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Posted 15 December 2011 - 04:17 AM
Posted 15 December 2011 - 05:13 AM
Watching the broadcast, I missed Nichols (Dewdrop) and Kistler (Sugarplum) and Ardolino (the director) and Zinman (the conductor) on the 1993 DVD; I sure as hell didn't miss Susan Cooper's narration on it (she wrote it) or Culkin (who looked less like any kind of prince than a kid who just couldn't care less). Over all, the whole thing seemed rather mechanical and inexpressive to me, and after the broadcast I took a little break, and then I watched "Flowers" from the DVD. Just "The Waltz of the Flowers", with Kyra Nichols. For me, it blew away the whole rest of the evening. LIfe, and joy in living. (Excuse me.) In what you hear and in what you see. Worth the price of the disc! Just that. Maybe I'll get more analytical later...
I agree with you completely, Jack. Last night's performance was so anemic that I had to watch the 1993 DVD immediately afterwards to get it out of my mind. Fairchild was the worst Sugar Plum I've ever seen, totally lacking the grandeur, magical presence and projection required for the role. And her technique wasn't that impressive either. She was so cautious in the PDD and hardly smiled at all. It doesn't help that the last "Nutcracker" I saw live starred Suzanne Farrell in the mid '80's and her glorious Sugar Plum is burned into my mind. The one highlight of last night was Ashley Bouder's Dewdrop. She really lived the part in her dancing and her fast, clean, high octane technique, charm and joy were captivating.
I haven't been to a NYCB performance in over 20 years because I kept reading and hearing criticism of the direction Martins was taking the company. Miscasting, Martins's favoritism of some dancers over others and the Balanchine style and training dying away. Last night's "Nutcracker" was a clear example in my opinion of the terrible impact Martins has had as Artistic Director. It's sad to say this, but I'm glad to have stayed away from NYCB all these years.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 05:37 AM
Did anyone else think that Chelsea Clinton was stiff as a board, and the worst part of her role was the mind numbingly boring interview w. Peter Martins. Does anyone give a @#+*& about all of the minor roles she danced? It seemed like she didn't prepare enough questions, and then she had to fill dead time. .
This really bothered me too. Why did Chelsea Clinton get this job? Because she's a DOB (Daughter of Bill)? She was dull as dishwater in her 30 Rock segment a few days ago and she was again last night. When the announcer mentioned that a former ballet dancer would be interviewing cast members, I thought it would be a NYCB Alumnus or another dancer of note. Instead we get Chelsea Clinton who didn't pursue a ballet career and is a lousy interviewer. Very disappointing.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 05:54 AM
Did anyone else think that Chelsea Clinton was stiff as a board, and the worst part of her role was the mind numbingly boring interview w. Peter Martins. Does anyone give a @#+*& about all of the minor roles she danced? It seemed like she didn't prepare enough questions, and then she had to fill dead time. .
I felt for her since she was trying out a new role, but I thought both questions and answers were dull.Funny that she asked Fairchild and the children pretty much the same questions that Ripa had the night before. I was amused, though, that she asked Colby Clark about the school test he'd taken yesterday, a test Ripa had referred to. Clinton's interview filled time that the night before had been used for interviews with NYCB technical director Perry Silvy, with Daniel Ulbricht, and a feature on Mother Ginger, kids included.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 06:40 AM
I have no problems with the casting. Sure, it would have been great to have recorded for posterity the beauteous Sarah Mearns as SPF, but Megan Fairchild is a charming, adorable and technically accomplished ballerina...and what a grand quadruple pirouette near the end of her solo! [Remember, this film is being heavily promoted in the UK and I've been told by many 'ballet friends' in the UK that Fairchild is their ideal among NYCB principals.] Honestly, the only qualm that I have with her is her thin lips...but, in this televised edition (unlike the cinemas viewing on Tuesday), we were mercifully spared lengthy close ups. Joaquin De Luz was a perfect Cavalier and wonderful in his solo moments in the coda.
Yes, Ashley Bouder stole the show as Dewdrop. WOWEEEE!!!!! Best Dewdrop I've seen...and I've seen so many, mostly magnificent ones, like Nichols, Kent, Somogyi, Sylve, etc. Only Bouder has the technical facility and innate musicality to 'play with' and 'massage' the phrasing. She's the Mozart of the Dance. Teresa Reichlen was a sinewy, seductive Arabian-Coffee. Antonio Carmena as Tea-Chinese and Daniel Ulbricht in Hoops-Russian were both high-flying delights. I'm sorry that we didn't get Anna-Sophia Scheller, the originally-announced Spanish lead....but her replacement, Brittany Pollock, was a gorgeous revelation. The corps of children was first-rate and so into their roles. The soloist kids were all great but I absolutely adored Colby Clark as the Little Prince...such a naturally-sweet charmer (and a huge improvement to the creepy Macauley Culkin from the '93 film...but then that's not saying much).
The featurettes during the intermission were just fine - informative without being insulting to one's intelligence (as reported the day before with the cinemas version, with Kelly Ripa). Chelsea Clinton is not my favorite backstage emcee but she came across as knowledgeable and pleasant enough; she has captivating eyes (as does her mother), which brings a 'charisma' to her personna, even if her on-screen delivery is still a bit stiff.
All in all, a magnificent TV event, which is now a treasured DVD!
And now for the grand announcement....drumroll, please!....
My two Golden Palm Awards of the night go to (a) Ashley Bouder as Dewdrop (described above) and....(b) the EXTRAORDINARY VIOLINIST/CONCERT-MASTER who played the very finest rendition I've ever heard of the Act I 'Entr'acte' music (originally from Sleeping Beauty)....so sweetly and dancerly. Who is this violinist??? NYCB Orchestra is so lucky to have him.
Happy, happy Holidays, all!
p.s. I looked-out for the bloopers from Tuesday's cinemas show, e.g., dropped snowflake wand, bump in the 3rd row, etc. They weren't there so we must have truly seen Wednesday's show. I'm still scratching my head why NYCB and PBS wanted to present the same cast in two separate performances on consecutive nights but, hey, I'm happy with the cast that I saw on TV.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 06:55 AM
The violinist was Kurt Nikkanen, the NYCB orchestra concertmaster.
Overall I enjoyed both performances. Fairchild wouldn't have been my choice for SPF, but I thought she was fine. I understand why Martins chose her; she always delivers clean, technically strong performances. Bouder was great - her phrasing is perfect for Dewdrop. My only quibble is that she has such strong facial expressions that when the camera zoomed in on her face (particularly during the HD broadcast), it really looked like she was mugging for the camera - something that doesn't come across during live performances because of the distance from the stage.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:10 AM
'Adorable' is absolutely appropriate. SPF is the sweet dream-mother of every child. The one you want to cuddle up to....warm and fuzzy. Like Obraztsova at the Mariinsky...or Kaptsova at the Bolshoi...or Leslie Collier at the Royal, a few years ago. Warm, petite, adorable while still 'royalty' in the Kingdom of the Sweets. [Other perfect SPFs for me: Larisa Lezhnina of the 'old' Kirov or Ekaterina Maximova of the Bolshoi. Sorry, I would not want to see a regal-icy Lopatkina leading me through the Kingdom of Sweets, although Lopatkina is perfect as Nikiya or Odette-Odile!]
One small complaint with the production: Where were the shiny lights and sparks as the reindeer-pulled sleigh takes off at the end? I remember seeing sparkles shooting-out behind the sleigh when I used to go to the live production in NYC.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:17 AM
Kurt Nikkanen - my hero! Thank you, cinnamonswirl.
'Adorable' is absolutely appropriate. SPF is the sweet dream-mother of every child. The one you want to cuddle up to....warm and fuzzy. Like Obraztsova at the Mariinsky...or Kaptsova at the Bolshoi...or Leslie Collier at the Royal, a few years ago. Warm, petite, adorable while still 'royalty' in the Kingdom of the Sweets.
I guess I prefer Regal - As in Alicia Markova, Alicia Alonso, Nathlie Krassovska. Rosella Hightower. Suzanne Farrell----just off the top of my head.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:31 AM
When I watched Ashley Bouder, I finally understood all the talk about her -- she is entirely in a league of her own. I have seen her tomboy roles in promotional clips, and in the West Side Story film, and never saw her as a "ballerina". I never understood how she could be cast as the Swan Queen. After seeing her perform Dewdrop last night, I understand, and will try to see her in person. She does not seem to exert a drop of effort. She is so strong, and her power is so very admirable. It gives her room to be an artist. As stated above, it gives her the ability to play with the phrasing even at the break-neck speed. Amazing.
Megan Fairchild is so sweet, but really miscast. I thought Sugar Plum should have real authority, power, sweetness, and grace, but she did not show leadership qualities. Her size is not the issue. I really think she was very nervous. Even Mr. Puppytreats commented on her apparent anxiety. Her face was filled with discomfort and fear -- which are not SP qualities.
Theresa Reichlin is very good, but I felt she was miscast, as well. She is not very sultry. To me, she is more athletic.
Tiler Peck gets rave reviews, but I could not notice her abilities in the marzipan dance. Maybe the costume and prop, combined with the other dancers, distracted too much from her qualities.
The children were superb, wonderful, fantastic -- please wait while I pull out my thesaurus. Offstage and on, they have much about which to be proud.
Thank you, Natalia, for reading my mind. I was going to ask about the music from "Sleeping Beauty", played by the violinist when Marie first goes to sleep. Is this music used in most versions of "Nut"?
The sets were beautiful and I imagine children in the audience being awed by them. I was not offput by the sweet nature of this version. Children should not be scared away from the ballet by frightening memories of dark images onstage. This production was for families, and appropriately sweet.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:57 AM
..... I was going to ask about the music from "Sleeping Beauty", played by the violinist when Marie first goes to sleep. Is this music used in most versions of "Nut"?
As far as I can recall, this is the only version of Nut that employs that lovely, rarely-performed, passage from Sleeping Beauty (not choreographed by Petipa; used by Ashton as 'The Awakening pdd' in his own version of SB). Ever the genius, Balanchine knew just the piece of music to capture our hearts, as audiences transition from the party scene to Marie's dream. I love the little mimed touches within it, such as the mother gently arranging the shawl on her sleeping daughter. We can relax & sigh before the madness of the mice & soldiers.
Did anyone else hear yesterday's radio-podcast interview of 3 executives who deal with the Live-in-Cinemas ventures, mentioned in a recent Links thread? I listened to the 30-min podcast yesterday. One of the speakers said that similar in-cinemas showings of other full-length NYCB productions are in the works (for cinemas; no word of TV).She specifically mentioned Martins' Sleeping Beauty and Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream. Hopefully one of the upcoming cinemas shows will feature Sarah Mearns. [size=2][It's a shame that there don't seem to be any plans to show Balanchine/Robbins Mixed Bills in cinemas. They must be hard to market...grrrrr.][/size]
Posted 15 December 2011 - 08:24 AM
Watching the broadcast, I missed Nichols (Dewdrop) and Kistler (Sugarplum) and Ardolino (the director) and Zinman (the conductor) on the 1993 DVD;
Forget Kistler, Nichols, Farrell or any other dancer, I think I miss Emile Ardolino the most. As Jack mentioned, Ardolino was the director for the 90s Nutcracker, but also for many excellent Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center dance programs (the Balanchine series in the 70s being one of his crowning achievements. As well as Dirty Dancing and other films). The Live from Lincoln Centers from the 70s were often criticized for their "dancing match stick" effects. God those were so much better than what we get now. I get super excited to see ballet broadcast on TV and then it is ruined by stupid camera angles and edits. The editing wasn't so bad here - not as bad as other broadcasts - but the camera angles were horrible. Basically those cameras are in seats that are often discounted because you can't see the whole stage and you don't see the dancers head-on. Why would you shoot half the ballet from those seats. I love the part where Marzipan makes diamond shapes with her legs but we didn't see them because they shot it from an angle. We saw the side of her legs instead of the shape she was making with them. Same situation with so many other parts. Bouder was beautiful but she was constantly shot long view. The grand pas de deux was a little better. Note to dance directors: If a corps dancer in the back row in the corner is dancing at the same time the principal dancer is doing a solo, I don't want to see the corps dancer in a wide shot! Stay on the principal dancer. Same is during a pas de deux, if the women separates from the man to do a little solo, you don't have to shoot from an angle to be able to show the man just standing there. All future directors of Great Performances and Dance in America should be forced to watch the Bolshoi broadcasts.
Frustrations aside, from what I could tell, it was a pretty good performance. Fairchild and De Luz was solid. I thought Peck, Bouder, Reichlen, Carmena and Ulbricht were excellent. I only woke up in time to see Act II, so I can't comment on the first act.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 08:44 AM
More thoughts on the broadcast: I thought that the NY State Theater stage looked very shallow with the close-up cameras. I know the shallowness of the stage has been a problem but I could really see it when I saw how cramped the Snowflakes were.
I agree Fairchild is a good dancer with good technique, but to me she lacks that extra bit of mystery and/or charm that is part of the SPF. In recent years, the best SPF's I've seen have been Sara Mearns and Tiler Peck, but Wendy Whelan back in the day was also very beautiful in the part. Fairchild, however, is an excellent Dewdrop. I might have switched casting and given Bouder the SPF and Fairchild Dewdrop.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 08:54 AM
There's a lovely ca-1968 TV film of McBride as SPF...but , alas, not in the Balanchine version.
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The aggravating prefix "sau-" is considered as colloquial the most. You would not use it in other than a family or friends setting.
According to Duden it is classified as rather strong ("derb") when used with a negative connotation.
Therefore in most situations I recommend not to use it
It is not so much inappropriate, but it sounds pretty cheap.
"Saustark" and "saugut" are the most common forms to use "Sau-". In some commercial contexts you can hear "saugünstig".
The forms where it isn't appropriate are "saudoof", "saudumm" and other combinations... where it is used to say "dumb like a pig".
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I have 10 Canon 5DmkII cameras which I want to fire simultaneously... How can I accomplish this task repeatedly and reliably?
NOTE: Although I mention 10 cameras, it will be a 'super bonus' if the solution is scalable to n cameras...
Pocket Wizards (as well as several other brands of remote triggers) can also be used to trigger remote cameras as well.
Are you renting all of this equipment?
There is an extremely easy to do this. Simply use an IR trigger with both cameras facing the same way.
I've used this to trigger two Pentax K-7 for 3D photography (and once a K-5 and K-7). The 5D Mark II seems to support an IR trigger as well.
EDIT: For some reason, I read you had 2 cameras or maybe I thought you just wrote in binary ;) but you can actually scale this by buying IR Repeaters to repeat the signal for your remote to multiple cameras. You'll need to do a lot of assembling, but I suppose you have to do that to point 10 5D Mark IIs in the right direction anyways.
I was in a friend's studio a few weeks back and he was firing a setup of 12 1Ds and 5Ds using Pearstone FreeWave Wireless Remote Shutter Release to trigger them all at once from 1 transmitter. He was doing still product shots where he set the cameras at various angles to the products and would get a bunch of angles at once with different length lenses so he could make it look like he did individual/varied setups for each product for his client. He said he had a working range of about 90 meters outside without the need for line of sight so cameras could be mounted behind sets, walls, etc.
Being in a building with old freight elevators and 70 yr old unshielded wiring he had to tinker with several frequency settings before he got the setup to work without interference but it seems to work well for him and he was adamant about not lending the kit to me anytime soon.
There are 3 ways that I can think of to achieve this.
The most reliable way would be to rig all of the cameras remote shutters together, and trigger them off. This should work in any condition, but it would require some kind of custom gear, which knowing Jay, probably isn't what he wants to do.
The IR solution proposed could work, but it would likely take a lot of work, and probably wouldn't work well outdoors.
The third way would be to connect all of the cameras to a computer, and use a USB control program. Of course, I don't know of many computers that have 10 USB ports, but I imagine that one could get a few hubs and probably get a manageable solution. You'll need some software, there appears to be a program called Cam2Com that'll do the trick. Up to 127 USB devices could be hooked up together, but you'll probably have to count mouses and such, but over 100 is possible. This requires a lot of USB cables, but it shouldn't be too bad.
Good luck, let us know how it turns out!
Are you talking about something like this?
I'm not going to rehash a few ways of triggering multiple shutters:
But if it need be exact, disregard the shutter speed because the mechanics of the multiple cameras could easily be slightly different. You could treat it as a high speed photo gig and set up long shutters triggered by any of the above methods and light the subject entirely by flash. By doing this you're sure that all the pictures will have the exact same moment.
I could see something like this being used with 2 cameras to capture 3D waterdrops or such. I don't know your exact requirements because of the NDA, but its an idea.
A possible solution would be to physically wire the remote shutter switches each to a digital output of a controller. If you are unable to DIY, you will have to look for (third party) commercial solutions.
USB, IR or wireless can not give the precise control (< 50mSec) and calibration needed. A physical pair of wires to the remote shutter switch of each camera will enable precise adjustment ( to within 1mSec) of the relative timing. Each camera can be calibrated for shutter speeds, to give exact simultaneous triggering, or any adjustable triggering sequence. The controller is connected via a single USB cable and programmable from a PC.
As far as I know, commercial solutions exists which allow up to 40 outputs.
Take a look at this video, they synced 3 cameras with 1/3 sec delay, but you can fire them all at once with the same type of setup.
CHDK http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK and SDM (Stereo Data Maker, an off-shoot of the CHDK project) can sync all cameras with 1/10,000th second accuracy between them all, as many cameras as you want, using simple USB cables and a button switch. This of course is not useful info to anyone using DSLRs, but important to anyone wanting an inexpensive and dependable way to accomplish the same.


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Let $F_1,...,F_m$ be a partition of the 3-element subsets of $[n]$ into families such that no three subsets in any one family $F_i$ are all contained in one 4-element subset of $[n]$. What is the minimum value of $m$?
Tony Huynh's update can be easily generalized to show that $$n\geq k\left(R(\underbrace{3,3,\dots,3}_{k-1})-1\right)+3\implies m\geq k$$ and so we get a very weak lower bound on $m$ which at least shows that $m _{min}\to \infty$.
For an easy upper bound $m_{min}\le \lfloor\frac{n+1}{2}\rfloor$, which you can see by partitioning the triples $(a,b,c)$ in classes according to $a+b+c\pmod{\lfloor\frac{n+1}{2}\rfloor}$.
For a crude lower bound, one can consider the largest possible size for a set in your partition. One candidate is to take a collection of 2-subsets of $[2n]$,which are triangle-free and then add the point $2n+1$ to each 2-subset. By Turan's theorem, we get a collection of $n^2$ triples, such that the union of any three is not a 4-set. This is not best possible, but perhaps it is of the right order.
Update. I believe that $m >2$ for all $n \geq 7$.
Proof. Towards a contradiction, let $(F_1, F_2)$ be a partition of the 3-sets of $[n]$, such that the union of any three members of $F_i$ is not a 4-set. Consider the 3-sets of the form $(1,2,k)$. We may assume that $F_1$ contains at least half of these sets, and since $n \geq 7$, it contains at least 3 sets of this form. By relabelling, we may assume that $(1,2,3), (1,2,4)$, and $(1,2,5)$ are each in $F_1$. But this means that $(2,3,4)$, $(2,3,5)$, and $(2,4,5)$ are each not in $F_1$, and hence in $F_2$, a contradiction.
In their investigations into Frankl's union closed sets conjecture, Theresa Vaughn and some of her colleagues considered such configurations of three sets. I think they were more interested in the size of F_1 than in m. You might ask her about this problem.
My take on it is that m can be made small, perhaps even m=2, by arranging the 3-sets in cycles. When I get back to Frankl's problem, I may have more to say.
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Adobe Lightroom
What is Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is an application for Mac and Windows that takes many of the photo management features of Adobe Bridge and throws in much of the powerful photo oreientated tools of Photoshop. Lightroom also is a nondestructive photo editor, meaning that when you import an original photo the file will never get overwritten with any changes you do from inside the application.
To learn more about LIghtroom and also grab a free 30 day trial, check out their site...
About the class
I've been using Lightroom for about 2 years now and have a very detailed work flow. Much of the learning curve with an application like this is reworking how you deal with your photos/files, finding out how many of the tools work and figuring what happens behind the UI. I'm still learning new things every day about what Lightroom can do, but would be happy to share much of my knowledge and walk through how my work flow functions and why I do certain things.
--Rubin110 23:55, 27 May 2009 (PDT)
When is it
To be determined. Since 83c is more or less 1 large (small) space, it's hard to run multiple classes at the same time. There's a chance I might just host this at my house.
Who's interested
Please add your name to the list if you're interested. If I don't have your email, please send it to me.
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Polish off your great look with the adidas AR 2.0 high top casual shoes. Shiny patent leather highlights accent features like the mudguard and strap for a fresh look. Nubuck material makes up the rest of the upper with a mesh tongue and vulcanized rubber sole.


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Arrested: Edward Delbert, 30, 112 Sinclair Ave., Mingo Junction, domestic violence, Saturday.
Arrested: William D. Dunburg, 24, 150 Greencare Lane, Mingo Junction, intoxication, Saturday.
Arrested: Giacia Gaudio, 21, 2251 Marianna St., Wellsburg, fugitive from Justice, Brooke County, Saturday.
Jefferson County sheriff
Arrested: Garylee Crothers, 29, 100 Dean St., Adena, receiving stolen property, Saturday.
Breaking & Entering: A Longvue Drive resident in Wintersville reported his home was broken into Friday and jewelry was stolen.
ATM stolen: The manager of the Paradise ill Golf Course reported an ATM machine was stolen from the clubhouse during the past several days.
Guns stolen: An Island Creek township resident reported two guns were stolen Friday from his home.
Ohio Highway Patrol
Arrested: Joe Kemple, 46, 1119 Third Street, Brilliant, failure to appear, Friday.


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today I've updated openssl and libssl (automatic update). After reboot I can't login with any user (even with Guest or new one) into X. I've tried with installing gdm, gnome-session-fallback - no luck.
On login screen (no matter if it's lightdm or gdm) I type password, it tries to login, then screen goes black and returns to login screen.
I've found somewhere solution with Xauthority and xsession-errors, but in .xsession-errors I don't have anything but two lines:
Script for cjkv started at run_im. Script for default starter at run_im.
I'm using Linux for about 10 years, but I can't find anything in /var/log that can point me to solution. Reinstalling Ubuntu IS NOT A SOLUTION for me.
Someone can help me?


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Florida reps should break D.C. stalemate
Not long ago we lauded U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for his role in pushing through a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform package through the Senate. That bill will go nowhere, though, unless the U.S. House of Representatives takes up reform and produces a measure that can be reconciled with the Senate bill.
It's time for Florida's congressional delegation to take the lead and help deliver reform that affects not only the state's millions of documented and undocumented immigrants, but the communities and businesses where they live and work. The timing is right, too. A trio of national conservative groups called on House Speaker John Boehner to get to work on a reform bill. A bipartisan group of church leaders based in Palm Beach County, Florida Voices for Immigration Reform, has been writing letters to Florida congressmen, urging them to support an immigration overhaul.
"We support an immigration reform package that reflects the economic contributions that immigrants make to our country," read the letter to Boehner from the chiefs of the American Action Forum, Americans for Tax Reform and the American Conservative Union.
ACU Chairman Al Cardenas is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, the first Hispanic to hold that post, and a influential Washington lobbyist. The FVIR letters targeted Reps. Daniel Webster of Winter Haven and Bill Young of Seminole. We would add Reps. Vern Buchanan and Tom Rooney to the list of Florida Republicans who should enlist in this effort. Both represent districts heavily dependent on immigrant workers that play such a big role in the agriculture, construction and tourism businesses.
We understand the politics of immigration make backing reform — any reform of any kind that isn't limited to building electrified fences and sending every undocumented alien back home — risky business. Political analysts have declared immigration reform in the House DOA, largely because House Republicans would rather employ reform as an election issue than solve the real issues involving border security, labor force and documentation. The House ploy is to break down the Senate bill into separate pieces and pass elements — border security is the buzzword — that will satisfy their base.
Buchanan and Rooney have toed the tea party line on immigration. Most recently they voted with anti-immigration reformers on a symbolic bill that would have prohibited enforcement of President Barack Obama's executive order that would end the deportation of young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. The bill was never voted on in the Senate and would have faced an Obama veto. Like the House's 37 repeals of the Affordable Care Act, the immigration bill was show vote.
Buchanan and Rooney have told us repeatedly that they abhor Washington's divisive politics that prevents action of the country's most pressing issues. When push comes to shove, though, they cast safe votes that guarantee the D.C. stalemate will remain the status quo.


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Catholic blogs in the Times
Reader Bill Mazella suggested someone start a separate thread on the best religion blogs recently reported in the London Times, a list which includes First Things but not Commonweal. [CORRECTION: This list is from the London, not NYT, as originally reported. My apologies!]
So here ya go, Bill.
While Commonweal did not make the Times list, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster did. Actually this is less about religion than a rant against militant creationists. But the Spaghetti Monster-ites print their hate mail, most of it religious in nature, which is always a laugh. And how can you argue with SOLID NUMERICAL EVIDENCE that global temperature has risen in direct proportion to the decrease in piracy?? I use this site to detox after visits to my Fundamentalist in-laws.
The Times received at least one complaint for leaving out Ship of Fools, which is mostly Episcopalian in orientation, and since I still have leanings toward Canterbury, it is also one of my favorites, too. Catholics exercised about liturgy might find food for thought in the "Mystery Worship" department over there.
I would also gripe about Philocrites' absence. It's a Unitarian blog that is welcoming, sweet and friendly in a way I never found Unitarianism to be when I was in it. When I wrote a story about my conversion to Catholicism for Commonweal, Philocrites rejoiced that I had found my true spiritual home, even as that good Catholic, Diogenes (Off the Record) sneered. I read Philocrites to remind myself that the Unitarians still love me even when the Catholics don't.
I was surprised that the, the Times list did not include Amy Welborn, Busted Halo or Whispers in the Loggia, all blogs that have been refer'd here on Commonweal. Neither did it include Beliefnet, though maybe that's not technically a blog.
Beliefnet has its own list, which does include Welborn and the Canada-based Relapsed Catholic.
Catholic blog readers may also want to visit the Catholic Blog Awards site, which may be more revealing of what Catholics are reading and responding to than the more general Times list. Not exactly sure who's behind the Catholic Blog Awards, but there is a nice variety of blogs among those nominated (including Commonweal).
I was pleased to see one of my favorites, The Anchoress, there. A couple of years ago, we exchanged pleasant e-mails, and I like her down-to-earth, cut-to-the-chase comments. (And, Anchoress, if you read this, I love the Pre-Raphaelite image on the home page, but is that a nun or the Lady of Shallot?)
Other perspectives on Catholic blogs, please!
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Heres one I recommend. Ive looked at it regularly over the last few months:http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/The blogs self-description: A series of postings on subjects I like: Catholicism; history; art; Italy; and whatever grabs me at the time. The archives have many fine images of old master paintings and traditional religious architecture. The blogger is based in England but has wide-ranging interests.
I am not impressed with the majority of Catholic blogs out there. I'm not sure why it is, but most of them seem to be written by the most hateful, arrogant Catholics I have ever encountered. I am particularly disappointed to see The Cafeteria Is Closed on that list. That blog is one of the worst in my opinion. I do enjoy TCR News: http://tcrnewscom.blogspot.com/And Nonviolent Jesus: http://nonviolentjesus.blogspot.com/My fellow bloggers at Vox Nova (www.vox-nova.com) are also amazing. I mention Vox Nova, not out of self-promotion but out of genuine respect for the other bloggers there, who actually write much more than I do!
FYI, Bill was wrong about the publication that produced the list--it's the London Times, not the New York Times. So I'm not too surprised by the lacunae in their list. But the Cafeteria is Closed? Good grief.
Grant, that bit of information is interesting. What general view of Catholicism, and Catholicism's relationship with the broader culture, do you get from the blogs on the list, and how does that view fit into the battles going on in England now? It seems to me that First Things, and the Cafeteria is Closed, present a pretty combative view of Catholicism-- a "culutre war" perspective on Church and world. Such a view might reinforce, rather than dissipate, a certain type of anti=Cathoilic prejudice in some political contexts.
Just a qualification: the article is about the "most influential" blogs, not necessarily the best. It's different in that way from Beliefnet's Blogdom of God, "Where religion blogs go if they're good."I notice that influential conservative liturgy blogs like WDTPRS and The New Liturgical Movement (3200 hits/ day) are not listed. Most conservative Catholic blogs discuss liturgy, in fact. I was wondering whether the more progressive blogs do, as much.
Yes, Cathy (Kaveny), that's what I was getting at. I don't know anything about the columnist, but I recall the comment of an old family friend who left England when she was in her thirties: "It's very hard to be a Catholic in England."
What is a religious blog? Definitions?Commonweal advertizes itself (print version) as a journal of religion, politics, literature and the arts edited by Catholic lay people. That has always given it a wide range of subjects and authors.With a few exceptions Commonweal (the blog) pays more attention to "religion" than to anything else. Why is that?
Though this comment moves away from Jean's post, it is inspired by Peggy Steinfel's comment and question.Has dotCommonweal met readers' expectations?I, for one, am disappointed that a number of the listed contributors seem rarely to participate. Perhaps that accounts in part for the more restricted focus Peggy perceives.
This is an observation, not a criticism, but I am not sure I consider dotCommonweal to be a blog, To me, one of the essential characteristics of a blog is that one person, or a limited number of people, write on a daily (or almost daily) basis, largely expressing their personal opinions. Here on dotCommonweal, it's more a limited number of people (a fairly small subset of the listed contributors) throwing out topics for discussion. It seems to me a blog is very much about expressing (and advocating) personal points of view, and while we get some of that from the listed contributors, often more of it comes from the people who write the comments. I wouldn't necessarily change this format, but I think it might be interesting to have another area in which anybody can start a discussion. (That wouldn't be a blog, either, though.) The great danger there is that discussion boards that are thrown open to the general public (or even registered users) tend to be taken over by small groups of crackpots who wind up destroying them.
Why should anyone give a hoot what the NYT thinks? This is, after all, the paper that gave us Judith Miller and Jayson Blair; that still publishes the reports of Michael Gordon, Miller's aide-de-camp in duplicity; and that still features on its op-ed pages the drivel of Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, and Maureen Dowd, three of the most shallow and over-rated columnists in the nation. Then again, knowing all that, it's no surprise that First Things gets mentioned.
Jean, you're very kind to mention my blog. I'm a big fan of Commonweal. Thanks very much!
I'm not sure what this list says about Catholicism in Britain. I'm a long lapsed second generation Irish Catholic (raised in East London and now back living there as a middle aged mother). I have a subscription to the Tablet and regard myself as a kind of Catholic fellow traveller - ie,. I don't have the belief but like some of the ideas and practice. I wrote my PhD on attempts by the Catholic Church to influence the British Labour Party in the period 1910-60. When I read the Commonweal blog and some of the articles it all seems pretty exciting over there compared to the level of debate over here. As a mother of three small children (not Catholic) who are being educated at a local state primary school for 3 - 11 year olds (42 different languages and many different faiths - though I guess majority Muslim now) I watch with some bemusement as parents start signing up their children as Catholics in order to get them into highly regarded state funded Catholic secondary (11-16) schools. And when I walk past my local Catholic Church on a Sunday morning I see bulging congregations, welcoming new immigrant communities of Africans and Eastern Europeans just as they welcomed my Irish family back in the 1930s. I'm not sure how much time anyone devotes to wondering about what particular Catholic camp they belong to. Although I'm sure it could be more fun if they did. I may, of course, have a particular London centric view on this and stand to be corrected by those with wider knowledge. I don't believe that it is that difficult to be Catholic in the UK - I mean you can't marry the heir to the throne but being Catholic won't stand in the way of your getting a job or mean that people abuse you in the street. And you get access to 'good' schools for free. All in all, not a bad deal.
I like this blog, except when people get argumentative.(Kidding.)I think that there should be an internet forum for Catholics with divergent ideas to really get together and discuss things, without any point of view being automatically correct or dismissable. Sort of like what Common Ground was supposed to be. Insofar as that's what this blog is about, I'm all for it and I'm grateful.Also: Dr. Kaveny gave the commencement speech at my school a few years ago. I read her essay on lawyers and time enthusiastically while doing research for one of Dean Hoge's books when I worked for him. I find it remarkable that I can participate in discussions with her and the other exceptional scholars here.
3 for consideration:Vox Nova (http://www.vox-nova.com/) Catholic perspectives on culture, society & politics.The Wild Reed (http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/) which bills itself as Thoughts and reflections from a progressive, gay, Catholic perspective.Catholica Australia (http://www.catholica.com.au/) = an excitingly different way of looking at faith and spirituality... in (of course) Australia.
I wanted to be sure that Vox Nova got a vote from someone other than one connected directly to it.
My son was idly googling the names of relatives yesterday and came on this blog. He said, "I didn't know you wrote on the Internet and had a master's degree."I told him I also teach at a Big 10 university and can knit my own socks, and that he could have my autograph if he'd water the pumpkins and refill the bird baths.Which takes us back to a question raised on another post about the future of print magazines--to what extent do blogs that exist only in cyberspace without the back-up of an established print publication have credibility and influence? And to whom?And while we're at it, I think Fr. Imbelli's question about whether dotCommonweal fulfills readers' needs--readers of both the mag and blog and blog only--is a good one.
Peggy, your reminding us that Commonweal is a journal of religion, politics, literature and the arts edited by Catholic lay people is startling even tho we know it. Part of the problem is that you do not have any contributors from literature and the arts as contributors on this blog. This is definitely a lacuna. Professors like the one who interviewed Mary Karr at your Institute might be a good idea. Of course, the RCC religion is the common denominator for all of us. Secondly, we are in historic times. Years ago we asked the priest. Now we are more apt to challenge him and frequently know more than him.As far as defining a blog I would take the Commonweal model over any of the others. It is definitely more productive and fruitful to have more people contribute and comment. Wtih useful feedback this blog can only become better.
I have to agree withJoan Keating about the dearth of Catholic public discussion in UK. The Tablet content prompts serious written responses, at the cost of broadcasting one's email address and inviting a never-ending stream of "personal products."My own diocese used to run a dio paper each month but as very little was happening, it gave no news. And people did not debate. So the media rep puts news accounts on the Dio website. I have begged him more than once to open another site, a genuine intra-diocese discussion site where we of the riff-raff could debate, applaud, challenge, speculate and learn. He has not done so and gives no reason. I, for instance, would like to query the vast cost of supporting our local Cath mixed primary school which is in the wrong place, has a minority of Catholic chilldren, has only one Catholic teacher and a staff of 15 full and part-timers, all of whom are women. Our small parish has to contribute approx 20% of net income to support the diocesan schools. It's worth a debate, I feel. Quite apart from other current hot-under-the-collar topics.But for a bit of serious Catholic thinking, I subscribe to US blogs. Anyone else enjoy THE IRONIC CATHOLIC?
Peggy is on to something. Contributions to the Blog in the area of politics certainly draw fewer comments from readers than ones focused on current matters of concern to Catholics. But I think this means that for readers of the print journal and the Blog alike Commonweal is a precious resource for discussion of religious news and issues that the rest of the press rarely takes up in depth (or gets right when they do.) And speaking just for myself, I have often agreed with Peggys well-expressed concerns over the situation in Iraq and matters closer to home, in Washington. But I have simply said too much about these things to all who will listen in my daily round, and despair of keeping my temper on the subject, so I am grateful for the insights and information but hold my peace. Maybe others out there do the same.
The two "religious" blogs I most enjoy are both LDS, "Feminist Mormon Housewives" and "Times and Seasons," although the latter might also be considered academic. I will believe Dot.Commonweal has succeeded when there is the range of (usually polite, and this is a church that has had "issues" at least as stressful as the Roman Catholic) discussion fmh typically has and when our posters relate the discussion as much to their personal lives as Christians in the world as the posters on both routinely do. Specifially family life, which rarely comes up on DC except when people are being defensive.However, the one religious blog everyone should look at (it might double its readership!) is called Bad Things in New Hymn Books and Other Sad Tales by the British academic Catherine Osborne, who is apparently Anglican but seems to have both Catholic and Orthodox training in her youth. She really digs into the changes in the (usually Anglican I think) hymn book and tells just why they represent a retreat from an informed, experienced and intellectually serious faith rather than contenting herself with regrettng the loss of some ill-defined sense of the sacred, which for some DC posters at any rate seems to be an amalgam of Palestrina and Gounod.
Osborne's blog is excellent.


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Police have found a central Kentucky man dead after he fired at officers.
Kentucky State Police are investigating the incident that happened Wednesday night at a Radcliff apartment building. Media reported that Radcliff officers went to interview the man about a burglary at the apartment complex where he lived and the situation quickly escalated.
Officers said the man appeared to be willing to go with officers, so they allowed his request to get shoes from his bedroom. However, police say that's when he retrieved a gun and began firing at officers.
The officers say they returned fire and retreated from the apartment to wait for backup and evacuate other residents.
Later, after not being able to get a response from the suspect, officers entered the apartment and found him dead.


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6 Famous People Whose Identities We Still Don't Know
We live in a culture that doesn't exactly value anonymity. It's difficult to grab lunch at a drive-through without having to check in on at least three social media sites, for example.
To get an idea of how much things have changed, there are some people who have become world-famous icons, but whose names no one knows. We only know them as ...
#6. The Tiananmen Square Guy
In June 1989, the world was cleaning up the Exxon Valdez spill, waiting for the Berlin Wall to fall down, getting ready for the career of M.C. Hammer to start and watching China protest communism. The protests for democracy started in April in Beijing and went on until early June, when Chinese authorities realized, "Wait, aren't we China? We don't tolerate this shit."
"Holy balls, we have an army? Guys, I know what to do about those protests."
Thus, authorities immediately ordered an end to the protests, and China cracked down firmly on all the protesters, with troops and tanks storming Beijing and its focal point, Tiananmen Square. Protesters fled from the carnage. Except for one lone bystander.
Jeff Widener/AP
This man is either an enduring symbol of the human spirit or tragically nearsighted.
The bystander, holding shopping bags, blocked a line of tanks heading into the square, and then climbed onto a tank and started talking to the crew. This happened for a few minutes until two random people ran up and dragged him away before the tank crew could contemplate how they would clean their tank treads of protester.
That man, who briefly stopped the government tanks all by himself and appeared in one of the most iconic photos and pieces of video in world history, was never heard from again.
So Who Was He?
After the incident, reports were incomplete and contradictory. British newspapers reported that the man was possibly a 19-year-old student named Wang Weilin. Others said he wasn't. The paper went on to claim he was arrested for trying to subvert communism and for "hooliganism" (China apparently having a completely different idea of what "hooliganism" is). However, no man by the name of Wang Weilin, outside of a number of Guitar Hero avatars, is known to exist.
Frontline: Tank Man
"I don't care about politics, I just want to be known as Tank Man."
When the Communist Party of China checked his name out, they claimed to find no records of him ever existing. Many Western officials have maintained that the man was executed a few weeks after the incident, while people who were at the protests claim that he is alive and well somewhere in China.
In 1990, during an interview with Barbara Walters, the General Secretary of the Communist Party said he didn't know whether the man was arrested, but he reassuringly said, "I think never killed."
"Plus I forgot my wallet today. I'm just so flaky!"
We may never know who he was, but the man did what many others could not: walk up to a column of moving tanks and live to tell about it. For a while, at least.
#5. The Kissers on V-J Day in Times Square
Alfred Eisenstaedt/Life
V-J Day, or Victory over Japan Day, brought worldwide joy (well, except in Japan) and signaled the end of World War II in 1945. Many images of V-J Day are downright iconic, such as the "Dancing Man of V-J Day in Sydney" picture.
Seconds before the rest of town joined him in an unrehearsed yet weirdly well-choreographed performance.
The best known, though, is Alfred Eisenstaedt's picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. Since the photo was taken in 1945, the identity of the kissers in one of the most iconic photographs of all time has remained huge in public debate.
So Who Were They?
The lengths to which people went to prove they were the couple in the photo were so over-the-top ridiculous you'd think there was some kind of major cash prize involved.
"That giant plaster G.I. Joe was me, dammit!"
The real controversy is about the male sailor -- the woman in the photo is generally agreed to be a former nurse named Edith Shain, who claimed that she had been working and heard on the news that the war was over. She ran out into the street and a sailor embraced her and kissed her. Feeling gratitude for the services rendered by the U.S. armed forces, she let him do it. Plus, he was trained to kill people, so there's that. There's still some debate about this, but not nearly as much as the debate surrounding the guy.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
For example: How much pepper spray is appropriately patriotic?
At least a dozen men have made prominent claims to being the sailor in the photograph, and they've gone to great lengths to prove it. One gentleman had a distinctive birthmark that apparently matched up with the man in the picture, and he and Shain actually briefly dated after a "reunion" set them up with each other afterward. Another man named Glen McDuffie took and passed 10 polygraph tests to prove his identity. McDuffie also posed while kissing a pillow for 100 photos taken by a criminal consultant who specialized in facial recognition techniques.
"I don't care what creepy fetish you have, just please stop pocketing those photos."
The one with the best story, however, has to be George Mendonsa, who had his picture analyzed by the Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) in Cambridge, Mass., to prove his identity. He claimed to have been drinking fairly generously on V-J Day and was on a date with the woman he would later marry. They left a movie and saw crowds of people in the street screaming that the war had ended. He saw a nurse walking by, and he kissed her. The kicker: according to Mendonsa, his wife is actually in one of the pictures in the background. And she's apparently into "open relationships," because she's smiling pretty broadly.
"Look honey, we're on camera! Feel her up!"
#4. The Zodiac Killer
In the late 1960s, California had two plagues: hippies and the Zodiac Killer. Named after the pseudonym he used in letters he sent to area police, he is one of the most notorious serial killers in modern history. His victims were couples in areas outside of San Francisco in 1968 and 1969; authorities were able to confirm at least five people killed and two people injured, but Zodiac claimed to have killed dozens more. He also left a series of cryptic notes and was seen twice -- once wearing a strange hood, and once without it.
He ran out of evil-looking clothing after the hood and the sunglasses.
Since the killings ended, the Zodiac murders have become one of the best-known not only in the U.S., but around the world. Zodiac's use of cryptic letters and his penchant for leaving bizarre, encrypted clues have inspired many movie and TV serial killers' modus operandi.
As long as their M.O.s consist of wandering around wearing silly glasses and old bed sheets.
So Who Was He?
To this day, the Zodiac Killer has never been caught. A prime suspect wasn't even found until 1991, when one Arthur Leigh Allen was arrested. He was a match for the appearance of the killer, and even owned the same type of typewriter used for the infamous notes. Also, he had conversations with coworkers at a gas station about an idea for a book about a killer called Zodiac who would murder couples on lovers' lane, just like the real Zodiac did. And he had numerous bombs and weapons in his basement. And a survivor identified Allen as the killer.
Well, shit, why is this a mystery? There's your man.
Actually, no. Allen's fingerprints did not match Zodiac's. The man was never even charged. In case you think the cops just blew it, in 2002, his DNA was tested against that collected in 1968, with a soundly negative match. Despite all those weird connections, he's not the guy. And while a few others have come forward, they have been cleared as well.
Clearly the culprit was Jack Skellington.
Now, to be clear, lots of people get away with murder. Hell, there are other serial killers who were never caught. But this guy not only was the subject of a nationwide obsession and a furious, expensive investigation, but he also wrote numerous letters to the police. How long do you think you'd evade capture for jaywalking if you did such a thing? You've got potential DNA, fingerprints, writing style analysis, psychological profiling from your letter content, witnesses watching you mail it, tracking on the letter-writing equipment and supplies, tracking back to places your letters were mailed from, DNA and fingerprints at those locations ... need we go on? You'd think the guy would have been booked that same freaking afternoon.
"Hi, is this the Zodiac Killer? It is? Cool. Hold for a moment, please."
Instead, the case is still open, but the police are no closer to finding the killer than they were over 40 years ago.


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Harley Quinn's Greatest Moments from "Batman: The Animated Series"
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Demons are invading Earth and it's up to Buffy to recruit a team to defeat them in Gage & Isaacs' "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" #21.
Joss Whedon's most enduring creation heads back to Sunnydale High in a new "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" story by Faith Erin Hicks and Yishan Li.
Christos Gage and Megan Levens put the Scooby Gang through the supernatural wringer in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" #20.
Willow's magic helps Giles give adulthood a second try in Dark Horse Comics' "Buffy: Season 10" #19 by Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs.
Writer Christos Gage spoke with CBR TV at Comic-Con about working on a new OGN with his wife, the "Daredevil" TV series and "Buffy" Season 10.
Felicia Day chats with SPINOFF about her new book, her career and her fan-favorite "Buffy" and "Supernatural" roles.
A powerful demon forces Angel & Spike to turn on one another in Gage & Isaacs' "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" #18 from Dark Horse Comics.
The fan-favorite actor tells SPINOFF about his new sci-fi film, what to expect from "Deadpool," and those "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" rumors.
Buffy devises a plan for defeating Archaeus in Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs' "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" #17 from Dark Horse.
A demon shares a special bond with Spike, threatening his growing connection to the slayer in Christos Gage & Rebekah Isaacs' "Buffy: Season 10" #15.
Relationships are put on hold when a new villain strikes in Christos Gage, Nicholas Brendon and Megan Levens' "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #12.
Faith is back in London as Victor Gischler & Will Conrad turn up the heat in Dark Horse's "Angel & Faith Season 10" #11, on sale Feb. 4.
Buffy and the gang find their personal lives as complicated as slaying in Christos Gage, Nicholas Brendon & Megan Levens' "Buffy" #11.
Christos Gage & Rebekah Isaacs task Buffy and the gang with writing new rules in the Vampyr book in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" #10.
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I am a newbie to panorama photography and NN. Finally got down to using my NN4 and R-D3L EZ-Leveler-II 6-8-30 and I have a problem levelling the R-DL3 and hoped someone might be able to help.
Following the instructions in the manual. I get the bubble on the level centralised but as I rotate the head through 90, 180 and 270 degrees the bubble drifts off before returning to a central position when I turn it back to 0. I understand that the level is very sensitive but the bubble is part outside the reference circle at some points. I have checked this on a solid floor and with 2 different tripods.
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I have an old record that has some clipping effect that happened during recording. This is a song, so i can't just cut out all frequencies probably ... is there any smarter way around to get rid of that clipping?
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It is impossible to repair clipped signal, since when clipping occurs, part of the original signal is eliminated and cannot be restored. The phenomena is described in the below image:
However there are few commercial clicks\pops removal apps available which could improve the signal. The following list of software appear in Wikipedia:
You can't actually remove clipping - in recording your levels were too high so your waveforms were damaged at that point. Nothing can bring back the originals, andv even filtering can only be used to remove some of the frequencies that may have been caused.


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30 Nov 2011 12:58 AM #1
How to design the docked buttons??
Is it possible to change the design of the buttons like submit, back etc which are used in the docked toolbars.
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I have used the following button,
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.submitbutton{ background-color:#FFF; border-radius:7px; color:#000; padding:10%; }
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Are there any good references/books to recommend about how to build a turn-base game server? It's something like a chess server for pairing chess players and keep game states. In the past, for example the IGS (for go, weiqi) is a socket based implementation. What are the available contemporary technologies to learn from? Thanks!
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I don't think there is a particular book about this, since the topic is kinda trivial.
Just imagine a mail-server where players can sent their actions via mail. The server has all the actions performed so far (as mails), which means you have the game state. If you want to reload the gamestate, just execute all the actions inside the mails chronologically. The only thing you have to do is to make sure whose turn it is ... but thats easy too (e.g. turn numbers). No need for contemporary technologies ... a modified mail server/client solution will do.
Pairing ppl can be done via Elo ... but i guess u knew that
If it were me, I'd build it from the ground up with sockets. The amount of data to send is very small, and the turn-based nature makes a little latency unnoticeable.
The real question, in my opinion, is what additional features you need on it. Are the game sessions persistent (can someone drop out and rejoin, can the game be saved, etc)? If you're doing a Civilization style save you probably want to push out the save data to all clients, or have the save done client side with a server-provided key embedded for verification.
Do you need any sort of between-turn reporting, e.g. "Player 2 is moving a unit" or "Your opponent may be AFK"? If so you may end up wanting to keep the socket connections open.
Generally speaking, unless there's some compelling reason to deviate, I'd keep the server as dumb and simple as possible. Leaves less to debug. I also kind of like using plain text protocols, as I can test my servers using telnet without an actual game client (which may be suspect in a given problem), but this does sort of encourage Wireshark manipulation of the data (which you probably will check for anyway).
Edit: If the game only supports 1-on-1 games, peer-to-peer connections may be worth looking at.
It's important not to overthink what a server is and what it's responsibilities are. In this case, you have a relatively slow acting game, so the server architecture won't be incredibly complicated (vs a faster paced game where you have dead reckoning, etc.). Your server should be listening on a TCP port (might as well skip UDP if you don't require speed anyway) for connected clients to send it packets of information. It accepts the packets, validates them based on the game rules, and sends back a response. In your specific case your server should know who's turn it currently is and reject any attempt by other players to perform actions until it's their turn.
I don't know what technology you had in mind but something this would be easy enough to do in Java with the Kyronet library. Simply send your game actions to the central server (could also be one of the two players), process it, and send back a game update to both players. I'm sure something similar exists for .NET.


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Ask Amanda: How do I join my knitting in the round?
When you're preparing to knit in the round, joining is a critical step. Your pattern will tell you how many stitches to cast on, and then it will ask you to join in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches.
Even one little twist will result in a potentially unusable piece of knitting, so it's worth taking your time and making sure that everything is lined up properly before you continue.
When you're ready to join to knit in the round, you'll need to turn your work so that the last stitch you cast on is at the tip of the needle in your right hand, and the first stitch you cast on is at the tip of the needle in your left hand (in my photos, I used a circular needle but the same applies to double pointed needles).
To actually join into the round, you'll need to knit that first stitch you cast on, but make sure there is no twisting first. Look below for an example of how a correct, untwisted alignment should look right before you join:
The red line is running parallel to the cast on stitches, and you can see that it doesn't twist around at any point—it forms a clean circle. If your project looks like this, you're ready to work the first cast on stitch and your join will be complete.
The next photo shows an example of a twisted alignment, which will need to be corrected before knitting the first cast on stitch and joining the round:
You can see how the red line that follows the cast on is twisting around the needle before straightening back out at the first cast on stitch. It's easy to fix this after you've identified the twist—just take hold of the stitches with one hand and spin them on the needle until the twist is worked out and it looks like my first photo. Once you're confident that there is no twisting, you're ready to work the first cast on stitch and continue with your pattern!
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Thank you for this helpful information. Just yesterday, I cast on for a cowl (204 stitches!) and worked 5 rows before I realized it was twisted. Argh!! It really pays to check and double-check this, since there's no way to fix it besides starting over at cast-on stitch one!January 16, 2013
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Hi there. I am having a nightmare knitting in the round. Something keeps going wrong. I am trying to do a K1 P2 for the rim but keeps going funny at the joining. Anyway I have one question, One thing that is confusing me, is that my cast on tail is at the first stitch. How comes yours is at the end?!August 12, 2013


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Radiotherapy (RT) is the standard of care for unresectable squamous cell carcinomas of the Head and Neck, but the overall survival has been relatively poor, usually less than 25%. Efforts have been made to improve these results, including altered RT fractionation and using chemotherapy with RT, especially concurrently. There have been several studies looking at using cisplatin based chemotherapy concurrent with standard and altered fractionation RT, and they have shown promising results, with 4yr overall survival of 34-49%. Based on these studies, the authors started a study using a control arm of standard RT compared to two arms: standard RT with weekly high dose cisplatin, and split course RT with concurrent 5FU and cisplatin.
This study reports on a randomized trial investigating the use of chemotherapy in addition to radiation for unresectable squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck. There was a significant survival benefit between the high dose cisplatin and control arm, but the study was underpowered and because of this used a one-sided p-value instead of the standard two-sided for their analysis. Therefore, this puts the survival benefit seen into some question.
The group C pts (split course with cisplatin/5FU) did not do as well as expected. One reason might be that during the break, not that many patients went to surgery, which was the main purpose of the break. It is known that doing split course radiotherapy is suboptimal in general, so this might have cancelled out any benefit that could be gained from surgery.
Before this study, high dose cisplatin was thought to be too toxic for oncologists to administer in a community setting, but this study shows the toxicity is manageable. This study and others support the belief that adding cisplatin to radiation is better than radiation alone. However, carboplatin is more widely used today (because of the decreased toxicity), without much supportive scientific evidence.


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This is an sed expression that was created by a contributor here. More specifically by @craig-sanders.
$FileToMove is set to "2012-09-01 Home insurance quote_zz20.pdf"
# use sed to extract folder number from filename.
FolderNo=$(echo "$FileToMove" | sed -r -e 's/.*zz([0-9]+)\.pdf/\1/')
# On my Mac, I figured that this command needs to be FolderNo=$(echo "$FileToMove" | sed -E -e 's/.*zz([0-9]+)\.pdf/\1/')
The above command is used to extract "20" from the name of the file. Now I want to replace zz20 with null.
Been trying to do it. Will learn sed and before that need to learn regular expressions. In the meantime, I am sure it is super easy to replace it with null. Any tips?


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As the city of Bowling Green continues growing, so do the number of emergency workers needed to fill new positions. Bowling Green's Fire Department recently announced it's accepting applications and thus far the response has been overwhelming.
A growing population and new OSHA regulations have created several new positions. As of Thursday, more than 300 people had requested applications from the city's Human Resources Department. Currently the BGFD employs over 100 people, but are looking to fill five positions.
The department is loosing two men to retirement and are planning on adding an additional three positions a year for the next three years.
Chief Gerry Brown says candidates nationwide are drawn by a number of factors including location, benefits and competitive pay. He also adds the tragic events of 9-11 have increased interest in the field.
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As the title says, is there a mathematical object referred to as "ivy" or "ivy type" or similar?
I have a type of graph where this name fits perfectly, but I don't want it to clash with something already defined.
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PlayStation Now on tablets and smartphones to require DualShock 3Written by: / / 5 Comments
One of the big announcements at CES 2014 was Sony's official unveiling of the PlayStation Now streaming service which will eventually allow gamers to play the likes of The Last of Us and God of War: Ascension on their tablets and smartphones.
After the announcement a major question on many people's minds concerned how exactly you'd control these games on mobile devices. Will you need to use a physical controller or will virtual, touchscreen controls also be an option?
During a recent interview with CVG SCEA's marketing VP John Koller addressed these questions and confirmed that you'll need to use a DualShock 3 when streaming games to all devices apart from the PS Vita and PS4. When pressed on how Sony plans to tackle controller input challenges for playing PS3 games on a tablet, Koller replied:
"It needs to go through the DualShock [3]. The DualShock remains the key ingredient. So that controller experience needs to go perfectly. We didn't want to utilise touch screen or anything like that because the games are best played with a DualShock."
The DualShock 3 uses Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR so it's fair to say that PlayStation Now won't be available on mobile devices which don't support this protocol.
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An Agreement Establishing the Endowment for The Clifford Judkins Durr and Virginia Foster Durr Lectureship at Auburn University at Montgomery
On the petition of the Lectures Committee of the Clifford Judkins Durr Lectures: Drs. Allen Hess, William Honey and Nancy Woodman, and members of the Clifford and Virginia Durr family: Ann Durr Lyon and Lucy Durr Hackney, the Clifford J. Durr Lectureship at Auburn University at Montgomery is hereby amended to read as follows:
Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) is establishing an endowment to fund the Clifford Judkins Durr and Virginia Foster Durr Lectures. The purpose of the lectures is to present nationally prominent speakers to address aspects of the constitutional protection of civil liberties, especially those enunciated in the First Amendment of the United States of America Constitution. These liberties need forums so they can be expressed continually and affirmed, and nowhere in society is there a more appropriate forum than the university. This lecture series will enhance the learning atmosphere for students, faculty and the community at large, helping to fulfill the mission of AUM. The lectures are to be free and open to the public.
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Air Combat - new ideas? Begging thread :D
I downloaded the greatest mod I've ever seen - I mean air combat. It just unbelievable how the mooder created the flying system, fighting system, AI of the enemies...working flares, locking missiles...so professional so smart and real. I played BF3 for a long time and I can tell you that GTA IV Air Combat is more realistic than what DICE did. The speed, the manouver...everything is just great here!
Anyway as a human I will never stop wanting more so I post here ideas which maybe someone could do as a modder master.
1. JETS are great but 1 against 16 bots is strange (they most crash so the fight doest last forever but...) Is there a chance to put a mod which let player to spawn his "friends"? (like 2 jets which fly behind you)
2. The jets are equipped with the bombs but there is no point to use them, right? So could you make a mod that spawn like 10 cars which are going to blow (or anything else) and you must destroy them in time limit?
3. Spawning cars to destory and spotting them on radar would be nice but can you put ships on sea also visable on radar which we should destory in time limit or before they reach the island?
4. Putting circles in the air space which we should past in time limit as a traning and to have a purpouse
5. Steering - here is propably the hardest thing to do but... I said before steering is great coz it is but I played other air games and I must say that it would be easier and more movie style if:
- SPACE - roll up
- left mouse button - fire canno
- right mouse button + mouse movement - control camera around the jet to locate the enemies
- mouse movement - to roll up, down, left and right - this is propably the hardest
- shift - turbo
- hiding landing gear - BUTTON (T or other) coz it looks bad when I slow down to dodge the enemy and I see landing gear 10000 feet above the ground
6. 2 seats on a jet (F15 for example) when you switch to the second place you can fire the missiles like someone did in a mod AC130. The jet flies with a constant speed.
7. When you break the sound barrier (max speed for the jet) there could be an affect. Here is how it looks in real:
This is just asking. Not the best ideas but it could be nice with them.
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The motto of the Pratt Community College athletic department is "We love to win, but integrity, standards and educational experiences are priorities."
The NJCAA recently announced its annual student-athlete awards, and several PCC student-athletes were recognized for their academic achievements—proving that PCC takes seriously its commitment to scholarship on the part of its athletes.
PCC athletic director Kurt McAfee announced that a dozen individual Beavers and four of the college's teams had met the scholastic standards established by the NJCAA.
Individually, a student-athlete is presented with a Pinnacle Award for Academic Excellence for maintaining a 4.0 GPA. A Superior rating is granted for a 3.8-3.99 and 3.6-3.79 is designated Exemplary.
Kylee Pywell (volleyball) and Jared Lupo (baseball) were both honored with the Pinnacle Award for maintaining a 4.0.
Jordan Biester (womens soccer), Haylee Eck (volleyball), Alyssa Kinkelaar (womens soccer), Lauren Randall (womens soccer) and Hannah Mehl (womens basketball) each received the Exemplary Award.
Earning a Superior Award were Melissa Williams (softball), Sean Michaelson (mens basketball), John Lassiter (baseball), Landon Keiswetter (wrestling) and Tanner Johnson (mens basketball).
In addition, four Beaver teams made the NJCAA 2012-2013 All-Academic teams. Most notably, the PCC Wrestling team had the highest GPA of any school participating in wrestling in the nation, sporting a 3.25. Members of the squad included Edward Fitzgerald, Jacob Morris, Kasey Crump, Kory Pfannensteil, Landon Keiswetter, Lucas Dutch, Lucas Hockenbury, Sheldon Graves, Taylor Baird, Tyler Cassity and Zach Hoehn.
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I guess the state of Colorado and amazon.com are in a big sales tax debacle. Amazon thought it would be wise to punish all associates in Colorado by abruptly closing our accounts. Nice.
The crazy thing is... I've always loved Amazon and frankly... I'm a little hurt by the whole thing. I liked having the carousel book widgets at the side of this blog. Along with fitting the design layout of the blog and generating a little bit of revenue , it made me feel like I was giving back to the artists and publishers as well.
Oh well... I took the books down. I just can't see continuing advertising for such a big company after being treated in such a manner. Thanks to Scott at Design studio press, the Steambot crew, Doug Chiang, Daniel Simon and everyone else that had a great book there.
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