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blend modes, layers, and me
Hi all,
I don't know why I am having such a block against this, but I am. Here's what I am trying to do.
I have three videoplanes:
#1 = background image
#2 = live feed of a performer in black & white (binary image)
#3 = texture to be applied to performer
Goal: whatever is white in the live feed (#2) becomes a window to the texture (#3). Whatever is black in the live feed becomes transparent and shows the background image (#1).
I'm trying to do everything I can in gl using jit.gl.videoplane for the mixing/blending.
I've been able to get the first part to work without a problem…however I'm am really not sure if the blend modes I am using are right. To get the live feed to be filled with the texture I have the texture set to layer 2, blendmode = 1 0. The live feed is layer 3, blend mode 0 3. Don't know if that is right, but it works up to this point. I have the background set to layer 1, and it just doesn't matter what blendmode I use, nothing shows up (not surprising). I'm pretty certain what I need to do is create an alpha channel to the live feed…whenever the image is white alpha = 1., black alpha = 0. I started on this, but I think my lack of understanding of blend_modes is going to keep me from seeing any results.
I know a patch will be helpful and am working on one now to follow-up with, but if anyone has any pointers in the meantime, it would be hugely appreciated.
hi david. i think a custom shader would be the best solution.
the glsl mix function should do everything you need.
quick example with shader:
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Rob, you are my new best friend :)
This is perfect. Thank you for your help with this!
Reviving an old thread here!
Perhaps I haven't thought this thru very well, but how would I preserve the alpha channel of the two textures being mixed in, e.g. if the texture I am using to replace black has an alpha mask, is there a way to preserve it?
Thanks in advance,
In Max6 if you are capturing the texture via jit.gl.node you can specify node's @erase_color as 0 0 0 0 and the alpha channel will be preserved.
That's something that can be adjusted in the shader.
These two lines:
vec3 mixr = mix(b.rgb,c.rgb,a.rgb);
gl_FragColor = vec4(mixr,1.);
…can become:
vec4 mixr = mix(b,c,a.g);
gl_FragColor = mixr;
That should preserve alpha channels.
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Why Wisconsin Might Win: Is the LSU run defense back up to its normal snuff? The regular season finale against Arkansas was a big strange – with Zach Mettenberger getting hurt and the team needing to scratch and claw its way to a win over an inferior team – but one of the big keys was the effectiveness of the Razorback running game. The 182 yards might not have seemed like much, but Arkansas was coming up with over five yards a crack. If Bret Bielema's Hogs could do that, could his old team come up with more power against a Tiger D replacing its two starting tackles? Wisconsin will certainly give it a try. It'll have to because …
Why LSU Might Win: There might not be any passing game to rely on. The Tigers should be able to tee off on Melvin Gordon and the Badgers backs until new starting quarterback Tanner McEvoy can prove he can produce. Even if McEvoy is Peyton Manning right out of the box, where are the UW receivers? Nothing happened when now-Green Bay Packer Jared Abbrederis wasn't coming up with big plays, and there isn't a sure-thing top target who'll make the strong LSU secondary worry.
What's Going To Happen: The lack of a dangerous downfield passing threat will be a killer for the Badgers. Kenzel Doe and Jordan Fredrick are okay, but they'll be erased by the LSU corners, allowing the front seven to bottle up Gordon and keep McEvoy from taking off. LSU's O line will be brutally effective against a new UW defensive front three that will be fine early, but rocky late.
Prediction: LSU 30... Wisconsin 23
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The Nhật Lệ River is a river in Đồng Hới city, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. The Nhật Lệ River is 152 km long, of which the Kiến Giang River is 58 km in length, and the Long Đại River is 77 km long. The river is formed by the confluence of the Kiến Giang River in Lệ Thủy District and the Long Đại River in Quảng Ninh District. The Nhật Lệ River flows northeast (unlike most rivers in Vietnam, which run southeast) before emptying into the South China Sea. At the mouth of this river are several white fine sand beaches which are popular tourist attractions. In the history of Vietnam, this river was the site of several wars between the Kingdom of Champa with Đại Việt as well as internal Đại Việt factions, especially the TrịnhNguyễn War. (Wikipedia)
The bridge at night is quite something. Grabbed my tripod and started shooting, using various apertures. This at the widest, I believe, produced the best picture, owing to the colour movement of the bridges lights, which did fluctuate. Very lucky to have the full moon shining also, which also lends itself to the picture.
Only PP was some contrast adjustments.
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Borodino-class battlecruiser
Plan and right elevation drawings of the Borodino class
Class overview | |
Name: | Borodino (Izmail) |
Operators: | Russian Navy |
Preceded by: | None |
Succeeded by: | Kronshtadt class |
Built: | 1912–1917 |
Planned: | 4 |
Cancelled: | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Battlecruiser |
Displacement: | |
Length: | 223.85 m (734 ft 5 in) |
Beam: | 30.5 m (100 ft 1 in) |
Draught: | 8.81 m (28 ft 11 in) |
Installed power: |
Propulsion: | 4 shafts; 4 steam turbines |
Speed: | 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph) |
Complement: | 1,174 |
Armament: |
Armour: |
The Borodino-class battlecruisers (Russian: Линейные крейсера типа «Измаил») were a group of four battlecruisers ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. Also referred to as the Izmail class, they were laid down in December 1912[Note 1] at Saint Petersburg for service with the Baltic Fleet. Construction of the ships was delayed as many domestic factories were overloaded with orders and some components had to be ordered from abroad. The start of World War I slowed their construction still further as the imported components were often not delivered and domestic production was diverted into areas more immediately useful for the war effort.
Three of the four ships were launched in 1915 and the fourth in 1916. Work on the gun turrets lagged, and it became evident that Russian industry would not be able to complete the ships during the war. The Russian Revolution of 1917 put a stop to their construction, which was never resumed. Although some consideration was given to finishing the hulls that were nearest to completion, they were all eventually sold for scrap by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Navy proposed in 1925 to convert Izmail, the ship closest to completion, to an aircraft carrier, but the plan was cancelled after political maneuvering by the Red Army led to funding not being available.
Design and development[edit]
After the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russian Naval General Staff decided that it needed a squadron of fast "armoured cruisers"[Note 2][1] that could use their speed to engage the leader of an enemy's battle line, much as Admiral Tōgō had done against the Russian fleet during the Battle of Tsushima. Initially the Naval General Staff wanted a ship with high speed (28 knots or 52 kilometres per hour or 32 miles per hour), 12-inch (305 mm) guns, and limited protection (a waterline belt of 190 mm or 7.5 in); the Emperor approved construction of four such ships on 5 May 1911, but the Duma session ended before the proposal could be voted on. Preliminary bids for the ships were solicited from private builders, but the bids proved to be very high,[1] leading to a reconsideration of the requirements. A new specification was issued on 1 July 1911 by the Naval General Staff for a ship with a speed of only 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph) and with armour increased to 254 mm (10 in). Armaments were increased to nine 14-inch (356 mm) guns in three non-superfiring triple-gun turrets,[2] based on a false rumor that the Germans were increasing the caliber of their guns.[3] The Russian Navy believed that widely separating the main gun magazines improved the survivability of the ship, and that under a superfiring arrangement, muzzle blast would hurt the sailors manning the gun sights in the lower turrets through the open sighting hoods on the turret roofs.
The Naval Ministry solicited new bids on 8 September from 23 shipbuilders, domestic and foreign, but only seven responded, even after the deadline was extended by a month. A number of designs were rejected for not meeting the revised criteria. In the meantime, the Artillery Section of the Main Administration of Shipbuilding had decided that it preferred a four-turret design, and new bids were solicited in May 1912 from the leading contenders from the first round of bidding.[4] The eventual winner was a design by the Admiralty Works in Saint Petersburg, which had the extra turret added to a new hull section inserted into the original three-turret design.[5]
The Duma approved construction in May 1912, before the design was finalised, and allocated 45.5 million rubles for each ship. However, the increase in armaments and consequential increase in the size of the ships raised their estimated cost by seven million rubles each, and some money was diverted from the budget for the Svetlana-class cruisers. Orders were placed on 18 September 1912 for a pair of ships each from the New Admiralty Shipyard and the Baltic Works. The first pair was to be ready for trials on 14 July 1916 and the second pair on 14 September 1916.[4][6]
Full-scale armour trials revealed serious weaknesses in the proposed protection scheme. The trials employed the obsolete ironclad Chesma, modified with armour protection identical to that used by the Gangut-class battleships then under construction. The deck and turret roof armour proved to be too thin, and the structure supporting the side armour was not strong enough to withstand the shock of impact from heavy shells.[7]
The design of the Borodino-class ships was modified as a consequence, which slowed their construction. Deck armour was reinforced with extra plates, the turret roofs were increased to a thickness of 150 mm (5.9 in), and the side and roof of the conning tower were increased by 100 mm (3.9 in) and 125 mm (4.9 in) respectively. To compensate for the additional weight, the rear conning tower was removed entirely and the thickness of the main belt was reduced by 4.5 mm (0.18 in). Mortise and tenon joints were introduced between the armour plates along their vertical edges to better distribute the shock of a shell impact and to lessen the stress on the supporting hull structure. The launching of the first pair of ships was postponed by six months because of these changes, plus delays imposed by the large number of ship orders already in hand.[Note 3][7]
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 caused further delays as a number of components had been ordered from foreign manufacturers. As an example, the gun turrets rested on 8-inch (203 mm) roller bearings made in Germany, but attempts to order replacements from the United Kingdom and Sweden proved futile, as no company was willing and able to make the bearings. Components for the turbines of Navarin and Izmail[4] that had been ordered from AG Vulcan in Germany were seized by the German government at the beginning of the war and used in the construction of the two Brummer-class light cruisers.[8]
General characteristics[edit]
The Borodino-class ships were 223.85 metres (734 ft 5 in) long overall. They had a beam of 30.5 metres (100 ft 1 in) and a draught of 8.81 metres (28 ft 11 in) at full load. The ships displaced 32,500 long tons (33,000 t) normally, and 36,646 long tons (37,234 t) at (full load).[9] High-tensile steel was used throughout the hull with mild steel used only in areas that did not contribute to structural strength. The hull was subdivided into 25 transverse watertight bulkheads and the engine room was divided by a longitudinal bulkhead. The double bottom had a height of 1.275 metres (4 ft 2.2 in), while the vitals of the ship were protected by a triple bottom that added an extra 875 millimetres (34.4 in) of depth. The design called for a freeboard of 8.89 metres (29 ft 2 in) forward, 6.24 metres (20 ft 6 in) amidships and 6.49 metres (21 ft 4 in) aft. The ships were fitted with three Frahm anti-rolling tanks on each side.[10]
The sources on the origin of the ship's propulsion machinery disagree. Russian sources say that two sets of steam turbines were ordered on 22 April 1913 from the Franco-Russian Works in Saint Petersburg for the Admiralty-built ships and that the Baltic Works built the turbines for its ships, with some components ordered from abroad. Western sources, however, maintain that Navarin's turbines were ordered from AG Vulcan Stettin and that they were seized after the start of the war and used in the Brummer-class cruisers. Given that the same Russian companies had built the similar, albeit less powerful, turbines for the Gangut-class battleships, it seems reasonable that the Russian sources are correct, and that the components ordered from Germany were incorporated into the German ships.[11]
The two outer propeller shafts were powered by high-pressure impulse-reaction turbines, and the two inner shafts used low-pressure reaction-type turbines. They produced a total of 66,000 shaft horsepower (49,000 kW) and were designed to be overloaded to 90,000 shp (67,000 kW). The turbines were powered by 25 triangular Yarrow boilers with a working pressure of 17 kg/cm2 (1,667 kPa; 242 psi). The forward boilers were grouped into three compartments with three oil-fired boilers in each compartment. The rear boilers were split into four compartments with each containing four coal-fired boilers fitted with oil sprayers. Maximum speed was estimated at 26.5 knots, although forcing the machinery would increase it to 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph). Coal capacity was 1,974 long tons (2,006 t) and 1,904 long tons (1,935 t) of fuel oil were carried, which gave an estimated range of 2,280 nautical miles (4,220 km; 2,620 mi) at full speed.[4][9][12]
The Borodino-class ships had six turbo generators and two diesel generators, each rated at 320 kilowatts (430 hp). These were divided among four compartments on the platform deck, two each fore and aft of the boiler and engine rooms. The generators powered a complex electrical system that combined alternating current for most equipment with direct current for heavy-load machinery such as the turret motors.[13]
The main armament consisted of four electrically powered turrets, which were never built. The turrets were designed to elevate and traverse at a rate of 3° per second. Each would have had three 52-calibre 356-millimetre (14 in) Model 1913 guns. The guns had an elevation range from −5° to +25°. They could be loaded at any angle between −5° and +15°; the expected rate of fire was three rounds per minute. A maximum of 80 rounds per gun could be carried. The guns fired 747.6-kilogram (1,648 lb) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 731.5 m/s (2,400 ft/s); this provided a maximum range of 23,240 metres (25,420 yd).[9][14]
The secondary armament consisted of twenty-four 55-calibre 130 mm Pattern 1913 guns mounted in casemates. A pair of casemates were situated on each side, below the three rear turrets; near the forward turret were six additional casemates, two of which were directly above the middle pair. This positioning reflected the Naval General Staff's prediction of the most likely direction of attack by torpedo boats.[9][15] The guns had a maximum elevation of +20° which gave them a range of 15,364 metres (16,802 yd). They fired 36.86-kilogram (81.3 lb) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 823 m/s (2,700 ft/s).[16]
The anti-aircraft armament was intended to be four 38-caliber 64-millimetre (2.5 in) anti-aircraft guns fitted on the upper deck with 220 rounds carried for each gun.[15] They fired 4.04-kilogram (8.9 lb) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 686 m/s (2,250 ft/s).[17] Four 75-millimetre (3.0 in) guns were to be mounted in pairs on the main turret roofs for sub-caliber training with the main guns. Six underwater 450-millimetre (18 in) torpedo tubes were fitted, three on each broadside; they were provided with a total of eighteen torpedoes.[9][15]
Fire control[edit]
The fore and aft main gun turrets were given a 6-meter (19 ft 8 in) rangefinder, and there was another 5-metre (16 ft 5 in) unit on top of the conning tower.[15] These would provide data for the Geisler central artillery post computer, which would then transmit commands to the gun crew.[18] The mechanical fire-control computer would have been either a Pollen Argo range clock, which had been bought in 1913, or a domestically designed Erikson system.[15]
The trials with the Chesma greatly affected the armour protection design of the Borodino-class ships. The Krupp cemented-armour plates were sized to match the frames to provide support for their joints, and they were locked together with mortise-and-tenon joints to better distribute the shock of a shell's impact. The 237.5 millimetres (9.35 in) waterline belt covered the middle 151.2 metres (496 ft 1 in) of the ship. It had a total height of 5.015 metres (16 ft 5.4 in), 3.375 metres (11 ft 0.9 in) of which was above the design waterline and 1.64 metres (5 ft 5 in) below. It was backed by 75 millimeters of wood to make a better fit between the hull and the armour. The remaining portion of the waterline was protected by 125-millimetre (4.9 in) plates backed by 50 millimetres (2.0 in) of wood. The upper belt was 100 millimetres (3.9 in) thick and had a height of 2.89 metres (9 ft 6 in). It thinned to 75 mm forward of the casemates all the way to the bow. The rear portion of the forecastle deck was protected by an upward extension of the upper belt in the area of the forward barbettes and the upper casemates. The upper casemates themselves were protected from axial fire by 100 mm transverse bulkheads. Behind the side armour was an inboard longitudinal splinter bulkhead that was 50 millimetres (2.0 in) thick between the middle and lower decks. This decreased to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) between the middle and upper decks. The bulkhead sloped away from the edge of the lower deck to the lower edge of the armour belt with a total thickness of 75 mm. The slope was one 50 mm plate of Krupp non-cemented armour (KNC) on a 25 mm nickel-steel plate. The forward end of the armoured citadel was protected separately and the transverse bulkhead was therefore only 75 mm thick. The rear bulkhead had no other protection and was 300 millimetres (11.8 in) thick between the middle and lower decks, decreasing to 75 mm at the level of the armour belt.[15]
The main gun turrets had sides 300 mm thick with 150 mm roofs. The gun ports were protected by 50 mm plates, and 25 mm bulkheads separated each gun. The barbettes were 247.5 mm (9.74 in) thick, decreasing to 147.5 millimetres (5.81 in) when behind other armour. They were shaped like truncated cones which matched the trajectories of descending shells and thus lessened their protective value. The conning tower was 400 millimetres (15.7 in) thick, reduced to 300 mm below the upper deck. The funnel uptakes were protected by 50 mm of armour. The upper deck was 37.5 millimetres (1.48 in) thick while the middle deck consisted of 40-millimetre (1.6 in) plates of KNC on 25 mm of nickel-steel over the armoured citadel. Underwater protection was minimal: there was only a 10-millimetre (0.39 in) watertight bulkhead behind the upward extension of the double bottom, and even this was thinner as the hull narrowed towards the end turrets.[19]
All four ships were officially laid down on 19 December 1912, but work did not begin until March–April 1913. After a progress review on 4 June 1914, launching[Note 4] of the first pair of ships was delayed until October 1914. When World War I began, the hull of Izmail, the most advanced ship, was judged 43 percent complete, with the others lagging considerably behind. The war caused more delays, including problems obtaining imported components, and the ships were competing for scarce resources with other production deemed necessary for the war. Three of the four ships were launched in 1915, but it was clear that Russian industry would not be able to complete them during the war, mostly because the turrets were seriously delayed. They were reclassified as 2nd rank projects by the Main Administration of Shipbuilding in 1916.[20]
A number of plans were made for the post-war completion of the ships, including modifying the turrets to load at a fixed angle of +4° to reduce the weight and complexity of the loading equipment. Another intended change was to lengthen the funnels by 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) to minimise smoke interference with the bridge, as this had been noted as a problem on the Gangut-class dreadnoughts. There were suggestions to improve the machinery with geared turbines, turbo-electric drive, or Föttinger's hydraulic transmission, but these were more theoretical than practical.[21]
After the February Revolution, the condition of the ships was assessed on 28 April 1917. The ship that was furthest along was the Ismail: her hull, engines, and boilers were around 65% complete, and her armour was 36% complete. Her turrets, however, were not expected to be completed until 1919. The Congress of Shipyard Workers decided to continue work on the Izmail in mid-1917, but only to provide jobs. The Provisional Government halted all work on Borodino, Kinburn, and Navarin on 24 October 1917, and the Soviet Supreme Naval College ordered work on Izmail halted on 14 December 1917.[21]
After the end of the Russian Civil War the victorious Bolsheviks considered finishing Izmail, and possibly Borodino, to their original design. It would have taken at least two years to build all of Izmail's turrets, even if enough guns had been available. Ten had been delivered by Vickers before the Revolution and one gun had been completed domestically in 1912, but the prospects that more guns could be purchased from Vickers or that the Soviets could make more were not promising, given the state of their heavy industry in the wake of the Civil War. Another problem was the complicated electrical system; it could not be completed under current conditions, and at least twenty months would be required to replace it with a simpler system.[22]
The Soviets considered finishing Kinburn and Navarin to a modified design that featured 16-inch (410 mm) guns; a two-gun turret weighed slightly less than a triple 14-inch gun turret. Four proposals were made with various changes to the turrets' armour scheme, but none were accepted, not least because the prospects of actually acquiring such guns were minimal. Domestic industry was not capable of building such large guns and they were not able to purchase the guns from any foreign company. Other ideas were examined for the three less complete ships. These included converting the hulls to cargo ships, passenger liners, or 22,000-long-ton (22,000 t) oil barges, but most of the ideas were rejected as the hulls were thought to be too large and unwieldy for the proposed alternative uses. None of the proposals was accepted, and all three of the less complete ships were sold to a German company for scrap on 21 August 1923 to raise much-needed cash for the government.[9][23]
The Operational Administration of the Soviet Navy worked out the requirements in May 1925 for a conversion that would have made Izmail into an aircraft carrier with a top speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) and a capacity of fifty aircraft. She would have been armed with eight 183-millimetre (7.2 in) guns and her armour reduced to a maximum of 76 millimetres (3.0 in). This proposal was approved by Alexey Rykov, Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars on 6 July 1925. The plan was cancelled on 16 March 1926 after the Red Army managed to gain control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy, and the Army was strongly opposed to spending additional money on naval projects.[24] She was scrapped beginning in 1931 in Leningrad.[9][25][26]
The ships were named after battles fought by the Russian Empire:
Name | Namesake[27] | Builder[9] | Laid down[28] | Launched[28] | Fate | Status on 28 April 1917[21] | |||
Hull | Armour | Engines | Boilers | ||||||
Izmail (Измаил) | Siege of Izmail | Baltic | 19 December 1912 | 22 June 1915 | scrapped 1931[9] | 65% | 36% | 66% | 66% |
Borodino (Бородино) | Battle of Borodino | Admiralty | 31 July 1915 | sold for scrap 21 August 1923[29] | 57% | 13% | 40% | 38.4% | |
Kinburn (Кинбурн) | Battle of Kinburn | Baltic | 30 October 1915 | 52% | 5% | 22% | 7.2% | ||
Navarin (Наварин) | Battle of Navarino | Admiralty | 9 November 1916 | 50% | 2% | 26.5% | 12.5% |
- ^ All dates used in this article are New Style (Gregorian).
- ^ The Borodino-class ships were formally known as armoured cruisers until an order of 29 July 1915, when they were redesignated as battlecruisers (Russian: lineinyi kreiser).[1]
- ^ The shipyards were overloaded with orders and simply lacked the capacity to maintain the original construction schedule.
- ^ A ship's hull needs to be merely watertight and strong enough to hold together before it can be launched. Generally the major structural work is completed before launching, but the machinery and main armament may or may not be installed before the ship is launched.
- ^ a b c McLaughlin, p. 244
- ^ McLaughlin, p. 245
- ^ Gardiner & Gray, p. 304
- ^ a b c d Watts, p. 65
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 245–46
- ^ McLaughlin, p. 247
- ^ a b McLaughlin, pp. 247–48
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 248–249, 253
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Taras, p. 39
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 243, 249, 251
- ^ McLaughlin, p. 253, especially footnotes 28 and 29
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 244, 253–54
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 254, 332
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 251–52
- ^ a b c d e f McLaughlin, p. 252
- ^ Friedman 2011, p. 262
- ^ Friedman 2011, pp. 264–65
- ^ Friedman 2008, pp. 273–75
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 252–53
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 248–49
- ^ a b c McLaughlin, p. 249
- ^ McLaughlin, p. 332
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 332–35
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 335–36
- ^ Breyer, p. 114
- ^ Watts, p. 66
- ^ Silverstone, pp. 373, 377, 379
- ^ a b McLaughlin, p. 243
- ^ McLaughlin, pp. 335-36
- Breyer, Siegfried (1992). Soviet Warship Development. Volume I: 1917–1937. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-604-3.
- Friedman, Norman (2008). Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-555-4.
- Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- McLaughlin, Stephen (2003). Russian & Soviet Battleships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-481-4.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
- Taras, Alexander (2000). Корабли Российского императорского флота 1892–1917 гг. [Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy 1892–1917]. Library of Military History (in Russian). Minsk: Kharvest. ISBN 985-433-888-6.
- Watts, Anthony (1990). The Imperial Russian Navy. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-912-1.
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LVD Strippit has introduced the M-series of midrange, 20-metric-ton CNC turret punch presses featuring a 51 percent larger turret capacity than previous models. Equipped with the company's energy reduction system (ERS), the punch presses consume up to 30 percent less electrical power than comparable machines, according to the manufacturer.
The 47 turret stations include three 3.5-in. autoindex stations and four 2-in. stations. Each station accepts shaped punches and dies and can be enhanced with the addition of indexable multitools to expand turret capacity and flexibility. Quick-change die holders help minimize tool changeover time.
Bidirectional turret rotation automatically selects the shortest possible route to the next punching station for fast station-to-station positioning. The machines reach axis speeds of up to 380 HPM on 1-in. centers and up to 900 HPM on 0.04-in. centers. They handle workpieces up to 49.21 by 98.4 in., with larger sheets processed using clamp repositioning. Thicknesses up to 0.250 in. are accommodated.
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Well now, after looking for information about Clash of Elementalists (a DSiWare game) I randomly found out that Teyon was porting their Robot Rescue DSiWare games to the 3DS eShop.
It looks exactly the same as the previous DSiWare games, however, instead of the dungeons using both screens, they fit comfortably in the top screen alone. It also says it'll include all the levels from the previous 2 games, and aditional ones.
What do you guys think? Do you think they'll remove the DSiWare games from the eShop like nicalis did with cave story?
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Do you ever observe someone in your field of expertise explode with charisma and knowledge in front of you as they suck you into their presentation/webinar – whatever they are presenting at the time.
You may think to yourself, I could do that.
Maybe in time as my expertise grows, I'll be able to produce or provide similar services or products.
You educate yourself, practice, step out and make solid offers to potential clients and BAM…success happens!
Things start happening, you're busy as hell, clients are happy, it's all good.
Many of us want to leave our mark on the world, so we try to inject ourselves into situations/groups/clients that we hope will help maximize our skills and success.
Yet, as the business grows we begin to doubt that this is due to our own innate ability to provide awesome services and products, maybe it's just dumb luck.
Do we at times put too much pressure on ourselves trying to achieve success? Or, when we have achieved a certain level of success, we don't feel like we're deserving of it and we get in our own way of receiving what is coming next?
As a result of the carnies discussion for this months topic, I discovered how much this thought process had a name and how much it has affected my attitude, energy at times, and eventually the bottom line.
This post is part of this months Word Carnival topic "The Impostor Syndrome. Feeling like a fraud? You're not alone". Make sure to visit here and check out what the other fabulous carnies have to share.
You Are Not Alone
"I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody, and they're going to find me out.'"
– Maya Angelou
It's always reassuring to know that you are not alone.
I am a work in progress, but aren't we all. There is nothing like learning something new and growing from it. In this day-to-day grind, regardless if it's running a business, or growing a career, we have to seize the opportunity to learn at each juncture – positive or negative.
I did not realize there was a name (Impostor Syndrome) for these symptoms "(from Geek Feminism Wiki):
- not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
- not submitting papers to conferences or journals
- disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
- nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
- feeling like a fraud
- worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
- having higher stress
- overpreparing for tasks
- attributing successes to chance or luck"
I have experienced everyone single one, what about you?
Listen to Others
At first I thought this was the type of thing that only happened when I started my business.
I had to "fake" that I knew how to do certain things that I was offering. I knew that my competition offered it, I knew that I had the skills to perform the tasks, but I really had not done all of it; so I faked it.
At that time, I did not have the doubt, in fact it was just the opposite. I figured with the experience that I possessed and my skill of learning new things quickly, I could accomplish what was before me; and I did.
I continued to gain new clients, new projects and all was progressing.
Oh, oh…confidence level is low…what the hell?
It wasn't until after the business had grown, at the time I could not take on another opportunity, but the doubt crept in.
I worked hard to turn that doubt around to a positive thought and told myself it was time to up my rates. My skill level had improved and it was time to believe in my worth. Things were more consistent but I knew I was not charging my worth, I struggled with it.
During a business meeting with a group of women that I respect highly and love, there was a discussion about my rates. They were shocked and it felt like appalled too…I was not charging enough.
That slapped me in the face, it brought a hard reality to light and I was devastated; uplifted because it was necessary, but devastated nonetheless.
I suppose like anything else, the first step is to accept reality. That was hard.
As I researched for the carnival, I find out there is a name for this doubt that keeps kicking me in my ass. On top of it, I have more that one of the symptoms!
Support Always Helps – Give Yourself Credit
As I said earlier, I am a work in progress. Through the coaching and conversations from my closest friends, I have learned to hold on to their positive energy. Step the hell up and keep it movin'.
At times I doubted them too.
One of my very first clients told me 7 years ago, when I told her about a conference I was attending, that I should be teaching at the conference versus learning from them. She has always been more supportive than I have given myself credit for.
After I attended the conference, $1500 dollars later, I discovered she was right.
It's one thing to accept that this is reality, it's another to accept that this is my life and I am in control.
I am a firm believer that thoughts become reality and it's key to make sure that those that I surround myself with, who are whispering in my ear, are there for the greater good.
Our lives must contain friends, clients, and colleagues that believe in our worth and support us. We are here to lift each other up when necessary.
Maybe it's about finding your passion – check. Maybe it's about realizing that this feeling like a fraud is NOT BS…it's real – check.
Now, what are you gonna do about it?
- I'm listening to my truth…thankful for the opportunity to participate in this carnival – for once again, I am learning something new.
- I'm focusing on those things that are working and keeping me motivated.
- I'm looking at those negative feelings that are not serving me well and replacing them with the positive feedback (without hesitation) my closest friends shower me with.
Most importantly…each opportunity to remove the doubt must be seized…it's time to kick the impostor to the curve!


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Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. officials have announced that the company will sell the chairs from the Burgess Creek double chairlift to generate funds that will benefit the resort's recently established Ski Corp. Environmental Fund.
"The Burgess Creek lift served the public admirably for 35 years and has a lot of nostalgic value built up throughout the community," said Doug Allen, senior director of mountain operations for Ski Corp. "Now, to turn around and do something for the environment after the lift is completely gone is a fitting legacy, especially with all the emotions the BC lift instilled with everyone who rode it."
Through the partnership with the Yampa Valley Community Foundation, the resort will make available 100 chairs from the BC lift. Each chair will be offered to the public for a minimum donation of $100 to the Ski Corp. Environmental Fund via the Yampa Valley Community Foundation. The donation is tax-exemptm and each chair comes with a certificate of authenticity from the resort.
"Through this program, we're looking to raise at least $10,000 to go along with the $65,000 that is currently in the Ski Corp. Environmental Fund," said Lyn Halliday, environmental and guest service director for the resort. "The resort expects to have a significant impact for a wide range of individuals for years to come on projects that better the environment of Routt County."
People interested in obtaining a chair must call the Steamboat Ski Area Switchboard at 879-6111 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Chairs are sold as-is and are limited to one per person on a first-come basis. People will not be able to request a specific chair (for example chair No. 87), but will be assigned the next chair off the stack.
The Ski Corp. Environmental Fund allows nonprofit organizations to request grants of $500 to $2,500 for new projects, programs or facilities to enhance the environment in Routt County. The fund is intended to be an endowed fund with no more than 5 percent of the fund balance used for grants in any given year.
The Burgess Creek double chairlift was removed to make way for a new $1.3 million Leitner-Poma of America, fixed-grip triple chairlift. Ski Corp. will use alternative energy, purchasing wind-generated electricity, to power the new lift. This will be the first new lift since the Pony Express Quad was installed for the 1998-99 season and the first Leitner-Poma lift at the resort.
Along with the Ski. Corp. Environmental Fund, the Yampa Valley Community Foundation manages more than 100 funds including scholarships, legacy and agency endowments.


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It's Our Money Archive: April, 2012
IOM editorial: City is too app-happy
The skinny on the city's public safety spending
Neighbors: West Philly pub is a problem
Podcast: How to tackle quality-of-life issues
More on Kenney's Twitter contract
IOM editorial: Still tinkering
Socially Inept: Councilman Kenney pays private firm $29G to tweet for him
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Learn how to read lace charts intuitively. We'll talk about lace and lace chart symbols then practice working from sample charts. Learn to see the connection between charts and the resulting knitting, how to read your knitting to determine where you are within a chart, various types of chart symbols (including Japanese), and how to read lace charts without a key. We'll also talk about the mysterious 'no-stitch' symbol and why it's used, how to handle stitch patterns with changing stitch counts, and how to deal with 'bad' charts. Supplies
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about the meaning of GM's IPO today. A common narrative in today's media is that GM's return to the stock market affirms the wisdom of the auto bailout. Some tougher customers in the media insist on a higher threshold being met—that taxpayers get back the entirety of their $50 billion investment in GM—before declaring "mission accomplished." And then there are the rabid partisans who—in their seething animosity toward the Obama administration—reach conclusions devoid of logic and rich only in conspiratorial-mindedness. For example, yesterday I was contacted by a media outlet vetting this conclusion: "The IPO is evidence of the failure of the bailout because taxpayers were excluded from buying shares at the IPO price and, therefore, denied the opportunity to get their money back." Huh?
All of those analyses are wrong. Let me dispense with the last one first, as it simply betrays a gross misunderstanding of how taxpayers are on the hook. By divesting of GM (i.e., selling its shares), the government is beginning to make the taxpayer whole. But just as there were no checks written directly from taxpayers to GM, there will be no checks written to taxpayers, as the Treasury liquidates the public's share of GM. Whether main street Americans could participate in the IPO has nothing to do with making the taxpayer whole. And, by the way, IPOs typically limit sales of shares at the initial price to a chosen few. So let's just shelve the canned indignation on this claim. It's a distraction.
Here's the real issue. Today's IPO is nothing more than testament to the fact that the government threw GM a lifeline, enabling the company to expunge most of its debts and firm up its balance sheet on terms more favorable than a normal bankruptcy process would have yielded. That enabled GM to partake of the cyclically growing U.S. auto market in 2010 and turn a profit through the first three quarters. So what? Did anyone really think that a chosen company so coddled and insulated from market realities couldn't turn a short-run profit? Yes, even GM, under those favorable conditions should have been expected to turn a profit this year.
But at what cost? That answer—even the question—seems to be elusive in the public discussion of the IPO. The cost was not only $50 billion—the amount diverted to GM in the first place. Nor was it that $50 billion minus the proceeds raised in today's IPO (and minus the proceeds raised later when the government divests entirely of GM – it will still hold 33% of GM after today). In other words, making taxpayers whole does not absolve the Bush and Obama administration's for the auto intervention. Recouping the $50 billion only gets us partially out of the hole. (And I'm not even sure who "us" includes because the costs are so far reaching.)
Yes, GM is making sales and accounting for market share, but only at the expense of the other automakers. Had GM been forced to severely atrophy or liquidate, the other automakers would have had greater revenues, more market share, and probably higher profits). They would have been able to attract GM's best engineers and line workers. They would have more money to invest in R&D and to lead the industry into the future. Instead, by keeping GM in the mix, some of those industry resources remain misallocated in a company that the evolutionary market process would have made smaller or extinct.
The auto industry wasn't rescued with the GM bailout. GM was "rescued." By rescuing GM, the government overrode market forces, and there are significant costs to assign for that. Witness the stagnant economy with 9.6 percent unemployment. Is it not plausible that businesses are sitting on their cash and not investing or hiring because of the fear inspired by the government interventions starting with the bank and auto bailouts? It's more than plausible. The regime uncertainty that persists to this day was spawned by the GM bailout and other interventions.
What about the weakening of the rule of law? Doesn't the diversion of TARP funds by the Bush administration, in circumvention of congress's wishes and in contravention of the language of the law, represent a cost? How about the property right of preferred bondholders who were forced to take pennies on their investment dollars under the Obama bankruptcy plan? Any costs there? What about U.S. moral authority to dissuade other goverments from meddling in their markets or indulging industrial policy? That may be costly to U.S. enterprises. And with the government still holding a third of GM, its hard to swallow the idea that public interest will be the driver of policies affecting the auto industry. And that suggests even more costs.
But don't mistake this blog post for an anti-IPO rant. I'm in favor of the IPO. It couldn't have happened sooner. But I suspect the investment bankers, the administration, and the other members of GM's Board of Directors reckoned that, with the hype over the new Chevy Volt and the recent newsleak of GM's $43 billion in unorthodox tax deferrments on the balance sheet, now was the perfect time to go public.


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Ukraine Rebuffs Rebels' Cease-Fire Call; Sanctions Mulled
Kateryna Choursina, Ilya Arkhipov and Volodymyr VerbyanyUkraine's military demanded that pro-Russian rebels surrender and dismissed their offer of a cease-fire as lawmakers prepared to consider sanctions that may curb Russian shipments of natural gas to Europe.
"If there's an initiative, it should be implemented by practical means, not only with words -- by raising white flags and putting down weapons," Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the country's military, told reporters yesterday in Kiev. "In that case, no one will shoot at them."
Ukraine is trying to dislodge thousands of separatists from its easternmost regions, where its U.S and European allies say President Vladimir Putin has been stoking deadly unrest for months. Russia, which denies involvement, wants its neighbor's military campaign to end and is offering assistance to tackle what it describes as a worsening humanitarian disaster.
As ties between the former Soviet allies sour further, lawmakers in Kiev will vote tomorrow on a cabinet-approved bill that may block Russian oil and gas transit to Europe.
Ukrainian assets continued to decline today. The hryvnia weakened for a fourth session, declining 1.2 percent to 12.7 per dollar, while the yield on the government's dollar-denominated debt due 2023 rose eight basis points to 9.765 percent, the highest level since mid-May, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
'Extremely Tense'
A rebel leader broached the possibility of a truce during the weekend, saying in a statement that militants will continue fighting if the government doesn't end its offensive. The Defense Ministry in Kiev said the army continued to tighten its encirclement of Donetsk, the biggest city in the conflict zone.
As of noon local time yesterday, the atmosphere was "extremely tense" in the city, where 1 million people lived before the conflict flared in mid-April, the Donetsk council said in a statement. Shells were heard hitting most areas, while more than 10,000 residents had no electricity, it said.
Luhansk, capital of the neighboring region of the same name, hasn't had power, water or phone service for more than a week, according to local authorities.
"A cease-fire isn't only possible; it's urgently needed," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters yesterday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. "Hospitals can't function, there's not enough medications. That amounts to the most severe humanitarian situation."
'Serious Provocation'
Russia is discussing urgent assistance with Ukraine, the Red Cross and humanitarian groups run by the United Nations, Lavrov said. "I'm certain we'll be able to agree on delivering this aid as soon as possible to those who need it most."
NATO has said Putin may cloak a Russian troop incursion as a peacekeeping effort. Valeriy Chaly, deputy chief of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's administration, said in an Aug. 9 statement that a column of Russian soldiers and army equipment stopped before crossing the border after leaders asked the U.S., Russia and the Red Cross to intervene, calling the incident a "very serious provocation." The Kremlin denied the accusation.
As the worst crisis between Russia and the U.S. and its allies since the Cold War intensifies, the government in Moscow last week responded to sanctions by banning Ukrainian, American and European Union food imports.
Ukraine, which stopped receiving Russian gas in June though acts as a conduit for its neighbor's European shipments, may hit back at the Russian sanctions with "complete or partial" ban on energy shipments, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said last week. It also may forbid Russian planes from using its airspace and cut defense-industry cooperation.
'We'll Retaliate'
If new measures against Russia are approved, "we'll retaliate," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said.
World leaders -- who've imposed sanctions targeting Russian individuals, companies and its finance, energy and defense industries in a bid to force Putin to de-escalate tensions -- are continuing a diplomatic push to ease the hostilities.
Poroshenko spoke to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last night about providing humanitarian aid to Luhansk, according to a statement on his website.
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed earlier that "any Russian intervention in Ukraine, even under purported 'humanitarian' auspices, without the formal, express consent and authorization of the government of Ukraine is unacceptable, violates international law, and will provoke additional consequences," according to the White House.


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As Hydrohs mentioned, that's not a mistake, because that makes your avatar more specialized. Given that the Avatar has access to every class (barring ones exclusive to the other gender), you can actually make a +Str/-Mag Avatar into a pretty potent physical class with good balance. It certainly isn't going to doom you, and you can make good use of it.
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Serenesforest's listings say that Anna never sells Shocksticks. I think you can only grab them out of shiny spots.
Okay then, good luck finding one, Icay.
Not really, it's all opportunity. Falcon Knights have a decent amount of Magic due to their ability to use staves making a Shockstick a nice weapon to have on hand incase you encounter a foe with high defence (such as those with the General class).
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How so? Dark Fliers would still have Galeforce and weapon variety so ultimately nerfing the shockstick just screws over Falcoknights, also there are weapons like Celica's Gale, Valflame, Forseti and the like that are much more useable then Bolt axes so Sages still have an edge despite not having a physical weapon type.
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That begs the question of why the Bolt Axe gets 1-2 range as they already have access to Hand Axes, Short Axes and Tomahawks.
I guess you could argue that War Monks/Clerics generally have higher Mag but they have to use Axes, while Lance users all have a decent enough attack that they can just use javelins. The only exceptions are Dark Fliers, who have Tomes and judging by their growths they'll end up pretty balanced anyway. I don't really see a niche for the Shockstick other than just being a Lance counterpart for the Levin Sword and Bolt Axe.
Wow. Celica's new artwork seems to blow everyone else's out of the water to a certain extent. Really nice looking, I must say.
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They're not that bad, plus, they'd be more usable than Steel Lances on MyUnit, and, I think the magical weapons seem like a lot of fun.
More effective than Steel Lances and raise proficiency in the lance class. And, as stated, I like them.
Sage's generally higher Mag cap is still really appealing to me, though. Plus, Bolt Axes aren't necessarily the easiest things to come by, either.
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I was shocked by the demo since it actually interested me. I don't know I think the reason I am not fond of those things is I never found the characters interesting like Dragon Age or LotR. But I will play this and I feel it might change my mind. I had the same view on space and loved Mass Effect so it is worth a try.
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Despite having beaten Lunatic about a month ago, I still haven't touched Lunatic+. That's mainly because I got the urge to play PoR and RD, and I've decided to do so on Hard for both. I'm sure even RD Hard mode will be easier than Lunatic+, though I'll be able to judgeonceif I beat both.
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The New England Indonesian Festival took place in Copley Square this Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered to listen to Indonesian music, eat the cuisine, and see different Indonesian cultural items and wares.
The festival celebrated Indonesian art, music, and culture. Attendees also watched demonstrations and saw different Indonesian cultural performances throughout the afternoon.
Limijim Hiong served nasi uduk, an Indonesian dish with steamed rice cooked with coconut and served anchovies, soybeans, and shredded omelet. Next
The House of Angklung, based in Washington D.C., sold hand-embroidered caftans at the festival. Next
Indra Aris, an artist based in California, demonstrated the making of batik, a traditional Indonesian cloth which uses wax to design the fabric before dying it. Next
Irma Seleman, Boston, sang some soul and R & B for the crowd at the New England Indonesian Festival. "The crowd was really supportive, and it was such a big turn out," Seleman said. Next
Festival attendees enjoyed sweet treats while they watched performers. Next
This Balinese Barong character was a popular photo opportunity at the festival. The creature is a lion-like "King of the Spirits" in Balinese mythology. Next
Some vendors displayed traditional puppets from Indonesian culture. Next
Permias Nasional, the Indonesian Student Association in the United States, sold small shadow puppets. Erenst Anip of Permias Nasional said the festival is great for introducing people to Indonesian culture. "[The festival is] important because we're a pretty huge country, but our name recognition is lacking," Anip said. "It helps give a better impression of our country." Next
Dean's Beans, a social change promoter that does work in Indonesia, offered coffee at the festival. Dean Cycon, the founder, said he was honored to be included in the festival. "We believe coffee is a vehicle for social change," Cycon said. Next
Many vendors decorated their tables with traditional Indonesian characters. Next
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The creeping lassitude evident in cult toonster Mamoru Oshii's "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" reaches its apex in "The Sky Crawlers," which lands on the screen with a soft thud and stays there for two hours.
The creeping lassitude evident in cult toonster Mamoru Oshii's "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" reaches its apex in "The Sky Crawlers," which lands on the screen with a soft thud and stays there for two hours. Retro-futuristic tale, about a bunch of teen pilots whose sole reason to exist is to engage in endless aerial dogfights against a perpetual enemy, is a labored parable about war as entertainment that takes 90 minutes to get to the point. With no poetic or mystical content to make up for its lack of action and drama, this is one for Oshii completists only.
Pic quickly sank at the Japanese B.O. in August, clobbered by the latest "Pokemon" outing and Hayao Miyazaki's bracingly inventive "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" (also in competition at Venice). Where Miyazaki manages to sustain his originality even when making a kiddie toon like "Ponyo," Oshii is increasingly looking like a maverick whose best days were a decade or more ago. Story, adapted by Chihiro Ito from a multipart novel by Hiroshi Mori, seems almost perversely anti-dramatic. Apart from the several dogfights, swoopingly rendered in cinematic style, the film has more pregnant pauses (generally to light a cigarette) than a Pinter play. Combined with a washed-out color palette and shortage of character conflict, "Sky Crawlers" indeed crawls. Deliberately vague setting is somewhere in Europe, sometime in the future, though the peaceful airfield at which replacement pilot Yuichi Kannami (voiced by Ryo Kase) initially lands looks more like one in rural England during WWII. Yuichi and the three other pilots at the base are "kildren," young people who never seem to age and live only for the next mission. The kildren are employed by super-corporation Rostock, which appears to own half the world and keeps the population entertained with aerial battles vs. enemy corporation Lautern. Yuichi tries to find out from base commander Kusanagi (Rinko Kikuchi) what happened to his predecessor, but she won't talk and has secrets of her own to hide. All this generates very low dramatic heat, and the number of scenes in which characters just stand around in desultory conversation is jaw-droppingly high. Script finally spits out its message — that the public needs to be shown war and death onscreen to appreciate the sense of peace — half an hour before the end. Animation seems deliberately retro, with simple cel-drawn figures sharply imaged against soft, painterly backgrounds. Kenji Kawai's music is uninspired in both the land scenes and the dogfights.The Sky Crawlers
A Warner Bros. Japan release of a Nippon Television Network, Bandai Visual, Warner Entertainment Japan, D-Rights, VAP, Yomiuri Television Network, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Yomiuri Shinbun, Chuokoron-Shinsha, Hochi Shinbun presentation of a Production IG production. (International sales: Elle Driver, Paris.) Produced by Tomohiko Ishii. Executive producers, Seiji Okuda, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa.
Directed by Mamoru Oshii. Animation director, Toshihiko Nishikubo. Screenplay, Chihiro Ito, from the novel by Hiroshi Mori.
(Color); music, Kenji Kawai; art director, Kazuo Nagai; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS Digital), Kazuhiro Wakabayashi; sound designers, Randy Thom, Tom Myers; character designer/key animation director, Tetsuya Nishio; mechanic designer, Atsushi Takeuchi; visual effects, Hisashi Ezura; CGI supervisor, Hiroyuki Hayashi; CGI production, Polygon Pictures. Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (competing), Sept. 2, 2008. (Also in Toronto Film Festival -- Visions.) Running time: 119 MIN.
Suito Kusanagi - Rinko Kikuchi
Yuichi Kannami - Ryo Kase
Midori Mitsuya - Chiaki Kuriyama
Naofumi Tokino - Shosuke Tanihara
With: Yoshiko Sasakibara, Megumi Yamaguchi, Mabuki Ando, Mako Hyodo, Daisuke Hirakawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Naoto Takenaka.
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London – Hull manager Steve Bruce believes Paulo Di Canio's heavy-handed managerial style was one of the key reasons that led to the Italian's downfall as he was sacked as Sunderland head coach at the weekend.
Despite saving the club from relegation last season, a woefall start to the new campaign leaves them rooted to the bottom of the table with just one point from five games.
"You cannot manage in the Premier League these days through a fear factor," Bruce told talkSPORT. "You've got to be able to manage individuals.
"Man-management has become more relevant in my experience than coaching.
"Once you get yourself in the Premier League, they're all good players and you've got to find a way of getting the best out of them.
"It's never been my style to criticise anyone in public and I'm disappointed for Paolo. He's a character.
"A manager's lost his job. Management is a lonely place and he's lost his job this morning. I feel sorry for any manager in that position. I've gone through it and it's not nice."
Reports of a bust-up with two senior players and lack of trust within the dressing room over Di Canio's approach were also believed to have forced club owner Ellis Short to bring down the axe.
However there was also disbelief at the sacking with former England captain and Newcastle icon Alan Shearer defending the Italian.
"I'm amazed, I really am amazed. Paolo Di Canio hasn't changed from the guy he was a year or two ago," he told the BBC.
"I assume, maybe naively, that Sunderland owner Ellis Short and his chief executive did their homework on Paolo before they went and hired him to do the job."
Short's next task is to find a replacement for the man he appointed in a storm of controversy last year.
Critics rounded on Di Canio's alleged fascist sympathies, prompting the club to make a stout defence of their new manager.
After debates about his political views had died down, Di Canio kept Sunderland in the Premier League thanks in part to a memorable 3-0 victory over rivals Newcastle at St James' Park, but little else in his regime went right.
Former Sunderland captain Kevin Ball, currently on the club's coaching staff, steps in to lead the team on a short-term basis, with the club saying a permanent replacement for Di Canio will be announced "in due course".
Bookmakers immediately rated former Chelsea and West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo as favourite, narrowly ahead of Gus Poyet, previously boss at Brighton.
Following Sunderland's 3-0 defeat at West Bromich Albion on Saturday, Di Canio walked over to face the travelling supporters, who made their feelings clear.
"I absorb the insults as it's part of the game – if I was in their position I'd be furious," he said in his post match comments.
"But I'm professional: 24 hours a day I work for this cause. One day their reaction will be a different reaction.
"I knew that they were furious. I went to them because I wanted to see their faces. It's easy to go over when they're clapping or singing your name. I'm responsible but my head is up. I won't give up."
"I'm never going to change my regime. I am what I am. My way to manage the team is for the top, top level. I have to be clear to everyone – the board, the chairman, the fans – I'm never going to change.
"One day, if I receive the full support from the players, we will turn the corner."
That support never materialised as Di Canio became the league's first managerial casualty. – Sapa-AFP


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