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5 Innovative Ways Hollywood Is Screwing You Over
Ah, Hollywood. Where the magic happens.
And by "magic," we usually mean overpriced crap homogenized to death by market studies. It turns out the dream factory that is the film industry is a business after all, and one with the kind of greed that puts Microsoft to shame.
Here are five of the new, innovative ways that they're screwing us over.
#5. Double-Dipping DVDs
There are sometimes genuinely good reasons to issue a special edition DVD. The technology has improved, so there's no question DVDs released today often have image quality that was almost unthinkable when the format first appeared. So we're always happy for a cleaned-up edition, especially if the original was released back in the early days of the format when you considered it a special feature if you got a plastic DVD case instead of a cardboard one.
More often than not, though, studios will rerelease for any goddamn thing, often tacking on just enough "extras" to give them an excuse to slap on a new cover with a gold or silver bar at the top. A prime offender is Sony Home Video, which apparently can't be bothered to rerelease classic films like The Shop Around the Corner or His Girl Friday but are more than happy to crap out four different editions of Resident Evil.
This movie has been released on DVD more times than Citizen Kane.
Better Get Used to it...
As the profits continue to shift from theatrical to the home market, studios will keep finding reasons to do this. It doesn't help that we keep buying them, apparently on the wistful hope that a new picture on the cover will somehow make Resident Evil something other than terrible.
Just to rub it in our faces, a Miramax exec admitted they intentionally put out separate DVDs for each of the two Kill Bill volumes, saying:
"'Vol. 1' goes out, 'Vol. 2' goes out, then 'Vol. 1 Special Edition,' 'Vol. 2 Special Edition,' the two-pack, then the Tarantino collection as a boxed set for Christmas," he said. "It's called multiple bites at the apple."
Multiple bites. That Resident Evil "apple" must be a freakin' core by now.
#4. Ads in Front of Movies
Television has had a long-standing unspoken agreement with the viewer: It shows you programs you like, and you in return ignore the ads that interrupt your enjoyment to go to the bathroom, flip around or--these days--fast-forward through them.
Advertisers have never been happy with that "ignore" part of the equation, and one day some enterprising ad executive looked at movie theater, saw how all of the viewers are basically forced to watch whatever comes on the screen with no option to change the channel, and came up with a truly evil idea.
"They're like a bunch of prisoners..."
They'd take the same ads you found too annoying to watch on TV, and project them in the theater! No changing the channel or fast-forwarding, and you often can't get up without fear of losing your seat. This would be the same seat you paid ten bucks for.
Theater chains were happy to take the money, figuring a little annoyance of their loyal customers was more than worth it to add another revenue stream.
Better Get Used to it...
And what a revenue stream it is. They've now got about 400 million reasons a year to keep running the ads, and that number is growing fast. Some markets have fifteen minutes worth of ads before the trailers (which are, you know, more ads).
The biggest chains (Regal Cinemas, Cinemark and AMC) have actually teamed up to form National CineMedia to maximize the sweet, sweet ad revenue. The only thing left is to stop the movie half way through so they can run more ads.
Now, in case you thought we were trying to make the theaters out to be the bad guys in this situation, one reason they got on board with this was due to...
#3. Hollywood Squeezing Theaters for Every Dime
Hollywood has the major theater chains over a barrel, and they've been going all Deliverance on them for about two decades now. Pretty much every single thing you hate about the movie-going experience that doesn't involve some jerk on his cell phone can be attributed to this prison-bitch relationship dynamic.
This is why popcorn is like seven bucks a box. Yes ticket prices are ridiculous, but the movie theaters have to forward most of that money on to the studios.
A typical Hollywood executive.
The way it works is the studios have front-loaded deals, so that for the first weekend, up to 75% of box office has to be paid to the studio (Star Wars: Episode I infamously demanded 90% up front). Then each weekend thereafter it drops 10% (meaning the theater gets to keep more of the money as the movie plays).
You see why it's a terrible deal when you realize movies make most of their money in the first couple of weeks. So the studio cashes in during that early period when fans are seeing it based on the awesome trailer, and then the theaters are left with the crumbs when word of mouth informs everyone it's a turdburger.
Better Get Used to it...
As DVD sales have risen, theater attendance has sunk like a rock. So they have to keep afloat somehow, and that means inflated concession prices, the aforementioned commercials and those stupid slides before the movie starts. (See chart)
And through all of that, the studios still have all of the power in the relationship. Their product (that is, the movies) is the only thing that gets people into theaters. The chains don't have much choice but to sign the deal and go scraping for revenue elsewhere. They get screwed, so the theaters have no one left to screw but you, the customer, forming one big daisy-chain of screwing.
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New Hub feature: Server snapshotsAlon Swartz - Wed, 2012/04/04 - 16:56 - 8 comments | Latest by Mark
I usually get excited when adding new features to the TurnKey Hub. Recent excitement included server monitoring, reserved instances, domain management, and the Hub API.
I'm very excited about todays annoucement, not only is it awesomely useful, it's also technically cool!
So what are snapshots?
I'm sure you can guess, but let me explain anyway.
Snapshots can be used with EBS-backed instances to create point-in-time snapshots of the root filesystem, which are persisted to Amazon S3 for storage durability. Snapshots are incremental, meaning that only changes since the last snapshot are saved, taking up less storage, time, and reducing costs (see below for technical details).
Snapshots ask Amazon's fiber-optic storage backplane to save your server's disk state while it's running without impacting performance.
Ok, but what can I do with them?
Server clones
Snapshots can be used as the basis for a new server, essentially creating a clone (the cloud server equivalent of a time machine crossed with a portal to a less obnoxious alternative dimension), for example:
- You can clone a production server to create a staging enviroment for testing new features, hacking away, whatever, without the worry of hosing your production server (guess how I tested this new feature).
- You can essentially upgrade your servers hardware if you need the extra horse power, memory or even disk space. Say you were testing an idea with a micro instance, and now its taking off. Firstly congrats, secondly just clone the micro's latest snapshot to a larger instance size and update the DNS record / re-associate the elastic IP.
- Let you're imagination run wild!
EBS Volumes
Snapshots can be used as a starting point for a new EBS volume, for example:
- You mistakenly deleted a file, hosed your database, or whatever bad thing that can happen. You create a volume from the snapshot of your choice, attach it to your instance (which is auto-mounted via ebsmount) and access the data you need.
- Again, let you're imagination run wild!
Can I schedule automatic snapshots?
You sure can! You can schedule automatic zero-load server snapshots for hourly, daily, weekly and monthly frequency, or manually create one at anytime.
There is however a snapshot limit per Amazon account, per region, so when configuring automatic scheduled snapshots, snapshot retention is also configurable to prune old snapshots, keeping you within the limit and saving you money.
Sounds cool, what does it look like?
We've added 2 new fields to the server record:
And this is the snapshot dashboard:
Are there any limitations?
Snapshots only support EBS-backed instances, and not S3-backed instances. This is a technical limitation as snapshots are performed on the EBS-backed root volume, which S3-backed instance do not have.
Snapshots are saved to S3 storage, but they will not appear in your S3 buckets, nor can you access them using the standard S3 API. To access snapshot data you need to create an EBS volume or a server clone.
As mentioned above, there is a limit of the amount of snapshots each Amazon account can have, but you can request to increase your limit (specify you want the snapshots limit increased in the comments.)
Data consistency: Do not solely rely on snapshots for backups, as they may become inconsistent due to disk-buffering and locking. We use TKLBAM for our backups, and suggest you do the same.
Technical details - snapshots explained
I mentioned that snapshots are technically cool, and that they are incremental - let me try and explain what that means at how it works behind the scenes.
A snapshot of an EBS volume can be taken at anytime, which asks Amazon's fiber-optic storage backplane to save the data stored on the volume, at the block level, at that exact point-in-time, to S3 storage.
To improve performance and reduce storage space, Amazon will only copy the blocks of the volume that have changed since your last snapshot - hence incremental.
Now for the extra cool part, unlike regular incremental backup chains, you can delete any previous snapshot. Huh? What? Yep, snapshots are not chained, but are rather conceptually like a table-of-contents of pointers to saved data blocks.
When you delete a snapshot, only the data blocks that are solely used by that specific snapshot are deleted. Data blocks that are used by subsequent snapshots are not. In the below illustration, if SNAP-B is deleted, only SNAP-B:block-2 will be deleted from Amazon S3 as a newer version (SNAP-C:block-2) has already been saved.
Bottom line, take snapshots for a spin and let us know what you think.
Nice one Alon!
Looks good mate. Another nice complement to the TKL/Hub lineup!
Very Interesting.. I use these in ESXI and will be great here!
I need to spend some time testing this... I ran a snapshot yesterday then tried to build a new Cloud but I think I missed some elements... Once I get the method down though I expect it will be extremely helpful.. I already noticed how fast this will build a new server.
As always, learning the protocol is where to start.
Thanks for the hard work!
Slightly different process but able to build new server frm Snap
In VMware you "revert" to a Snapshot. In TKL Hub, you build a new server from snapshot.
ONe command then needs to be issued.
IP Address generally needs to be reassigned.
it works,,, or did so today anyway quite nicely.
Benefits over TKLBAM
I have just read through very quickly and either I have missed soimething or I am thick - aside from ease of use what is the benefit over TKLBAM?
Also is Postgres supported from snapshots?
Chris Musty
Specialised Technologies
From my understanding
This new 'snapshot' feature is fundamentally different to TKLBAM in that it is a whole filesystem image (think 'snapshot' in VBox or VMware) and thus PostgreSQL (and any end user modifications/inclusions/exclusions) are supported without any technical knowledge or tweaking required.
So whilst it's not a replacement for TKLBAM it could be an easy way to 'clone' existing instances and/or revert to a previous state. I guess one downside would be that the size would be significantly larger (compared to TKLBAM). One obvious upside (as mentioned above) is that server customisations are included without need to tweak anything.
Snapshot Vs backup
I have some questions that may be not related to the topic discusses here, but as per my understanding anyone who follow this blog, would be interested to know the answers of these questions. So firstly I would ask sorry to take the conversation in different direction.
As I understand, Snapshots are point-in-time copy of data that you have on disk, and backups are exact copy of data on disk (that must be point-in-time for some point of time). Snapshot storage take very less space in backup media and backup disk take very large space( About equal amount of space of data) in backup media. So Why don't we use snapshot as a replace of backup? Using this we can save a lot of space in backup media as well the time taken in backing up and restoring data from backup will be saved.
I am new to backup and storage concepts, so if I did missed any concept regarding backup and snapshot then I pardon sorry.
Abhinav Chittora
You've got it around the wrong way...
Snapshots are whole of disk. TKLBAM backups are req'd data only (and thus much smaller). Both snapshots and TKLBAM backups can be incremental (ie just save the changes between the original backup and the current machine state).
That is why snapshots aren't a replacement for backups! Although snapshots can be very handy, they are not a replacement IMO.
Still true?
I've rarely used snapshots due to the warning in the write-up:
Data consistency: Do not solely rely on snapshots for backups, as they may become inconsistent due to disk-buffering and locking. We use TKLBAM for our backups, and suggest you do the same.
I use TKLBAM for backups and to "restore to a new server".
Snapshots seem like a great way to clone a server, but if a snapshot can be "inconsistent", how is it suitable for cloning?
For those that use snapshots, what's your experience?


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So in this episode, Ezri Dax sleeps with Worf. Since Worf was married to Jadzia Dax, Wouldn't that mean that Ezri has violated the Trill taboo against re-association, as seen in "Rejoined"? Yet no mention is ever made of this, even in an "I know it's against the rules but I don't care" kind of way.
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Learning : How does Ext JS listen/attach listeners before component creation
According to the MVC Application Architecture, the controller's init method is called before the launch() method of the Application is called. In the same tutorial, the component is created in the launch() method, where as the init() method calls the control() method of the Controller classand starts listening to the events before the components are created . How does Ext JS hold the events before and then attach the events to the appropriate components after the components are created?
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I used to think it was flawed too, until someone pointed out that it's evaluated at the time of the event.
Have a look at the Ext.app.EventBus class.Product Architect
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Yes, I did go through that class earlier too. From what I understood, they seem to have reversed it. Instead of looping through the handlers attached to the events on a component, they loop through all the selectors defined in all the controllers that are bound to the event and then fire the matching handlers.
I wonder if my understanding is correct.


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MCB promotions, returning dancers, and departing dancers2012-2013 season
Posted 22 March 2012 - 03:55 PM
Callie Manning- Principal Soloist
Kleber Rebello- Principal Soloist
Renan Cerdeiro- Principal Soloist
Chloe Freytag- Corps de Ballet
Lexie Overholt- Corps de Ballet
Kara White- Corps de Ballet
Now, how about some promotions to soloist? Zoe Zien? Leigh-Ann Esty?
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Congratulations to all!
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(A momentary detour: Ms. Zien is the April 2012 dancer selected for the "Dancer's Choice" feature in Dance Magazine.)
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Ms. Zien is the April 2012 dancer selected for the "Dancer's Choice" feature in Dance Magazine.)
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Next season's roster has been updated on the website. Michael Sean Breeden and Neil Marshall return as members of the corps, while Jeremy Cox and Katia Carranza, who had both been acting as periodic guest principals, are gone.
Cox was gone and apparently had been back-(although I didn't get to see him dance after his "return"). Carranza was pretty much gone for a while now...
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Principals are down from 12 to 10. This gives some room for promotions (or new hires) during the season ... one hopes. I'll never lose my fond memories of Katia Carranza. For the past few seasons, she has split her dancing responsibilities between MCB and Monterey Ballet (Mexico), headed by her husband Luis Serrano, a former MCB principal. Her departure from Miami is MCB's loss but Ballet de Monterey's gain.
The Principal Soloist category is being beefed up, from 1 to 4. Callie Manning (a long overdue promotion, imo) joins her husband Didier Bramaz in this ranking. Kleber Rebello and Renan Cedeiro, both of whom are dancing major principal roles already, join them.
Soloists are down two two -- Sara Esty and Jennifer Lauren. I hope this also allows for possible promotions during the season.
Corps is expanded from 23 to 26. Chloe Freytag, Lexie Overholt, and Kara White, Company Apprentices this season, are moving up. (I'm sad not to see Jovani Furlan, a talented dancer who comes to life on stage among joining them.) All the apprentices have been working quite hard this year, especially in Giselle and Coppelia, and seem integrated into the company already.
The return of Breedon and Marshall is VERY GOOD NEWS. I missed them
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 05:49 AM
The return of Breedon and Marshall is VERY GOOD NEWS. I missed them
Yes indeed, bart, specially Breedon. I remember him with much pleasure as the lead of Valse Fantaisie.
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Police seized methamphetamine, tools and electronics valued over $10,000 from a Nebraska City apartment Wednesday.
The apartment occupant, 52-year-old Brett Huss, was detained by police near the apartment before the search was conducted.
Police Cpt. Lonnie Neeman said methamphetamine with a street value of $8,000 was found inside of the residence, along with marijuana and paraphernalia.
A variety of tools, a safe, winch, anvils, televisions, car radio, tool boxes and an Xbox 360 were also seized.
"We don't know how much of it is stolen, but we know some of it is," Neeman said.
He said Huss has previously upgraded a house and some of the tools may be his.
The Xbox 360 with Star Wars package is brand new and has never been out of the box.
Neeman said the game matches the serial number of a game that was reported stolen.
Police are contacting victims of dozens of shed burglaries and car thefts over the last eight months in an attempt to identify stolen property.
Cpt. Neeman said he does not suspect that Huss, who lived alone in the apartment, for theft by taking.
"These things may have been traded for drugs," he said.
An investigation by police and the Nebraska State Patrol resulted in the search warrant.
Neeman said it doesn't take a large quantity of methamphetamine for a street value of $8,000. The meth taken fits into a single evidence bag.
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30 Day Free Trial to Blockbuster Total Access (DVDs, Blu-Rays, & Games) for $0 + free shipping
Did Rocky stay down? Did Rambo give up? HELL, NO
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Is the great Blockbuster down vote of 2011 going to repeat itself?
I live in a major urban area. The nearest Blockbuster which could use this membership is 7 miles away. So in store exchange is kinda a joke now.
That said, they are reasonably good about cancelling memberships - if you've got kids home for the summer, jump on this to feed their game machines. Make a weekly trip to swap out games, and you'll likely never see your kids otherwise for the entire summer!
"Did Rocky stay down? Did Rambo give up? HELL, NO"
Woot, you're hilarious. Let the downvotes begin!
Am i the only person left on this green earth with a Blockbuster still in walking distance? They're actually pretty decent, too.... if i had time to watch movies any more. ;__;
My Blockbuster is clearly the last Highlander.
All together now: "It's not a deal if it's the standard offer..."
All the Blockbusters around here closed anyway. Used to have 4 within about 5 miles.
@tsfisch: I know the feeling. All the stores in our area are gone. We had a Blockbuster Express kiosk at a nearby grocery store, but the store that had it put up a sign saying they were getting rid of it. Nobody wants Blockbuster it seems.
Am I the only one that saw that it says "free shipping"? I assume you don't have to have one near you.
This is not the same company as the Blockbuster stores..........not that it matters
@harmony46: It does matter, since part of the "benefit" of doing this over Netflix was that you could also get movies in-store.
I used the Blockbuster service for years and it was great. In its prime, Blockbuster was much better than Netflix. But Blockbuster is past its prime and this service is now dreadful. I would have continued to subscribe just for the convenience if they could have simply maintained mediocre service. It seemed like every other month BB removed a perk and now I'm subscription free. RIP Blockbuster.
I remember checking this service out online a few months ago to see how their selection compared to Netflix. I was surprised by just how many movies they had...that I had NEVER heard of. It's like they signed a deal to own ALL the direct to dvd movies that never should have existed.
I cancelled my Netflix account awhile ago and tried Blockbuster Online. Im really happy with the service and have had it for a couple years now. I am on the 3 disk package. Blu-Rays are not an additional cost like the other guys. Blockbuster selection is far bigger than Netflix, just look up a animated Disney movie on Netflix and you will see what I am talking about. And renting Video games is a nice option. Trade in at stores is really nice. But you can only trade one time per mailed disk, oh and it REQUIRES you to have the mail in envelope to trade in store.
I don't know why people rag on Blockbuster. Yea they a few bad years but they got bought out by Dish Network.
Blockbuster is now own by Dish Network so you can expect HORRIBLE customer service and guaranteed mistreatment of their employees.
i quit blockbuster when they took their apps off of vizio tvs. and their store is closing so no exchanges. Horrible company
Hey, I got lucky # 222 !
Should play lottery with this number.
I feel like Blockbuster has always been out to screw their customers, with one ridiculous fee after another, that was their whole business model. This is why it was so easy for Netflix to obliterate them, and for Redbox put the last nail in their coffin. They have not had a fresh idea since the 80's and copied the services offered by Netflix and Redbox to hope and stay alive. I say "no thanks".
There are a few movies I dont mind skipping the wait time for ... So I signed up ... what a cluggy website ... Holy crap most titles dont even have a summary of what they are about unless you click on it
I must also be one of the few people who gets to enjoy having an actual Blockbuster store in town (one mile away from my house). I go there several times a week and really enjoy interacting with actual people and discussing films. The employees seem to like their jobs and are friendly (they know me by name and ask my opinion on movies I'm returning.
Blockbuster lost my business years ago with terrible customer service.
Do NOT go with blockbuster for games. I made the mistake of trying it out a couple months ago only to find out that they have a self-imposed 100 day wait before new games are available. That means that by the time blockbuster has a game available for rent it is already 3 months old. In the gaming world that is ancient. If you sell a game that is 3 months old you will be lucky to get $10 for it.
When I called customer service to find out why they said it was so that they could 'build up supply'. They don't do this with movies and furthermore gamefly seems to have no problem with supply.
I had the subscription for literally less than 15 minutes. I didn't even want the free trial because I wouldn't be able to get anything but old games.
I have the in-store exchange unlimited plan with them, there was one walking distance from my house, but then I moved and then it closed, now the one I go to is about 3 miles away. They are all very nice and helpful there and I can bring in as many mail envelopes as I get and get a new release, which by the way netflix and redbox do not have. But, yes, this is always the deal making it not a deal.
@tomrdcinc: Blockbuster total access and Blockbuster stores ARE the same company. You are perhaps thinking of the Blockbuster Express kiosks, which are NOT part of the same company -- they licensed off the use of the "Blockbuster" brand name to a third party for those.
@tsfisch: Ok, I am one of the few who upvoted for this..lol My logic is the following, even if it is a standard promotion being offered by Blockbuster, I didn't know about it and so don't mind finding it on WOOT.


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Bill Hill: Digital Democracy and the Declaration of Digital Independence
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CplCarrot wrote:A new definition of frustration: Seeing a video you want to watch but finding that the global caching systems wont serve it up to you
I can download it which at the Channel 9 Ultra HD size will take 2 Hrs + or wait for the caches to catch up. FRUSTRATING.
Great video, thanks. Favourite quote:
"If you were the Bill Gates of the 15th century, you might have had twelve books."
I really enjoyed this video, Bill Hill is great.
Great video.
One thing I would like Bill to comment on is a recent post here that linked to an article that insinuated that MS's screen text display technologies (hinting, ClearType) are holding back the need for high-DPI displays. Any chance Bill is reading this and would care to give his thoughts on that?
I also have to disagree with his assertion that eBooks were a success. Technologically, sure, but as someone who reads a lot of eBooks on my PocketPC, certainly not from an acceptance point of view. My current approach tends to be to buy a book in paper form, then download an illegal eBook version, because more often than not the books I want aren't legally available as eBooks. That's a shame I think.
It's also something I've noticed here in Japan. Japanese people basically do one out of three things when they're in a train: sleep, read or play with their mobile phone. Even my phone, which is pretty much the cheapest phone you can get in Japan, has a high resolution display, it has eBook capability and I can even read comics on them. But they don't do it. When they're reading in the train, they use books (Japanese books seem to be made so you can easily read them with just one hand). When they're using their mobile, they're either playing a game or they're sending e-mails, they're not using them to read. Why is that?
A lot of the resistent towards moving newspapers, magazines, books, etc over to a digital distribution and reading environment comes from the same kind of resistence that Bill was talking about. There are still a lot of film photographers who believe that
digital will never equal film. I'm sure that there were a lot of scribes and copyists who resisted the printing press.
There has always been the problem of the established technologies fighting against the new stuff. This usually seems to be because of their perception of the new technology. Often they see a transition to new technology as being too difficult, too expensive, when it isn't any of those things.
I do some amature photography, and I hang out at a couple of photography websites. There are a lot of professional photographers (not artists, but people who do weddings, portraits, etc...) who use film. Many of them don't want to use digital because they feel that it is too expensive and too complicated. Yet, those who use digital feel that film is too expensive and too complicated. Who is right? Ultimately neither is correct. Both mediums end up being about the same price in equipment and time. However, the real value of a digital workflow comes from being opened up to a universe of possibilities beyond anything film offers.
Another reason why supporters of older technologies don't like newer ways of doing things is that they new ways are generally easier. Yes, they resist the democratization of media. Going back to the subject of photography, try going to a photography forum and reading what the film based photographers have to say. Many of them despise the idea of digital, because digital technology has made it possible for anyone to take photos and manipulate them into perfection. Digital has taken away the mystique of photography. Most PHD (Push Here Dummy) cameras can take great pictures without messing with shutter speed, aperature etc. Also the price of digital has basically put a powerful DSLR into the hands of anyone who wants one (me included). There are hundreds more silly reasons that some of these old fogeys give, so I won't list them all here. However, you can easily imagine ancient scribes ranting about the printing press making it so anybody could make a book.
The same principle can be applied to print vs. digital. Bill really nailed the non-challenge of digital publishing, and why people are slow to adopt.
I'm with Sven. Ebooks are a wonderful concept, but thus far they have been a failure. I think that part of the reason is that right now there is a lot of Not-Invented-Here going around. There is lots of hardware, and lots of eBook formats. It's probably going to take a while for the dust to settle.
On the topic of eBooks, if Bill does happen to read this thread and for anybody else who reads eBooks: What ebook format/software would you recommend for various form factors? Obviously the best solution is going to allow you to buy one file and use it on any platform you want. Who's the best?
eagle wrote:Bill has obviously never been to the C9 coffeehouse where anonymous trolls and gremlins with multi aviators are reinforced by the C9 Team.
kettch wrote:On the topic of eBooks, if Bill does happen to read this thread and for anybody else who reads eBooks: What ebook format/software would you recommend for various form factors? Obviously the best solution is going to allow you to buy one file and use it on any platform you want. Who's the best?
Sven Groot wrote:
kettch wrote:
On the topic of eBooks, if Bill does happen to read this thread and for anybody else who reads eBooks: What ebook format/software would you recommend for various form factors? Obviously the best solution is going to allow you to buy one file and use it on any platform you want. Who's the best?
On the PocketPC, I prefer Microsoft Reader. Nice, legible text, all you need to use while reading is the "right" button to go to the next page, and it remembers where you were.
Quite the reverse, I think. ClearType will make it possible to give us all the resolution we need nfor human vision - without requiring crazy graphics processing.
Here's my reasoning (which I've been evangelizing inside Microsoft for some time).
Human visual acuity is about 600ppi.
However, to go from ~100ppi screens today to 600ppi hardware means 36 times as much graphics processing (n-squared # of pixels).
ClearType, however, by using the RGB subpixel triad, is a multiplier.
So I have a 204ppi display in my office. With ClearType, it's as good as the best printed magazine. (forget the ultra-high-res imagesetting they use, that's really only required because the printing process is so lossy)
Now, you can see how my screen could be made the tiniest bit better. But the cost of producing a screen that good, plus the graphics processing you'd need, puts you squarely into the Law of Dimishing Returns part of the curve. What I mean is, you can throw lots more in, but you get only tiny advances in quality out.
That screen, from IBM, was a great purchase if you really need that much resolution for research. But it went on sale at $20,000, and even after several years never got below $6000.
I believe a great compromise resolution is 180ppi + ClearType. That will give great text, not only for Latin-based languages, but East Asian languages like Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
That's not too far above the 147ppi Dell's been shipping in Inspiron laptops for about eight years. So that's quite a reasonable step for the hardware folks to take.
The real issue that's been holding back high-resolution displays is not ClearType.
Website designers, and applications vendors (and Windows) have been assuming forever that all screens were about 96ppi.
There are fixed pixel dimensions built into everything - websites, applications dialogs, etc etc. So, while text scales well, it often gets clipped. Or a website only take up one-quarter of the display on my 204ppi display because it's been designed for 1000 pixels wide, and my screen in 3840 x 2400...
All of these things have to become resolution-independent. That means a lot of work by everyone. Line-of-business applications have the the same challenges.
I have to say, the best-behaved application (or really, set of applications) at high dpi, is Microsoft Office. Since Office 2003 they've had full support for high resolution. So on my display it behaves perfectly, whether I'm using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or anything else. The Office team did a great job, especially given the complexity of their task, with so many applications to rev. I really take my nhat off to those guys for showing the way.
So don't blame ClearType for holding back improved resolution. We're at the forefront of the push!
It's a big, complex ecosystem and can't be changed overnight.
bill hill wrote:So don't blame ClearType for holding back improved resolution. We're at the forefront of the push!
bill hill wrote:I worked on MS-Reader, so I'm biased. But we did the best job we could to analyze the reading experience and build all that knowledge into the software.
bill hill wrote:I love it on a PocketPC (Dell Axim v50 with 208ppi screen, which I think they stopped making), on a small TabletPC. Some of the TabletPC are too big and heavy for comfortable reading.
W3bbo wrote:
BTW Bill, you make the claim of creating ClearType a while ago, and whilst it's true it's the first commercial implementation, the internets say that IBM first made it in 1988. What's the word on that?
The postings by littleguru and LaBomba hit a hot button, and highlight something else which needs fixing on the Web.
littleguru points out the problem, LaBomba a workaround which I use myself - Outlook email and Internet Explorer side-by-side - and which in fact I'm looking at right now.
At the risk of boring Niners, I'll try to explain what's wrong, and how it can be fixed.
Human beings (which I assume covers most C9 readers) need to read text that's between 9 and 13 points high at normal reading distance, and that's set in columns 55-65 characters wide.
Not like to read, need to read.
All humans are the same. We're all Africans, really. So far, despite extensive sampling, no human has ever been found who does not share the same DNA marker with a man who left Africa about 50,000 years ago. (Great book to read on this if you're interested is "The Journey of Man: A genetic odyssey" by Spencer Wells).
The important point here is we all have the same visual system.
Our peripheral and distance vision is where we triage information. We're homo sapiens v. 1.0, hunter-gatherer, so what's important here is "Is this a threat - or lunch?".
The part of the eye that handles that is the parafovea, the area around a tiny part of our retina (0.2mm in diameter) called the fovea, which we use for high-resolution vision.
It's the fovea we use for reading. The size of the fovea dictates the size of text we can read comfortably and easily. Our eyes are moving rapidly all the time as we read. The muscles moving the eye only deflect comfortably (without uncomfortable stretching or head turns) to the extent of about 55-65 characters wide at 9-13 points.
Books are not the size they are by accident. They evolved over 5500 years of writing and reading. What worked best with human vision survived, what didn't work died along the way (there have been many experiments).
The first Web browsers took zero account of any of this. So your choices were exactly as described: Scale your browser window to a size which works with your visual system, or make reading text like watching a game of tennis from the net line - line-lengths which are impossible to use.
Problem is that the design community has been working for 35,000 years to the same law - what I call the First Law of Design: First determine the size of space you have to fill, then use that dimension to drive all of your design.
The First Law is now broken, and people don't realize it yet. We live in a new world where you design one piece of content, but people may view it on many different devices with completely different characteristics (cellphone, laptop, flat-panel TV etc).
In other words, we need a completely new paradigm for design: dynamic design for a world of dynamic content.
Most designers on the Web are still trying to drag the old world of fixed dimensions into the new world where it doesn't work: hence we get websites desgned to fixed-pixel widths etc.
The best reading experience I've seen on a screen so far - by a very long way - is the New York Times Reader. We used every technique typographers and designers have learned and developed over the 550 years since Gutenberg. Then we went beyond that by developing dynanmic layout which intelligently adapted the design to the device on which it was running.
So you can look at the New York Times on your laptop (1600 x 1200), or your TabletPC in portrait mode display (1200 x 1600). The layout adapts to give you the optimal reading experience on each device. So the number of columns, say, changes automatically. It always fills the screen. The software even re-sizes the adverts to fit - pulling in more content to the ad if required. But it still looks and reads like the New York Times.
Because it fills the screen, there are no distractions from reading. Which is why the two-windows-side-by-side option is only a workaround, not a true fix.
I read the New York Times Reader every day. I wish all websites could be this easy to read. It's not perfect yet, it's still evolving. But it's miles ahead of the Web.
I first got involved in hypertext in 1985 (long before there was a Web) when I wrote the software manual for Guide, the first hypertext program for the Apple Macintosh.
I realized back then that fixing reading on a screen was a huge task, but it was critical.
I first wrote about dynamic design at Microsoft in 1995 (the year I came). We developed some basic technology in this area in 1996. Things have been happening in many places (including the Reading layout View in Microsoft Word - which again is a long way from perfect, but at least is a start).
It's been only 12 years. It takes longer than that to change 35,000 years of information design (the first cave paintings).
My life's mission is to get us there. That's why I come to work. And it's why I came to Microsoft. Reading's a core human task. People spend more time at their computers reading than doing anything else.
Make Windows and Microsoft applications like Internet Explorer and Office truly readable, and you change the world. Because you change the lives of a billion people who use them every day. And then open that up to the next billion...
Bill Gates got that a long time ago. I sent him my "Digital Reading Dreams", and asked him for his thoughts.
At the end of a detailed mail, he told me:
"Keep on dreaming, and keep on forcing us to dream, too!"
How cool is that?
bill hill wrote:At the risk of boring Niners, I'll try to explain what's wrong, and how it can be fixed.
bill hill wrote:The Digital Declaration of Independence
We hold this truth to be self-evident: That every human has an equal and unalienable right to the means to create, distribute and consume information to realize their full potential for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - regardless of the country they live in, their gender, beliefs, racial origin, language or any impairments they may have
bill hill wrote:Lived in Shettleston for the first two years of my life. Moved to Pollokshaws untiol I was about 7. Then we moved back to the East End, to the Barlanark housing scheme. Lived there until I was about 18.
bill hill wrote:Well we're not talking about future IE plans yet.
But I did say in the interview that Dean, the IE GM, said to me "Come and help us make reading great!"
So let's see what unfolds...
Let me just say, since it's already a matter of public record, that our first dynamic layout example at Microsoft back in 1996 involved innovative use of CSS.
bill hill wrote:While I'm on my soapbox:
The two worst things you can do to people who're trying to read:
1. Make them scroll. Designers and typographers have spent 550 years developing optimum combinations of line legnth, leading etc to avoid reading the same line twice. When you force people to scrooll, they always end up reading some lines twice which breaks the flow of meaning. That's why the New York Times Reader is paginated - there's no scrolling.
2. Flashing things. Homo sapiens 1.0 has a visual system which makes movement a Priority0 interrupt: it takes precedence over everything else (because it's a survival mechanism). You can't stop it, it's totally automatic. So reading a website with flashing or moving stuff is like trying to read a book in a cage full of lions. Advertisers know all about the Pri0 interrupt - that's exactly why they do it...
The Digital Declaration of Independence
We hold this truth to be self-evident: That every human has an equal and unalienable right to the means to create, distribute and consume information to realize their full potential for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - regardless of the country they live in, their gender, beliefs, racial origin, language or any impairments they may have
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home schooled +interesting
charles change topic back to paper books after amazing talk -1
its a time for dreams +10
non fixed space environment = wmf - the real one! +1
ie team? +1
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bill hill wrote:The mountain lion word for jogger is "lunch"...
Seriously though, it's great that you're a tracker.
A family of wolves and a 175-pound male cougar taught me everything I needed to know about human perception.
I live in cougar country. That 175-pound male once followed my trail back from where I'd found his family was denning to my front door. He just looked in the glass, scoped us out, stepped back and faded into the woods. "You know where I live, I know where you live..."
I was taught wilderness and tracking skills by Jon Young, who was Tom Brown's student.
When you go for a walk where I live, you'd better be paying attention. There are often cougars around. If you're jogging - especially with your iPod - you're not paying attention.
In mountain lion world, if it runs, it's prey. They much prefer deer to people, but that doesn't do you much good if you're dead by the time he finds out you're not a deer. (Favorite kill method: a leap from the side, hit the deer in the shoulder with two front paws, break its neck instantly. It's all about economics. So minimize the effort and avoid the risk of being injured yourself by flying hooves).
Now, one problem with mountain lions is that when young males grow up, Dad chases them off his territory. They have to find their own. Often they're very hungry at this point, and will eat anything.
They also tend to wander into suburbia, where they have to be tranquilized and released in a wilder place. I have friend who does this for Fish and Wildlife in Washington.
Once you've rediscovered your submerged wilderness perception, you see lots that other people never notice, as you say.
And until you understand how that perception works, you'll never write software that's ideally suited for humans,
dentaku wrote:It's good to know that tablet PCs adjust the cleartype when you switch to portrait mode because I've rotated regular desktop LCDs on their side then used the Nvidia rotate feature and cleartype becomes very messy.
I'm assuming it's because Windows didn't know I rotated the screen so it never had a chance to adjust.
I don't know if it's just me getting used to it but Cleartype on my 19" Trinitron CRT is actually pretty good in Vista. I never used Cleartype on my CRT in XP.
I still use a CRT as my main display because of how well it adjusts to different resolutions and how even the brightness is from top to bottom.
I just can't use Adobe Illustrator on a regular inexpensive LCD, it's hopelessly inaccurate. Maybe one of the high end models with better backlighting would suit me better. At the moment I only use my LCD as monitor #2 in a dual monitor setup.
NOW, if we could have an OS behave the way many of us hoped for when we first heard about WPF an LONG time ago (then we quickly found out that it wasn't going to work that way) that uses scalable vector graphics for it's interface we could start using high ppi displays more comfortably.
I know a guy with a 22" Dell LCD who runs it at 1024X768. grrr....
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I do think that the newer LCD displays with the DVI or HDMI cables are a *LOT* better with a DVI out video card then an older VGA cable attachment.
for example i have a gateway wide screen 1600x1050 I think ... not at home right now to check that...
it's using the DVI-D cable and is sweet as heck! very sharp and good colors. now when I got it the thing only came with a vga cable....
Uhhh.... that was CRA99y as heck!
right now I have at work a sony laoptop and an external lcd via vga... the laptop is great, the ext display is "ok" for checking stuff and long distance viewing but the details are hosed -- somehow the vga connection and vista can't figure out what to send to that display to makeit look right. it's an older samsaung and I can't find a vista config file / inf file to set it up with...
but heck the 1600x1050 big display I have at home was only about $400-500 bucks and that was a year ago...
so I think the displays are getting better in price and features....
now we gotta get the OS to use the GPU all the way !!!
But if your just looking for quick reference, say to back up an argument/discussion your having on a internet message board, than you can make use of a wikipedia, it's fast easy and convenient. Just like people using google, only what your looking for doesn't require you to wade thru 10-15 different pages.
Wikipedia is randomness, because the stuff you look up on it will be random...it's not work related stuff, it's stuff you come across and want to know what it is, doesn't matter how obscure it is, chances are someone on the vast intarweb has come across
it before and has typed up something and posted it to wiki.
Not perfect, but it's not required to be, that's after all a rule of the internets.
bill hill wrote:I took a look today.
The randomness is appalling. Not to demean Shirley Chisholm, but is she really the most mportant subject in the past or present under the heading of "Politics"? The article on her is the only one under that heading so far "approved", which means the only one to have gone through the full process.
Who made that decision? Or even worse, did no-one "decide", except the author and the people who reviewed it?
I to have looked over that edge. It took all the strength I had to scrape my self off of the floor I had been sprawled on for the past 3 days to walk my self into a free clinic. I was extremely dehydrated and had pneumonia. They gave me fluid and strong anti biotic interveinously and let me go. I sat in the waiting room trying to gather enough strength to go home. I recovered. Im greatful to the the doctors, clinicians and nurses who gave me that day, more time.
ZippyV wrote:How about we crank up the default dpi setting in the next version of Windows?
TommyCarlier wrote:Yesterday, we discovered some of the problems with a higher DPI: applications have to be designed to work with a higher DPI. We installed one of our applications on a PC with a DPI of 120, and some of the controls in our application had lost their text. We noticed that the windows and controls that did look good did not use absolute pixel coördinates and sizes, but used AutoSize and flexible layout (docking, TableLayoutPanel, FlowLayoutPanel).
bill hill wrote:I'll stick with Britannica or Encarta, where I know someone decided what was important, subject matter-specialists were commissioned to write about it, and their work edited by professionals. People whose living depends on their performance.
Would you follow the instructions of an Internet Brain Surgeon?
TommyCarlier wrote:It took me half a day to fix the DPI issues in our WinForms framework and in our application. I've discovered that it's actually not very hard to design a new Form (window) in a flexible way: just use one or more TableLayoutPanels for the global layout, and use AutoSize as much as possible. If you play with margins and paddings a bit, you can get some nice and clean results that scale very well.
steveWD wrote:Hi,
I enjoyed hearing Bill Hill talk about the changes and advances in technology and the digital print world. It was very informative.
I would like to know though, where I can contact the Microsoft ClearType team and or the related IE team to discuss the ClearType feature.
I'm in a different mindset for ClearType. I personally hate it with a passion, because 95% of the text I read is black text, on a white background (or very close to that scenario).
I'm not sure if my eyes are better than others (I don't yet wear glasses), but even on the highest resolution screens that I use daily, with ClearType turned on, all I can see is the blurry colors (red, blue, green) that appear along side the letters on screen.
I physically have to squint my eyes so that the color "bleeds" into the black, so that my brain
isn't cramping trying to un-blur the image.
Its not just on curved letters, or angled letters either. Even the lowercase letter "L" is a blur.
Are their tools to only apply ClearType to fonts over 24pt in size? or only to text that is not close to black on white?
In the mean time I've turned ClearType off, and the headaches have all gone away, but I would have to suspect by the ammount of effort
that has gone into ClearType that there must be some benifit for the other scenarios, so I would like to know if I can use it there (or at least try it out)
steveWD wrote:Hi Bill,
Sorry for the delay in replying, I was out of the country for a while.
Yes, I've tried tinkering with the ClearType tuner tool, and each choice was no better than the first.
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CADIZ - It was over early at Harrison Central.
Caldwell received the opening kickoff, ran it back to the 26, but coughed it up and the Huskies pounced on it on the Redskins' 29.
From there it took Coach Justin Kropka's team three plays to dent the scoring column and officially set the tone for what turned into a dominating 47-7 rout in front of a large turnout Friday night.
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HC: Hython 64 run (Tiexeira kick)
HC: Johnson 13 run (run failed)
RUSHING: Caldwell, 44-207-TD (Metler, 1-11; VanMeter, 13-96-td; Hardesty, 3-9; Lori, 2-(-3); Rayner, 5-13; Leasure, 3-8; Willey, 5-17; Petrey, 2-10; Ridenour, 10-46). Harrison Central, 30-389-4td (Hython, 11-231-3td; Johnson, 4-59-td; Arbogast, 1-(-5); Olmstead, 2-31; Williams, 1-2; Stenson, 6-47; Lindsey, 1-3; Risley, 1-(-2); Potter, 3-23).
PASSING: Caldwell, 0-2 (All by Ridenour). Harrison Central, 5-6-144-3td (All by Mitchell).
RECEIVING: Caldwell, None. Harrison Central, 5-144-3td (Hython, 1-17; Olmstead, 1-15-td; Moore, 2-35-td; Rutter, 1-77-td).
FIRST DOWNS: Caldwell, 10; Harrison Central, 17.
FUMBLES: Caldwell, 3-1; Harrison Central, 2-1.
PENALTIES: Caldwell, 4-40; Harrison Central, 4-35.
Not bad for a guy who Kropka was unsure if he'd go earlier in the week because of a minor injury.
"We take a lot of precautions," Kropka said. "When you're not in league play, you can afford that somewhat, but here soon, we're not going to be able to rest anyone. Obviously, this is the kind of performance weve come to expect from Maurtice."
The Huskies also showed their ability to throw the ball as senior quarterback Rashaen Mitchell was an impressive 5-of-6 for 144 yards. He landed three touchdowns.
Harrison Central's first offensive unit scored on all five of its possessions in the first half and its only possession of the third quarter.
"Our offense was efficient," Kropka said. "(Offensive coach) Chad Figurski called a nice game tonight. I thought we were balanced. I want to give Caldwell credit because I thought their kids played hard. We were just a little too much for them tonight."
On the receiving end of Mitchell's touchdown tosses were Nate Olmstead (15 yards), Josh Moore (22 yards) and Dalton Rutter (77 yards).
The Redskins, who have been decimated by injuries already this season, were forced earlier this week to re-work their offensive game plan because of being without their quarterback.
"I am proud of my kids for coming out, stepping up and played hard against a good football team," said Redskins' head coach Josh Perkins. "We shot ourselves in the foot early on with a penalty and a fumble. We were playing football from 60 years ago. We had to reflect back and find something we could do (offensively) to give us the best chance."
Outside of a 65-yard burst by senior Caleb VanMeter, the Huskies' defense limited the Noble Countians to 131 yards of offense.
"When things are going bad, like they are for (Caldwell) right now, things tend to snowball on you," Kropka said. "Fortunately, we have some kids who allow us to be able to take advantage of some of their mistakes."
The Huskies' defense received another sterling performance from senior linebacker Nick Pelegreen, Niko Williams and Cole Howes.
Impressive freshman Tison Johnson rounded out the scoring for the Huskies with a 13 yard scamper. He had 59 yards on four carries, while classmate Travis Stenson also shined with 47 yards on six rushes.
With their perfect 3-0 record, the Huskies will open Buckeye 8 play next Friday when fellow 3-0 Martins Ferry invades Harrison County.
"The Buckeye 8 is a battle of attrition sometimes and you never what youre going to be Week 4 as compared to what you're going to be in Week 10," Kropka said. "We need to stay healthy and it'll come down to a depth issue. We'll get ready for Martins Ferry and see where the cards fall."


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10:00 a.m.: Shuttle ride to the School of Public Health. Fifteeen minutes riding on a bus with my roommates and our peers at Hopkins to start off the morning.
10:30 a.m.: Biostatistics Lecture. We learn about regression and sing about different regression models during the 5 minute break.
12:00 p.m. Carpool to NIH: Today the five of us will drive to our class at the NIH in a two-door sports car while sharing stories about our weekend and trying to read for class.
1:30 p.m. Sit in my cubicle to work on a case I will be presenting in Genetic Counseling Seminar on Friday. I listen to my tape from clinic and transcribe a part of a case while eating lunch, printing articles for next week and talking to my classmates.
3:00 p.m. Supervision with Barb Biesecker. Where we get to hear me talk to clients I saw in clinic on tape and discuss what some of the issues were.
4:30 p.m. Human Genetics with Les Biesecker We talk about risk assessment and practice Bayesian risk calculations on the white board.
6:30 p.m. Carpool to Baltimore We unwind together by listening to music and talking about our plans for DNA Day, where we will be going to high schools around the country to talk about genetics.
8:00: Back home. I watch television with my roommates, play with our cat, Layla, and spend some time preparing for cases I will be seeing in clinic tomorrow.
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I'm out of the door at 8:00 a.m. when I hop on the free shuttle to the Hopkins School of Public Health campus. I meet with my thesis advisor for an hour to talk about thesis ideas and concepts that I am interested in studying.
After the meeting, I grab a bagel and coffee at The Daily Grind and head over to the Public Health Perspectives on Research class that my classmates and I take with other Hopkins students. Class gets over at noon and my classmates and I go to the Cooley Athletic Center to unwind in a free yoga class. Then it's back to coursework with the Thesis Proposal Development class. The professor is helping us prepare protocols that will eventually go through the NHGRI's Institutional Review Board with the goal of getting approval to conduct our thesis studies.
After class I head to the Hampton House library and read materials in preparation for our Facilitating Adaptation class later that week. That takes a couple of hours and then I make my way home on the free shuttle and start making dinner. My husband soon joins me and we veg out in front of the television until about 8:00 p.m.
Then I listen to the audiorecording of a case that I counseled in clinic the week before. I want to be prepared for supervision tomorrow, where I will be discussing with my supervisor what aspects of my counseling can be improved for next week in clinic.
Finally, I get online to search for articles to use in the background of my proposal. The day ends up around 11:00 p.m. when it's lights out until tomorrow!
A Day in the Life of a 3rd year student
8:00 a.m.: Quality time with my friends at National Public Radio. They keep me company on the drive from my house near the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Baltimore to meet with my thesis advisor.
9:00 a.m.: Pre-thesis-meeting visit to the Daily Grind at Hopkins for coffee.
9:30 a.m.: Meeting with my thesis advisor, Debra Roter. We discuss how I'm going analyze all those surveys patients were kind enough to complete for me.
11:00 a.m.: Pick up classmates to carpool back to NIH. NPR is great, but classmates in the car is better, and on this particular day, there's a journal club that they will be attending in Bethesda before returning to their homes in Baltimore.
12:00 p.m.: Settle into my cubicle for an afternoon of data analysis and preparation. For my next day in clinic., interspersed, of course, with a little bit of fun and conversation with those working around me at NIH.
5:30 p.m.: Journal club at Barb Biesecker's house. We discuss the importance of self-efficacy for our patients over take-out Indian and play with Barb's cat, Thea
8:00 p.m.: Back home again. I log on to my computer thinking I might open up my data set again, but end up chatting on-line with my classmates about our up-coming travel to the National Human Genome Research Institute DIR Retreat, where we'll be performing in the talent show, and to the NSGC meeting after that.
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NEW ORLEANS – Following its outdoor season debut at Charlotte's 49er Classic last week, the Anderson University women's track and field team is ranked eighth in the Southeast Region in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Outdoor poll, released Tuesday afternoon.
South Atlantic Conference member Queens is at the top of the rankings for the second consecutive week, while the next four spots are occupied by teams from the Peach Belt Conference. Columbus State vaulted from fourth to second in the poll, while Clayton State moved up two spots from fifth to third. Montevallo and UNC Pembroke are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.
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Director Steve James' new documentary Head Games tackles the subject of sport-related head injuries and their long-term effects. Based at least in part on the book of the same title by Christopher Nowinksi, who plays a significant role in the film, Head Games is an engaging look at the possible dire consequences of participating in contact sports.
The film opens with several quick shots of collisions in professional sports - not just football and hockey, as you might expect, but also basketball, soccer and even bicycling. There is footage of women's sports as well as men's, and children's as well as adults'. This documentary draws you in immediately. Its focus is on CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a structural brain disease that many athletes suffer from, a disease that has led to several suicides.
Christopher Nowinski is at the center of this film for at least the first half. He was a defensive tackle, a former All-Ivy football player and also a wrestler. He is quite candid about his love for the violence of football. "It's the closest thing to being a warrior without actually having to go to war," he says. He got into wrestling (through a reality television program, interestingly enough), and sustained a head injury, at which point he forgot what he was doing, forget the script of the match, and consequently put himself into a more dangerous situation.
The first section of the documentary focuses on football, and this is for me the best section of the film. Several doctors are interviewed including Robert Gantu, MD (a clinical professor of neurosurgery) and Douglas Smith, MD (director at the Center for Brain Injury and Repair) who talk about just what constitutes a concussion. They show that in a concussion your brain changes shape very quickly. All of the medical information is presented clearly. I have little background in science, and I was able to follow all of the information.
As interesting as the scientific information is, perhaps even more engaging are some of the interviews with football players and their families. Gene Atkins, a nine-year NFL veteran, had multiple suicide attempts. In the film he visits Robert Gantu, and the footage of Atkins unable to name the months is heartbreaking and frightening. The phone conversation with the wife of a boxer is likewise moving.
The documentary does highlight the changes in the game that were implemented after a report was leaked, linking professional football to dementia. So progress is being made to protect professional football players. The film then loses a little steam when it switches focus to hockey. But the interviews with the players are just as engaging, particularly those with Keith Primeau, a retired hockey player. What's also interesting is the interview with Keith's teenage son, who also plays hockey.
Soon the documentary switches to soccer. One thing that truly surprised me is that female soccer players suffer more concussions than male players. Cindy Parlow Cone, a three-time Olympic medalist, talks about her own memory loss after a head injury (and yes, the footage of the collision is included in the film). What is also interesting is that it is not just professional athletes who suffer from CTE. Owen Thomas, a college football player who committed suicide, never had any documented concussions, and yet when his brain was studied, it was found that he had the disease. The film focuses on younger athletes toward the end.
The footage of Nowinski giving a talk about head injuries is incredible. It will likely infuriate you, especially if you have teenage children playing sports.
By the way, this documentary does not take an anti-sports stance. I enjoy watching football and soccer, and I will continue to enjoy those sports after watching this film. And interestingly, most of the folks interviewed feel the same way. After all, Keith Primeau's son plays hockey, and Keith is nothing but supportive and encouraging. Other parents who are interviewed seem to have no intention of stopping their children from participating in sports even after those children have suffered some head injuries.
Director Steve James is best known for his 1994 film Hoop Dreams. He has directed several other films, including Reel Paradise (2005) and The Interrupters (2011).


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I understand that the Bible has been translated into more languages than any other book in the world. What is the current total of languages into which the Bible, or part of the Bible, has been translated. I would also be interested to know if there are any predictions about how long it will be before the Bible is translated into every language.
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This is a moving target as more translations are being completed all the time (a friend of mine went to the dedication of the Inuktitut Bible only a few weeks ago). The Bible is also usually translated in stages, so the number of languages with some of the Bible translated is higher than those with all of it translated.
The United Bible Socities in October 2011 said that there were 469 languages with a complete Bible, and 2527 with at least some portion of scripture translated. The Catholic Biblical Federation in October 2008 said there were 438 complete translations and 2454 partials - close enough to be considered agreement. According to UBS ten languages acquired a complete Bible last year. 135 have the deuterocanonical books.
The latter reference claims that there are 4500 languages left to go. However it is very difficult to make predictions based on those numbers. Many of those languages have very few speakers, and the language may die out before a translation is done.
Corroborating statistics from Wycliffe as of 2013 (portions would combine some projects in progress with those with the New Testament and complete Bible)
The Bible is currently being translated into thousands of languages, so the number is always changing. The Bible is also usually published in stages, so there are more languages with part of the Bible than the whole Bible.
According to the Wycliffe Global Alliance, as of October 2014 the statistics are:
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The next class will be Wednesday the 13th of February at 20:00. You will need your own laptop running either OS X or Windows. Max does not currently run on Linux. If you want to make your Linux machine make funny noises, you should consider PureData. Class will be in the Turing classroom, which adjoins the Church classroom at the back of the space.
Last class we just barely scratched the surface Jitter, the vivacious video manipulation library for Max/MSP. What exactly we're going to do to video in this class is TBD, but rest assured that it will be 1) educational 2) hilarious 3) live. Bring your laptop: you're going to need it.
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Noise~ covers the basics, from building a simple patch all the way through tackling algorithmic composition and working with live video. The first class will be targeted at total beginners and will begin at the absolute beginning: downloading Max, opening a patcher and making something happen. From there, as long as there is interest there will be classes.
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A chase that led Sedgwick County Sheriff's Deputies into Butler County ended with a deputy and one suspect being shot Monday night.
The Sedgwick County deputy was recovering this morning in a Wichita hospital.
The shooting occurred at about 6:30 p.m. near Diamond Road and NW 70th Road, near Potwin, following a chase that began on I-135 in Sedgwick County.
A male suspect, who was also shot, was transported by EagleMed in critical condition and a woman was taken into custody.
According to Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet all of the suspects they know of have been caught.
The incident occurred when deputies tried to make a traffic stop, but the driver refused to stop, leading to a chase that took them into Butler County, where a shootout took place.
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There was no way my current squad was going to be able to compete in Liga BBVA, I desperately needed to bring in some quality but with 200k to spend I was praying that there would be some decent free transfers out there.
Turns out my prayers were answered, quite a few decent players from the french league were available on frees ans most importantly they were interested in joining us. So I snapped a few of the better ones up, they were all considered to be leading starts for Liga BBVA sides.
After a couple of other signings at the back my team looked loads stronger than before, however with the wages I was paying these decent players my finances were getting pretty bad.
These are some of the new players.
Souleymane Camara Simon Feindouno
Eric Marester
Cedric Fabien
Now for the season. Started off poorly, losing my first game quite convincingly at home to Tenerife. But then we went on a 9 game unbeaten run, which pushed us up into the top 5.
The next 2 games both ended in defeat, but my tactics were now begining to work and make sense which then led to a 18, yes 18 match unbeaten run putting us firmly in the top 3. Things seemed to be going far too well but the new players I had signed were awesome and were really doing the business for me.
Then came the new patch 1st game we played, away to Cadiz who were also hovering around the top 5 saw us get a complete mauling 6-0 which led to a few more awful performances, my once bulletproof tactic was now at best average.
For the rest of the season we struggled with consistency but still managed to stay around the top 5. With 6 games to go we were in 5th, 2 points from a promotion place, somehow we managed 3 wins and draw which took us down to the last day of the season.
Sitting in 3rd going into the last game, our fate was in our hands. All we needed was a draw at home to Sevilla Athletico who were bottom of the league, we dominated them and won 3-1.
La Liga here we come
Unbeleivably we had achieved successive promotions, we seriously overachieved due to my tactics being sorted for 2 thirds of the season but struggled a few times after the patch. La Liga will be fun but I would be very suprised if we get anywhere near avoiding relegation.
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We've gone for many months now without getting what we want from our leaders in Sacramento: a budget compromise that realistically addresses California's fiscal crisis and keeps state government afloat.
Meanwhile, they've come up with a real doozy that we don't want in the form of new septic tank guidelines that could cost homeowners tens of thousands of dollars.
This is no small deal in Del Norte County, where about 7,700 households rely on septic systems to treat their wastewater. The proposed rules would require inspections every five years, costing homeowners $325 or more for the test, and double that if they also have water wells to be inspected. The rules could also prevent the installation of new systems or increase their cost by $20,000–$40,000, experts say.
Septic tanks do need monitoring, but that's already handled here by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. "We just don't have many issues with septic systems," said Leon Perreault, the county's director of environmental health.
The issues are in Malibu, the celebrity-studded beach town in Los Angeles County. Residents and city officials there have long sought to limit development by refusing to build a wastewater treatment plant. But many of their homes sit on sandy beaches, and that's proven to be problematic for septic systems. Human waste leaks from septic leach fields into groundwater and makes its way to the sea.
"People are always getting sick — sinus infections, stomach, gastrointestinal viruses, and you just chalk it up to this is where I surf," Joe Melchione of the Malibu Surfing Association told the Associated Press recently.
Transplant that problem to Del Norte, and you can bet water quality officials would have jumped on it a long time ago. But Malibu has money to match its strong desire to keep its in-city septic tanks and restrict growth. So the Legislature decided in 2000 that the only way to fix the problem was to inflict strict new septic tank guidelines throughout California.
Those proposed guidelines are now the subject of hearings around the state, and people are turning out in droves to oppose this one-size-fits-all approach. The state has postponed the deadline for submitting public comments until Feb. 23.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board seems to have finally found the will to address the real problem by voting to take control of all commercial septic tanks in Malibu and demanding that the city prepare to break ground for a sewer system.
And a Roseville assemblyman has introduced a bill to repeal the 2000 law requiring the statewide restrictions.
Don't count on these developments to derail costly new septic tank rules. In this space every Thursday, The Triplicate publishes information about how to contact your public officials. You might want to drop a line to your state leaders on this issue.
Other states sometimes decry "Californication." Now it's time for us to resist being "Malibuted."