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|2005-12-25, 23:30
|Link #61
I actually fail to see what makes XviD/AVI is simpler than h.264/MKV or, even h.264/MP4. AVI requires AVI splitter, and XviD requires XviD decoder. Of course, same goes with audio decoder - it just happens that MP3 directshow decoders are included in more modern versions of Windows and/or Windows Media Player.
h.264/<whatever container> is absolutely no different. You need a splitter, a video decoder, and an audio decoder. Most of the time, the AVI decoder gets downloaded upon the first time WMP tries to play such file. Otherwise, windows actually lacks AVI splitter by default. We've seen such case before - it happened within a past year, which the thread was lost, but we've seen it. In such case, solving the problem is absolutely no different than supporting people to enable MKV playback.
The only thing that MKV/MP4 camp is losing out is the history - they are both new kids on the block. Many people are still only learning to play with them. But it won't be for long. AVI is a dying container. Even Microsoft has ditched it and moved on to ASF container.
Before this thread was destroyed once, a few people reminded us of those chaos days when the fansub groups started switching from DivX3 to XviD. Some people cried against XviD back then, complaining that the technology was too young. That cry didn't last too long - before too long, we couldn't find a group that still used the old technology. Now is the time for XviD to be left behind as old technology and the community seeks out the new technologies.
And the knowledgebase will quickly be expanded, and people will not feel any pain playing MKV/MP4/AAC/Vorbis/AVC contents. Afterall, it's not hard at all.
|2005-12-26, 07:10
|Link #62
Join Date: Jan 2004
Spoiler for Winamp:
Spoiler for MPC:
Spoiler for VLC:
Perhaps your computer doesn't like VLC? But that is no reason for such hate against it. Upgrade your computer? One other thing I should note is that my PC is probably *a lot* slower than yours (AMD 2500 Barton, 256 MB DDR400 RAM, Radeon 9500 Pro 128 MB DDR, a dying disc ) so my other playback configuration shouldn't be screwed up (the one that is not VLC). I should also note that I turned off most of background OS processes (even my Firewall) just for this comparison. Otherway, I think it would've been pretty much the same.
Now, about the usage of softsubs, I think you know what I mean when I say that they are not needed with fansubs.
/me dances for the quick Fluffy ownage
Last edited by LytHka; 2005-12-26 at 07:36.
|2005-12-26, 08:53
|Link #63
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
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I've been trying to reproduce these alleged huge savings on several of my systems, and the result is fairly conclusive: The speed advantage of vlc averages around 10%, it very rarely exceeds 20% in peaks. Now add in the fact that most of the gains get lost when the postprocessing default in vlc gets changed from "off" to "5" (the default equivalent of the codec pack you hate so much), and the "advantage" of vlc nearly evaporates.
It should be noted that turning off postprocessing in h264 sources comes at a price, because it creates artifacts. I don't know the vlc intrinsics, but it exhibits the very same decoding glitches you get when you choose the strongly discouraged "unsafe" settings of ffdshow, so I'd assume it's the very same and should be changed anyway.
So you want to trade 10% of CPU savings for artifacts in your playback? I'm not so desperate and I'd guess most other anime fans aren't either. If you're REALLY strapped for CPU, you can go back to the "disable deblocking where it's safe" settings in ffdshow. You shouldn't go beyond.
About the subtitles: The majority of modern h264 releases are softsubbed. And during my tests I recently had to find out that not only vlc cannot render soft signs, it doesn't even filter out comments. So unless the release you use it with offers a stripped SRT track, you'll suddenly see editor and TL comments in your playback. Besides, having to manually ACTIVATE subtitle playback isn't very beginner-friendly either.
What remains is the anime fan's choice what kind of solution he is looking for. If he wants a proper playback solution which fully supports all common subtitle formats, embedded fonts and what comes with it, vlc is sorely lacking and completely insufficient. If he wants a reduced solution for pure hardsubs (more or less a subset of what you deem 'appropriate' for him to watch) and doesn't mind playback artifacts, vlc is an option.
|2005-12-26, 09:07
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For the record, I used the default VLC values (the ones I got with the installation).
Tell me, do fansub comparison sites use postprocessing when taking screenshots?
|2005-12-26, 09:17
|Link #65
What? I am washed up!
Isn't H.264's postprocessing built in? And isn't it meant to be ran at all times, under normal circemstances?
I mean, that's why the option for deblocking is there in the decoder, isn't it? And it's not like the deblocker running at 0/0 causes that much of a disadvantage either.
I know little about such things, so whatever ^^
And I'm having trouble believing that much of a saving for free using VLC. Magic doesn't exist, and encoding and decoding certainly don't have any magic in them. You get nothing for nothing, as they say...
|2005-12-26, 09:54
|Link #66
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@SirCanealot: Read my signature.
I just had to check that Mahoraba episode 12 OP and found out similar results to mine. Note that the Froth-Bite encoder tested this as well, on a much better PC and got similar CPU usage differences appropriate for his machine. These are mine screens. He'll post if he wants to.
Spoiler for MPC:
Spoiler for VLC:
In the end, there *may* be some decoder issues involved here, however, with my naked eye I could distinguish no difference in the picture during playback and even if those differences are there (I'm not excluding possibilities), they are minimal and not important for an average viewer. Furthermore, I believe this discussion about VLC was raised because there is still a significant part of leechers out there with slow PCs that have systems on the brink of AVC playback, so I think a "10% CPU drop" might be very important to them.
And here we're talking about bringing AVC closer to the "common folk"... *sigh*
Last edited by LytHka; 2005-12-26 at 10:06.
|2005-12-26, 11:27
|Link #68
Excessively jovial fellow
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 32
LytHka: what Mentar means by postprocessing isn't really postprocessing - it's the builtin H.264 inloop deblocking. Disabling it is a good way to break decoding, since it creates varying amounts of blocking depending on how much the loopfilter was used. In FFDShow it's on by default - to turn it off, go to Codecs -> H.264 and check "Skip deblocking when safe" and "Skip deblocking always". Then try to watch something loopfilter-intensive like Arienai-Conclave's Ginban Caleidoscope, especially in fade-in's/fade-out's and see the blockfest.
Spoiler for blockfest:
You get the idea? Turning it off for encodes where the encoder turned off the deblocking filter is more or less safe, but those are kind of rare. Both x264 and Nero has it on by default, and the lower the bitrate, the more it gets used. But even for high-bitrate encodes, it's frequently used anyway (x264 automatically disables it for frames with QP > 18, IIRC, and that's quite high - getting a QP higher than 18 on all frames means a RIDICOLOUS bitrate). If you want to I can quote pengvado on this. It's an integral part of the codec, that gets taken into account when encoding, and if you turn it off while decoding, you're basically breaking the codec.
On to the CPU usage of VLC. I don't know what FFDShow build LytHka is using, but from the looks of it, it might be some completely non-optimized build, in which case anything save the reference decoder could beat it. I've asked some people in #CCCP to do some tests, and none of them get this magical ultra-low CPU usage. With VLC 0.8.2, it's the other way around - it usually uses MORE CPU than the DirectShow players. That's not relevant, though. I await SCIENTIFIC TESTS of the CPU usage. This is getting us nowhere.
|2005-12-26, 12:06
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So, in order to set things straight I downloaded teh famous CCCP and repeated this non-scientifical test. Also, I turned on that VLC postprocessing to the nr. "5", just to please the almighty encoders from CCCP who are in theory always correct yet fail numerous times in mere practice.
Spoiler for CCCP with MPC Itsudatte my Santa same scene as before:
Spoiler for VLC set to postprocessing 5 Itsudatte My Santa same scene as before:
Yep, that VLC CPU power usage did increase a bit but not drastically and it's still way below CCCP decoding. The other MPC result is pretty much similar to the ffdshow in AnimeSuki Playback Help page.
But yes, I'd love to see some *independent* *scientifical* results.
EDIT: Now to get this crap off of my machine *shrugs*
EDIT2: After reading Quarkboy's post I took another look at the graph and the CPU power usage is more or less the same. Stupid peaks.
Last edited by LytHka; 2005-12-26 at 14:03.
|2005-12-26, 12:36
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Spoiler for VLC results:
[edit]I guess I could make some comments now about "crap" that I need to "get off my machine", but I'll refrain from doing that.[/edit]
|2005-12-26, 12:44
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Going to throw more drama into this thread; CCCP CPU usage while playing back a Pretty Cure episode, around 40-50%. VLC CPU usage with PP turned to 5, around 20%.
(CCCP version is not the latest, the latest November one [I forget the exact date]. Machine is XP2000+, 256MB RAM, GeForce 2).
|2005-12-26, 13:35
|Link #72
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the "postprocessing" in VLC (the one that goes from 0 to 6) has nothing to do with h.264 in loop deblocking filter.
After all, that option is still there when playing xvids, right? So you're saying its function changes depending on the codec used in the playback file?
I think that VLC simply doesn't have the ability to disable the in-loop deblocking filter (unlike ffdshow). Setting the VLC postprocessing to anything higher than 0 will probably simply make the video worse assuming is was competantly encoded.
You'd have to ask the developers to be sure, but that makes sense to me.
Not to mention, the h.264 in loop deblocking filter is NOT advjustable at decode time. You set the strength for encode, and that's fixed. It's possible to skip the filter entirely, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible to modify the strength of the fly. Furthermore the ranges don't add up. h.264 deblocking has 2 paramters that can both range from -6 to 6. VLC has one parameter that ranges from 0 to 6... it just doesn't make sense to say they're connected in any way.
|2005-12-26, 14:09
|Link #73
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 49
Lythka: Just a little sidecomment about your snide remark:
> Also, I turned on that VLC postprocessing to the nr. "5", just to please the
> almighty encoders from CCCP who are in theory always correct yet fail numerous
> times in mere practice.
If you bother to recall the facts correctly, the CCCP guys are the ones who are generally able to solve the problems on the various boards - unlike you. They are the ones who invest hours of their time to help people with rare and obscure playback problems to track them down and solve them in their IRC channel - unlike you. They are the ones whose feedback to the main developers of filters and splitters have resulted in actual bugfixes - unlike you. And they also are the ones who pointed out and corrected the flaws in your various earlier attempts of "playback guides" ... in other words, these are the guys who solve problems _in practice_.
About your data: Let's just say that I'm unable to reproduce your results, but this might certainly be the result of differing files and playback setups. But I find it just amazing that your skilled choice of player manages to reduce the CPU load of a playback of a h.264-encoded file to 5%. I've done my 3-digit numbers of h.264 encodes, but never managed to reach values like these, no matter on which systems I played them back. Heck, not even in the good old DivX/XviD times. But congrats for shaving off CPU usages from 20% to 5%. It seems that these encodes need the CPU savings the most.
Quarkboy: I'm unable to say with certainty what vlc postprocessing actually does in detail (as I wrote), but it occasionally does exhibit exactly the same kind of artifacts I remember from my experimenting times with unsafe deblocking settings in ffdshow (used them on Shana). Maybe some vlc author can shed light on this. These artifacts tended to fade with increased postprocessing in vlc, but on the other hand, this also reduced the CPU advantage.
Now don't get me wrong, it's not my goal to diss vlc, I think it's a fine player which plays back a big chunk of modern media files nicely. I only maintain that the percentage of properly played back files is shrinking and maybe 75% nowadays. And when I see self-appointed playback gurus advocate incomplete solutions where full solutions are available (especially with patronizing reasons like "these files you can't play back with it are the ones you shouldn't watch in the first place"), I find this worth mentioning
|2005-12-26, 14:38
|Link #74
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@LytHka: did you go back on that "VLC uses 100% less CPU" or not? I'm not sure which of the edits to read...
In any case, doesn't someone else find it a bit... WEIRD that a file that plays at about 12-18% CPU usage on my A64 X2, NO MATTER WHAT PLAYER I USE (I tested it with MPlayer-dev-CVS-050928, and while that is one or a few percent faster than DShow or VLC, it's still nowhere near LytHka's results), plays with almost NO CPU usage on LytHka's Barton (I'm referring to Mahoraba 12)? Either something's weird with the testing, LytHka is lying, or there's magic about.
Just some funny anecdotes to lighten up the drama: I accidentally discovered that MPlayer apparently uses the exact same color for its overlay surface as Windows does for the Task Manager statistics, which means that if you put the Task Manager on top of MPlayer, you can see the video through the CPU/memory usage measurement bars... :P
Another funny thing you can try at home: set the postprocessing in VLC to negative, and the next time you open a video, it will instantly crash. You'd think that the programmers would do sanity checking on those inputs, but nooooo, VLC users are too clever to do something like that (or, more like, it's so damn hard to find the setting that noone would ever find it, much less change it).
|2005-12-26, 15:09
|Link #75
Arienai Co-Founder
Any postprocessing does, even FFDshow's does :P
no _sane_ person would set a negative PP value, how would that work? makes the image worse?
And i believe you can not use the GUI to set it to negative values
CPU usage of the decoder depends A LOT on what options are used in the encode.
I encoded some BoA video clips, the ones on wich i used insane settings (6hrs encoding for just 4 mins video) the cpu usage is pretty high.
But on ones where i used a lot less insane settings cpu usage is around 5~20% (using VLC).
Clip: 18.104.22.168/~subcool/Boa - The Love Bug.mp4 - Size: 30 MB
(Dont whine about the black bars, i did not clip anything nor use any (smoothing/sharpening) filters :P )
i used mildly insane settings on this one, this one tops at around 50% cpu usage for me. (1.83 GHz)
Hopefully decoders will get more effecient at decoding H.264 in the future
|2005-12-26, 15:56
|Link #76
Join Date: Feb 2004
Fist, Quarkboy is right about VLC post-processing, its not the same as the h.264 deblocking. I know how bad most h.264 encodes look when you turn off deblocking in ffdshow, this is certainly not the same as VLC post-processing at 0 since VLC does not display a blocky mess.
On to the CPU usage. I have to say I think the VLC stats are bull. Like SirCanealot said, magic doesnt exist, at least not in encoding/decoding. On my system I can reproduce the same results (actually better) as LytHka. Im too lazy to take screenshots, so Ill just list my results.
MPC xvid/mp3/avi CPU usage varies between the extreme low of 2% and an extreme spike of 20%. Average CPU usage is about 13%.
VLC xvid/mp3/avi CPU usage is not measurable. The highest peak was 2%, but average is clearly close to 0%.
MPC h.264/aac/mp4 CPU usage varies between the extreme low of 10% and an extreme spike of 34%. Average CPU usage is about 24%.
VLC h.264/aac/mp4 CPU usage varies between the extreme low of 0% and an extreme spike of 10%. Average CPU usage is about 2%.
System is an AthlonXP 3200+ with a Radeon 9600 pro and 512MB of RAM running Windows XP Pro SP2. XviD test file was anbu SnSIII, h.264 test file was F-B My Santa and duplicated with subcools Boa clip (Boa averages were about 30% on MPC and still 2% on VLC though it spent a bit less time at 0%).
Im sorry, but Im having trouble buying that. Even if you assume a significant difference in the test files, theres just no way VLC should be playing h.264 far faster than ffdshow/MPC can do XviD. Im inclined to think the VLC stats are wrong for some reason. It might be possible that VLC is able to make the video card do all the work in certain systems, but having not heard anything about such technology being present in VLC, it seems like a pretty far fetched theory. So until someone can explain how VLC is able to play back h.264 with little to no CPU power needed (apparently only on some systems), Id say all these results are just bad data. VLC may indeed be faster, but I doubt the difference is anything like my stats suggest.
|2005-12-26, 16:19
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|2005-12-26, 16:44
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Some pseudo-scientific tests (more scientific than looking at jpg's of graphs anyway)... This time I'm measuring CPU time. See below for test details.
MPC - first 120 seconds of F-B Mahoraba 12 (five tests):
1. 30 seconds
2. 29 seconds
3. 28 seconds
4. 29 seconds
5. 29 seconds
Average CPU time: 29 seconds
Software: MPC 188.8.131.52, ffdshow 2005-12-20 CCCP build (for both video and audio), Microsoft's builtin AVI splitter.
VLC - First 120 seconds of F-B Mahoraba 12 (five tests)
1. 20 seconds
2. 19 seconds
3. 20 seconds
4. 21 seconds
5. 20 seconds
Average CPU time: 20 seconds
Software: VLC 0.8.4a.
Zoom Player - first 90 seconds of ZX Starship Operators 09 - five tests
1. 53 seconds
2. 53 seconds
3. 52 seconds
4. 52 seconds
5. 51 seconds
Average CPU time: 52.2 seconds
Software: ffdshow 2005-12-20 CCCP build, ZoomPlayer 4.51 standard, Haali Media Splitter 2005-11-25.2, VSFilter 2.37.
VLC - first 90 seconds of ZX Starship Operators 09 - five tests
1. 51 seconds
2. 49 seconds
3. 51 seconds
4. 50 seconds
5. 51 seconds
Average CPU time: 50.4 seconds
Software: VLC 0.8.4a.
The test was conducted with a fresh, reset-all-settings install of CCCP. Some stupid ZoomPlayer defaults were changed (hide the control bar, autosize interface to fit video size, space bar == pause video), but otherwise all defaults. Task Manager was kept running in the background. The player was started with the video and left alone for the duration of the test. When the end point was reached, the player was paused and the CPU time for its process noted. The player was then closed and the process began anew. The H.264 test file had softsubs, but they were not visible during OP, since it was hardsubbed. Hence, VSFilter was loaded but not doing anything.
Speculations: It's weird that VLC is that much faster on XviD. After all, the decoders are the same... In the H264 case, I'm putting the difference off as a result of Zoom's slower loading time (since the player start time is included in the test) and fancier GUI, plus the extra effort to create the DirectShow graph.
Incidentally, some casual testing with ZoomPlayer indicates that it actually uses slightly less CPU time than MPC for the Xvid test. For the H.264 test, there's no noticeable difference between Zoom and MPC.
I also tested MPlayer a bit, and found that it's about as fast as VLC, but with HALF the RAM usage, and this is despite not using any SSE/SSE2 optimizations (my CPU has them, but MPlayer doesn't want to detect them, it seems).
Concerning the weird VLC stats of some people: I think the measurement has gotten lost somewhere in some thread. I have no idea why it behaves like it does, but I'm not believing those results until I can reproduce them myself (which I can't).
BTW, @subcool: yes, you can set that value negative with the GUI. Try it for yourself. Just press the down arrow button and watch it happily go from 0 to -1...
Last edited by TheFluff; 2005-12-26 at 17:18.
|2005-12-26, 18:23
|Link #79
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 34
I still couldn't believe that difference so I got VLC to run and tested on a 2 minute sample. (Note: CPU time includes startup cost)
15% avg.
MPC (w/ CCCP):
27% avg.
I also searched for any ways in which VLC may "hide" its CPU usage, but didn't find any secondary threads etc. So I believe it is fair to say that VLC is actually nearly twice as fast as the alternative.
However, there are a few facts that need to be mentioned to qualify that statement:
My conclusion (note that I have no particular stake in this "war"): If you have a very slow system, only watch hardsubs and get lucky with the encodes VLC is a good choice.
(That is, if you can stand the interface which is quite horrible IMHO)
|2005-12-26, 18:31
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I truley don't understand the whole H.264 craze that's going on right now...Perhaps it makes encoder's jobs easier, but as a veiwer I much rather xvid/divx decodable projects...Let me be the one to choose if I want to use ffdshow all the time(which I don't hate, but I'm not a huge fan of ffdshow)...Higher quality 230+mbs DVD rips look pretty good with it, but 200 and under fansubs look superior in divx format IMO...I just don't see the HUGE advantage...Lower sized fansubs should stick with divx I think...and don't get me started on CCCP that would be kissing ffdshow's ring if it was the "God-father"...
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A blood test on New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis came back from the state this week and shows no trace of alcohol in his system when he was charged with DWI in May while driving through Havelock.
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�I�m surprised,� Chesnutt said. �With just a field test and no quantitative testing they could even charge me. It does not help you to be a public figure and get arrested on something that has no affect on you.�
Chesnutt said he was also surprised the state had hired special counsel to try the case at taxpayers� expense.
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It was just before midnight, that Frank face-planted himself on our bed. The house was, at last, so silent that you might hear a guilty Tootsie Roll Pop drop on the wooden floorboards.
My husband, measuring a full 6' 5"—a former offensive lineman for a big-12 college football team, ex-rugby lock forward for a well-known UK university/club and competetitive swimmer at state level—was manfully attempting to squeeze back the tears. (I could tell.)
"That was brutal!" he choked.
I was too weak to comment; a limp smile of commiseration would have to suffice.
"Never again!" he declared, rousing himself to a croak.
With the fraction of emotional tissue I still had living within, I did feel a flicker of sympathy. (Only a flicker.)
It had been a long, dark night into Alex's 7th birthday slumber party. (An oxymoron. Children do not slumber at these events.)
It may come as a surprise that, by midnight, we were far from feeling our age.
It's because we were feeling our parents' age.
We were bewitched, like Odysseus by the sirens. Only in our case it was the tender, pleading voice of our apple-cheeked little boy when he asked: "Mommy? Daddy? May I please have a slumber party for my birthday?"
As the parents of eight young boys (of varying sizes between 7 and 8 years old) dropped their children off with that special "You are braver than I" expression, or the "Better you than me" wink of the eye, Frank and I still didn't get it.
We didn't get it when the children brightly asked to open all of the birthday presents and assemble them one-by-one (incompletely) so that, by nightfall, the family room had become an instep-stabbing stew of Bionicle pieces, Lego bricks and Hot Wheels cars.
We didn't get it when the crowd separated into several scrimmage lines that broke out like an avalanche into forbidden areas of the house, screaming through hallways, up and down stairs, across the kitchen and into bedrooms, armed with walkie talkies, spy cars and (normally innocuous) domestic tools now intended for violence.
And we still didn't get it when, at 9 o'clock, we put a Hot Wheels movie on our pretend-cinema screen in the living room to "wind them down", they exploded into a rampageous mob.
We did start to get it, however, when 10 o'clock struck and there were little or no signs of abatement.
If those kids thought they were giving us old fools a damned good education, they were more than up to the task.
That was when Frank sunk into an armchair and, for a brief time, became an observer, rather than a referee.
"This is like being trapped in a saloon full of drunken, brawling sailors on a Saturday night" he said, failing to keep the awe from creeping into his voice.
"Laundry" I replied, realizing that my hearing was beginning to go.
"What?" he replied uncomprehendingly. Was his hearing fading too?
"Frank, I really need to fold some laundry right now. In our bedroom. I won't be long." (My tone was wheedling now.)
I figured no wife ever got shot while folding the laundry.
After eleven, my guilt overcame me and I emerged from our bedroom, mildly resuscitated—and now as determined as a kamikaze pilot, to the nail the target.
And there was Frank, in The Thinker's pose, having sunken further into his chair as the party revelers danced around him, like the masses at Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve, long after the ball has dropped in Times Square.
He was a broken man.
And I—well, I was his comrade. There was going to be no more pacifist Quiet Police. No more "Shhhhh! Use your whispering voice please!"
No more Mrs. Nice Mom.
In that moment, I remembered my mother (long ago passed away) when she caught us, as children, surreptitiously jumping on our beds and giggling, long past the bedtime hour.
"That's it! All of you! GET TO BED! NOW!"
And we knew she meant business.
In a modern world that panders (sometimes to a fault) with reverence to the whims and demands of the "whole child", there's still something to be said for old fashioned methods.
On the count of "three", there was not another peep from nine sleeping bags, lined up on the family room floor, all in a row.
Happy Birthday to all and to all a good night!
Those feeling a glimmering of concern for Frank should know, he is now in recovery. This was aided and facilitated when, the next day, Alex came to sit on his father's knee.
"Daddy? That was the best birthday party I ever had."
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10 September 2013: As the political situation deteriorates in Syria, many Palestine refugees have sought shelter in Lebanon. They join a large population of refugees still displaced after the Nahr el-Bared Camp in northern Lebanon was closed in 2007. This latest influx constitutes an urgent, humanitarian crisis.
In response, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided a rapid response grant of US$1,500,001 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
UNRWA will provide food and health assistance as well as ensure that some 2,000 families will be able to keep their housing. The allocation is expected to benefit 14,397 people.


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For generations, the seafood business has been a part of cultural landscape of the eastern portion of the Old North State.
For generations, the seafood business has been a part of cultural landscape of the eastern portion of the Old North State, and for the 27th year, the efforts of the men and women who bring fish and shellfish from the sea to the table will be recognized at the North Carolina Seafood Festival.
�We want to bring awareness about the commercial fishing industry,� said Cheryl Pigott, a member of the festival�s board. �We also want to recognize commercial fishermen in the area.�
As per festival tradition, there will be a blessing of the fleet and a ceremonial wreath tossing into the sea to recognize and honor fishermen, living and dead. According to the CDC, 545 commercial fishermen died while fishing in the United States.
�It�s a really neat reminder of why we do this festival,� Pigott said.
Pigott said the fishermen will be recognized at the festival not only through ceremonies honoring their sacrifice, but also through the product they deliver daily. Starting on Friday and continuing through Sunday, vendors will sell fresh seafood straight off the boat, as well as prepared dishes. The culinary focus of the event, though, will be the Cooking with the Chefs Tent, which can be found on Shepard Street, according to the map provided on the festival�s website.
Throughout the day on Saturday, the tent will feature chefs from restaurants from along the coast demonstrating their trade. Samples of the dishes will be served to the first 50 attendees of each session. According to one of the tent�s organizers, Carolyn Giles, the event will give cooks an opportunity to share seafood that�s a cut above the rest.
�Our seafood in North Carolina is fresher,� said Giles. �We want to educate people on our local seafood.�
Giles said the Department of Agriculture will also give demonstrations on basic seafood skills like opening oysters and fileting fish.
The Chef�s Competition will take place throughout the day on Sunday. Chefs from Wilmington to Chapel Hill are expected to go head to head, preparing dishes based on a secret ingredient, reminiscent of the Iron Chef series. The contestants� dishes will be judged on taste, originality/creativity, presentation and showmanship. The first round of competition will be judged by a panel of five food experts, including food blogger Amy Brinkley, food critic Andrea Weigl and award winning Chef Andy Hopper (Fire on the Dock Winner, 2012). The second and final round of the competition will be judged by 25 audience members. The winner will receive a plaque and chef�s hat to hang at their establishment until the next festival. This is the first time the competition will include a secret ingredient.
�We�re going to kick things up a notch this year,� Giles said.
On the music and arts side of the festival�s activities, a variety of vendors and performers will be featured throughout the weekend, including country music singer/songwriter Eric Paslay. Paslay, who has written songs for the Eli Young Band and Jake Owens and performed at the Grand Ole Opry, said he brings a little bit of everything to the table with the songs he pens and performs.
�Everyone has a heart and soul,� said Paslay. �I try to make sure everyone�s included in every song I write. It might be a love song or something a little more spiritual. I feel like I fit right in the middle of everything right now.�
Paslay will perform on the Clam Jam Stage at 3:14 p.m., following a set from young up and coming country music singer Rachel Farley. Paslay said he�s excited about his trip to the Carolina Coast, and not only because of the music.
�I love seafood,� said Paslay. �From fried oysters to swordfish steak � Hopefully, we�ll be there in time to get some good food.�
Christopher Thomas is a staff writer for the Jacksonville Daily News.


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GULFPORT, Miss., Feb. 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hancock Holding Company's (Nasdaq:HBHC) President & CEO Carl J. Chaney, CFO Michael M. Achary and Chief Credit Officer Samuel B. Kendricks, will address analysts and investors attending the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Bank Conference in Boston, on Thursday, February 28, 2013 beginning at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time.
Interested parties may access a live listen-only webcast of the presentation through the Investor Relations section of Hancock's website at www.hancockbank.com. A replay of the presentation will be available for 90 days following the conference.
About Hancock Holding Company
Hancock Holding Company, the parent company of Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank, operates nearly 250 branches and more than 300 ATMs across Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Texas.
The Hancock Holding Company family of financial services companies also includes Hancock Investment Services, Inc.; Hancock Insurance Agency and Whitney Insurance Agency, Inc.; corporate trust offices in Gulfport and Jackson, Miss., New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., and Orlando, Fla.; and Harrison Finance Company.
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The Sydney Roosters have today announced that Tom Symonds has been granted an immediate release from his contract to join the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.
Symonds, a local junior who made his first grade debut with the club in 2009, said: "I'm heartbroken to be leaving the only club I have ever known, but this has been my decision to make and as tough as it's been to do this, I feel that it's in my best interests.
"The Roosters have been great to me and from my teammates to all the staff, I've made so many friends here. It's felt like family and the club and everyone associated with it will always hold a special place in my heart.
"But at the same time, I'm looking forward to a fresh start and to hopefully having the opportunity to play some more regular first grade footy.


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All-Star Giroux headlines 5 Flyers needing surgeryNHL.com @NHLdotcom
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - All-Star forward Claude Giroux headlines a list of five Philadelphia Flyers who needed offseason surgery.
Giroux had surgery on his right wrist to repair torn cartilage and surgery on left wrist to remove bone spurs. He needs six weeks of recovery time.
Forward Wayne Simmonds had surgery to repair a broken left index finger. His recovery time is four to six weeks.
Defenseman Matt Carle had surgery to repair a torn stomach muscle. His recovery time is four to six weeks.
Defenseman Kimmo Timonen will have surgery next week to remove a disc fragment from his lower back. Full recovery is expected in eight to 10 weeks.
Forward James van Riemsdyk will have surgery next week to repair a torn labrum in his right hip. His recovery time is six weeks.
The Flyers had 103 points in the regular season and defeated Pittsburgh in Round 1, before losing to New Jersey in five games in Round 2.


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It was very refreshing to read Esther J. Cepeda's column ("Some schoolwork, jobs can't be 'fun-ified'; they're hard work," Dec. 25), and I hope that it will wake up the fun-ified people.
I have seen many escorted to the door while saying to the boss they did their best. They are basically telling on themselves, confessing that their best was not good enough for the profitability of the company.
Someone told me long ago if you're a praying man and want to keep your job you should work like hell while you're praying.
People that feel they can just show up are not the kind of influences you want surrounding you in the work environment. I found out firsthand that you can't just have a good year or month and rest on your past record. To succeed, you need to strive to succeed.
I always felt that my concern for the company's bottom line and my desire for showing constant personal improvement worked together.
This merging of the company's interests with my own was the secret to both my own success and the company's overall well-being.
It just makes sense if you own a company and want to continue in business that you have to work long and hard at it. Hard work has to rank close to the top of your goals or you'll come up short.
Being good and respected at your job is amazingly rewarding and worth the effort. Some will never know until they try it and experience its results.


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I always see The Netherlands - my home country - as a small, easily graspable version of other, larger and more important western countries and even the west as a whole. In light of this, Tweakers.net's Arnoud Wokke points to a very interesting report about the Dutch telecommunications market. This reports notes a trend that, if present in the rest of the world, could have serious effects for phone makers.
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The future you described is the past and present here in Belgium. And you can see it's effects: only spoiled rich kids and wealthy businessmen own an iPhone or a high-end Android smartphone. The rest of us uses budget phones instead.
On a side note: combined phone and SIM-card subscriptions do exist here, but they're not very popular for some weird reason.
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It's too bad, phone like xiao mi doesn't exported outside China. I'm in Indonesia, and am badly want theirs. They sell ~$200 phone with dual core 1.5GHz, 1GB ram, 16GB space, 1930MAh battery. Damn. That's too good for that price. Or $310 for quad core 1.5GHz, 2GB ram, 16GB space, 2000MAh (can choose 300MAh) if one wants it. Built quality is good too.


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Lady Bisons are seventh in first round at SIUE
MacKenzie Carter is tied for 19th after the first round of the SIUE Intercollegiate hosted by Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons are seventh as a team. Carter finished the day with an 85.
Sabrina Ferreri is tied for 35th with a score of 89.
Allie Pancake is in 38th place with a 90.
Catherine Musser is in 49th place with a score of 101.
Haley Rowdon withdrew.
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About our 15th Century Doublet
Forasmuch that the excessive vanity and wickedness of young men has grown to a very great height, so that many foul customs of dress are now found throughout every land. One thing in particular is the shameful practice of wearing the [doublet] cut of such brevity so that not only is boasted the turn and fullness of the calf, but that the port-piece and very curve of the buttock might thereby be revealed.
From a 1423 French ecclesiastical condemnation of men's fashions.
In the 1340s, the short, tight cotehardie had rocked the sensibilities of Churchman, who were aghast at men showing off their legs. But their admonitions proved little more effective than a 1990s father's horror at his daughter's low-rise jeans, and in much the same manner, the more they flustered, the more they were ignored! By the early 15th century, the cotehardie had become so short that the old style of chausses and braies had to be replaced with new joined hose that pointed directly to the cotte. This was the birth of the doublet, the dramatic, and final reinvention of men's fashions in the Middle Ages that would give rise to the fashions of the Renaissance.
Besides its close fit, the doublet retained many elements of its predecessor, particularly the tight, buttoned forearms, and its suitability for production in both simple and sumptuous fabrics. Besides its short length, however, one of the doublet's distinctive trademarks in this period were full upper arms, raised or "puffed" shoulders, and simple tie closures down the front. We have chosen to replicate all of these elements in our doublet, which based on a mid-century style that developed in the wealthy and fashion-conscious cities of Italy, spread into Austria and southern Germany and from there became popular throughout central and western Europe. We have these style elements are extremely flattering to most figures - with a smooth, tailored silhouette and broad shoulders. Like the originals, our doublet is of a cut that was popular with the nobility and the wealthy mercantile classes, and is produced in both rich brocades and all-natural wools in variety of colors. The pointing holes on the short skirt, or peplum, are designed to perfectly match those of our joined hose. Perhaps more than at any other point in the Middle Ages, clothing in this period was about dramatically standing out from the crowd. To help you do just that, we recommend you add our woolen hood worn as a chaperone to complete the look of the dashing courtier or man of means.
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Three views of our Wool Doublet in Burgundy, Cotton Joined Hose in Dark Blue, Chaperone Hat, Decorated Belt and Knee Boots.
Three views of our Dark Green Wool Doublet worn with Black Wool Joined Hose, 15th century Shirt, Wool Hood, Red Decorated Belt with Rossettes and Black Turnshoes.
Left: She's wearing our 15th c. Linen Frontlaced Gown in Sage with Black Linen Half Sleeves, White Linen Underdress and Silk Organza Veil.
He's wearing our Dark Green Wool Doublet with Sage Green Cotton Joined Hose, 15th c. Shirt and Black Turnshoes.
Center: She's wearing our 15th c. Linen Frontlaced Gown in Sage with Black Linen Half Sleeves, White Linen Underdress and Silk Organza Veil.
He's wearing our Linen Doublet in Black with Burgundy Cotton Joined Hose, 15th c. Shirt and Black Turnshoes.
Right: She's wearing our Jade Green 15th c. Linen Frontlaced Gown with Soft Gold Linen Half Sleeves, White Linen Underdress and Silk Organza Veil.
He's wearing our Dark Green Wool Doublet with Black Wool Joined Hose, 15th c. Shirt, Burgundy Wool Hood worn rolled into a Chaperone and Black Turnshoes.
Our Wool Doublet in Burgundy, Cotton Joined Hose in Dark Blue, Chaperone Hat, Decorated Belt and Knee Boots.
Our Houppelande in Dark Green Tapestry worn with a Linen Kirtle in Red.
Colors and Fabrics
Note: Please note, with the difficulty of accurately representing colors on a variety of monitors, the color names are meant as descriptions along with the swatches. Please use both when deciding on what color to order. Also, despite how the colors may appear on your monitor the same color names in Wool, Silk and Linen are different and do not exactly coordinate.
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LOVED the shoes. Danced in them all night, no insoles, no problem. Never been able to do that before with period shoes.
I deeply appreciate the Gaston Phebus line. I wear it frequently (average 2x / wk these days) when pursuing game with longbow, crossbow, spear, javelin and hawk. I have been wearing elements of the Gaston Phebus line when taking elk, boar, rabbit & squirrel in the last 12 months. I have recommended the clothing line to a number of fellow medieval hunting enthusiasts. The Gaston Phebus line has held up to some pretty heavy hunting abuse. I've been through shoulder high brambles innumerable times that have pulled a few threads, but I remain exceedingly pleased with the performance of the clothing in the field for its intended purpose. Primarily, I wanted you to know how greatly I appreciate the research you put into your products, and the quality of the workmanship. I regularly put the wool Gaston Phebus full wardrobe through intense field abuse and it has held together better than ANY comparable product I have purchased anywhere in the last 20 years.
Dear Revival Clothing Last year, you kindly gave me permission to use your models and costumes as references for part of a pastel painting I was working on. The painting is finally finished, and I thought you might like to see a scan of the end result, which I have titled 'Champion of Warwick'. I added a few more figures to my original design and I think they have made a nice colourful crowd and added to the atmosphere. I'll be submitting the painting for the annual exhibition of the Society of Equestrian Artists at the Mall Galleries, London, in July, and will also be producing a limited edition of prints of the painting. Many thanks for your kind help.
Hi Everybody knows about you guys! You folks are one of the west's authorities on 12th to 15th century garments! You folks are amazing! Customer service extraordinaire! I am telling everyone at knights about you guys! Anyway.....thanks again....we will be doing lots of business together in the future. Cheers!
I received my apron dress yesterday and LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! I will certainly be ordering from you again, and referring my friends as well :) Thank you for a smooth transaction and a wonderful product. Yay!
Just received my order (hat, hose, and belt). Everything arrived quickly and exactly as described. You have proven that it IS possible to combine top notch living history items with modern customer service. Thank you!
I received my low medieval boots on Saturday afternoon and wanted to tell you how thoroughly satisfied I am with them. Finally I have shoes that look terrific with my Fourteenth Century harness and that I am not afraid to fight in. I have already taken them to my local shoe repair shop, where they confirmed that once I wore out the soles, they could easily repair them. The quality of these shoes is everything that I would expect to see from your firm, and I am putting your new riding boots on my Christmas wish list. Thank you for offering this fine product.
I have ordered several items from your online store, and have to say that I have been impressed beyond expectation. The quality of your products and the speed of service make it an absolute joy to bring my business to your door. I heard about you through a friends reference. When I opened your web page, I knew almost instantly that I would be spending quite a bit of money here, and happily so. Thanks for all the great products, and once again, thank your for your strict professionalism. It has been a profound experience to patronize your shop and will recommend you to all my acquaintances.
Everything is awesome The 14th century silk ensemble rocks (silk cotte, chauses, and hood; medieval shirt, braes, belt with bars, and belt pouch) -- I think you've hit a very accessible and pleasing balance between price point and workmanship. I've never had a complete outfit medieval outfit before, and this is by no means a bad way to start. Tell Greg he was right -- once you've gone 1300s, it's hard to go back (to the 16th or 21st centuries). I was a little worried about how bright the silk chauses were going to be, based on your photos. I was thrilled with the actual item -- the colors are intense, vivid, but not eye-pokingly bright. The braes + chauses combo is so insanely comfortable, I want to wear it around the house (plus shirt, of course) -- except there's no one for whom to look good and pose. :P The 15th century ensemble is equally awesome (brocade doublet, 15th cen shirt, cotton joined hose, chaperone). The fit of the shirt in particular is really pleasing. I think I look great in it. Had to get a little used to the hose, and still figuring out the crotch + inseam / codpiece and how to get comfortable. I love the chaperone. Ever since Brian (from Darkwood Armory) and Greg each showed me how to wear chaperones and Greg stuck one on my head, I've wanted one. Now I have one, and in an awesome color (burgundy). I could also prance around the house in it, but I'll refrain -- I'll prance around in front of my friends, instead! The fit of the pourpoint is exactly everything I thought it would be -- and it rocks. Can't wait to adapt and point my leg harness to it.
Here is my Burgundian Nobleman outfit. My reason for choosing your fine products is that you do clothing for the upper classes.
Hi, I am in Brisbane Australia and I recently received a pair of your black medieval ankle boots and they are awesome indeed…very comfortable and nicely handcrafted. hank you. And once again "Love the boots"
The Pourpoint is the answer for supporting Leg Harness.I have the Revival pourpoint.. and I can say without reservation that it is the best, most comfortable,most stable arrangement for holding up leg harness I have ever used, and I have used them all. In 22 years of armoured combat I have never had a harness more comfortable and high performing than I do now.. all due to the Revival Arming Pourpoint. The key is to have the pourpoint.. **very** tight, the sides of the garment opening should **just** meet when snugged very tight on the hips.. and if you are conventionally shaped this will mean that the garment *won't* meet over the chest. This is the proper fit IMO, ( this has the added benefit of girdling in your extra padding and providing a more svelte profile ) Also you must reinforce the points with leather or fabric patches to ensure the points don't tear out in vigorous combat. The point placement is perfect for me.. and if you are wearing the proper size they should be ok for most. There must be one point over the rotation point of the side of the hip.. right at the insertion of the hip joint. The other point should be at the center point of the leg harness. I strongly endorse this product. Revival clothing has the answer.
Hi folks I just wanted to let you all know that the parcel came today....two days before the event! We are so excited and pleased....you made our day! The courtesy and professionalism shown by you csr's, shipping department and management team, far outshine many companies I have dealt with in the past....I am in awe of you guys! People wonder why I shop online......we'll, they wouldn't if they knew the type of people we meet and become friends with. Many thanks, and everyone in our city will be in fits of envy when they see us fight and feast this weekend. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We will be doing much business in the future, and everyone in our club will be, as well! Cheers
Dear folks at Revival Clothing Awesome! I received my shipment today...on my birthday! Took less than 3 days...thank you. I'm very happy, I love everything. Now I'm ready for the Selohar gatherings. Now I must buy more. Thanks
I received the new linen gambeson, and it fits wonderfully. There is no restriction of movement, and it's much lighter then my old cotton gambeson. I absolutely love it. It looks fantastic also! You guys are a true artists.
Hi, I just received your linen gambeson and it fits like a glove and the gloves fit as well. The quality and speed of my order was very impressive. I am extremely satisfied. Thank you all so much.
I received my Linen Gambeson last Friday and I could not be more pleased ... It is a beautiful piece in it`s own right and will function perfectly - it seems to fit like a glove - plenty of room for movement , yet form fitting under the armor - And the sleeves are long enough! Once again I am impressed with your courtesy and professionalism ... Thanks again and all the best for the new year!
Saw you guys at Pennsic and was impressed. I love the look of the 14th century and you guys capture it well.
It just arrived today :) All I have to say is, wow, that is a gambeson! It fits perfectly...and it has that solid feel to it that definitely reminds me of the fact that often they were worn as the only armor. Thanks again!
Hi Nicole, I am touched by outpouring of support from so many folks in the WMA community. Thanks so much for your generous donation. It will be much used and appreciated by all of us in our training group here.I will be sure to send you some pictures of us training with your gambesons when they arrive!
I just wanted to let you know that I received my order and everything is beautiful! Very nice workmanship and quality of fabrics! I'll be all set for my trip to the summer faire at Camlann Medieval village. I already had full wardrobes for renaissance faires and pirate events, but didn't have anything correct for the 1376 setting at Camlann and these pieces will work beautifully. Thank you so much.
Recently my wife ordered for me the green wool hood/chaperone. WE both love it. It fits and looks great! I am a BIG guy at 6' 5" tall and it looks appropriate. It was a pleasure to deal to do business with you and we will order again. I am definitely interested in upcoming 15 century clothing and I am hoping you will offer them in bigger sizes.(nudge nudge wink wink;) I have attached a pic of me at the Bristol Ren Faire so you can see your work in action. Thanks again,
Just a quick word to say a very big thank you for: your very prompt and efficient dispatch of orders, the quality and look of your products, and for being there. After 21 years of 17th/18th century re-enactment in the UK & Europe I wasn't sure how easy it would be to re-equip myself for the mid 14th century out here in New Zealand. You've made it immeasurably easier and it's been a real pleasure doing business with you. I look forward to making further purchases over the coming months & years.
I tested my new linen gambeson yesterday in combat. Your design is perfect for sword fighting. The garment provides a good fit, yet provides complete mobility of the shoulders. I also received many compliments on its aesthetic and period qualities. I especially like the breathability of the linen fabric. Thank you for offering such a fine product.
What a brilliant site this is! The hat is actually for my wife - we do intend to go to the biennial medieval fair in Dinan, France and use the hat for its intended purpose. We went 4 years ago and resolved to return but wearing medieval costume.
I purchased a full wardrobe from Revival Clothing and have recieved nothing but praise for my garb. I am new to the SCA and my major concern is chivalric fighting. But my tunic ensemble is great for court and feast and the revelry that generally follows.
The tippets and barbette arrive in record time! I was able to use the barbettes to show a lady who despaired of ever keeping a veil on how to use 2 barbettes (one around the face, and one around at high forehead level) to fasten a veil so it needed no fussing all day long. I got two just for this purpose, as gifts to her. (And, when asked where I got the gown I was wearing, the back laced dark green raw silk, I of course gave y'all the credit. several people piped up that your goods are really first quality. So -- fame to you!) Again, my thanks.
Dribbel just received his black ankle boots today and he adores them to the point of being a little creepy! Thanks so much for the speedy service. I was expecting them to arrive later in the week.
The order has arrived and I am impressed by the quality of your goods. The shoes and silk chauses were also of a perfect fit. I have taken the liberty of advising your clothing line to a colleague of mine: Jan Braem, also council member of the Hallebardiers.
To all involved at Revival Clothing, I recently purchased a pair of your ankle boots and I'm quite pleased with them. They are comfortable and very well made. I even use them for every day use. In this instance I dislike to use the term "replica" or "reproduction" because they are in fact NOT such things. In the middle ages and the renaissance period, the material used was known to them. The difference being the tools used to make your product and the era of time we are now in. Back then clothing was usually made for the person purchasing the garment and it would not have mattered to the average person of those time periods in how their clothing were made, weather by hand or machine. Hence the Renaissance, then the industrial revolution, to modern day, and beyond. It is good to know that people are still interested in the "old" fashions and not letting them be forgotten.
I just received the linen gambeson and have had a chance to try it on. Wow. It's basically perfect in every way! It fits really well, and the long sleeves don't bother me at all, nor do they get in the way of my 15th century gauntlets. This gambeson has exceptional mobility and it breathes so well I can wear it for quite a while without discomfort. I'm in love with it.
The gambeson is working beautifully. I've practiced and fought in it many times now and I am very impressed with the mobility and comfort of the garment. It's going to be an ideal foundation for my future armour purchases: I plan to build a 13th-14th century harness around it.
Greetings! The gambeson just arrived today and it fits really nicely, especially considering that it's "off the rack." Sir Brian's recommendation told me I had found a good choice, and the special sale price helped with my decision too. Thanks!
Hello! My package just arrived safely. Am LOVING the dark green bliaut. The color is jaw dropping. First bought one 2 years ago.In case anyone asks, the silk does dye nicely (with professional silk dye - Jacquard brand was used) - turned the teal into a jewel tone blue, with no problems. Thought best to let you know.
Thank you very much for sending my Linen Gambeson. It is an extremely good fit - I'm very impressed and would recommend it to anyone. Also impressed with the rapid service!
I've just received my surcoat in the mail today--it is so much better that I expected, and I really expected high-quality stuff, so this is AWESOME. I'm very happy with it; it is really beautifully made and fits me very nicely. Thanks again!
I am just starting in the SCA. Your products are by far the most reasonably priced and authentic looking. The web site is great!
Dear Revival Clothing, Thank you for the pleasant conversation earlier. I most certainly will recommend your clothing to our friends. We received many compliments about how well we were attired. In addition the clothing was very comfortable, and the linen makes very comfy pajamas, as they wick away moisture at night. I would have to say that I favor this clothing the most out off the extensive collection of outfits I own. I cannot thank you enough for making us look so good.
Foundation garments like the gambeson are critical to the comfort and functionality of the complete harness. Particularly in the joust where even minor problems with how the harness fits and functions will affect the rider's ability to function safely and at the best of his or her ability. The Revival Gambeson performed flawlessly.
Greetings - we always appreciate knowing all is well. So I want to say my lovely dress arrived Saturday ..... 07/07/07
I just received the 12th century prick spurs yesterday. The prick spurs themselves are so historically accurate it is unbeliveable! I just wanted to drop you a line of thanks for offering such a great product that no other internet site can match! Now I know that I will be ready for next years Ren-Faire! The great thing about your website and the products that you offer is that there are few people in the world that deal strictly with Medieval period clothing. As a knight in training-you have my blessings! Keep up the good work!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I found my clothes waiting for me when I came home on leave from Afghanistan, and I have to say I was stunned! I can't tell you how fantastic I feel! Everything fits, everything looks superb, and for the first time I'll be going to events in something historically accurate. If anyone reads this, just stop reading and go buy something here! You cannot go wrong! Nothing short of the energy death of the universe will prevent anyone from enjoying these clothes AND getting a good deal in the process!
I am writing to comment upon my first Pennsic with my new Revival Clothing Gambeson. When I first received the garment, I was concerned that in the heat of Pennsic Battle that I would overheat in such a heavy and thick garment. Being from Canada my friends and me all commented that the gambeson had the weight of a winter coat. Normally not the sorts of things that we wear on a hot August day. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the gambeson was very comfortable at all times that I wore it. It was so comfortable even on a hot day that I wore it after fighting to walk about the merchant area before I showered and dressed for the evening. The best test was on the last Friday of Pennsic. It was the day of field battles and I had to fight in six battles that day. I later learned that the temperature was around 100 F (38 C). I found the garment comfortable and I never noticed its weight in the heat or during my fighting. The garment allowed me a full degree of motion. Truly, it is a wonderful garment. The only problem I did have was removing it from the cuff of the sleeve was sometimes hard due to swelling of my arms from the heat. Fortunately, this was a minor problem.
Finally a pair of reasonably priced, period appropriate shoes!! Footwear is the hardest thing to find when costuming oneself; it can be very frustrating to have to resort to hiking boots or whatever to finish a costume. I was so happy to open the box from revival and find these very cool shoes that will provide a supreme finishing touch to my costume. By the way, during my presentations to grade four kids, they have asked to see my footwear! Thanks loads!
I want to thank you for such prompt service, and tell you how glad I was to find you. I am new to the WMA world, and initially only wanted to find protective garments for use in longsword bouting. I did a thread search on Sword Forum International, and your company was recommended frequently there. As I browsed your site, I was amazed to find that I could not only obtain the protection, but period correct protection! Unfortunately for my woefully thin wallet, my search has now transformed into a quest to eventually outfit both my son and I with period kit. I look forward to a long and fun relationship.


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Lights are already pretty smart. They respond to signals from timers, motion sensors and home control systems. In the future, they might also be able to turn themselves on and off based on historical data, the temperature and existing ambient light levels. The Lighting Science Group (LSG), the largest manufacturer of LED lights in North America, is currently developing technology that will provide LEDs with the intelligence to self-adjust without any human interaction. (LSG earlier partnered with Google to develop LED lighting with networked functionality.)
The biggest change in LED lighting will be not how it's controlled, but what aspects of it are able to be controlled, says Eric Holland LSG vice president of engineering. "We will start to see lights with color-shifting capabilities." This is will allow solid-state LEDs to evoke the warm look of an incandescent bulb … and it will happen automatically. For example, at bedtime, you might like the lights to put off a warm glow, and based on the time of day, the LED can shift its color temperature. In the morning, the color temperature can shift again.
No word on when color-shifting LEDs might hit the market, but next month at Lightfair, an architectural and commercial lighting trade show held in Las Vegas, LSG will introduce a outdoor security light with an Wi-Fi-enabled surveillance camera built in. "You can pair it with your home network to view camera images on an iPad or other devices," says Holland. The J5 is expected to go into production this summer.
Available now is a LED fixture, called the Glimpse, that can replace a recessed in-ceiling incandescent fixture. The big deal here is that this is not a replacement blub, but an entire fixture. It mounts right over the existing can fixture, making the transition from incandescent to LED simple and straightforward. The Glimpse is available from distributors in 4- and 6-inch models for $38-$42.


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Love Freedom Flow: Caribbean Design
Lately a lot of what has caught our eye are products that are combine the elements of craft with contemporary design. That is the objective of Love Freedom Flow, a collective of companies, producers and communities in the Caribbean which are aiming to develop new products based on traditional techniques and made from indigenous materials, many of which are made in the "One Product, One Village" or by artisans out of their home.
These are some of the products which caught our eye at ICFF this year. For their other offerings, click here:
- Tabacco Vases: designed by Jean Paul Sylvaince for Art Expression Workshop, Jacmel, Haity, paper machaied tabacco leaves made in the "One Village, One Product" model.
- Paper Mache Multi Bowl: designed by Patty Johnson and Gloria Neira for Luna Design, St. Thomas, Barbados, made from recycled paper and assembled by a network of single mothers that are paid fair wages for their work.
- Liana Chair: designed by Patty Johnson for Liana Cane, Plaisance, Guyana and made from Kufa vine, a renewable resource, available in a range of colors.
- Spindle Stools: designed by Patty Johnson and Stella Hackett for Quality Lamps, Christ Church, Barbados, available in multiple colours and made by a small lamp manufacturer.
- Demerera Table, Designed by Patty Johnson for Summerson Furniture, East Coast Demerera, Guyana, made from locust wood.


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In joining Crimean leaders Tuesday in Moscow to sign a treaty on returning that peninsula to Russian control, Vladimir Putin captured global attention, with some translations attributing bellicose language (such as that Russia, per the news agency Reuters, would retaliate in response to Western sanctions) to the Russian leader even as others had him signaling that the Kremlin's territorial ambitions in Ukraine did not extend beyond Crimea (such as a Washington Post report that had Putin saying, "Don't believe those who say Russia will take other regions after Crimea. We don't need that.")
The Crimean referendum on secession from Ukraine was 'in full compliance with democratic procedures and international norms.'
One colorful phrase emerging in coverage of Putin's address before a joint session of the Russian parliament cuts both ways: "Russia found itself at the stage where Russia couldn't give up. If you press the spring too hard, it will recoil."
Another remark subject to interpretation: "We're living in a world of limits that have been imposed on us. We are always being cornered."
The Kremlin was quick to post official transcripts of Putin's remarks in Russian and, with some lag time, English. According to the English-language transcript, here are selected comments and assertions from the Russian president:
• The Crimean referendum was "in full compliance with democratic procedures and international norms."
• "More than 82% of the electorate took part in the vote. Over 96% of them spoke out in favour of reuniting with Russia. These numbers speak for themselves."
• "Everything in Crimea speaks of our shared history and pride."
• "The graves of Russian soldiers whose bravery brought Crimea into the Russian empire are ... in Crimea."
• "[T]he total population of the Crimean Peninsula today is 2.2 million people, of whom almost 1.5 million are Russians, 350,000 are Ukrainians who predominantly consider Russian their native language, and about 290,000-300,000 are Crimean Tatars, who, as the referendum has shown, also lean towards Russia."
• "We have great respect for people of all the ethnic groups living in Crimea. This is their common home, their motherland, and it would be right — I know the local population supports this — for Crimea to have three equal national languages: Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar."
• What stood behind this decision of [Khrushchev to cede the Crimean region to Ukraine in 1954] — a desire to win the support of the Ukrainian political establishment or to atone for the mass repressions of the 1930s in Ukraine — is for historians to figure out."
• The 1954 decision on Crimea "was made behind the scenes."
• Later, with the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, "the Russian nation became one of the biggest, if not the biggest ethnic group in the world to be divided by borders."
• "I heard residents of Crimea say that back in 1991 they were handed over like a sack of potatoes. This is hard to disagree with."
'They keep talking of some Russian intervention in Crimea, some sort of aggression. This is strange to hear.'
• "I would like to reiterate that I understand those who came out on Maidan with peaceful slogans against corruption, inefficient state management and poverty. The right to peaceful protest, democratic procedures and elections exist for the sole purpose of replacing the authorities that do not satisfy the people. However, those who stood behind the latest events in Ukraine had a different agenda."
• "[T]he residents of Crimea and Sevastopol turned to Russia for help in defending their rights and lives [after the coup in Kyiv]."
• "[W]e could not abandon Crimea and its residents in distress. This would have been betrayal on our part."
• "[O]ur Western colleagues ... agreed that the unilateral separation of Kosovo from Serbia [in 2008], exactly what Crimea is doing now, was legitimate and did not require any permission from the country's central authorities."
• "[T]here is no legitimate executive authority in Ukraine now, nobody to talk to."
• "They keep talking of some Russian intervention in Crimea, some sort of aggression. This is strange to hear. I cannot recall a single case in history of an intervention without a single shot being fired and with no human casualties."
The Kremlin transcript in English remains a work in progress and can be tracked on the Kremlin.ru website.
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I recently had to perform an industry independent capacity planning for a global client of an industry consortium. The application profile for the target environment was not fully described by the target client and some assumptions had to be made.
Capacity planning and sizing is often considered as an art, in the sense that it requires experienced practitioners to create a future plan that will match the exact future requirements for the system of systems under consideration.
The sizing approach I describe here is based on taking factors that are publicly available, recognized by all server industry vendors, and enabled both a reasonable cost and performance evaluation.
1. Introduction
Capacity planning and sizing is often considered as an art, in the sense that it requires experienced practitioners to create a future plan that will match the exact future requirements for the system of systems under consideration.
It usually requires a precise view of the future application workloads which can be expressed as use cases together with precise non functional requirements covering the runtime and non runtime qualities of the future infrastructure. As a complement a precise view of the as-is situation is helpful provided that the CPU usage is expressed with an identical measure for all vendors and builds in the current infrastructure. These fair measures for all vendors on the market are available from public benchmarking organizations such as the "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation"[1], or the "Transaction Processing Performance Council"[2].
An evaluation of the as-is situation based on solely the actual numbers of servers is far from sufficient, because as the results published for the last quarter of 2012 by "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation" show in it reported CPU benchmark performance for servers values from 26.4 to 6130 which is a 1:232 performance difference between servers. Even bigger differences in performances are reported when comparing performances from year 2006 to 2011 which corresponds to the build of existing servers in the current infrastructure.
In addition no specific application workload profiles using a standard CPU consumption have been expressed by the client to the industry consortium. The only consumer factor that has been made available is the number of users.
As an industry consortium, our best guess has then been based on finding an industry agreed benchmark that would enable us to perform a per user sizing of the infrastructure, benchmark that would be composed of a variety of workloads representing an acceptable view of a complex organization.
That specific benchmark is the virtualization benchmark from "Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation"[3], which reports a total performance, and a number of tiles, each tile being an instantiation of the workload mix of 500 users of mail server, and typical workload for Web application, and online transaction processing composed of application server and database server transactions.
However none of the spec.org benchmark reports total system costs. Solving that issue requires looking at the other benchmarking organization which is the "Transaction Processing Performance Council" TPC-E transaction performance benchmark[4] and locating machines that are identical in both the virtualization benchmark and the TPC-E online transaction processing benchmark to have correlation points between both benchmarks. Using that approach we can evaluate the total system cost and match a corresponding number of users by the number of tiles that are supported by the systems under consideration.
2. TPC-E Total cost of system analysis
The TPC-E reported results include a total system cost for all elements of the system including CPU, DASD and RAM. A statistical analyzing of the reported costs show that on average 38% of the total system cost is DASD with a variance of 25%. Between 2010 and 2011 the largest reported system has a DASD space of 281 Terabytes and the smallest 10 Terabytes. The cost per Gigabyte is between 4.30$ to 5.30$ due to the different mix between hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) , the SSD being much faster by with a higher prices. These cost per Gigabyte match the numbers user if the TCO calculator available from the " Storage Networking Industry Association" [5].
3. Proposed architecture analysis
The proposed architecture as been designed to support 20,000 users per system on each of the centralized data center systems and 1,000 users on the satellite systems (as derived from TPC virtualization benchmark). Smaller server cost has been extrapolated, as all of the data from TPC-E is for servers that can support much more than 1,000 users. The cost per user of smaller systems is roughly 152$ per user (variations mostly due to DASD space) and we have 4 servers in the satellite centers serving a total of 1000 users per satellite center giving 38,245$ per server.
Based on the total system cost ratios the DASD space available on the centralized systems is roughly 912 Terabytes. The total DASD space in the smaller sites is 80 Terabytes.
The total DASD space for all systems 992 TB.
The technical approach for storage in the target architecture is multi-site virtualization as defined in the Storage Network Industry Association article[6].
The cost for additional storage is to be evaluated using the SNIA TCO calculator already mentioned above.
Since there is an expressed requirement of 2,500 Terabytes, there is a 1.6 Terabytes gap to be added to the total system costs.
Annex I. Correlation between TPC-E and SPEC virtualization
The following curve is the result of the full TPC-E result analysis correlated with SPEC virtualization. The best fit is the log curve but readers should not that the variation is much higher for lower number of users, the influence being mostly due to DASD space of the systems included in the benchmarks


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What's in a name? When people ask me about blogging – how to get their blog noticed, what it takes to attract readers - one of the things I stress is to think up a good name for your blog. It needs to be catchy, memorable, and at the same time, it needs to explain something about yourself and describe your blog in some way. I struggled for weeks for a name, finally settling on something that speaks to both my love of French design and my location: Cote de Texas, meaning, in French, I live on the Texas coast. Also, it's a play on words for the French magazine, Cote de Sud. Hopefully, anyone interested in Texas and/or French design would be willing to give my blog a chance after they saw my name.
When I first heard of the web store Paris Hotel Boutique, the name alone intrigued me: French antiques with an emphasis on hotel silver. The name of the web store and blog is catchy enough to attract readers and it gives a clue to what's in store. Plus, it's easy to remember. Who could resist taking a peek with a name like that? Paris Hotel Boutique is owned by Lynn Goldfinger-Abram, and after visiting her website, I was hooked. Lynn has a feminine flair – with an infectious interest in the glamour days of bygone. She has a passion for antique hotel silver – those wonderful pieces that once graced the dining tables at the most elegant hotels. The initial core of her business, started in 1995, was this much sought out silver, but now, she sells a variety of antiques including hotel china, jewelry, lighting, accessories, furniture, and rare, first-edition design books. Lynn's discerning eye ties it all together. The web store is charmingly arranged like an old hotel elevator – which only adds to the visual appeal. One of my favorite emails is the New Items announcement from the Paris Hotel Boutique. I always immediately click on the site to peruse the newest arrivals because the best tends to sell quickly. Over the years, I've bought from Lynn and have always been thrilled with the actual item. Her pictures are accurate, there are no surprises. One surprise though, was a personal connection between Lynn and myself. Her husband's name sounded awfully familiar to me – Leif Abrams – not exactly a John Doe kind of name. But why? They live in San Francisco, how would I know her husband? As fate would have it, years and years ago – when we were both single - Leif and I met when we both attended a "Singles Mission" to Israel - and he actually dated my roommate during that trip.
I dug out this old, old photograph from the 80s – that's moi on the bottom, with Leif, Lynn's husband, and my roomie and bff Mindy on an Israeli Singles Mission. We sure were "handsy" in those days. And btw, the Singles Mission was a huge bust for me. I remained single after going on TWO missions!!!! But, we sure had fun.
Do you notice something interesting in this picture? Hanging on the hotel wall in Jerusalem is a huge suzani. I wonder if it is old? And no, I never noticed it at the time.
Besides her web store, Lynn writes a charming blog HERE. Over the years on the blog, she has shown pictures of her house – which has been publicized in several design magazines. One of my favorite rooms in Lynn's house is her breakfast room – here you can see a part of her hotel silver collection. It's amazing!!!
Another picture of her breakfast room. Lynn attends all the auctions of the old grand hotels when they close their doors. Betty Lou Phillips has a similar food warmer in her own dining room.
My favorite at Lynn's house is this antique map. Wow. Incredible!!!
Besides hotel silver, Lynn collects hotel china. It's all so romantic!!
What's for sale at the Paris Hotel Boutique these days? Here are some of my favorite items: these vintage French chairs in white with blue fabric. Beautiful.
I am loving this charming chandelier with the pink glass teardrops.
This is an antique apothecary scale. Really beautiful.
Lynn has this large set of bound NY Times newspapers from the 1930's. I wish I could afford the entire set!
And I can't resist this hotel sugar bowl from 1900 Paris. I love the pink and gold trim.
I was thrilled beyond belief when Lynn offered to host a giveaway for Cote de Texas readers! One reader will receive this beautiful antique convex Lyre-shaped mirror from the early 1900s. It measures 26-1/2" tall, 15-1/4" wide and is approx. 2-1/4" thick. The convex mirror is 9-1/2" in diameter. Lynn says the mirror was probably once mounted on top of a dresser. The mirror's value is $675.
How to enter the contest: In order to win, you must first go to the Paris Hotel Boutique web site at http://www.parishotelboutique.com/store/lobby.php
Once there, please look around at all the items offered for sale, and pick out your personal favorite. Then, come back here and leave me comment telling me your favorite item from the Paris Hotel Boutique. That's all! Remember – if you enter, you must leave your name and email address!! The lucky winner will be chosen this Thursday at 12:00a.m. So hurry!!! One entry per person, please.
And finally, I want to offer a huge thank you to Lynn for hosting this giveaway!!! Thanks Lynn, you're the best!!


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Passarelle Overpass / Entrance / Building
The entrance to the park from the #7 train is the Passarelle Entrance via the Passarelle Overpass over the LIRR tracks and MTA subway train yard. The plaza building includes a comfort station and recreation rooms and the ground level includes a group of crumbling circular mosaics that commemorate the past fairs.
This entrance to the park does manage to evoke a feeling of anticipation as you approach it. However, with the fair long gone, the visitor is deposited into a fairly uninteresting section of the park - a buildup to disappointment.
Next: Pitch and Putt Golf Course


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Garden Inspiration: Plant it Black
Among the colorful, you'll also find plenty of black, white, and neutral interiors here on Apartment Therapy. But when it comes to the garden, our plants and flowers are almost always colorful. What about changing it up with a black garden?...
• 1 collage of a few of the following:
• 2 the black helleborus orientalis, via The Telegraph
• 3 a black iris from Ken Walker's garden
• 4 phyllostachys nigra "black bamboo", via the Grow 'Em Plant Propagation Database
• 5 Echeveria "black prince" via You Grow Girl
• 6 black-leaf elephant ear from Premium Elephant Ears
• 7 "bowles black" flowers via Complete Garden's Weblog
• 8 black mondo grass via NZ Plant Pics
• 9 black tulips at Crocus


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An Argument for Music
Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current.
by Paul Gleason
The first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto ended, and Carnegie Hall erupted in applause. Joshua Bell, whose dazzling solos and severe good looks had fired the crowd, pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped it theatrically across his brow. The audience remained enthralled, but Alex Ross '90, sitting in the critic's traditional perch halfway up the left aisle, jotted down his thoughts in a small black notebook.
Ross was less interested in Bell than in how conductor Kent Nagano was molding his new group, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Already, Ross heard hints of Nagano's signature sound: a cool, elegant balance. But the concerto itself, he noted during the intermission, wasn't quite together. "Bell performed very brilliantly. But I didn't feel he and Nagano and the orchestra were totally in sync," Ross said. "Bell seemed to be in his own world a bit, and the orchestra was a little eeeehhh…" He made a nervous motion with his hands, as if someone were trying to hand him a small, rambunctious animal.
Ross wasn't planning to review the concert for the New Yorker, where he is a staff critic. He simply wanted to keep up with a favorite conductor and hear the American premiere of a piece by Unsuk Chin, a Korean composer whose opera he had reviewed favorably the previous summer. "Absolutely essential to my mission as a critic is talking about living composers," he said. "It wouldn't be interesting to me to spend all my time evaluating the right way to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. I enjoy writing that kind of column, but the greatest excitement is when works come into being."
Read more about this at the Harvard Magazine website:


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Mike Flora was established in 1980 at Rabukkana, a tropical paradaise 80Km away from Colombo city.Today it has grown to 3 nurseries located at Rabukkana,Madawala and Nawala covering over 100 acres.We maintain parent stocks for more than 70 tropical plant varieties which are under different levels of shading.
Our core business is exporting tropical plants,cut flowers and foliage to destinations all over the world. Mike Flora being GLOBALGAP certified company believe in delighting our customers with best quality products with timely delivery.


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