under alpha manipulation), set selection subspace to HCI, and set delta G/B/Chroma and delta B/I/I to maximum (this way, your selection will only depend on hue). Then choose a hue you want to affect, and adjust delta R/A/Hue to set the range of hues that you want to affect. Increase Slope if you want a softer selection.
2. Add the Saturation effect (under Colour). Open it's effect menu (The "=" symbol left of the "X" delete effect in the upper right corner) and select "create region". ** Now here the problem arises - I could not find a way to use the clip's own alpha, I guess this will be added later?
3. Adjust the saturation - only the hues selected in step 1 should be affected.
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Is any one else super excited about Photoshop's new feature to remove tripod shadows? Here is a sneak peak: http://cs5.org/?p=624
Found this site and have they some good info (videos) on new features of CS5:
I believe this will a very worthy upgrade for panoramic photographers - especially those with older version of CS.
Going to be great! Especially since I do not have to pay a dime for the upgrade.... The company I work for keeps us up to date and has since v5... If that weren't enough they allow a lot of freedom and use of work equip for personal projects
I have had the privilege of testing CS5 the other day. It has to be said that it was not the final version, but a development version, so the final one might be much better.
The Content Aware fill feature did result in very mixed results... I was not impressed. In the case of removing both eyes from a face, it might put an ear in the forehead... or the mouth or hair... changing the selected cut area just a little bit, would result in huge differences that often have nothing to do with the surrounding area.
In other images, removing a person from a background that consists of grass, gave a quick and good result. Then I downloaded a picture of a couple of elks standing in a lake, where there were trees behind and a good reflection in the water. Removed the animals and their reflection... and the result was very bad. The new reflection in the water and the trees in the background were all broken up and nothing matched.
Personally I hope that it was due to the version I tried not being the final cut, since it would help a lot to have this tool working well.
Another thing I really liked, was the way the clone stamp tool operates now. Once you have selected a point to start cloning, you can see the selected area and match it up with where you want to place it, in the brush itself (the mouse brush). This makes it very easy to fix tiled floors, bricked walls and other areas that have patterns.
Ah silly me... but I am still running on CS3 ... and haven't ever tried CS4. Never saw a huge personal need for it.
If the content aware removes a lensflare from the image, but adds half people floating in the sky as a replacement, then the justification for the purchase would not be there at all.
Let's just hope that the version I tried, was old and incomplete.
I only had my hands on for about 10 minutes, and during that short time I only tried to do what I had seen done in the demo videos. Mark an area with magjic wand or lasso or marquee, hit delete, (a dialogue box appears giving the option to apply Content Aware method) and let the program itself figure out the rest. And as stated, the results did not impress me at all. At least not as much as the videos I have seen of CS5 have managed to impress.
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My friend, aged 38, is suffering from glioblastoma multiforme for the past 2 years. He has undergone surgery, but the cancer in the brain could not be totally removed. Recently, he was diagnosed as having fluid accumulation in the brain and had another operation to remove the fluid. X-ray could not find the tumor anymore. The doctor has told my friend that the fluid in the brain is probably due to the "empty space" which was originally occupied by the tumor. The doctor mentioned that the fluid will go away and her husband should be all right. Lately, however, the fluid came back and the doctor could not explain why the fluid accumulated in the "empty space". My friend has to go to the hospital to "drain" out the fluid. This needs to be carried out every 2 months. Our questions are:
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very serious brain cancer. Unfortunately, very few adult patients with this condition are cured. Treatment usually consists of surgical resection, followed by adjuvant radiation therapy with the addition of chemotherapy in selected patients. If the tumor is completely removed prior to radiation, survival is prolonged compared to patients who have incomplete removal (International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics, 26:239-244, 1993). Even after 2 years, it is possible for the tumor to return.
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Spring is here and change is in the air, it seems. Lots of things are happening right now – good and bad. My long-term temp job at Fairview just ended last Friday so now I am unemployed again. I have a few job applications in the works, so hopefully I'll get some good news regarding those. My RA has been flaring up out of control over the last few weeks – my ankles are really painful. I've been taking 20 mg of prednisone and it doesn't seem to be working, so I'm really worried. The doctor's office is supposed to call me back today sometime. Still waiting. My knees and hands have also been bothering me somewhat so it seems RA is probably the culprit regarding my ankles. My surgery ankle (the right one) has been especially painful. I'm almost tempted to wonder if something else is wrong with it. The D.C. trip is coming up in two weeks and I just hope and pray that my ankles will calm down significantly by then. My remicade infusion is scheduled for Friday so I hope this flare-up will get better once I have that.
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What would be the significant risks of taking children between the ages of one and seven on a 4 night cruise to Cozumel (an island off the coast of Mexico) if the children have never left the U.S.?
Please elaborate:
Also, what's a "significant risk" to you?
If you'll spend most of the time aboard the cruise ship then I'd say it pretty much doesn't matter where in the world you're cruising; the risks would be essentially the same -- which is to say, negligible or identical to staying in a hotel or holiday resort.
If you'll spend most of the time in a resort on the island then food reactions are the most likely. I don't know the Caribbeans but that's a common thing for Europeans traveling to Egypt and similar countries. Food reactions are best avoided by avoiding tap water and things that have been washed in tap water (like salads etc.). A risk could also be insect bites which might be more severe than bites from insects you're used to from your home country. Again: playground injuries, theft, child abduction etc. is not what I'd call a "significant risk".
If you'll be on your own on the island I imagine that the chance of encountering a risk is higher, simply because you're more exposed to the local area: foods, tap water, insects, animals (dogs, geckos, snakes, whatever), local people.
In any case, whenever you travel to an unfamiliar country you should always check with your government's travel warnings (political unrest etc.) and health recommendations (vaccines etc.) to make sure you aren't walking into unnecessary risky situations.
Cozumel is lovely, but it can be very hot.
Sunscreen, plenty of drinks, a hat and sandals for the beach are absolutely essential.
It felt safe enough and there were plenty of families there (I stayed mostly at an all-inclusive, going on diving tours). As a tourist destination, the main threats are pick-pockets and being ripped off when buying stuff at a market.
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The Bizzell Bible Collection
Founded by William Bennett Bizzell, president of The University of Oklahoma (1925-1941), the collection of 665 Bibles includes Bibles in more than 14 languages and several incunabula (books published in the infancy of printing, before 1500), the oldest of which is a hand-painted manuscript prayer book written on vellum from the fifteenth century. Visit the Bible Collection Web site.
Carl Albert Collection
The papers of the Carl Albert Collection reveal part of the long history of Congress; the collection documents Albert, his congressional colleagues, and the major issues of political campaigns of the late 1940s to mid-1970s such as Vietnam, busing, the economy, the energy crisis and policy, gun control and Watergate. Visit the Carl Albert Collection Web site.
Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art in the American West
The Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and is home to more than 100 early prints of paintings by Charles M. Russell and contains an ever-growing collection of books, manuscripts, theses and dissertations, periodicals and journals, artist files, and slides on western American art from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Visit the Charles M. Russell Center site.
The Government Documents Collection
The Government Documents collection spans from the early nineteenth century to the most current federally produced documents. With more 2.8 million items, it is a selective depository that receives 90% of all federally disseminated documents and official publications from several international organizations including the United Nations and the European Union. Visit the Government Documents Collection Web site.
The Harry W. Bass Business History Collection
The Harry W. Bass Business History Collection contains books, microforms, videos and journals on a number of topics including the histories of business leaders and firms, and the economic, social and political forces that influence the role of business in society. Visit the Business History Collection Web site.
The History of Science Collection
The History of Science Collection is one of the largest collections of rare scientific books and documents in the United States with items such as Hrabanus Maurus' Opus de Universo (the Collection's oldest book, printed before 20 July 1467) and Galileo's handwritten corrections to one of his first editions. Visit the History of Science Collection Web site.
The John and Mary Nichols Rare Books and Special Collections
The John and Mary Nichols Rare Books and Special Collections are comprised of rare books and special materials in English, European, and American literatures dating from the fifteenth century to the present, including several first-edition works by Charles Dickens.Visit the Rare Books Collection Web site.
The Law Library Collections
The OU College of Law houses several collections including The Native People's Collection, Federal Government Depository Library Program, Native American Legal Resources, Native American Constitution and Law Digitalization Project, Rare Book Collection, and Video Collection. Visit the Law Library collections Web site.
The Orville S. Witt Collection
The Orville S. Witt Collection was established in 1946 as a memorial by the parents of Lt. Orville S. Witt Jr., an architecture student whose plane was shot down during World War II. It is a gathering of books on the subjects of the history of architecture, Bruce Goff, Mendall Glickman and Frank Lloyd Wright. Visit the Orville S. Witt Collection Web site.
Political Communication Center
The Political Communication Center houses the Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, a repository with the largest and most comprehensive collection of political broadcast advertising in the world. With more than 90,000 commercials, the archive includes political advertisements dating back to 1936 for radio and 1950 for television. The purpose of the archive is to preserve these valuable historical materials and to make them available for scholarly research and professional use. Visit the Political Communication Center Web site.
The Western History Collections
The Western History Collections is most known for its Photographic Archives, which holds more than 250,000 prints and negatives of the American Southwest and West from the period 1870-1940. The Photographic Archives include the work of frontier photographers and focuses on the themes of the growth and development of the American west, the state of Oklahoma and The University of Oklahoma. Visit the Western History Collection Web site.


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Recently, we told you about eight-month-old Jackson Blackford who was born blind because of a rare condition.
He is on his way to China to receive treatment that uses umbilical cord stem cell injections from healthy babies.
Although this isn't a new procedure, many people aren't aware that pregnant mothers even have this option because there aren't many public cord blood registries available.
We have the story of an area girl whose life was saved because of a simple donation that in many cases gets thrown away.
Take one look at nine-year-old Presley Nash in her Tae Kwon Do class, and it's hard to believe she was born with a genetic disorder that usually results in premature death.
It has been five years since she's received a life saving cord blood transplant and all she has now are happy memories.
"I get to see all my teachers and friends and run and play," Nash said.
But her grandmother Martha Houchin will never forget.
"Presley was close to death many times and I bargained and said I will educate the world about cord blood," Houchin assured.
She's an O.B. educator for The Medical Center and said it's so easy and painless to donate your baby's umbilical cord blood.
A public registry will pick it up free of charge or you can save your own through a private registry.
"The cord blood has stem cells and these stem cells can basically reproduce within the body," Houchin said.
Stem cells Presley received created an enzyme her body didn't produce on its own.
So by creating a whole new system, she is now completely free of this disease and doesn't need any medication.
Houchin said cord blood transplants are also being used for other illnesses such as leukemia, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries.
"With bone marrow, eight out of eight markers have to match, with cord blood only five have to match," she continued.
For Presley, it's another Tae Kwon Do class.
But for Martha, it's another day to spread the word and save a life.
Houchin said it takes a very small amount of blood from the umbilical cord to generate a whole new system in your body.
We have much more information on this subject here.


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Apologies if this question has already been covered somewhere in the plethora of information released in the last couple of days.
While we can vote yes/no for the defining questions of any Area 51 proposal, I also want to be able to effectively downvote an Area 51 proposal. It seems the only way to disapprove of a site is to either:
- post a comment at the top (above the question list)
- cast a positive vote for a negative comment
- just generally ignore it
I don't like the 'just ignore it' approach as that is like bitching about the result of an election when you couldn't be bothered even voting, and lack of a vote is not the same as voting against it. A site should not get to beta because 5% of the participants voted or reacted positively but the other 95% of participants could not do anything about it even if they wanted to.
Mostly the reasons I want to cast negative votes is because I feel the proposal is too broad, too narrowly defined, or is already adequately covered by an existing site.
I saw this post talking about close votes, but despite a 6K+ combined reputation I don't have an option to cast a close vote, and nor do I want to as a close vote should be distinct from a negative vote.


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What should I buy for my 100th woot? What was your 100th woot?
So I am sitting at 99 woots and I kind of want my Black Box purchase to be special. I very much doubt It will be a bag of crap (because I will want to buy stuff prior to during a woot off).
If you're over 100 woots, do you remember your 100th purchase? What was it?
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Good question ... I'm nearing the 100th myself, so I hear ya. The thing is, I've pulled this stunt off twice already ...
... so alas, I have no idea what feat of woot nerditude would be best as #100.
Wouldn't a BOC be the only way to do it?
Couldn't be anything except a flying monkey.
I'm at 69 myself and if you can get it during a woot off then that would be most ideal. Otherwise the only way to do it is by the same way you got close to 100, buying stuff you kinda need.
Mine #100 was a BOC from the May 2010 Woot-Off. Though I chalk it up to 80% fortuitous timing and only 20% master planning. It does make the milestone even more memorable.
A flying monkey would be pretty great, too.
I forget what mine was. I wish it was a milestone like a monkey, but it was probably a Flushlight.
@afurball: You bought 100 things from woot! within the span of one year? Impressive! I love woot, but I don't think I've seen 20 things a year that I would buy... Other than t shirts...
@claudicina: Yes! It's possible that I went a little overboard with the kids.woot site--gotta take care of those nephews and nieces.
But if I'm totally honest the Kids items were layered onto a substantial base of those quirky-cheapy and other Woot prime items--yes, like Flushlights & Roombas. Then topped with a decadent Wine.woot frosting, sprinkled with Shirts...and before you know it you're at 100. Or maybe just one strange-looking, nasty cake.
When I attained the coveted double black, "experts only" status, it was done with a rare shirt.woot flying monkey.
...fitting since that's where I do most my woot shopping.
♪♫ Congratulations to me, ♫♪
♪♫ Congratulations to me, ♫♪
♪♫ You'll soon be double black too, ♫♪
♪♫ It's for experts only! ♫♪
My 100th was a BOC. Hold out for it if you can. It took me a couple months to get it. My BOC was truly crappy, but worth it. You will always remember your 1st and your 100th.
Also, if there was something worth buying, just made my wife reluctantly buy it. Sad I know.
Good luck.
@afurball: Ha! So you had fun with it? Kudos! :)
Congratulations CENTURIANS! I am feng shui - ing my way to a less-mess free home and attempting NOT to reach the 100 mark but I am drawn to the race nonetheless.
i know ... lol
My 100th purchase is the BuckyCubes
Gotta go with mgscott and vote for a Bushel of Crepes.
Still have 5 more to go!
How about a muzzle for yourself.


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AG093: Clamperl of Wisdom
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Clamperl of Wisdom (Japanese: パールルとバネブー!しんじゅをさがせ! Clamperl and Spoink! Seek The Pearl!) is the 1st episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
While heading to Mossdeep City, Ash and co. notice a life preserver belonging to the Spoink they met before. The reunion is cut short as Spoink's pearl goes missing again. It lands up on an island and Ash and co. try to find Spoink's pearl. Will they find it... again, and how is it possible that a Spoink can balance a Wailmer on its head?
Episode Plot
The gang goes to Mossdeep City via a boat for Ash's next Gym battle. They spot a Spoink - the same one before - on a log floating. They immediately go to catch it and bring it on the ship. Spoink bounces being happy, but trips and its pearl falls into sea. They are amazed when Spoink lost the pearl - twice. Spoink sees a ball and places it on its head, but Ash removes it. Torkoal cries and goes in water to get the pearl back, but sinks. Ash goes in to save him. May thinks it was cute that Torkoal wanted to save the pearl. Ash sends Coprhish and Brock Mudkip to help in the search. Max thinks Lombre should also be sent, so Brock does it, but Lombre just swims.
Corphish and Mudkip return with no pearl. They go to the shore of an island, sad when they have no idea where to search. A boy runs with an Azurill and Spoink places it on its head. The gang removes Azurill, but Spoink places more Pokémon - even a Wailmer. A man arrives, seeing Spoink lost its pearl, so gives them help. He thinks a Clamperl will help them. The man introduces himself as Isaiah. He shows them the Clamperl, saying Clamperls make the pearls which can Spoink use on top of its head. However, none of the Clamperl have a pearl yet. Spoink bounces, seeing a blue pearl. Isaiah has no idea how it is made, but bets that he will discover soon enough.
They go on the beach, trying to get the pearl from a Clamperl. Spoink uses Psychic to put a Shroomish on its head, but May takes it and gives it to a little girl whom Shroomish belonged to. Team Rocket arrive in the lab, while Meowth imagines the boss with the pearl. As about Jessie is to take the pearl, Spoink places it on its head and bounces away. The gang hears the alarm, so they go inside. Team Rocket, dressed as janitors, explain that Spoink gone off with the pearl. Ash sends Swellow and May Beautifly to search for Spoink and the pearl. The gang also splits to search. Meowth thinks both the pearl and Spoink should be given to the boss.
Spoink bounces and the children with the Shroomish and Azurill come, hiding their Pokémon. Spoink trips over and the pearl is deflected from rock to rock, until it reaches a Clamperl. The blue replaces a pink one and the pink one deflects to Spoink. Beautifly returns and leads the gang to Spoink. They see that the blue has been replaced with a pink one. The children tell them what happened to the blue pearl. They go to the site, while Team Rocket overhears them. They arrive, but see Clamperl being encased in its shell. Clamperl's shell opens, so May negotiates with Clamperl. She succeeds, but a smoke bomb explodes - Team Rocket arrives.
Jessie sends Seviper and Ash his Torkoal. Seviper goes to bite, but fails when Torkoal used Iron Defense. Torkoal attacks with Flamethrower, but Seviper dodges. Seviper uses Haze, dimming the vision. Team Rocket goes away, with Clamperl inside the bag. Afterwards, Clamperl's shell opens, revealing to Team Rocket the shiny pearl. Clamperl's shell closes, so James goes to open, but fails. Meowth tells them Clamperl needs to be talked to. They begin to brag about Clamperl, but nothing happiness. Meowth thinks that boss will be annoyed by Clamperl as a present, so realizes they should tickle Clamperl. Clamperl's shell opens, so Meowth tickles it more, but his tail is being closed, along with the shell.
Afterwards, Clamperl's shell opens, but closes soon after. James thinks of an idea - he sends Chimecho and tells it to sing for Clamperl. However, Clamperl's shell does not open, angering Jessie. Jessie begins to talk to Clamperl, but uses Water Gun, pushing her. Swellow spots Team Rocket and leads the gang to them. Team Rocket try to use sticks to open the shell, but the gang encounters them. Spoink uses Psychic, pushing Team Rocket. Jessie sends Dustox and James Cacnea and Ash Grovyle. Dustox goes to tackle, but the attack is negated by Grovyle's Quick Attack. Cacnea uses Pin Missile on Clamperl, though the attack is stopped by Spoink's Psychic. Grovyle attacks with Bullet Seed, hurting Dustox. Spoink uses Psybeam, hurting Cacnea.
Dustox uses Poison Sting, but misses, so Grovyle counter-attacks with Leaf Blade, damaging Dustox. Cacnea uses Needle Arm, but is pushed by Spoink's Psybeam. Clamperl uses Hydro Pump, blasting Team Rocket off. Ash says to Clamperl that Isaiah needs the pearl. Spoink gives its pearl to Clamperl for the blue pearl. However, Spoink is sad when it does not have its pearl, but Clamperl decides to give its pearl to Spoink. Spoink places on its head the pearl and bounces happily.
- From this episode, a question will be asked - which attacks are effective against a Pokémon.
- Featured Pokémon: Seedot, Ludicolo, Lapras
- Also, from this episode, the gang's current location is not shown on the map when the name is displayed. Instead, the number of May's ribbons and Ash's badges are seen.


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Where Aren't They Now? 13 Overlooked Deaths of 2012
#6. June 2 -- The Family Feud Kisser
Game show host Richard Dawson.
Esophageal cancer.
The Legacy:
While your grandparents might remember Dawson for his turn as Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes, your parents (and you, if you're old enough) probably remember Dawson from Family Feud reruns -- he was the host who lip-assaulted all the lady contestants.
He also played the game show host in The Running Man, if that helps.
In a 2010 interview, Dawson said that the barely consensual kissathon started early on in his Feud career, when he saw a woman shaking as she tried to come up with the name of a green vegetable: "I said, 'I'm gonna do something that my mom would do to me whenever I had a problem of any kind ... And I kissed her on the cheek, and I said, 'That's for luck.' And she said, 'Asparagus.' ... They went on to win."
One of those smooches actually led to a marriage between Dawson and a contestant. Can you imagine delivering a kiss so memorable that Richard "The Man Whore" Dawson picked you for his wife? Can you imagine it without shuddering?
#5. June 12 -- A Real Goodfella
The real-life Henry Hill, the New York City mobster who would later be played by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.
Complications from longtime heart problems related to smoking (among other things).
The Legacy:
Thanks to Henry Hill and the movie inspired by his biography, Goodfellas, we learned that you should never tell a short Italian man with a bad temper that he's funny, that "Layla" is by far the best Derek and the Dominos song to find a corpse to, and oh hey -- don't get involved in organized crime. It's just not worth it.
For those who never saw the movie, Hill was a mafioso who snitched to the government after his own drug bust in 1980. His testimony led to the convictions of 50 fellow wiseguys, all of whom would put Hill's head on a platter if they could.
So how did Henry Hill stay out of trouble for the next 32 years? He didn't. He was expelled from the witness protection program thanks to his continued drug use and behavior issues stemming from alcoholism. It probably didn't help that anonymity was like kryptonite to a guy like Henry Hill.
#4. June 24 -- The Baddest Badass You Never Knew
Gad Beck, gay Holocaust survivor.
Natural causes.
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Imagine the worst possible scenario to be in in the history of bad scenarios. Did you pick being a gay Jewish man living in Nazi Germany? Because if not, we'd like to know what the hell it was.
Had Gad Beck been born about 20 years earlier, he would have enjoyed one of the most liberal, gay-friendly eras in Germany's history up to that point. Unfortunately, the Nazis started targeting homosexuals just about the time that Beck figured out that he liked men. Still, love prevailed and Beck found a boyfriend. Who was also Jewish. Who was, sure enough, snatched up by the Nazis.
Here's where things get amazing. Beck borrowed a Hitler Youth uniform from a neighbor, walked up to the temporary holding area where his boyfriend was held, and convinced the officer in charge that the young man was needed for a building project. And the guy believed him! Beck and his boyfriend walked right out the door, free as birds. Except Beck's boyfriend was just a teenager, like him, and leaving his family forever didn't sit well with him, so he went back. He and his family were later sent to Auschwitz.
That was the experience that shaped the rest of Beck's life -- one as the leader of a resistance movement that sheltered and transported Jews all over Europe, as a fighter in Israel's war for independence, and as the eventual director of Berlin's Center for Adult Education. Throughout it all, Beck kept his head in check. After getting invited to ride in New York's pride parade, he said, "Look, if I am a hero, I am a little one. Everyone has to fight sometime in their life."
#3. June 24 -- The Rarest Creature in the World
Lonesome George, the very last Pinta Island tortoise.
Heart failure related to old age.
The Legacy:
At one point, there were so many gargantutortoises clogging up George's island home that it was actually nicknamed the Isles of the Tortoises. Since then, pirates slaughtered the animals for their meat and hunters decided that tortoise oil was good for lamps. Before you knew it, only George, the 200-pound, 100-year-old tortoise, was left. And it turns out that being the last of your kind is a huge negative in the sex department. George's minders were so desperate for baby Georges that they offered a $10,000 reward for a lady-George, matchmaking him with four similar breeds of tortoise. No dice.
Farewell to the world's most expensive tortoise whore. You'll be missed.
#2. August 23 -- The Count
Jerry Nelson, puppeteer best known for voicing the Count, Floyd Pepper, Gobo Fraggle, and Camilla the Chicken, and the first performer of Mr. Snuffleupagus.
The Legacy:
For over 40 years, Jerry Nelson voiced the world's most beloved vampire besides Blacula. Counting is to the Count Von Count as orgasms are to women -- he can't get enough. And as little children, we all loved watching him annoy the shit out of the other Sesame Street denizens when he followed every number with a "Ha. Ha. Ha." Who among us hasn't done the same while eating individual spaghetti noodles or counting ambulances on their way to a tragic emergency?
A lesser publication would use this opportunity to make a hilarious number joke, but God help us, we wouldn't know how to count past six if it wasn't for Nelson. So we're hoping that he's enjoying that big math castle in the sky right now.
#1. September 10 -- TV Bad Guy to End All TV Bad Guys
Lance LeGault, who played more villains than Alan Rickman.
Not specified, but he was 77. Let's say he was trying to ramp a motorcycle over something. Why not?
The Legacy:
If you watched TV in the '80s, and one of the TV shows you watched had like a bad guy who was in the military -- congratulations! You know who Lance LeGault is.
LeGault played bad guy Colonel Decker in The A-Team. He played bad guy Colonel "Buck" Greene in Magnum, P.I. He played three DIFFERENT bad guys in Airwolf. He was even bad guy Colonel Glass in Stripes. He worked with John Candy, Tom Selleck, and Mr. T. Does it get any better? It does -- LeGault actually started out as Elvis' stunt double and is famously known for having a voice "four octaves lower than God's."
"Let's skip the bullshit, Captain."
He also appeared in the original Battlestar Galactica, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers, T.J. Hooker, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and, of course, MacGyver.
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