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I am currently reading the 1998 article Dynamics of the Binary Euclidean Algorithm: Functional Analysis and Operators by Brigitte Vallée, which cites a 1928 article by R. M. Gabriel for the following inequality: if $f$ is a holomorphic function defined in an open ball $U$, $\Gamma$ is a circular contour contained in $U$, $\gamma$ is a convex contour enclosed by $\Gamma$, and $p>0$, then $$\int_\gamma |f(z)|^p|dz|\leq 2\int_\Gamma |f(z)|^p|dz|.$$ The text suggests that Vallée borrowed this reference from the 1969 PhD thesis of Howard J. Schwartz - which deals with composition operators on Hardy spaces - although I haven't seen this thesis myself. I found Gabriel's original paper somewhat dated in its terminology and presentation, and I am wondering whether a more up-to-date reference exists for this result, or whether it has been subsumed into a more general result which is now relatively well-known. Is anyone able to point me in the direction of a modern version of this inequality, or a textbook which contains this inequality? In Vallée's application and in the one which I am considering, it is sufficient to consider the case in which $\gamma$ is also circular.
Since the result holds for all $p>0$, I wonder whether the key property being used is subharmonicity rather than holomorphicity. In any case, I haven't been able to find this result either in books on Hardy spaces (the context in which it is applied by Vallée, and presumably also Schwartz) or in books on convex analysis; or if I have found it, its modern form is so far removed from Gabriel's statement that I was unable to recognise it. Anyway, I would be very grateful if someone could direct me to a more modern reference for this result.


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Katie Glovatsky lives the glamorous life of a breakout reality-show star. She and her fellow cast members Zoey, Hakeem, and Callie spend most nights traveling by limo, swilling martinis, dancing on tables, and dodging the paparazzi. She knows the bouncers at the hottest clubs, including the Glitter Box, and she always receives VIP bottle service, though she secretly would rather drink milk than Moet.
Her days are spent getting her beauty rest, soaking in the sun, and grooming her jet-black hair — truly her crowning glory. Every so often, she'll go for a run or chase a ball around, but mostly she tries to save her energy for the nightlife.
What most of her fans don't know, however, is that Katie Glovatsky is painfully shy. In fact, when people come over, she scurries under the sofa.
"Katie is not a very social cat," says Debbie Glovatsky, a Minneapolis-based blogger who created a series of stop-motion YouTube videos called "The Real Housecats of the Blogosphere."
In 2009, Glovatsky was curious about social media, though she had very little experience with it. She wanted to start a blog, but wasn't quite sure how to begin until her husband said, "Why don't you have Katie introduce you?"
Glovatsky began writing in what she imagined was Katie's voice — sarcastic and sassy. She quickly discovered that the internet was teeming with people similarly inspired by their own cats. Soon, Glovatsky began creating videos using photos of Katie accompanied by an entourage of her online friends' cats. Before long, Glovatsky was attending cat-blogger conventions.
Glovatsky is self-aware enough to realize that this all might make her sound a little odd.
"I had no idea when I started to write in the voice of my cat that there were others."
On the other side of Minneapolis, another Katie — this one human — looks exhausted. Katie Czarniecki Hill has been up all night, not partying at the Glitter Box, but organizing the world's first cat-video film festival.
Ever since Hill, a self-described "cat lady" and cat-video aficionado, began working at the Walker Art Center as a MNartists.org fellow nearly two years ago, she'd been hinting to her colleagues of her secret wish to create the Cannes of cat videos. Hill was, however, aware of the stigma attached to cat lovers (the "crazy cat lady" stereotype), so she was cautious at first. Still, she felt it was important for cat-video lovers to shed their stigma and LOL in public for at least one night.
The longer she worked at the Walker, the bolder Hill's hints became until she finally got the attention of the team in charge of Open Field. Open Field is, physically, a sprawling lawn next to the Walker, but conceptually, it's much, much more. The Walker regards it as a "community commons," according to Scott Stulen, director of the MNartists.org program at the Walker and an organizer for the Open Field program.
"It's meant to foster collaboration, openness, and a spirit of making things together," Stulen says. "Most of the activities aren't prescribed; they're what the public brings to us."
Depending on the time and day, the field is used for informal drawing classes, making giant cat's cradles with yards upon yards of yarn, live-action role playing games, small concerts — it was even once used for a class that taught children how to hotwire cars. A tool shed housing musical instruments, art supplies, and building materials sits next to the field and remains unlocked during the day to encourage spontaneous creation.
"The element of play is really important," Stulen explains.
When Hill first conceived of the cat-video festival, the Open Field team approached it in their usual relaxed way. First they would put out a call for submissions on the Open Field blog. Then they'd choose some of the best videos. The plan was for Hill to sit out on the lawn and project the videos onto a screen from her laptop. A hundred or so people might show up with food and blankets.
But then word of the cat-video festival exploded all over the internet, and suddenly the Walker's press office was getting calls from across the world. The international media wanted to know if they'd need credentials to attend. The entertainment media wanted to know if there would be a red carpet. Celebrities offered to host.
At the end of that first week in mid-July, there were already 1.2 million news articles written about the first-ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival. As for the videos themselves, there were already more than 5,000 submissions (more than 10,000 would pour in by the official deadline only a couple of weeks later).
"I never thought I would be talking to a radio station in Ireland this morning," Hill marvels.
Despite their shock and exhaustion, Hill and Stulen are ecstatic. There's something very meta about a cat-video film festival going viral, and art people love meta.
"In the era of social media and the internet, what does curation mean?" Stulen asks. "Who is an artist and who is a spectator? Also, the idea of the commons: YouTube is the commons — it's kind of like Open Field on steroids."
Hill nods. "Putting this all out there is like a performance piece — a group performance piece," she says. "The social interaction is just as interesting as the cat videos themselves."
"We've done this at a critical moment," Stulen continues. "The cat video is so ubiquitous that it's become a joke. But it's not a joke, because people have very strong opinions about it and take it very seriously."
Winston sits calmly on the bed. A red dot from a laser pointer undulates over the bedspread, pulsating with increasing insistence. Winston gazes around the room nonchalantly, looking everywhere but at the dot. Yellow text scrolls over the screen. "Wikipedia lists a paragraph's worth of Exotic Shorthair characteristics. Almost none apply to Winston."
Winston isn't normal. That's the thesis of Rich Juzwiak, a longtime blogger in New York who now works for Gawker. Winston would meow without making a sound, he loved to eat bananas (so much that his stage name became Winston Bananas), and he was totally nonplussed by things most other cats were crazy about (laser pointers, for example). Juzwiak was sure that other people would be just as perplexed and entranced by Winston as he was.
"It was like, 'I live with this alien and look at what he does,'" Juzwiak says. "I find the way Winston looks at the world fascinating."
In addition to being weird, Winston was great on camera, although he wasn't particularly cuddly with Juzwiak off-camera. Juzwiak was closer to the couple's other cat, Rudy, while Winston favored Juzwiak's then-boyfriend.
"It was almost like Winston knew he had this task to carry out," Juzwiak says. "We had a great working relationship."
Juzwiak started a blog in 2005, writing about anything that caught his attention — mostly pop culture, but also Winston and his weirdness. In 2006, Juzwiak began posting Winston Bananas videos to his blog. His readers went, well, bananas.
Now on YouTube, Winston Bananas videos have, collectively, received millions of views and remain popular even today. At the time, however, Winston wasn't a total star like some of today's YouTube cats.
"I would say cat videos were a thing back then, but definitely not the thing that they would become," Juzwiak says.
What was more of a thing was LOLcats, images that combined a photo of a feline with a grammatically incorrect caption. For example, a photo of a cat playing with a sock is accompanied by a caption that reads, "Lookit dat! I has a sok!" (This type of kitty grammar became known as "LOLspeak.")
According to Wikipedia, the first recorded use of the term "LOLcat" appeared on 4chan, the anonymous internet image forum. By June 2006, "LOLcats" was popular enough that is was registered as a domain name.
Though humans have been anthropomorphizing cats for centuries, people on the internet did it in a new, quirkily funny, and oddly cohesive way. Still, most of the people who knew about LOLcats were tech geeks — internet cat culture wasn't discussed on talk shows or around the dinner table.
In January 2007, Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Honolulu, had a bad day. He was feeling so dejected that he immediately contacted his friend Kari Unebasami, a web editor who had an extensive collection of LOLcats saved on her computer.
"Can you send me one of those funny pictures?" he begged. "I need a pick-me-up."
Unebasami sent him a picture of a fat, gray British shorthair looking pensive, his head tilted and mouth slightly open. "I Can Has Cheezburger?" read the caption.
It was so random and ridiculous and weird that Nakagawa had no choice but to laugh. His day immediately got better after this little "cute hit."
Back then, it was hard to find LOLcats if you didn't know where to look. "They already existed, but they weren't really organized," explains Nakagawa.
He and Unebasami bought the domain name I Can Has Cheezburger, and began curating (his word) their favorites. Very soon after it launched, I Can Has Cheezburger attracted the attention of the popular group blog Boing Boing. Then the mass media started paying attention. Almost instantly, the site went wildly viral, attracting 500,000 views daily.
The two friends soon quit their jobs in order to maintain the site. They slept very little, working what Nakagawa describes as "23-hour days."
That lasted for nine months. At the end of 2007, the two friends sold the site for a whopping $2 million to Ben and Emily Huh, who now run the Cheezburger network, which receives 400 million views a month across its 50 humor sites.
According to Nakagawa, the LOLcat pictures were a precursor to the cat video phenomenon.
"YouTube has grown dramatically since then," he says. "The same kind of quirky, weird, eccentric humor of the LOLcats lives on in the YouTube videos."
"I am Maru. The strangest cat on the planet!" the headline above the video announces. Ukulele music plays as a chubby Scottish Fold gets his head stuck in a variety of receptacles — a paper bag, a tube of bubble wrap, a plastic cup — while walking dispassionately around a sprawling apartment decorated sparsely with modern white furniture.
With more than 170 million views on his channel, Maru is the most popular non-animated cat on YouTube, according to Jessica Mason, YouTube's "cat expert" who also works in the company's communications department.
"It seems that there are actually more dog videos than cat videos, but overall I think cat videos are viewed more frequently," Mason says. "I think one of the reasons pets do really well on YouTube is the same reason babies are popular on YouTube. You don't need a translator or a certain global point of view. Pets are a unifier."
Jack Shepherd begs to differ. The community manager and animals editor at Buzzfeed, a site that detects viral content on the internet and reports on that content editorially, Shepherd argues that there is an ineffable magic to cats, or at least the ones who become stars.
Shepherd has watched hundreds upon thousands of cat videos, and has spent a lot of time and energy trying to figure out why cats are so sticky on the web.
"I think some of it is an accident," he says. "The LOLcats became so popular and cats have sort of had this edge since 2007. But as a cat partisan, I think there's more to it than that."
Shepherd cites the tendency for most cat videos to be cute, soothing, and short in duration, giving viewers a quick and efficient break from their hectic modern lives. (Much like Eric Nakagawa needed on that fateful crappy day before he wound up launching I Can Has Cheezburger).
Shepherd also asks the age-old question: Why cats and not dogs? Then he supplies the age-old cat-partisan answer that dogs are desperate and try too hard, while cats are cool and aloof and therefore more mysterious and interesting to watch.
All of this is true in general, he says, but it all comes down to the stars.
"Maru is a triumph — he's a legend and a genius," Shepherd says. "There's an ease of anthropomorphizing that makes successful cat videos fascinating. There's an intelligence to Maru and other cat celebrities. When they're doing something un-catlike and much more human, that's what's fascinating."
According to Shepherd, the best internet cat videos are coming out of Japan and Russia. Maru lives in Japan, and Maru's biggest contender is a Japanese cat called Shiro Neko.
While Maru is quirky and energetic and appears solo in his videos, Shiro Neko is very Buddha-like and has an entourage of similarly chilled-out cats who surround him.
The Americans also boast several respectable cat-video stars, Shepherd says. Winston Bananas is a master of the art, a classic, according to Shepherd, and Lil Bub of Bloomington, Indiana, is a breakout star, mainly because of her unique look.
Still only a kitten, Lil Bub was born with several deformities — no teeth, a shortened lower jaw that causes her tongue to permanently hang out, dwarfism, an abnormally long body, very short limbs, and an extra toe on each paw. But by some quirk of nature the combination of these deformities adds up to an extremely adorable appearance.
Mike Bridavsky, who took in Lil Bub when she was only two months old, began posting her photos on a blog, LilBub.com, and posted videos to YouTube almost as an afterthought. The blog and the videos instantly became famous, though Bridavsky thinks Lil Bub's popularity is more the result of her personality than her looks.
"She's very self-unaware," Bridavsky says. "She has these deformities, but she doesn't let it get to her. She's very confident, and it gives people a sense of pride and hope. I get a lot of emails from people telling me Bub has made a huge difference in their lives."
Shepherd says that a cat video's success also has a lot to do with the person behind the camera. He talks about how Mugumogu, the YouTube handle of the person behind the Maru videos, knows how to play to Maru's strengths.
"The best cat videos have an arc to them — there's a payoff in the end," he says. "There's a craft that goes into it that has legitimacy."
A crudely animated woman LOLspeaks to her cat while driving.
"What's do yous wants to eats?" she asks breathily.
The cat meows, a thought bubble appearing above his head: "I don't know. What do you want to eat?"
The woman's mouth, big and red, moves slowly and rather spookily: "We's coulds get fish tacos. Yous likes those."
The conversation goes back and forth without much variation for several more seconds.
Katie Czarniecki Hill clicks it off. "It's a little too creepy for me," she says. "It's a little too harsh."
"It's not funny," Scott Stulen says, adding that the genre requires videos to be funny, or at least cute in that they're playful or anthropomorphic.
Over the past couple of weeks, Hill and Stulen have been working tirelessly along with a jury of artists and curators to select the best cat-video submissions to be shown during the hour-long film festival. This jury model is something MNartists.org, a joint project of the McKnight Foundation and the Walker, typically employs when seeking submissions for shows.
"We're treating the video creators like any artist we would be working with," Stulen explains.
Sarah Schultz, director of the Walker's education program and one of the cat-video jurors, walks in to the basement studio in the Walker as Hill and Stulen are critiquing some of the submissions. Mostly unacquainted with cat videos before this process, Schultz says that she watched the 50 videos Hill gave her, then probably 50 more.
"I was surprised by the range of approaches and degrees of earnestness that people take to the subject," Schultz says. "I also learned that I like less produced, more raw videos — the ones that seem spontaneous. I don't like documentary film except when it comes to cat videos."
Some of the elements that the team at the Walker has been examining in each video:
Production value: Do the form and content work well together? "Some videos need to be very produced, and others are captured with a cell phone camera and are all the better for it," Hill says. "It all depends if the form matches the content."
Editing: Is the film too long, do the frames fit seamlessly? "Some need some serious editing, but we still like them," Hill says.
Narrative: What's the arc? "What's happening and what's not happening?" Hill says.
Inventiveness: "What's happening that you haven't seen before?" Stulen says. "Is there an element of the unexpected?"
Stulen plays "Boots and Cats," a sleek, heavily produced music video involving beats and the repeated words "boots" and "cats," accompanied by photos of boots and cats. The overall result is surprisingly genius.
"It's very intentional," Stulen says. "And it's also random and unexpected."
Next, they play "Standing Cat," which features an orange cat standing straight up on his hind legs, looking completely nonchalant, while a whimsical French ditty plays in the background. It looks like it was filmed spontaneously with an inexpensive camera.
"It doesn't feel staged," Hill says.
"You can tell it just sort of happens every day at 2 p.m.," Stulen says. "This is a very good example of this type of genre — under a minute, good soundtrack use."
Then comes "Camouflage Cat — The Translation," in which one cat, covered in grass, pops up and scares the dickens out of another cat strolling past. The video is dubbed, with both cats speaking in what sound like Jamaican accents.
"Jesus mon!" the scared cat says.
"It's me, mon — Dave," the other cat says, and a hilarious conversation ensues.
"It's funny with just the straight footage," Hill says. "But modifying it with the dubbing makes it even more creative."
The next challenge is to place the winners into categories — for example, Documentary, Foreign Film, Animated Film.
One category the team at the Walker won't have to worry about is the People's Choice, which fans are voting for on the Open Field blog. Maru is on there, as are several other stars and one-hit wonders. Most if not all of the videos have long gone viral, and some have led to their creators' financial success.
Stulen points out another component to some of these cat videos. "This is marketing. This is your ad. Then you go and sell all of your other stuff."
A black cat walks on its front legs, its butt and hind legs high in the air. In the next frame, an orange cat waves its front legs frantically, "boxing" along with fighters on a TV in front of him. In yet another clip, two gray cats sit on a desk in front of a computer playing pattycake. In the next scene, a man sits behind a desk in a corporate-looking office.
"We're seeing a shift in consumer habits: Everything is moving toward cat videos," the man says, deadpan. "And the agencies that don't realize that will get left behind."
This YouTube video, titled "Catvertising," is a spoof on the typical internal ad agency video highlighting a trend in the industry. With more than a million views, the video is another one of those things in the world of internet cats that could easily be called meta.
Cat videos are indeed an important trend in the advertising industry, not to mention a potentially huge source of profit for both advertisers and cat-video creators. Just a couple of months ago, Bloomberg Businessweek ran a story titled "The Growing Power of the Meme." The accompanying art? A LOLcat with the caption "Pay Me! I is a Spokes-Kitteh!"
Nyan Cat is the perfect example of just how well a "spokes-kitteh" can get paid. Nyan Cat was the brainchild of Chris Torres, a comic artist and internet aficionado. Bored one day last April, Torres created the gray cat with the breakfast-pastry body and a rainbow trailing behind it as a silly piece of animation for his Twitter account.
But then a YouTube user, Sara Reihani, found Nyan Cat and put it to music — a song consisting only of the repeated word "nyan," which is Japanese for "meow." YouTube users went crazy.
Fans modified the video, creating Lady Gaga Nyan Cats, cowboy Nyan Cats, and Nyan Cats as mascots for every country around the globe. Today, the original video boasts 82 million views, though there are many more millions when you factor in all of Nyan Cat's various incarnations.
On the day he created Nyan Cat, Torres had an interview for a job as an assistant at an insurance company. Though he landed the job, he didn't work there for long. Torres had to quit to manage all the deals — and cash — flowing in from Nyan Cat. (He says he splits the money with Reihani and also donates quite a bit to cat-related charities.)
Nyan Cat has appeared in ads for Nike, Sprint and, most recently, Vitamin Water. Hot Topic sells shirts emblazoned with the colorful cat, and Toys 'R' Us will soon offer a line of Nyan Cat plush toys, manufactured by JAKKS Pacific.
There have been so many opportunities that Torres has had to hire Ben Lashes, a former Portland, Oregon, musician who is possibly the first-ever meme manager (he also represents the famous Keyboard Cat). Torres also hired a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer.
YouTube ads have also brought in money for Mike Bridavsky, creator of the Lil Bub videos. In addition to the ad income, Bridavsky has a thriving online store filled with Lil Bub merchandise like tote bags and T-shirts. Bridavsky says the store brings in between 100 and 150 orders per week. He hasn't quit his job as owner of a recording studio, but mostly because he loves the work.
"I've been doing this since I was 14," he says. "I'm not going to quit my job just because my cat got famous."
Still, even though it's becoming much more common, this type of success is so new that, right now, it's hard to come up with even a rough formula for how to achieve it. According to Torres, it's a bizarre combination of luck, hard work, and whimsy.
"I think the most important thing to know is that it can never be forced," he says. "Whatever you're making has to be spontaneous and random and fun."
A ginger cat wearing a pale blue shirt sits in front of a keyboard, his arms outstretched dramatically. He begins playing a jaunty little tune, throwing his head back and closing his eyes. He presses down on the keys, letting the sound reverberate for a few seconds. He raises his arms high above the instrument, and the camera fades.
The cat is soon back, this time with an electronic drumbeat playing in the background. He pushes down on the keyboard, which makes a familiar, though tinny, sound: "Meow, meow, meow."
This is Charlie Schmidt's famous "Keyboard Cat," recorded on beta film in 1984 and added to YouTube in 2007 when Schmidt digitized all of his old videos before they fell apart.
"I thought, 'Hey, what about that YouTube I've been hearing about?'" says Schmidt, now age 61. "So I uploaded a bunch of my weirdo videos."
Out of all the cat-video creators, perhaps no one more than Schmidt embodies both the old concept of art and the new concept of commerce that's emerging as a result of the internet.
Schmidt is an established artist, the kind the Walker has been dealing with for decades. According to his LinkedIn profile, Schmidt studied fine arts at Nihon Dai Gakku in Tokyo in the 1970s. He has a videotaped performance-art piece called LOVE BOAT in the permanent collection at the prestigious Centre Pompidou in Paris. Schmidt refers to himself on his personal website as a "multimedia artist, creator, designer, actor, character."
"One of his weird performance-art things got famous and he was once on Jay Leno," says his manager, Ben Lashes, who knew Schmidt while growing up because the artist was a friend of his father, Doug Clark, a Spokane news columnist. "In Spokane, Charlie is known as this Renaissance artist/actor/genius/painter/pop artist."
When Schmidt recorded Keyboard Cat, however, he was still young and struggling.
"I didn't have a job, but I had a video camera and a cat, so I got to work on my portfolio," Schmidt says.
Keyboard Cat was one of the first videos he recorded. He took his cat Fatso, dressed her in a shirt (yes, Fatso was a girl), and manipulated her like a puppet to create the illusion that she was playing the keyboard.
The video was on Schmidt's acting reel for years without much fanfare. When he finally uploaded it to YouTube, it didn't instantly go viral.
But in August 2009, an influential blogger and internet tastemaker named Brad O'Farrell found Keyboard Cat and combined it with footage of a man tumbling down an escalator to create what he called a "fail video." That video went seriously viral. Within days, Schmidt's website went from 300 hits per day to 200,000. O'Farrell had credited Schmidt, and YouTube users were curious.
By that point, Schmidt had for several years been a successful graphic artist and video producer and had his own freelance outfit. Suddenly, the offers came rolling in, and Keyboard Cat eventually landed licensing deals with the likes of Nokia, Samsung, 20th Century Fox, and Wonderful Pistachios. Money also came pouring in from YouTube ads.
Schmidt quit freelancing and began to manage Keyboard Cat full time. He hired Lashes, who had by then achieved his own major-label success with his band the Lashes and had quite a bit of entertainment-industry wisdom to impart. Still, this meme fame was and still is in many ways an entirely different animal than Hollywood fame.
"When I was starting out with Charlie, it was sort of like, 'No one else is doing this and treating it the way we'd want to do it.' I can't think of another cat-video commercial that was going on then," Lashes says. "And the other concern was, how do you keep it cool and not sell out?"
They ended up being very careful about the brands they chose to work with, making sure each company thoroughly understood the essence of Keyboard Cat.
Schmidt has continued on with the Keyboard Cat theme, making a video called "Keyboard Cat Reincarnated" with his new cat Bento (Fatso died in the early '90s) and creating a website called Keyboard Cat Church, which features messages from Keyboard Cat in heaven. Both projects have attracted their own attention, with Microsoft featuring Keyboard Cat Reincarnated in one of its promotions.
Despite his success, Schmidt is still a bit freaked out by internet fame, particularly the seeming randomness of it.
"It's like wildflowers," he says. "If you're planting, you don't know exactly when something will come up. It's spooky. Sometimes I think, 'Why do I try?'"
But he's convinced that cat videos are indeed art.
"It's folk art. It's visual, it's controversial, it's compelling," he says. "Art makes people feel better. It makes life a little bit easier, if only for a few seconds."
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Thursday, August 30, 8:30–9:30 p.m.
Walker Art Center, Open Field
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Post and Beam, located in beautiful Baldwin Hills, recently came on to my radar when my friend Joanne suggest we check it out. We hopped in my car and drove down Crenshaw Boulevard one brisk Saturday evening and upon our arrival were greeted with a friendly staff and a cozy atmosphere. Tucked away behind Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, this hidden gem proved to be such a culinary delight that I am already plotting a return for brunch.
Since traveling to Atlanta not that long ago, I developed a love for many things Southern, one of them being the cuisine, which I realized I had many misconceptions about. Much to my joy the menu boasted two of my favorite dishes: shrimp & grits (with bacon) and deviled eggs (with house-cured catfish). Both of these plates really set it off and when all were eaten and done, remained my two favorite dishes for the evening, though there were many hits at our table.
One of the reasons I love Joanne as a dining partner is that she is comfortable trying as many dishes as possible, so we decided to go all out. Believe it or not, we could still function after eating plate after plate of savory treats and were even privy to a tour (post-meal) of the restaurant's garden, which is essential to their farm-to-table menu.
Did I mention how much I loved deviled eggs? I must admit I'd never tried smoked catfish but let me tell you, it was a dream in my mouth. This intro plate is not to be overlooked under any circumstances! Jo, being a corn bread fan ordered up a plate of this piping hot yellow creation, which was paired with whipped honey butter. I'm probably one of the least enthusiastic people about corn bread so I couldn't tell you either way if you should order it. I don't even eat my mother's corn bread and I've heard it's delicious.
Brussel sprouts and bacon, now you're talking! Ordered as a side to one of our entrees but also offered as a small plate, this cast iron pot served up some incredibly flavorful greens that truly stole the show as the must order vegetable.
For my main course, I chose the Smoked Baby Back Ribs with Spicy White Sauce. The sauce wasn't spicy but the ribs were moist and tasty. I love when ribs are so flavorful that I feel inspired to suck the bone dry and boy, did I. Paired with two sides: Mac & Cheese and Long Cooked Greens with Smoked Ham Hock, I was sitting pretty with what felt like a platter of food, all individually bursting with flavor.
Dessert, not usually in my game plan, was all too intriguing this time around. I spotted a Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with guava and kumquat glaze and didn't even have to look at the other options because I just knew. Never have I said no to panna cotta of any sort as it is my favorite sweet treat. Much to my excitement, this perfectly chilled bowl brought the flavor and smooth texture I so fantasize about and ended what was already an enjoyable meal. Since Jo was oohing over her Nutella Bundino, made with hazelnut, caramel and crème fraîche. I had a tiny bite out of of her beautiful glass and though it was incredibly tasty, it was far too rich for my blood. Serious sweet tooths need apply.
Looking forward to spending some time on this patio once the weather warms up! Nothing beats good food, great conversation and I love supporting an African-American owned business that also boasts an African-American head chef. Major props go out to Brad Johnson for holding it down and chef Govind Armstrong for getting the menu right. The restaurant recently celebrated its year anniversary and I wish them nothing but success.
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Imperial vs Vaganova vs Soviet Style
Posted 01 November 2008 - 02:06 AM
I've heard that the Imperial style port de bra is more subtle, is this correct? are there any other differences?
When people refer to Soviet style or Soviet training, is it synonymous with the vaganova school?
It must seems to me that the word Soviet tends to be used when referring to the Bolshoi before the disintegration, is this so?
Posted 12 November 2008 - 03:00 PM
Vaganova style coincides with the Soviet era -- "Soviet" is more a political than a technical term, and refers to the period in Russian Ballet history during the Soviet era. The mid-20th century heyday of the Bolshoi was certainly during the Soviet Era, but so were Kirov ballets such as the Lavrovsky "Romeo and Juliet", or "The Fountain of Baksischirai."
Posted 12 November 2008 - 04:36 PM
Anyone else? I suspect that a number of us would like to hear your answers to cxllqhy's interesting questions.
For example, I've always tended to assume that people in the West used the term "Soviet" most frequently when talking about the style of those big, muscular, showy, overtly athletic works that were a specialty of the Bolshoi. "Russian" seemed to be preferred when discussing finer and more classically pure works. I have no real evidence for this; it's just an impression about the language of press reviews and "ballet talk" when Soviet/Russian companies first began touring regularly in the West.
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Posted 13 November 2008 - 05:05 AM
As for the comparison to the Imperial "style" and again I would say the Imperial "style" of ballet is not a style but the name of the schools of ballet in Milan, Italy and St. Petersburg, Russia and perhaps other countries with Royalty. Both Academies have illustrious graduates. The Imperial Academy of Milan did have an influence on the Imperial Academy of Russia in that Cecchetti and other dancers of note were able to pass their knowledge from Milan on to the Russians and Vaganova in particular. Having studied with Russian teachers who were trained as dancers in the Imperial school and as teachers in the Vaganova method, it is difficult to separate the two schools of thought since the Imperial Academy had an influence on these wonderful teachers but they only discussed their knowledge of movement crediting the Vaganova method. The Imperial school of ballet did have a great influence on the development of Vaganova schooling. Also watching an older dancer (and by that I mean women and men in their late 70s and 80s), show port de bras has never given me an actual knowledge of what the port de bras should actually look like, but rather wonderful imagery and ideas for passing along information.
The principles of Vaganova port de bras are based upon harmonious form and placement of the arms with a natural sense of coordination of body movement with musicality. The end result of the 8 years of study, when taught correctly, creates a balanced, harmonious sense of movement. In teaching the principles of Vaganova port de bras to American students, one of the biggest differences I am confronted by is that today's students generally do not have the backs of students trained in the Vaganova method in Russia and perhaps elsewhere. Without this important understanding of the back Vaganova port de bras can not exist. When one is watching a dancer, it is generally evident if the dancer has a background in Vaganova, by the way they move and use their arms and focus but I can not actually pinpoint what the differences are.
Posted 13 November 2008 - 05:33 AM
For example, I've always tended to assume that people in the West used the term "Soviet" most frequently when talking about the style of those big, muscular, showy, overtly athletic works that were a specialty of the Bolshoi. "Russian" seemed to be preferred when discussing finer and more classically pure works. I have no real evidence for this; it's just an impression about the language of press reviews and "ballet talk" when Soviet/Russian companies first began touring regularly in the West.
In my personal opinion, Russian ballet during the 20th Century developed along two lines--one at the Kirov/Mariinsky Theatre and one at the Bolshoi Theatre. The Kirov/Mariinsky style was perfected by Agrippina Vaganova, and it is a true descendant of the "Imperial" style of ballet that Marius Petipa perfected in the second half of the 19th Century. Konstantin Sergeyev evolved this very style during the Kirov era--and most of the "classical" ballets performed at the Mariinsky Theatre today are (more or less) the work of Sergeyev. The Bolshoi style came from the work of Alexander Gorsky, who emphasized stronger acting skills on-stage. You can see this clearly with both Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya, both legendary for their acting ability on-stage during their heyday. Interestingly, the Bolshoi style evolved to the "big, muscular, showy, overtly athletic works" mentioned in the quote above, probably (in my opinion! ) because of the influence of Stalin and his preference for "big" things. The ballet Spartacus--which is a "showcase" ballet for the Bolshoi--is by far the best-known example of this, especially with the current 1968 choreography by Yuri Grigorovich.
During the second half of the 20th Century in the Soviet era, the Bolshoi style of ballet was vastly better known in the West, since Bolshoi troupe toured a lot longer in the West and many Bolshoi dancers in this period became household names among Western balletomanes. In my opinion, in 2008 I find it to be the reverse, as many Kirov/Mariinsky dancers have become household names Western to balletomanes.
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Interestingly, the Bolshoi style evolved to the "big, muscular, showy, overtly athletic works" mentioned in the quote above, probably (in my opinion! smile.gif ) because of the influence of Stalin and his preference for "big" things.
According to Karsavina, if I recall correctly, during her time as a student at the Imperial school and with the Imperial Ballet, the difference between the Imperial Ballet and the Bolshoi was that the former, modeled on the French school, strove to be extremely refined and graceful, whereas the latter had a more showy style, not bothering to hide effort, less refined, &c. So it would seem that the Bolshoi's big, athletic style has been around for quite some time!
Also, I feel it is important to note that one can be trained in the Vaganova method (or perhaps I had better say in something very similar to it) without acquiring the Mariinsky style. Others know more about this, and I would like to hear from them on the subject--I recall reading that in the Soviet era, all state ballet schools in the USSR used the Vaganova method of training, including the Bolshoi, Perm, and Kiev schools, yet all of their affiliated companies have different styles. I usually find it relatively easy to see the differences between the Mariinsky, Bolshoi, and Perm--I have less experience with Kiev graduates, although I do know one--maybe I can ask her about it.
So while Vaganova developed her method primarily to allow her students to dance at the Mariinsky/Imperial Theater, and the Mariinsky ballet has certainly kept its principle of refinement (although, lately, not necessarily restraint) one can be trained in the Vaganova method yet dance in a company with a different style--certain styles, of course, will be easier for the Vaganova-trained student to acquire than others.
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Posted 13 November 2008 - 12:56 PM
No need to guess, vrsfanatic, you are absolutely correct. Your last sentence is right-on as well.
Just guessing here, but Soviet may be a leftover political term. I remember my late husband using the term rather than Russian since Russia did not at that time exist as a country. Most Eastern Europeans who were able to defect or get out of Eastern Europe did not use the term Soviet shall I say in a loving or gentle manner.
The word "soviet" (I can hardly get myself to type it and I refuse to capitalize it) often gets muddled in meaning and becomes synonymous with "Russian" and, these days, a host of other terms and concepts. It is only a political assignation, a word that merely means "council" (but then, the word "nazi" is merely a contraction...).
Posted 14 November 2008 - 12:43 AM
cxllqhy are you asking questions about classroom work and how it effects the development of the ballets being performed/choreographed or are you asking about the stylistic differences of various companies you may observe? The subjects are related however the academic approach will differ from what is observed.
vrsfanatic, the reason I asked is because I took lessons about 10 years ago from this teacher who was in her 80's. She left Russia in her late 20's but she's famous for imparting her imperial style port de bra. The class system used was Vaganova's 8 years program. I was watching the Vaganova DVD sold on Amazon last week, and I was amazed to see how similar the work that I did was to what's being currently taught still at the school. Thus I kind was puzzled, was I trained in the imperial style or vaganova?
Posted 14 November 2008 - 04:44 AM
Having spoken with many noted pedagogs of the Vaganova system of schooling, what is often discussed is the fact that the choreography does leave an important mark on schooling. The development of a schooling system should be a reflection of the choreographic needs. Although none of us know what the Petipa ballets actually looked like when performed, The Imperial School of Russia and the Vaganova Academy (now Vaganova Institute) have been deeply influenced by the choreography of Petipa and Ivanov. Perhaps, for this reason you are able to still see similarities in the two?
Vaganova published the first edition of her book Fundamentals of Classical Dance in 1934.
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The buff fix doesn't work (for me).
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What are some possible legal issues with allowing minors to play in a text-based browser game.
The issues I know of are laws against tracking minors (logging IPs at sign in) and laws against providing pornography (players uploading their own avatars).
I'm making a text-based browser MMO. Players can message each other and see each others' avatars. I'll be logging IPs of players.
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I have always heard that you should stay away MSG. For example when buying bouillon crystals we should always make sure that it doesn't contain MSG. Yet I came across this recipe for spinach soup that calls for 1/2 teaspoon of MSG. This got me wondering are there any pros to MSG. Should we stay away from it or should we incorporate it into our diet and if so should we limit how much we ingest? If it is 'bad' then is there something I can replace it with when a recipe calls for it?
You should refer to the discussion here: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/5460/are-msg-and-accent-the-same-thing
Some relevant points: MSG is found naturally in seaweed and other things. It is used to enhance the flavors it is combined with.
It is completely harmless unless you are limiting your sodium intake. Check out the wikipedia article on the subject as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Health_concerns
In short there has been no linkage to any adverse effects found in many controlled studies.
As far as replacing it- You can leave it out altogether or add a little salt.
MSG has been the subject of debate because of its possible effects on health -- most commonly headaches. While there is a stigma attached to MSG, there hasn't been any conclusive research to show that MSG is in fact linked to adverse reactions.
MSG (aka glutamates) serves as a flavor enhancer. Using it creates a richer, meatier, mushroomy taste and brings out the flavor in a lot of dishes.
I've seen fish sauce and Mrs. Dash seasoning suggested as suitable replacements for MSG.
You would find it difficult to stay away from MSG since it occurs naturally in most foods.
Concerning the dangers of using it as a taste enhancer, I imagine the health issues are similar to those of other sodium salts.


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Debt Ceiling Nears as Budget Talks Stymied
Treasury Says Borrowing Limit Will Be Reached Monday, Triggering Emergency Measures to Keep Government Operating
The Treasury Department said Wednesday the government would hit its legal borrowing limit by Monday, setting in motion emergency measures to keep the government operating for several more weeks and serving as a reminder that the nation's budget wrangling could continue well into 2013.
The Treasury's financial maneuvering is designed to put off until February or March the prospect of a full-blown debt crisis. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's two-paragraph letter to Congress didn't specify when the emergency measures might be exhausted, blaming the "significant uncertainty that now exists with regard to unresolved tax and spending policies for 2013."
The White House and congressional leaders have shown no signs of progress toward crafting an agreement to avoid the year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff. President Barack Obama and Senate leaders will return to work Thursday, and they are running out of time to broker a deal before tax increases hit almost every working American.
A narrow deal to avert that outcome—a plausible result—might not include an agreement to raise the $16.394 trillion debt ceiling, as Democrats have pressed, meaning the big, unresolved questions over how the federal government should raise and spend money are likely to come to the fore as the debt deadline draws near.
The Geithner letter underscored how much the fiscal-cliff deliberations have frozen in place regular governmental activity. Mr. Geithner also said it wasn't possible to know whether the 2012 tax-filing season would be delayed.
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When Mr. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) discussed a broad deficit-reduction agreement as recently as this month, the White House hoped to include a debt-limit increase that would put the issue to rest for two years or more. Mr. Boehner, in his final offer before talks collapsed, showed willingness to raise the debt limit for a year if Mr. Obama agreed to significant cuts in entitlement programs.
Political leaders are looking to advance a smaller package that focuses on blocking tax increases for most Americans and postponing or replacing scheduled spending cuts.
A senior Democratic aide said the prospect of including a debt-ceiling increase was "too much of a lift to pass either chamber" of Congress. The aide said he was "pessimistic" about the prospects of getting any bill through the Senate before Tuesday, which is Jan. 1, unless Messrs. Boehner and Obama strike a last-minute deal.
Mr. Boehner sent the House home on recess and said he would call members back with 48 hours notice if there was a deal to approve. Mr. Boehner held a conference call with his leadership team Wednesday and decided not to call lawmakers back, according to a senior House GOP aide. That means the House won't be in session before this weekend. Mr. Boehner will hold another conference call Thursday open to all House Republicans.
The Senate is scheduled to reconvene Thursday, with no measures related to the fiscal cliff scheduled. Mr. Obama cut short his vacation in Hawaii to return to Washington on Thursday to help work on a deal. The White House's goal is to determine what kind of deal might be acceptable to Senate Republicans.
The U.S. government has a hard limit on the amount of debt it can accumulate, and only Congress can raise it, which for years was a routine procedure. Without an increase, the U.S. would eventually default on its debt obligations, potentially sparking a financial crisis.
In 2011, the last time the Obama administration notified Congress about nearing the debt ceiling, Republicans said they wouldn't raise the limit unless the White House agreed to major spending cuts. That standoff led to the Budget Control Act of 2011, which included the spending cuts set to take effect next week. It also ultimately led Standard & Poor's Ratings Services to strip the U.S. government of its top-notch credit rating.
Moody's Investors Service, another ratings firm, said Wednesday that reaching the borrowing limit wouldn't change its top rating on the U.S., but it said the firm would downgrade the U.S. "if there is no solution in 2013 that produces a clear picture of the medium-term fiscal outlook and the medium-term debt trajectory."
Mr. Obama has said he wouldn't negotiate with Congress again over raising the debt ceiling, saying it is lawmakers' responsibility to authorize payments for debts the country has already accumulated.
Treasury has known for months that the debt ceiling could be reached in December, which analysts have said would mean the emergency measures would keep the government operating until about late February.
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1953 Chevy Pickup Transmission Installation - Five-4-SixWritten by on August 2, 2006 Stop Straining, Put a Keisler TKO-500 Behind Your 235
I love a good high-revving engine just as much as the next guy. Sometimes, though, high revs aren't such a welcome "factory option," especially when you're buzzing a Chevy 235 in upward of 3,500 rpm, yet everyone else on the road is flying by you almost effortlessly! The easiest and cheapest fix is to tear into that closed rearend and swap the ring-and-pinion for a shorter set (Patrick's has a kit just for that). But you're still dealing with an antiquated manual transmission, and personally, while "gentle" shifting isn't so bad, non-synchro'd gears aren't high up on my list. Again, Patrick's has the answer with his Saginaw four-speed conversion for '47-54s. But you're still dealing with the torque tube, and personally, I was thinking more open-minded for my particular project.
Basically, I'd planned from the get-go to swap the closed driveline in my '53 3100 for a more modern, open setup, but in a manner that wouldn't deviate too much from the stock appearance. As you may have seen last month, the first part of that swap was handled with the addition of a Dana 44 six-lug rearend installed with a Walton Fabrication parallel leaf kit. The next step, upgrading the transmission, was a little more involved. While going the S-10 (V-6) route is obviously the most cost effective, there are a lot of variables to deal with...it's basically a matter of coordinating all the right components to allow the T-5 to work comfortably behind your straight-six. Even though I chose the high road, I'll briefly go over what it takes to make this happen.
First off, you just can't use any old T-5, as there are more than a few variations on the five-speed; but there really is just one version that will fully suit the needs of an average 216/235 straight-six. What you'll want to locate is one from an '83-88 2.8L V-6. Forward shifter location, a .73 overdrive, and a mechanical speedometer all make for the perfect transmission to put in an AD pickup, as long as the horsepower is relatively mild (under 300). For a beefier application, you'll need to source out a Camaro T-5 for its stronger gearset, but you'll still need an S-10 transmission body for the shifter location, or at the very least, the tailshaft section. From there, you'll need to locate the appropriate clutch package (reports tell of mating a mid-'80s Astro Van pressure plate with a '70 Vega disc, but that was not fully researched), as well as open up the trans-to-bellhousing mounting holes to 33/64. (Again, since this route was not chosen, the associated variables may go further, or there may even be an easier route...I opted to take the right in the fork and venture the high road, as it were.)
My high road involved one simple phone call--no junkyard scavenging, no part number cross-referencing, no headaches--just one call. The folks at Keisler Engineering have done all the hard work involved with mating Tremec five- and six-speeds behind early Chevy engines. And by hard work, I mean when you purchase a TKO-500 PerfectFit kit from Keisler (this one rated up to 550hp), you don't just get a brand-new transmission built to order, you also get: the choice of three shifter locations, clutch package (pressure plate, disc, and throwout bearing), speedometer cable, needle-bearing pilot bushing, rear mount, neutral safety switch, hardware, and, believe it or not, a complete driveshaft. Obviously, the last part of the package actually comes last, as you need to provide Keisler with the pertinent info for them to make up the appropriate driveshaft for your particular application. Now, the TKO package is definitely going to be the more expensive route than the first option mentioned, but when you sit back and think about it, you're getting everything absolutely brand-spanking-new, with a limited warranty to boot! No rebuilding this, resizing that, or anything of the sort; pretty much a plug 'n' play deal. So when you put it like that, $2,595 starts sounding more like a good deal, doesn't it?
Keisler's TKO version of the venerable Tremec five-speed is actually more than you could bargain for. Along with the shifter location option (forwardmost works for this application), the customized tailhousing and shift tower, as well as the Muncie/Borg-Warner T-10 input shaft and bolt pattern, make it the perfect fit they claim it to be--and it is. When used with the early truck bellhousing, the TKO bolts right up behind your straight-six. Furthermore, with a nice and low 3.27:1 first gear, you'll still enjoy quick acceleration from the start; with the .68:1 fifth, you'll be able to enjoy open-highway cruising without vibrating your fillings out! Combine these numbers with a midrange 3.55:1 ring-and-pinion, and you're now looking at 80 mph at 2,500 rpm as opposed to the 55 mph the truck was used to with a 1:1 final-drive. You read that right--the TKO also includes a 30-mph freeway cushion!
Now, there is one issue that permeates over from the S-10 route, and that involves the input shaft. Due to a slight variance in flywheel depths, a minor modification must be performed. While some will tell you to actually trim the T-5's pilot nose (the input splines are not deep enough), you can also fab up a 1/4-inch spacer to go between the stock bellhousing and the new transmission, which keeps the input from bottoming out against the crank (in time, ultimately wiping out the pilot bushing). More importantly, it keeps you from having to mess with a hardened-steel component of your new tranny, not to mention voiding the warranty. Fortunately, the input shaft collar is about 3/8-inch thick, so it will still register in the bellhousing, which means you won't be relying on the mounting bolts for center accuracy. (Also, you'll notice in the photos that Keisler requires you to do a "runout" check on the bellhousing, which they use to verify a warranty.)
The timing was just right for this swap in my truck, as the weary old four-speed had definitely seen better days. On top of that, the clutch was all but burnt up, and the clutch fork down to its last thread of adjustment. More importantly, with the torque-tube rear long gone, there wasn't any real reason to keep the granny-geared tranny anyway! Suffice it to say, the Keisler TKO was and is a welcome addition to the project, no matter which way you look at it.
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Mmmm mmm good! Just be thankful you only have to look at the greasy mess--I had to pull the old anchor. Actually, the excess grease made for an easy out, though my driveway was quite a bit darker afterward.On top-shift four-speeds, remove the shifter unit before dropping the trans out; on side-shift three-speeds, simply disconnect the linkage.With the bulky transmission securely supported atop a floor jack, a pry bar splits it from the bellhousing. Previously, the tailshaft mount and torque-tube collar had been removed for the prior rearend swap.I was surprised to find the old four-speed had found a new home soon after removal. The stock rear crossmember, however, was retained for possible use with the Keisler five-speed.Once the tranny was free and clear, the old clutch came out. As you can see, compared to the new Sachs clutch kit, both the stock pressure plate and disc were done for (look at the old diaphragm, for example). The Sachs clutch looks like the old one, but performs like a modern clutch should--no stiff pedal, either.Before installing the new clutch, the old pilot bushing was removed. Depending on how long the bushing's been in the crank, it may come out easy, or like mine, it may put up a big fight. I borrowed a Blue Point bushing remover to help ease the pain.A needle-bearing pilot bushing came with the TKO-500 kit. The Sachs clutch kit also included two brass bushings. I used the needle-bearing one. If you end up using a brass bushing, remember to NOT grease it, as the brass is impregnated with oil, and grease merely defeats the purpose.With the new pilot pressed in, the time came for the runout check, required by Keisler in order to validate the warranty. With a radial dial indicator, check the bellhousing input hole alignment to the flywheel. There cannot be more than 0.005-inch runout. If there is, it must be corrected with offset dowel pins in the bellhousing. Not wanting to make the correction, I was fortunate enough to come within the limits.
With the runout verified, the new clutch was ready to be installed. If, like me, you install the clutch with the bellhousing on, it's a good idea to wear work gloves. You will notice that the splines on the Sachs disc differ from the stock one; Sachs supplies the appropriate alignment tool, so don't fret.Remember I mentioned the one modification required? This is it. I had Greg Peterson (Peterson Engineering, 714/279-8032) make this 1/4-inch aluminum spacer based off a poster-board template.Because the transmission will still register in the bellhousing with the thicker input shaft collar, getting the center hole perfectly accurate wasn't as crucial, but Greg still made it as near-perfect as could be.One piece of great advice I remembered was to make two guide pins with all-thread for the upper bellhousing mounts. Getting the input initially lined up in the throwout bearing was hard enough as it is; the pins alleviated a lot of aggravation.As for aligning the input splines with the clutch disc, I simply pulled the spark plugs and rotated the flywheel by hand till they meshed. Don't force the transmission in, whatever you do...nice and easy.The TKO's shifter stub is easily removed/installed with two side pins (actually, they're bolts). When installing the tranny, it's a good idea to pop it out to avoid any damage.While Keisler offers a variety of shifter options, I chose to fab one up using an actual four-speed arm. The base was cut, and a piece of 1/4-inch flat stock was welded to the side (not centered, as the stub is offset).As you can see, the forward shifter location works out just right for the truck application. You will need to slightly modify the cover, as the new shifter is a couple of inches back from the stock location.
The mechanical speed-o is a snap to install. Just clip the plastic gear on the end, remove the rubber plug in the transmission......and the tranny portion is done. The TKO is also equipped with a neutral safety switch as well as a backup light switch, so you can make your truck all safe-like!Yep, even the speed-o end of the cable is correct. No worries about sending anything back--unless you've got some mismatched parts in your truck.To fulfill the entire package option, you need to provide Keisler with measurements/info for a new driveshaft......They will then send you a DOM alloy steel driveshaft complete with brand-new U-joints and a tranny yoke.Don't forget to reconnect your clutch fork to the clutch pedal. When adjusting, make sure you have roughly 1 inch of pedal free play.Save for slipping the new driveshaft in place (it was ordered just as this story was going to press!), the Keisler TKO-500 is in the can--actually, in the truck! Easily a day's job, even if done solo. While the old 235 will certainly be enjoying lower-revving highway miles, it will soon be replaced by a brand-new 235 currently in the works with Egge Machine and Patrick's Antique Cars & Trucks. Stay tuned.


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Drakeley keeps his poise in Taft comebacks
Good teams need to handle setbacks and adversity, especially early in a game. Even more so in the season opener.
The Taft School football team proved its resiliency Saturday.
Down 21-7 in the first quarter to Brunswick, the Rhinos rebounded with a 28-point second quarter and scored 55 unanswered points in an eventual 62-35 win.
Taft senior quarterback Tim Drakeley of Woodbury led the charge, throwing for 399 yards and five touchdowns, completing 18 of 24 passes.
"Tim is cool as a cucumber," said first-year Taft coach Tyler Whitley of Torrington. "He's what you are looking for in a quarterback. He keeps his emotions at bay. He doesn't get too high or too low. He's very even-tempered. He's had a number of years starting now, and he knew that he has the talent around him and the time to be able to move the ball. He saw no problems and felt that the team could come back and score on every possession."
Two of the long touchdown passes were of 70 and 79 yards to Alex Huard. Drakeley also connected on a 91-yard scoring strike to David Berment, who caught 10 passes for 225 yards.
Whitley also credited Brunswick with taking an early lead.
"I calmed our players down," said Whitley. "We were playing against a pretty good quarterback and he did a nice job. We had some blown coverages and that led to big touchdown passes. We got everyone on the same page and made some adjustments on defense. It's how you react to adversity, and we did and came back and got rolling."
In Drakeley's performance, there was one noticeable statistic that may have meant more to him and Taft's success than the five TDs. He didn't throw a single interception, and the Rhinos didn't fumble once.
"We took care of the ball, which was key," said Whitley. "We also had a bunch of takeaways, an interception and two fumble recoveries that all led to scores."
A year ago, Drakeley had 28 touchdowns and only one interception in leading the Rhinos to an 8-0 record and the Class A New England title.
Taft plays at Deerfield (Mass.) Academy on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
"Deerfield is a power-running, play-action team, and we're small, fast, and athletic," said Whitley. "It's a battle of different styles. We reminded the players that we haven't accomplished anything yet, and that this will be a big test for us. This game will help us see where we are and where we will be."
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Without using sudo, preferably?
Doing this though, will make the file undelete-able even by the
No, this is not possible. Impossible for normal users to delete a file: sure.
And... simply rebooting and going into rescue mode will allow that person to be able to delete that file. It would be a security risk if there was a method to never be able to delete a file.
It's a little crude, but this is close - if you remove write access on the directory, files inside it can't be deleted. And it doesn't require
So you can set permissions on the file itself however you want.
Also, as stated by @Rinzwind, there's certainly many ways around it.
To delete a file, you need write permission to all the directories that file is linked to. To unlink it from one directory, you need write permission to that directory.
So as long as you give write permission (or even ownership) to the file but not to the directory or directories that file is linked to, that file can't be deleted.
The best way to achieve it would be to link that file to a directory that is owned by root and that is not writeable by anybody. You could make it owned by you instead which would mean both you and root could delete it.
That would still allow other users to link that file to other directories and unlink it from there thereafter, but they still wouldn't be able to delete the file as they would be able to unlink it from your own directory.
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My soruce is an old vhs-tape with very low audio level, so I normalized it to hear the speaking persons better, but now I have terrible audio noise. is there an audio-filter to remove the noise?
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 12:03
Never done this in Kdenlive, but I assume there is an effect for this, just check the audio effects list.
If not, you might want to try running the audio through Audacity, I know their noise removal filter is quite good. You could then join the audio and video back up in Kdenlive
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:00
You can't, moorsey didn't mean it that way, just extract your audio from the video to an uncompressed format, run it through Audacity, and drop it back into kdenlive as a second audio track?
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 15:44
sorry I don't quite follow you, currently do you use kdenlive to extract audio from the edit? It's simple to do the audio extract from the source video files with ffmpeg or similar on the CLI or batch script outside of kdenlive, process that in Audacity and then import the 'cleaned' audio into kdenlive complete as a source clip, to sync with the unedited video stream?
But have you also investigated the LADSPA plugins, there may well be suitable filters already available within kdenlive to do the job.
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 12:58
it depends what kind of noise you are trying to remove, often 'noise' is at a few frequency ranges and those can be removed with a parametric equalizer or something similar. do spectrum analysis on the audio first to identify the frequency bands to reject.
the other alternatice is to use ffmpeg with multiple outputs ( to demutex and then mutex the video files with something like sox run on the audio inbetween demutexing and mutexing to remove the noise.
ffmpeg -i my.file -vcodec copy my_video.file -acodec copy - | sox .....)
the - outputs the audio to stdout which can then be read by sox... you'll need to have a sample of the 'noise' for sox to do it's job.
sox can also do bandreject and other types of audio processing and the ffmpeg/sox solution is easy to batch or even do inline whilst recording in the first place.
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 22:57
I guess Pinguin's noise is mostly claasic tape noise. Original VHS used longitudinal audio recording at a ridiculous speed of cca 2cm/sec, so noise was high. Tape noise is quasi-white, so pure frequency domain filtering wont help much.
What could help is DNR (dynamic noise reduction), which uses signal amplitude as a filtering criterion. A frequency dependent version would be best.
However, among the zillion audio filters available in my incarnation of Kdenlive, search for "Dynamic" only returns a "Dynamic sledgehammer" :-) Not sure what that is, not too optimistic...
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 23:23
@oliverthered, at this point you've been a forum member for 10 hours and already dug up a dead thread from a year and a half ago, what's the point in that. Not a good start. :-)


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I am looking for a method in Mathematica 8 to define my own derivative/variation (independent of built-in operations). I do not want to re-define built-in objects since I fear that this could cause subtle changes at different places.
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She received a B.S. in English-journalism in 2003 from Tennessee Tech University. She then became a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer at Louisiana Tech, working with volleyball and softball until receiving her M.S. in science health and exercise science in 2005.
She then returned to Tennessee Tech for four years as an Assistant Athletic Trainer with the Golden Eagles women's soccer and softball programs. She handled medical insurance for athletics and covered women's basketball, women's soccer and softball in her last season. She assigned and oversaw graduate assistants to work with tennis and track and field programs before she went to Monroe.
She is a BOC Certified Athletic Trainer by the National Athletic Trainers Association. She lists her hobbies as spending time with family and friends and watching sports. She resides in Gastonia with her husband Shon.
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How to Dress for the Successful Transition to a Civilian Career
The transition to civilian life is filled with challenges, but one looms large in the minds of all military personnel: making the move to a civilian career. In addition to learning new skills like job interviewing, resume building, and networking, every service member has to confront the fact that they are in charge of picking out their new uniform—and the choices are sometimes overwhelming.
As you prepare to hang up your uniform, it's time to think about how you're going to build a new wardrobe suitable for the trenches of civilian life, whether it's interviewing or everyday wear for your next workplace. The shift to a more casual workplace has made your job even harder. Not only do you need an array of suits, dress shirts, and ties for your upcoming job interviews and many office environments, you also need to keep room in your closet for clothing appropriate for casual Fridays and the more relaxed workplace found almost everywhere these days.
This guide will help you plan the building blocks of a multi-purpose wardrobe suitable for what lies ahead.
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You want to stand out from the other candidates when interviewing for a job. But you also want to be remembered for your abilities, not for the outfit you were wearing. This doesn't mean you can't look sharp and be well groomed, but you don't want your brightly colored tie to be the one thing they remember about you.
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The rules have changed for office attire, but if you've got your sights set on a white-collar job, you'll still need a few white collars and the essentials that define the traditional work wardrobe. Here are the basics every man should own:
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Anyone who's ever worn a military uniform appreciates the comfort of knowing exactly what to wear every day. The workplace used to have its own uniforms, but many of the hard and fast rules have been confused over time by concepts like "business casual." Depending on where you work, this term can mean anything from jeans and t-shirts to khakis and dress shirts. Here are a few guidelines to ensure you're never confounded by this ambiguous clothing category again:
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Showmedo is a peer-produced video-tutorials and screencasts site for free and open-source software (FOSS)- with the exception of some club videos, the large majority are free to watch and download.
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Very good... Thanks much!
Great. Helpful even with Python 3.1 and Eclipse 3.6. =)
Nicely done.
Would have liked to see how the debugger works though.
Good content. Could not read screen.
Excellent tutorial! Got this thing set up with no problems using your assistance. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the video for ChickenFoot. A few questions :- How can automation be done for mobile web based softwares? What would be your views on packaging the automation along with the web package? ---- Feedback : The video was crisp. Items like future ideas and extension ideas can add more spice. --- Thanks
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Very good and useful video. Thanks a lot; may your tribe grow and glow!
Great beginner tutorial! The versions of Python and Eclipse used in the video are a bit dated now (it's now 2010), but I managed to get the two scripts executing on the first try!
great video :)
Thanks - good tutorial, clearly delivered
Nice. Thanks
Very nice and easily explained
thank you for this very good video tutorial.
It would be great if this video could be in greater resolution.
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Good Demonstration.
Thank you
An excellent video and overall concept of this session, I am actually 30 years in IT business (old hacker) :-) and please take my congratulation from Prague, Czech Republic
Thanks for the video, its very helpful
Thanks for the nice videos!
This automation mechanism looks very interesting.
I would please to know, if it is also possible with https pages
I had some difficulties to automated testsscripts with https pages
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TOG Games Industry Podcast - General Feedback
Hi Guys,
I feel a new thread for this is probably needed as I just had a marathon session listening to 'casts 4-8 while driving my family to and from a wedding. I doubt I am going to be able to provided feedback in detail (as my attention was split between the road, radio that my wife was listening to, the DVD that my little girl was watching, and the podcast in my other ear!), but I wanted to give you some of my general thoughts.
In no particular order:
Keep up the good work guys,
"Jakob_Pavlov is a known issue and will be dealt with in the next patch." - bigtabs
|30th September 2009, 01:59 AM
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Thanks Jakob - all feedback is great
I'm not too shabby at math -- where did I slip up?? Oops!
|30th September 2009, 02:53 AM
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I think it was when you were adding up the buttons on the MMO specific mouse. It was something like "12+2, that's 13", and then I think you went on to say that using the control, shift and alt buttons gave you an additional 12 to the power of three functions which I guess is possible as you'd only need to use another 24 buttons on the keyboard......but is not really practical....I'm guessing you meant 12x3 (the 12 buttons plus shift, control, or alt)?
/maths geekiness
(I blame my old physics teacher, he was an absolute stickler for the detail........plus me being an engineer with no job at the moment probably means I have a lot of pent-up maths frustration! )
"Jakob_Pavlov is a known issue and will be dealt with in the next patch." - bigtabs
|30th September 2009, 03:53 AM
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No Jakob - you're exactly right - and I remember cringing when I was mastering that. That is, of course, exactly what I meant.
|3rd October 2009, 03:16 AM
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We actually have received our very first 'Customer Review' on iTunes. It's awful. I wish we could delete these. Why is there so much TOG-hate?
edit: ah good - I found a way to report it.
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I love you really......no, honest.......really, I do........
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Been enjoying listening to the 'casts in the car instead of the same old on the radio.
Have already given some direct feedback to Ash but just wanted to throw a few suggestions out there for possible discussion in the future:
1. What game got you actually 'into gaming' rather than a casual player. For me it was seeing GLQuake on a Voodoo1....it blew my tiny little mind and I've never looked back.
2. Games that 'cross over' to another form of media (such as a podcast this has already been covered briefly but thought it could do with a full treatment. Particularly thinking about movies that have been made from a video game...
the good (in my opinion) some of the Resident Evil movies
the bad - anything by Uwe Bol
the interesting - King of Kong (a documentary but its about gaming and its great)
But there are also the opposite franchise games from movies, most of which bite some serious donkey balls.
Anyway just some ideas I had on the way home, I'll be listening to episode 9 in the car tomorrow morning
Keep up the great work guys.
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