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Nov 21, 2013, 07:46 AM
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Remux hard drive camera M2TS video with no conversion
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Combine/join hard drive camera m2ts recordings without losing details
Summary: In this guide, you will learn how to combine and join m2ts files recorded by hard drive camera without losing details.
OK, I have a hard drive camera this year. I'm trying to take multiple files and convert them to one? Here is a sample of the file I attached. I shot this in the hallway but will be filming Basketball games and it's going to have multiple files. Does anyone know of a way to join multiple .M2TS files - without having to re-encode the video? Thanks in advance. Below is a screenshot of my video files.
P.S. The hard drive camera is used for filming basketball games. I am a high school basketball coach. My software that I use needs the game film in DV format. My old camera was a mini DVD camera and it was simple to use that pavtube to convert to DV format. This new hard drive camera is recorded on a sd 64 GB card and is played back on to my hard drive. For some reason everytime you hit start and stop on record it makes that segment into a file. Since games are constantly stop and start I have over 80 clips that need to merge into one file for DV format.
There are some MTS converters that can convert my m2ts media from hard drive camera in mp4 file as I read, but it will definitely lose a lot of details doing it and it usually takes a long time encoding the H.264 contents. Also, it can't join my m2ts files together.
To fast organize and join .MTS/.M2TS files without encoding, the Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is a best choice. Its "Lossless Output" option provides a jointless MTS/M2TS/TOD merging and rewrapping solution. Using the software, you can join m2ts/mts clips into one without encoding. Not only the processing time is greatly shortened, but also you get the original HD quality. I have used Pavtube products for about 6 years now. And I have already purchased this program for a PC and a Mac. I was surprised by its amazing speed and high qualtiy video output. Below is a guide I share for your reference.
Free Download Pavtube Media Magician or Mac (Download a dmg file for Mac OS X 10.5 users)
1. If you are a Windows user, please turn to Pavtube Media Magician
2. The program is 50% off now at Pavtube office website. And by fanning Pavtube Facebook Page on you can get Pavtube Media Magician and Pavtube Media Magician for free before Nov,11, 2013.
Note: The free trial version of Pavtube Media Magician for Mac has the following limitations:
It will add Pavtube logo watermark in output file(s).
Lossless output has a file size limit of 5 minutes.
To remux camera videos to MKV/M2TS, you need to use "Lossless Output" in Media Magician for Mac. There are some things you need to pay attention to while using "Lossless Output":
1. Currently the "Lossless Output" only handles MTS, M2TS, MOD, and TOD formats, thus you are limited to do the following rewrapping without conversion:
- Remux MTS to MTS
- Remux M2TS to M2TS
- Remux TOD to TOD
- Remux MOD to MOD
- Remux MTS to MKV
- Remux M2TS to MKV
- Remux TOD to MKV
- Remux MOD to MKV
2. The format and codec of video files on timeline should be substantially the same;
3. Any editing effects (such as Effect, Audio, 3D) will be ignored when output.
The steps to merge/join AVCHD MTS/M2TS camera videos on Mac
1. Import source files into Media Magician for Mac
Run Pavtube Media Magician for Mac, load source videos into it. (Learn the details on how to import source videos into Media Magician)
2. Drag and drop hard drive camera m2ts recordings to timeline
In the Timeline panel of Pavtube Media Magician for Mac, you can copy a video clip by "Duplicate This Clip" in the Timeline. You can also change the start time and end time of a clip to trim/cut off unwanted parts in a movie clip. To remove clips, select one or more clips in the sequence and press "Delete". You can also change the order of clips once they are there in the Timeline. If you would like to split a clip into two parts, you can drag the cursor/pointer to the right place and click the "Cut" button to cut off the clip.
Read how to Duplicate, Trim, Split and Delete a Clip with Media Magician for Mac.
3. Remux hard drive camera recored MTS videos with no conversion on Mac
Choose "Output" in the main interface, then switch to "Lossless" > "original" or "Lossless" > "original". Click "Plus" icon to add conversion task, and click "Start" to begin merging and remuxing hard drive camera MTS recordings without recompression on Mac.
Soon after the rewrapping task is finished by Media Magician for Mac, you can add the generated MTS file to your Mac media server and play hard drive camera recored M2TS video over Wi-Fi. Enjoy it now!
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Nov 21, 2013, 08:00 AM
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Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF to FCP Conversion with no audio, why?
Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF to FCP Conversion with no audio, why?
mxf converting no audio,mxf converter has no audio,convert mxf to prores,panasonic hvx200 workflow,hvx200 mxf and final cut pro,prores converter for fcp x
Summary: Follow this article you will know how to solve Panasonic HVX200 MXF editing problems with Final Cut Pro X on Mac as well as how to work out the "no audio issues".
To start, the HVX200 becomes only the second camera in Panasonic's lineup to employ true variable frame rates! While, when you want to import Panasonic HVX200 P2 MXF files in FCP X on Mac for editing, you will get frustrated due to the video codec incompatibility problem as below.
I would like ton convert MXF files from my Panasonic P2 AG-HVX200, to ProRes 422 for FCP X. As the files have proved to be not so well-suited when they are about to be edited in my Final Cut Pro X. I have converted many files from this same camera with no problem but for some reason now it has no audio.
I try the Free HD Video Converter For Mac, and it work well. So I bought and register HD VIDEO CONVERTER FOR MAC, but when I convert MXF files to Prores422, I have no audio. So I bought MXF CONVERTER FOR MAC and I have the same problem, no audio. What's the problem? Is there a way someone can help walk me through this?
To edit Panasonic HVX200 P2 video footage with Final Cut Pro, you have to convert P2 MXF to FCP natively supported video format like MOV with Apple ProRes Codec. Here we recommend you the best P2 MXF Converter for Mac which can help you to transcode Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes .mov format for FCP on Mac OS X quickly and easily. Here comes the detailed guide.
Note before converting:
1. Please ensure that the computer you are using to do P2 MXF conversion has Final Cut Pro installed, otherwise, the converted files will have audio only without image.
2. If you are using FCP X, please make sure you have installed ProApps QuickTime Codecs, or you may get files with sound only without video. The FCP X does not install the ProApps QuickTime Codecs automatically, so you need download and install the codec manually.
While importing MXF clips to Pavtube MXF to ProRes converter for conversion, please make sure you have the entire MXF file structure as it saved on your camcorder's P2 card. If you only have some loose .MXF clips, your files will have image only without audio. See MXF file structure on Panasonic's P2 card as below.
The above screenshot clearly shows .MXF clips are all saved in 'VIDEO' folder, while audio files are all stored in 'AUDIO' folder. When you importing .MXF clips from the correct file structure, Pavtube MXF to FCP Converter is able to recognize audio tracks from 'AUDIO' folder automatically, which ensures the generated ProRes 422 MOV files have both image and sound correctly.
Guide: Convert Panasonic HVX200 MXF files to FCP X on Mac
Step 1: Add MXF video files.
Download and run Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac. Click the button "Add video" or "Add from folder" to add Panasonic HVX200 MXF files, or directly drag and drop your P2 MXF files.
Step 2: Select an output format for FCP X and set the output folder.
Click on the "Format" and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), it's the best format for editing in FCP X.
Step 3: Click "Settings" icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the "Settings" icon and you will go into a new interface named "Profile Settings". You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Tips: If your default audio track is in mute when recording, you may get only video without audio. So you can switch to the audio stream ID option to choose the right audio track.
Step 4: Start Converting.
Click the "Convert" button; it will convert Panasonic HVX200 P2 MXF files to Apple ProRes for FCP X on Mac immediately.
After the MXF to ProRes conversion, you will be able to get the output files for FCP X via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can import the converted videos to FCP X freely for further editing without any trouble.
Futhermore, if your MXF files have 2 audio tracks or more, here is a new program named iMixMXF with multi-track preserving and mixing features. You can download the trial version for evaluation!
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Source: ********edit-camcorder-video-mac.over-blog.com/panasonic-hvx200-mxf-to-fcp-converting-no-audio
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Dec 13, 2013, 03:38 AM
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Pavtube Christmas Sales at MXF Converter for Win/Mac
Buy one get one free, share 20% off with Pavtube MXF Converter
This Christmas, Pavtube launched themost fantastic specials ever including their most competitive product – MXF Converter(Win/Mac). It offers us anefficient way to transfer/convert MXF files to smartphones, tablets, PC/Mac, HDmedia players, game consoles, and home theatre systems with a reasonable price.
People who ordered MXF Converter can get any of the following programs for free:
1. MKV Converter (Win/Mac)
Designspecially to help users converting MKV files to various formats.
2. FLV/F4VConverter(Win/Mac)
Convert FLV/F4V unprotected flash videos downloaded from Youtube, Hulu, etc.
3. MOD Converter (Win/Mac)
Anideal tool for users of JVC (such as JVC Everio GZ-MG330), Panasonic, and CanonMOD Camcorders to edit and convert MOD videos
4. TOD Converter (Win/Mac)
Converting HD *.tod footages shot by JVC cameras to other formats.
About Pavtube MXF Converter
Pavtube MXF Converter is a smart tool to help users preview/convert MXF footages ininterlaced/progressive from Sony, Panasonic and Canon cameras. It integratesmany presets suitable for different using.
Onlineuser manual:
Win: ***********.pavtube.com/mxf-converter/user-manual-on-line.html
Mac: ***********.pavtube.com/mxf-converter-mac/user-manual-on-line.html
What is a MXF file?
MXF is an acronym for Material Exchange Format. The MXF file format was designed bythe Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Filesthat contain the .mxf file extension are often referred to as the digitalequivalent of video tape. These files contain video and audio data as well asother data bitstreams. They can be used in video recorders, cameras and oncomputers.
The MXF file format is a container format and MXF files can be converted into othervideo formats when needed. However, the proper video codec must be present inorder to play the video that is contained in the MXF container file.
Typical camera/camcordermodels that shoot footages in MXF:
Canon XF series; Panasonic P2 camcorders, AG series; part of Sony XDCAMcamcorders, etc.
As the Christmas is on the way, many of you may probably want to record the happytime together with family, memorize kid's anniversary, etc. However, thesefootages in MXF format cannot be playback on PC/Mac nor tablets/smartphonesdirectly; they also need rendering when loading to NLEs like Final Cut Pro,iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc. (suppose you program isupdated to be support MXF format). Rendering always makes your footage lesssharp in quality and it takes too much time to accomplish this: about 2~3 hoursfor every video.
In consideration of this, Pavtube Studio released the latest version of MXF Converter to help user easily convert MXF to needed formats in one go. Forpeople who are not very tech-savvy, you can simply quick locate the properpreset with best video settings on your device model/program version – it makethings much easier. iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows smartphones/tablets,Xbox, PS3, HD media players, all of them has its unique presets.
In this latest version of MXF Converter, users are able to edit (crop/trim) sourceMXF video, adjust output video settings, change video aspect ratio, add*.srt/*.***/*ssa subtitles to video, edit V/A separately and change interlacedvideo to progressive – that is to say, smooth your footage without little wavesin the middle of picture. For people who want to enjoy the ultimate videos in3D devices, it also provides 3D profiles with videos in Anaglyph 3D,Side-by-Side 3D and Top-Bottom 3D.
Pavtube Studio now is applying to upgrade this MXF Converter to a professional tool tomeet all kinds of user requirements. Any questions/advice can be posted to firstname.lastname@example.com (windows) or firstname.lastname@example.com (Mac) for help.
Besides,what is a big improvement to this program, Pavtube also released a Pro versionof it: MXF MultiMixer (Win) & iMixMXF(Mac). This proversion does not only integrates all the features of MXF Converter, but alsoadd support to output video in MKV/MP4/MOV (ProRes only available for Macversion) with multiple audio tracks. That means you can keep the most of your audiotracks when shooting with professional camcorders.
Guide: how to convert multi-track MXF files with Pavtube MXF MultiMixer/iMixMXF
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About Pavtube Studio
Foundedin 2007, Pavtube creates expert multimedia software applications that helpconsumers access, transfer and share their digital content across differentdevices that range from PC, Mac, tablets, smartphones, to HD media players,game consoles, and home theatre systems.
Onthe basis of computer OS, Pavtube products are divided into two categories -Windows solutions and Mac solutions, spanning across BD/DVD backing up, videotrans-coding, camera/camcorder footage and DVR recordings (e.g. TiVo)conversion.
With creativity, expert knowledge as well as cutting-edge technology, Pavtube helps consumers throughout the world enjoy more in a digitally connected audio-visual world. See www.pavtube.com for more information.'
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Jan 10, 2014, 03:27 AM
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Pavtube iOS Data Recovery Is Released For iPhone/iPad/iPod
Pavtube iOS Data Recovery Is Released For iPhone/iPad/iPod Data Recovery
Summary: Pavtube iOS Data Recovery is newly released for iOS Device users to recover lost data from iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and iTunes Backup files.
Pavtube iOS Data Recovery 1.0.0 (Windows Version) is newly released for the new coming year. iOS Device users with any generations of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch can now recover lost data either directly from iOS device or from iTunes Backup file on Windows or Mac.
Price: $59.95
iOS remains more popular than Android for holiday shopping in the US according to MacRumors. And iOS attracts Apple lovers of all over the world with its stability, no crapware, well-designed & intuitive user-interface, etc. But one still may encounter data loss by false configuration, device stolen, water damage, factory settings restoration, failure to update or jailbreak, etc. which are all frustrating. Pavtube developers found solution to help people who want to recover lost contacts, photos, videos, call history, SMS, iMessage, notes, reminders, and more.
"I have many friends using iPhone and other iOS devices. Some of them asked me for help when they deleted data unexpectedly," said Anda Wu, the software developer, "After some research, I finally found that the deleted data are actually stored in other ways on the device and in iTunes Backup files and can be recovered. And then it comes to my mind that we can develop an easy tool to recover lost data and help those who felt depressed on this."
Pavtube iOS Data Recovery is thus developed and released at a special point of time to help users in the fresh new year of 2014.
"It not only recovers 7 types of data, like lost contacts, notes, call history, and Safari bookmark directly from the device, but also recovers 11 types of data including images and videos from iTunes Backup files," continued by Anda. "And we minimized the process into only three steps: connect (or choose iTunes Backup file), scan, and recover."
"Pavtube iOS Data Recovery will be a wonderful saving for iOS device users to recover or backup data. And we are preparing for future updates to make it be able to recover more data." concluded Anda.
Safe Free Download Pavtube iOS Data Recovery for Windows or Mac 1.0.0:
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News Source: ********open-media-community.com/2014/01/02/pavtube-ios-data-recovery-is-released/
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ByteCopy Review - Best Multi-track Blu-ray Ripper in 2014
Top Blu-ray Ripper Review: Easily Copy Blu-ray/DVD movie with multi-track
For people who gather lots of Blu-ray or DVD movies at home, it's necessary to own a Blu-ray/DVD ripping program. A such tool could help users to backup or convert Blu-rays and DVDs for different uses. If you just don't have one, this article must be useful for you. In which, i will introduce a wonderful Blu-ray Ripper for you.
Unlike other Blu-ray ripping software, the one is named Bytecopy. At first, it's designed specially for users to crack and copy Blu-ray Disc and DVD movie to MKV. Which is similar with the famous MakeMkv. This feature is a lifesaver for HD media players, as not a HDD player plays 100% of Blu-ray features. E.g. When a BD movie is packed into MKV, WD TV Live can not read the Blu-ray subtitles inlaid. At this moment ByteCopy plays an irreplaceable role- it is the exclusive Blu-ray ripper that converts Blu-ray .sup subtitle to .sub without hurting video and audio quality. When it trans-codes and shrinks Blu-ray contents, CUDA acceleration is employed by default when possible. (See also: Compare: MakeMKV vs. DVDfab vs. Pavtube ByteCopy)
However, this Blu-ray Ripper does not only everything (selection of forced subtitles is excluded from the "everything" ) MakeMKV does, but also converts/encodes Blu-ray contents. It could rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD to any video format you like. Or directly convert your Blu-ray or DVD to your tablet or smartphone with best video quality. In other words, there are many presets for tablets and phones in output format list, which are designed according to the device's configuration, like Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Note 3, Kindle Fire HDX, Google Nexus 7/Nexus 10/Nexus 4, Asus PadFone, Transformer Pad infinity, Apple iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPhone 5S/5C, Apple TV 3 and more.
Pavtube ByteCopy is your best tool to rip and convert Blu-ray movies and DVDs to MKV container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitle sincluded. Besides retaining multiple audio tracks (especially HD audios- Dolby TrueHD 7.1/5.1, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1/5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1) and multiple subtitles in an MKV video without transcoding and quality loss, Pavtube ByteCopy is also able to encode the original soundtracks into DTS 5.1 channels, AC3 5.1 channels, AAC 6 channels, PCM 6 channels, etc.with your wanted languages. It preserves chapter markers in the converted MKV file. All that and more make it possible for you to easily select your needed tracks, subtitles, as well as chapters when watching Blu-ray and DVD movies with your media players. And other than that, you can backup and convert latest Blu-ray and DVD movies to any other formats like MP4/MOV with multi-track audios, M4V, AVI, WMV, MPG, M2TS, etc for playback on iOS/Android/Windows Tablets/Phones, HD Media Players (WDTV), editing software (Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, etc.), and more.
Rip BD/DVD to MKV from disc, folder and IFO/ISO image file
Pavtube ByteCopy not only can rip BDs directly from Blu-ray Disc and Blu-ray Folder, but also can convert DVDs from DVD disc, DVD Folder, DVD IFO File, and DVD ISO Image File.
Select subtitles/audio tracks for more than one file at a time
Pavtube ByteCopy makes it possible for you to select subtitles/audios for more than one file (title) at a time.
Non-burnt subtitles
Pavtube ByteCopy stores subtitles in the MKV file format without burning them to the video, so you can switch subtitle languages at will during viewing.
Keep forced subtitles and export .srt subtitles
The recently updated ByteCopy allows users to preserve the forced subtitles in a Blu-ray/DVD movie into the MKV output, and it also features option to help users export their required subtitles as .srt external subs to do other use.
Encode audio tracks with specified codec
Pavtube ByteCopy enables users to encode the source soundtracks in Blu-ray/DVD movies to your desired audio types, including DTS 5.1 channels, AC3 5.1 channels, AAC 6 channels, and PCM 6 channels.
Produce MKV files for PC Media Players
The MKV files generated by Pavtube ByteCopy are playable with a number of free PC players, including VLC media player, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, MPlayer, etc. And the audio tracks, subtitles streams, and chapters preserved in the MKV container are available to select at will during playback.
Set Preferences
Select your preferred languages as usually-used audio tracks and subtitles, e.g. English, Spanish, French, Deutsch, Portugues, Norsk, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
Inlaid Preview Window
This program also helps merging, splitting, trimming, cropping movies, as well as adjusting volume, adding image/text/video watermarks, replacing audio, etc.
Edit movie by trimming, cropping, merging, etc.
A preview window is inlaid for you to view the source video (image only, audios and subtitles are not available when previewing).
Support adding *.srt and *.*** subtitles to BD/DVD movies
In Subtitle tab on Editor Window, you are able to add *.srt and *.*** subtitles you get from internet or other places to the BD/DVD movies.
Shut down computer after conversion
Pavtube ByteCopy keeps you free from waiting around by ticking off the checkbox "Shut down computer after conversion" when processing Blu-ray/DVD encoding.
How to use Bytecopy as the Best Blu-ray ripping software?
Processor: Intel or AMD Dual core CPU, 1.6 MHz at least
Operating System: Windows 2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
Memory: 512MB or above
Display resolution: 1024 x 768 or above
Optical Drive: DVD drive/ BD drive(BD drive is required for ripping Blu-ray disc)
Source: ********multimedia-hive.com/2013/07/11/easily-shrink-or-copy-movies-from-dvds-or-blu-rays/
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The Anaheim Angels
The worst team you've never heard of.
The Anaheim Angels aren't the worst franchise in baseball history, but they are the most pathetic. If you're a Boston Red Sox or Chicago Cubs fan, you can take pride in your team's futility, or you can be tortured by it. You can brag about it, or you can bemoan it. But you don't have to go around explaining it to everyone.
That's the fate to which Angels fans are doomed. Historically, the Angels have been doubly cursed: Since the franchise's birth in 1961, it's been the most frustrating, most agonizing, most heartbreaking team to watch in baseball. And it's not even famous for it.
Locally, of course, the team's plight is well-known. Here's how the Los Angeles Times' Mike Penner described this year's World Series squad, the first in the franchise's 42 seasons to win a playoff series: "The best thing you can say about this team is that it has failed, utterly and completely, in upholding the Angel Way to Play Baseball. Fundamental chapters—How to Fall Apart After a Questionable Managerial Decision, How to Fail to Get the Final Out, How to Choke—are being blithely ignored." To drive the point home, the Los Angeles Times launched its game coverage of the Angels' playoff series-clinching victory over the Minnesota Twins by citing the franchise's "four decades of humiliation," crowing that "At 5:04 p.m. Sunday, the Angels cast aside their image as bumblers and stumblers and losers."
But nationally, the Angels don't have that image. The situation is actually somewhat worse: They're not known for anything. The Cubs are bumblers. The Red Sox are stumblers. The Montreal Expos are losers. But the Angels? They have no reputation at all.
The Angels deserve to be famous. Since they entered the American League in 1961 as the first expansion team of the modern era (along with the Washington Senators, now the Texas Rangers), they have watched team after team after team beat them to the Fall Classic. Seven of the 12 teams created after 1961 made it to the World Series before the Angels, including two—the Florida Marlins and the Arizona Diamondbacks—that were born in the 1990s. Four younger expansion teams (the New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, and Toronto Blue Jays) have been to the World Series more than once, and the Mets and Blue Jays both have two championship flags waving over their stadiums.
But the Angels' curse is defined by more than simple futility. After all, the Senators/Rangers, created the same year, haven't been in a World Series. (The Rangers, however, are one up on the Angels in another category.) Nor have the Expos or the Houston Astros, both created in the 1960s. Not to mention the much younger Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, or Tampa Bay Devil Rays. But none of those clubs shares the Angels' sad history of personal tragedies and late-season collapses.
First, the collapses. The Angels' autumn flops equal the Boston Red Sox's, who are much more renowned for them. In 1982, the Angels became the first team to blow a 2-0 lead in a five-game League Championship Series, dropping the next three to the Milwaukee Brewers, who advanced to the World Series. Four years later, the Angels went up 3-1 on the Red Sox in a seven-game playoff and entered the ninth inning of Game 5 leading 5-2. But with two outs and a 2-2 count—one strike away from the World Series—Angels closer Donnie Moore surrendered a home run that put the BoSox up 6-5. The Angels lost 7-6 in 11 innings, then lost the next two games, blowing the entire series.
The Angels accomplished something truly special: In two playoff series, the Angels had six chances to win a game to advance to the World Series. They lost all six. The 1986 team's feat in particular should rank among baseball's all-time collapses. But the Red Sox, the Angels' rivals in futility, did them one better and blew the World Series that year in a more famous fashion, beginning with that grounder through Bill Buckner's legs. As a result, baseball historians dismiss the Angels' claims to cursedness. "The Angels are not the Red Sox or the Cubs," one expert sniffed to the New York Times earlier this month. Even the Angels' hard-luck movie, Angels in the Outfield, isn't as well-known as Major League, starring the more famously hard-luck Cleveland Indians.
It's not just the playoffs that haunt the Angels. For their fans, September has been the cruelest month. Of all the team's late-season collapses (and there are many), the most bitter took place in 1995, when the Angels led the Seattle Mariners by 11 games on Aug. 3. Over two months they frittered that lead away, ultimately losing a one-game playoff and the division title. As September 2002 began, the Orange County Register noted that since the Angels' creation, the team has played at a .492 clip before September; after Sept. 1, the team's winning percentage dropped to .455. Over that period, only the Cubs took a bigger nose dive during the season's final month.
The Angels also have suffered a bizarre array of personal tragedies. Here's a sampling, not a complete list by any means: In 1965, a rookie pitcher died from a brain tumor. In 1968, a reliever was paralyzed in a car accident—his wife and two of their three children were killed. In 1972, a car accident killed an Angels infielder. In 1974, yet another car crash killed another reliever. In 1977, a shortstop died in a wreck. The next year, in a case of mistaken identity, an outfielder was shot to death. In 1992, the team bus crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, nearly killing the manager. And three years earlier in 1989, Donnie Moore, reputedly tortured by that 1986 home run, shot and wounded his wife before killing himself.
What's going on here? Local legend has it that the Angels' ballpark—formerly Anaheim Stadium, now christened Edison Field—was built on an Indian burial ground. (What is this, Poltergeist?) Earlier this month, the Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., reported straightforwardly, "City of Anaheim historians have said there is no evidence to indicate that it's true but nothing to prove it isn't, either." The paper added that, "convinced that their ancestors rest underneath the property," members of a local tribe "blessed the ballpark themselves before this season began." Maybe that lifted the Angels' curse. Or perhaps the totemic Rally Monkey has warded it off.
Either way, the other half of the curse has stuck. The feel-good stories in this year's postseason were the Twins (those loveable Contraction Kids) and the St. Louis Cardinals, who received sympathy for the deaths of a starting pitcher, Darryl Kile,and their longtime broadcaster, Jack Buck. But the Twins' and Cards' adversity goes back only a season. The Angels have suffered for four decades. If they win the World Series, all that changes. Or rather, half of it does. The franchise will still be cursed because hardly anyone will realize what's happened. Once again, Angels fans will have to explain it to them.

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I often ask myself, 'Is my house gluten-free?' With Bill's recent and unfortunate encounters with hidden gluten, it really makes me wonder just how is gluten getting into my gluten-free house – or life! Neither my wife or my daughter are gluten-free, so automatically there is definitely a place for contamination in the kitchen, which I am very careful with. But, setting this aside, what else in my house has gluten in it? – outside of the kitchen.
It's truly amazing the amount of products that use wheat or other grain as a filler or binding agent. Bill mentioned lipstick, and that's not the only bathroom product that may contain gluten. The list continues in the bathroom beyond lipstick to toothpaste, soap, hair gel, shampoo, blush, foundation, lip balm and deodorant. Women's and men's products alike have the same issues. Check this site out for a list of GF bathroom products: http://www.glutenfree-lifestyle.com/glutenfreeproductsbytype.html It's worth taking a moment to do so.
You may ask yourself, 'why would a dude worry about makeup?' – well … when you are hugging, kissing, or intimate with your partner, you are inadvertently exposing yourself to gluten. Depending on your sensitivity to gluten, you could be taking in gluten in ways you never imagined. As crazy as it seems, it's important to think beyond the kitchen and what you ingest at mealtime.
The bathroom medicine cabinet brings a whole other myriad of gluten into life as well. Even disease-specific medications, such as asthma inhalers and other drugs contain gluten. We're not medical experts, so you'll have to research each of the items you take and talk to your doctor. http://glutenfreedrugs.com/list.htm offers a good list, but your doctor should confirm.
As we continue our tour through the house, be sure to look in your laundry room. Many laundry detergents contain gluten. Yup – you could be wearing, sleeping in, or walking in gluten and not know it! Again, due to the extensive use of wheat and other products containing gluten to thicken, bind, and extend products, it's likely you might be exposed to gluten in a way you never imagined. Here's a short list of detergents that other GF-folks have researched: http://ourplacelivingglutenfree.blogspot.com/2010/04/update-gluten-free-laundry-detergent.html I urge you to do your own research as well.
Whether you are new to the GF-club, or a seasoned veteran, it wouldn't hurt to take a tour of your house with your GF-glasses on to see what else is lurking out there. It wouldn't hurt to rethink the things that are marked as gluten-free either! You never know. Maybe we need to brand a GF-Flag that can hang outside our doors?!


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RobertFrith wrote:Props those participating in Perth. The whole period has had forecasts of 39-42 with overnight mins in the mid twenties. I think it only made 37.5 degrees yesterday
I found it much easier riding at night. I did three ~100 km efforts leaving around 7 pm. Mind you, it was still 32 degrees, which is a warm ride but at least I didn't have to worry about sunburn.
My last ride was this morning and ended at 10:30 am and 37 degrees. That was too hot for me. The night rides were much nicer.


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Despite being an England regular under Roy Hodgson and forming a formidable partnership with Vincent Kompany last season, Lescott has started only one of the club's five Champions League matches in 2012-13 and not been named in the starting XI for five-and-a-half weeks.
Intriguingly, the 30-year-old did not even make the substitute's bench for City's goalless draw at Chelsea last Sunday, when he was overlooked in favour of Kolo Toure, who is not even registered for the Champions League.
Lescott, who is regarded as a top professional and low maintenance by City staff, now wants to know where he stands with Mancini.
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Clothes (and also wigs) make the man.
Tyler Perry is a Madea-shaped peg. And the hole that fits his trademark character has been working pretty well. I mean, obviously, we'll agree not to discuss the lifeless embarrassment of Madea's Witness Protection and instead remember the happier days when we laughed heartily over Madea's Big Happy Family. But still, Madea is solid good times.
Too bad for Perry, then, that he's feeling the chafe of that wig and fat suit. Now that he's female-impersonated himself all the way to Bazillionaire-Land, it's clear he wants to break out and be someone else. Someone who fights without a frying pan in hand. Someone who wears pants. Good Deeds was supposed to be his ticket to that but nobody bought their own tickets to see it. And that movie wasn't even horrible. It just didn't have Madea. Instead it featured The Man Perry. And that guy is sort of a blank.
In this prequel to Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider (where Morgan Freeman played Cross in his later career as an FBI profiler), Alex Cross (Perry) is an everyday psychiatrist and police detective with what amounts to supernatural intuition and a flabbergastingly precise understanding of the deepest brain folds of all the world's most insane criminals. He raises his finger to the air and can tell you that the serial killer down the block is watching Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. He's that good.
But not good enough to fully grasp the slippery nature of an emaciated madman named "Picasso" (Matthew Fox, 98 pounds of Nosferatu after a thousand really intense P90X workouts). Picasso is a frustrated artist who likes to torture-slay pretty much anyone who crosses his path and he causes a series of major traumas for Cross and his squad. Fueled with a burning desire for revenge, Cross goes after Picasso with all the outsmarting skills he possesses. In other words, have you seen an episode of Psych lately? Or any USA Network procedural? Ever? Because that's what this is, a softy PG-13 crime-plus-wisecracks-plus-death origin story with an inert protagonist. It's a silly, horribly written and directed one at that, a thing you could see from the comfort of your couch, executed with more intelligence, style and swagger by the cast of Criminal Minds.
But if you do wind up in a theater you'll at least get to come home with a couple of great comedy memories, mostly involving people bugging out their eyes. Fox does this in every scene. Message: He is crazy. And Perry does it once, during a phone conversation with Fox. Message: He is really, really angry. Then there's this other part where they're both fighting, mano a mano, in an old movie theater, and the camera fixates for a second on old, discarded reels of film on the ground. Message: Cinema is dead.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 23, 2010 — Autodesk, Inc., announced that Ubisoft used Autodesk 3D art creation and animation products to help create ŌĆ£AssassinŌĆÖs Creed Brotherhood,ŌĆØ its latest video game, released last week. Ubisoft artists created and populated the vast, ancient city of Rome using Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk MotionBuilder software. Autodesk HumanIK middleware was also integrated into UbisoftŌĆÖs proprietary game engine to help produce more realistic in-game animation for both the gameŌĆÖs human characters and horses.
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Imagine you have a complex structure, like a yacht's one. You built the structure in 3D and you want to create a layout to print out the transversal frames.
You want to print each frame in a separate detail; you'll have several details in the same layout (A0), probably two, three rows.
Each transversal section is obtained creating 2 facing clipping planes, selecting one small slice of the full 3D model.
The problem is to align each detail (section) that should be placed in the layout.
The sections drawing should be printed having the sections aligned both vertically on the symmetry ax and horizontally on the base line.
We tried something but without results.
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So you're saying that if you have three rows of details with say four details in each row (12 details total) you want the baseline to match between details in the same row and the vertical symmetry centerlines to match in the same column.
Have you tried using Set Camera>Place Target? If you use the intersection of the vertical midline and the baseline for the target point every detail should line up correctly as long as your detail windows are the same size and in alignment. This could be a macro or it might even be scriptable depending on your workflow.
Thanks Chris,
My plugin has some tools that might help. For instance, you can make everything the same scale in all of your visible details. So, if you zoom to your objects and then make them the same scale, they should line up to your requirements. I think.
Hi Peter,
no, your plugin doesn't help us very much. We need something more. The details should, in some way, bind together: a common absolute zero reference should be recognized in them and the alignment then possible.
Unfortunately I have in mind what Solid Edge does for placing views, sections in a general layout.
All the views and sections, unless you want to remove the link between them, are linked together and automatically aligned.
I think this is the goal you should obtain, especially for the mech drawings.
I agree - I would love it to do that, but I'm a script hack! I previously used Solidworks a lot, and it similarly kept things lined up nicely.
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By Lorie Palmer
Each year offers a multitude of interesting people to interview and stories to cover and 2013 was no exception.
Every story I write touches me in some way and I am proud to tell the stories of people in our community. As far as most memorable, several stories stick out in my mind for the year.
Number one would have to be the Jan. 9 bomb threat at Grangeville High School. Not because it turned into an action – it did not – but because, once again, more than 1,000 students from the community as well as parents, teachers and businesses were affected by the idiotic actions of a person who was behaving stupidly.
Our Jan. 16 article read, "the bomb threat via note is nothing new to GHS: Most recently, in 2010, students missed two days of school when a threat was written in a bathroom stall. School was already in session that December day and students were evacuated and picked up by parents. In 2008, a typewritten note also threatened the high school and students missed that day in March. No one was ever arrested in either of these incidents."
Add the Jan. 9 incident to this. No one has of yet been held responsible. I do appreciate the efforts of our local law enforcement. After hearing of the incident early in the morning prior to the Mountain View School District 244 all-call system — I learned of it the way I did all other threats: through one of my daughters via a text from a friend – I set out to discover what I could. Law enforcement took the threat seriously and when I drove up to the school to see what was going on, I was greeted by an officer.
What has changed since Jan. 9? Well, for one, a $2.6 million levy passed and funds within that levy paid for at least part of a camera security system. So, I say to the threat-maker: Go ahead, make our day. Do it again and this time you'll be on video.
Another highlight of the year would have to be when Grangeville Elementary Middle School seventh grader Amrit Singh won the Idaho National Geographic Bee. Amrit's parents, Ken and Dolly, and his extended family, local owners of three gas stations, were proud as punch – yet ever-humble.
I got a kick out of Amrit coming to school the Monday following the bee. Although he did wear a huge grin as his classmates cheered for him, he kept his emotions in check and pretty much shrugged it off as "I didn't do anything special." The town rallied around Amrit as he represented Grangeville and the entire state of Idaho in Washington, D.C., in May. He didn't win there, but he's a winner in my eyes.
July brought with it a chance to visit with school chums John Wagner of Grangeville and V. Wayne Hazelbaker of Hawaii. The two joked back and forth about who was the athlete and who was the Casa Nova in the duo. I appreciate the depth they have gone to in order to preserve their friendship for many decades. Hazelbaker was a helicopter pilot during Vietnam and, lo and behold, I learned local businessman Dave Robinson was a gunner who flew on Hazelbaker's 'copter.
I've known Dave Robinson since I first moved to Grangeville and had my car repaired at his garage in 1995 but I didn't know this about him. What I enjoyed about the camaraderie between him, Wagner and Hazelbaker was the fact that Dave had a genuine, relaxed smile and thoroughly enjoyed visiting with these men. Dave is a very hard worker and I had never really had the chance to see him be at ease like that before. There was also a certain sadness as they discussed the war and what it meant to them. This information wasn't for print but I kept it in the back of my mind as a reminder for me to be sensitive when I listen to the stories of our veterans.
Summer also brought an interview with Idaho County Fair grand marshals Ivan and Dina Nuxoll. Sometimes you just click with people and marvel at the fact of how genuine they are. I felt an immediate kinship with this couple who love their children, Eric and Ellen, and their grandchildren and are fiercely proud of them without being a bit over-the-top. I love that Dina collects cookbooks perhaps more than she ever intends to cook and that she, ever the home economics teacher at heart, makes yearly pajamas for her grandchildren. Just as I was about to walk out the door of their home this summer, I learned Ivan sits down at a table and writes each of his children a letter every week. Every week. He has done this since each left for college. What a treasure of family history and memories for them. And he writes each of their six grandchildren monthly. Wow.
Most recently I visited with and wrote a story on mountain man John Hallam. With his tattooed face and long hair, he may not seem like much of a cowboy, however, he has lived in the woods more than half of his life, living off the land and his wits.
After the story on John appeared, a reader voiced they wish we wouldn't "glorify" his lifestyle. I ask, "Why not?"
John is gentle and when I met with him he was concerned with whether or not I was staying dry in the pouring rain. His piercing blue eyes tell a story of loss and rejection and yet he still trusts those who meet up with him. He is sick with Hepatitis and misses his teenage son who last year left the woods and went to live with his grandmother. He spends a mostly solitary existence and is lonesome for conversation, though he is not aggressive or overbearing, even in talking about the Mustangs he has bred and trained for years.
I could mention many more people I have met throughout the year or the main issues that weigh heavily on my shoulders as I try to figure out how to write about them (Affordable Care Act, Common Core, among others) but I would take up the whole paper with my thoughts.
When people ask what I do, aside from the quick "I'm a reporter," answer, I tell them I listen. Then I help people share their stories, even when they think they may not have anything to reveal. If you listen long enough, there is always a story.
By David Rauzi, Editor
Reviewing a year's worth of stories for a recap of the standouts brought to mind several topics and categories that drew our reading attention, and in some cases either our excitement or our anger.
Scam stories are a community newspaper staple; readers are very willing and proactive to share their stories and warn their neighbors. This year upped the challenge for Idaho County residents with scammers using some clever and believable tactics to steal your personal/financial data, such as posing as a law enforcement officer or in seeking information to complete a gift registration for a LifeAlert service. One was just silly: a $7,000 "good citizen award" from the federal government. However, we end our year with the URM Foods data theft fraud that left many through the Inland Northwest and in Idaho County panicky about their credit card security, but fortunately financial and credit institution safeguards were in place, and it taught us to regularly monitor our accounts online as those monthly statements are not a real-time protection.
Violent crime is not largely what we're about here in the county. That being said, the county charged an Elk City woman, Tara Mendenhall, with allegedly beating an acquaintance to death in October; the last murder in the county was in 2011. Several aggravated assaults – from threatening with firearms to a baseball bat beating – were charged, as were an atypical amount of attempted strangulation incidents involving spouses or domestic partners. A rare crime? Robbery. The June gas station robbery with its implied coercion of force by handgun, was the area's first in more than 18 years. A May stabbing incident in Kooskia remains in investigative limbo with the FBI.
Significant news stories of the year included the one-year extension of Secure Rural Schools (SRS) funding, which this year for Idaho County meant $7.6 million. SRS provides payments to rural counties and school districts affected by declines in revenue from timber harvests on federal lands. This annual appropriation lies on the edge of termination, and with that it would leave a gaping hole in the county budget. SRS is a federal concession to western states largely comprised of public lands, but lean budget years are making legislators forgetful of their obligations. 2014 could give the west yet another extension as a divisive, partisan, ineffective Congress will likely avoid the hard work of a permanent, and satisfying, compensation alternative – whether paying market-share or state-managed lands options.
Oversize oil sands equipment shipments along U.S. Highway 12 attempted to push through; one did (with the permitted blessings of a defiant Idaho Transportation Department) until the courts stepped in to force the Forest Service to act on its mandated authority to protect the Wild and Scenic Corridor between Kooskia and the Idaho/Montana border. Now until the USFS and Nez Perce Tribe come to a meeting of the minds on how best to determine the if and how of future shipments, these so-called "megaloads" are shipping through southern Idaho where – in our editorial opinion — only roadkill jackrabbits and Hollywood activists will be in danger from an empty metal cylinder dropping off a slow-moving transport.
More fun with the Forest Service came in wrangling on the impending move of the supervisor's office from Grangeville to Kamiah. The agency came forth promoting the move as the best option in cost-savings and a central location to manage the newly combined enormousness of both the Nez Perce and Clearwater national forests. Activists in Grangeville sought, unsuccessfully, measures to retain the office with reorganization and leasing alternatives, bringing into question the study used to justify the move and the lack of communication and public input into the decision.
2013 started out for many with dollar signs in their eyes as the checks from the estimated $6 million Webb estate began to be distributed to multiple public and private Grangeville entities, including the city, hospital, civic groups and churches, and endowments/scholarships. So far, the Masonic temple has put the money into use with a summer building remodel, and Syringa Hospital has plans for renovation and expansion.
By Andrew Ottoson
During 2013, as the Upper Lochsa Land Exchange repeatedly stalled, the proposed land trade between Western Pacific Timber (WPT) and the U.S. Forest Service received support from Idaho's D.C. delegation.
In a joint letter to Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell, Sen. Jim Risch, Sen. Mike Crapo and Rep. Raul Labrador proclaimed the administrative effort "unlikely to end with a successful exchange" – and suggested the goals that first brought the Forest Service and WPT to the bargaining table back in 2006 "could be embodied in an exchange directed by authorizing legislation."
But as the year came to a close, Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest officials had not received any new direction from Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell. Nor had Crapo's office received any response from Tidwell's office, as of Nov. 14. Risch's office did not respond to a Dec. 26 Free Press request for comment.
Despite little discernable progress, the proposed land trade was a lightning rod for letter-writers.
One of those expressing strong opinions was Idaho County Commission chairman James Rockwell, who sent Risch a letter in what he later described as a "terse tone." That letter prompted one from commissioners Skip Brandt and Jim Chmelik, who on Sept. 16 reiterated the commission's support for "a possible legislative solution to the Upper Lochsa Land Exchange."
On Sept. 19, Rockwell wrote to Risch again: "You're crazy to get involved…but I'm aware of your track record, and admire it."
Risch's track record includes a time when, as governor, he pulled together a collaborative that produced a state-drafted "roadless rule," which withstood a court challenge from the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society. A Jan. 7, 2013, ruling by the federal appellate court upheld the rule, thereby vindicating that process, which, Risch's office noted, had included input from "county commissioners, timber companies, hunters and recreation groups" as well as Idaho Conservation League and Trout Unlimited.
In a letter to land trade opponent and Friends of the Palouse Ranger District organizer Marilyn Beckett, as reported by the Lewiston Tribune Dec. 6, Risch's office named the land exchange's stakeholders as "the people of Idaho, all forest users, Idaho County, the Nez Perce Tribe, USFS and WPT." In the same report, the Tribune quoted Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest supervisor Rick Brazell indicating these stakeholders had not yet been "pulled together."
Rather, WPT has met with stakeholders individually in preparing to present its case for a trade to the legislators in 2014.
When – or whether – the trade will come to fruition remains as uncertain as at any time since its 2008 conception.
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Large firms such as IBM, Lockheed Martin and Intel have sought out Clarkson graduates for many years. As the Web and modern technology continue to revolutionize the way industry operates, more opportunities are opening up in small firms, too.
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A high school student's senior pictures are all anyone can taco 'bout on the internet this week.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Clone Commandos (UK - DVD R2)
Chris takes a look at the second volume of the animated show on good old DVD
Here we go again, with another of Warner's interim Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated DVDs. This volume focuses on the cannon fodder of the Republic forces, with four episodes dedicated to the clone troopers. The first episode is a stand-alone tale, while remaining three episodes are part of a larger story depicting the liberation of Ryloth (the third act of which occurs before the final episode of season one).
In Rookies Captain Rex and Commander Cody must inspire a group of clones while staving off a Droid Commando invasion of a remote outpost near the planet Kamino, birthplace of the Republic troopers. Storm Over Ryloth sees Wat Tambor's Separatist forces invade Ryloth and Anakin Skywalker's fleet attempting to penetrate the blockade. In Innocents of Ryloth Obi-Wan Kenobi and his clone troopers head to the surface of Ryloth to sabotage a powerful Separatist weapon, and in Liberty on Ryloth Mace Windu bands together with Twi'lek freedom fighter Cham Syndulla to save the planet from the tyranny of the Separatists and their droid army.
My feelings towards Star Wars: The Clone Wars haven't really changed between volume one and two. I still enjoy the show in spite of the criticism and the fact that it's basically aimed at the younger audience. I realise that we know where all of the characters will end up (with the possible exception of Ahsoka), but I'm enjoying the journey. The Star Wars prequels rushed through the Clone Wars out of necessity, but this animated series has the luxury of taking its time and revealing more about characters both familiar and unfamiliar.
The show isn't completely without fault, at least from an adult perspective, but one has to remember that it's aimed more at kids than bitter thirty-somethings still crying rape over George Lucas' treatment of the childhood. It certainly appears to be more entertaining than a lot of children's television if the stuff I've seen recently is anything to go by, and I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the second season premiere.
As with the previous volume of the series, I was actually relatively impressed by the video quality. I watched the episodes on both a 24" widescreen CRT set in the bedroom and a 42" LCD TV in the lounge, and as one would expect the CRT looked slightly crisper. When scaled to 1080p the image still looked pretty good, but the telltale 'fuzziness' associated with up-conversion was readily apparent. However, colours are bright and bold, black levels deep and inky, and detail as high as you can expect from 576i, so the DVD is more than a match for the broadcast versions I saw. Episodes are once again presented in anamorphic widescreen at 1.78:1, which I now know is cropped from the OAR of 2.40:1. I really hope the full season boxed sets don't follow this trend of cropping the image. Even so, Clone Wars is a visually pleasing show on DVD.
The disc includes Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks (384Kbps) in both English and German (along with optional subtitles). I can pretty much replicate this audio summary from my review of A Galaxy Divided, because the soundtracks have all of the same strengths and weaknesses. Dialogue is strong and the familiar Star Wars effects are reproduced with clarity, but the surround channels aren't utilised to their full potential (although there does seem to be more 'rear action' than the previous volume). Once again bass is a little feeble given the magnitude of some of the explosions, but the lightsabers always sound the part. It's another competent effort, but it's not going to win any awards for soundtrack of the year. Oh, and PAL speed-up is still just as noticeable as ever, to the point where you could be forgiven for thinking that the opening narration was performed by a champion speed-reader. If you're bothered by the speed and pitch increase on PAL DVD and you know Star Wars effects like the back of your hand, prepare to be annoyed.
As with the previous volume, no bonus material is included.
As with much of this review I'm in danger of repeating a lot of the comments I made when I examined volume one of the series. Sure, the show is good fun and the price is relatively cheap, but why would you buy four episodes when the compete season is on the way? The disc might make a decent 'top up' present for Star Wars mad kids on their birthdays, but other than that I can't really recommend it.
While the audio-visual elements are good (by DVD standards), the complete lack of extras only serves to reinforce my belief that this is a quick cash-in from Warner, who are no doubt overjoyed to have a part of the Star Wars cash cow after years of Fox monopolising the franchise. Enough of these four-shot 'volumes'—roll on the complete season one Blu-ray release!
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a fun show, one that occasionally brushes with brilliance in presenting aspects of a war from different perspectives, some very intimate.
Naturally enough, it still FEELS like Star Wars and has some occasionally jaw-dropping action sequences.
The second season, The Rise of the Bounty-Hunters, is going to start airing in the US any day - God knows when the UK will get it.
The forthcoming Blu-Ray box-set is going to be an essential purchase in the Wilson households.
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Naturally enough, it still FEELS like Star Wars and has some occasionally jaw-dropping action sequences.
The second season, The Rise of the Bounty-Hunters, is going to start airing in the US any day - God knows when the UK will get it.
The forthcoming Blu-Ray box-set is going to be an essential purchase in the Wilson households.
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I just found out Paul Dini wrote a few episodes. I hope he does more in the second season...
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
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Release Date: 5th October 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 German
Subtitles: English, German
Extras: N/A
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Various
Cast: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Corey Burton, Catherine Taber, Ian Abercrombie, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Anthony Daniels, Dee Bradley Baker, Matthew Wood, Tom Kane
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation and Sci-Fi
Length: 86 minutes
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Earth Week: Sanders Urges Cultural Shiftby Steve Charles • April 19, 2013 Share:
Award-winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders doesn't call himself a nature writer. He prefers "Earth writer."
"I'm interested in life on this planet—all life," he writes in the preface of his new book, Earth Works. "Since I know most about my own species, I think mostly about human affairs, but I do so while seeking to understand how our kind arises from and affects the living world."
On Thursday the Earth writer and Indiana University professor emeritus returned to Wabash to help the College's Environmental Concerns Committee (ECC) celebrate Earth Week and to talk about how one of our kind—conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold—affected the living world.
Wabash Professor Marc Hudson introduced Sanders, praising him for "a steady compassionate gaze at this wondrous planet, and [for] teaching us how to live in this place."
Opening his presentation on Leopold's "Land Ethic" with a recording of bird song, Sanders said the author—best known for his 1949 book A Sand County Almanac, a cornerstone of conservation science and ethics—often drove to his farm outside of Madison, WI at sunrise to listen to the birds. He'd bought the land to restore it, planting thousands of trees in whose presence he felt "a transfusion of courage."
Sanders juxtaposed the pastoral sounds with a projected image on the Korb classroom screen of bacteria in a petri dish, noting that bacteria in a limited space die by exhausting resources, poisoning themselves, or pressing up against the limits of the glass.
"We have the same impulse to grow," Sanders said, adding that today's society, "even more than when Leopold was alive, is run by and for money.
"When you hear, 'be fruitful and multiply,' that's the bacteria talking, that the compulsion."
Sanders showed images of destruction from the clear-cutting of forests at the turn of the 20th century to current practices of open pit mining, tar sands extraction, fracking for natural gas, mountaintop removal coal mining.
"The impact of human appetite has spread far and wide," Sanders said. "But culture can change."
He referred to the Save the Whales campaign of the 1960s and 70s which brought about the ban on whaling.
"People said let's stop it. We made a decision to refrain from something we'd always done."
It's the sort of cultural shift that Leopold called for, and one Sanders sees as even more urgent today.
While scenes from Leopold's life were projected onscreen, Sanders offered a short biography of a man whose "mother was a lover of beautiful things" and whose father was "an outdoorsman and avid sportsman with a sportsman's ethic that guided his behavior.
"His father was a man who believed there's an ethical way to hunt, fish, and use the land; you don't just do what you can get away with."
An early graduate of the nation's first forestry school, Leopold joined the U.S. Forest Service and was assigned to New Mexico, where he observed destructive practices that have only recently been regulated against.
Sanders quoted from "The Land Ethic," one of the most famous chapters in A Sand County Almanac: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
Sanders asked: "What would it mean for society to embrace this land ethic, this earth ethic? What would it take to cause a cultural shift in values informed by science history art society to embrace the earth?"
Sanders quoted Leopold: "We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see feel understand, love, or otherwise have faith in."
"When we love something we will work on behalf of it," Sanders said. "But we have to be exposed to it to develop that affection.
"We need to make the land present to people so they feel it as a reality in their lives."
Sanders said that artists, writers, photographers, scientists and others all had important roles to play in this effort. And all of us can spend more time outdoors, away from electronic devices, and take our children outside with us.
He said that Leopold's daughter, when she was 92 years old, told him that when her father took the family for weekends on the Leopold farm, she had wanted to stay in town. Yet her fondest and most formative memories were from working together with her family as they restored that land.
"That's the gift she and the other Leopold children got from their parents, and it's a wonderful gift," Sanders said. Pointing to an image of the earth and moon projected behind him, Sanders said, "This is home, this finite planet." He suggested that students "pick up A Sand County Almanac and give it a read. It's a marvelous, important book."
Earth Week at Wabash continues tomorrow with a call to action as the Friends of Sugar Creek sponsors a clean up at the Bachner Nature Reserve at 1 p.m. On Monday, Students for Sustainability and the ECC open this year's Wabash Community Garden with a Garden Party from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Earth Week events conclude Tuesday, when Matt Huber, director of Purdue University's Climate Change Research Center speaks in Hays Science Center Room 319 at 12 p.m.


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DALIA DASSA KAYE is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. From 2008 to 2009, she served as associate director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. Before joining RAND, Kaye served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in the policy planning division, specializing in transatlantic relations and Middle East policy. She taught at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael). Kaye served on the faculty at The George Washington University as an assistant professor of political science and international affairs from 1998 to 2003. Kaye is also the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Brookings Institution research fellowship, a junior scholar award from the Smith Richardson Foundation, and The John W. Gardner Fellowship for Public Service. Kaye has published widely on Middle East security issues and is the author of Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia (RAND Corporation, 2007) and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press, 2001). She is also a coauthor of several recent RAND monographs, including The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War (2010). Kaye is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
ROBERT TRAGER is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on how states form beliefs about the intentions of other states, and in particular on the role of diplomacy. He also works on the determinants of coercive success and international terrorism, and has published in International Security, The New York Times, Foreign Policy and The Political Methodologist. He is currently at work on a book entitled Diplomatic Calculus in Anarchy. Before joining UCLA's faculty, Professor Trager taught at Oxford University and held an Olin Fellowship at Harvard University. He received his BA from Middlebury College and an MSc from the London School of Economics. Before beginning his PhD at Columbia University, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers in New York. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Eisenhower Institute, the Public Policy Consortium, the Columbia University Center for Conflict Resolution, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
AMY ZEGART is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and an Advisory Board member for the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in U.S. national security policy, U.S. intelligence, global studies, and public policy. In 2003 she was awarded Public Policy Professor of the Year for excellence in teaching. Zegart has been featured by The National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in intelligence reform. She worked on the Clinton Administration's National Security Council staff in 1993. She has also testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provided intelligence training to the Marine Corps and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and advised local, state, and federal officials on intelligence and homeland security issues. Her research examines organizational deficiencies of American national security agencies. Her first book, Flawed By Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC (Stanford University Press, 1999), won the highest national dissertation award in Political Science and has become standard reading for several U.S. military and intelligence training programs. More recently, she has written about adaptation failures in the CIA and FBI, the role of presidential commissions, port security, and organizational problems in nonproliferation policy and the U.S. State Department. Her most recent book, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton University Press, 2007) won the 2008 Louis Brownlow Book Award, the top literary prize given by the National Academy of Public Administration for outstanding contributions to the field.
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