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One of my most favorite things to do is to share indie knitting designers and their patterns with you that I admire. At the top of my most favorites list are the two very talented, super sweet ladies I have for you today: Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting and Hannah Fettig of Knitbot. I have drooled over their individually published patterns over the last several years as they have grown and found their place in the knitting world, but now (if you haven't already heard) they have teamed up on a self-published, collaberative, awesome, beautiful, work of art knitting book named Coastal Knits:
This book is truly my favorite to have come out in a long time (if ever)! Every one of the ten patterns included is a stunner! There is not one thing in this collection I wouldn't knit up if I had the chance. So much knitting and so little time!
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Alana and Hannah right before the book was released and before baby Dakos showed up. Take a listen...
If you cannot see the player click here.
Links and such from the interview:
- Alana on Rav & Never Not Knitting
- Hannah on Rav & Knitbot
- Coastal Knits on Rav & Coastal Knits website
- Tactile Fiber Arts, Temecula Sock, the special colorway dyed with eucalyptus leaves, & Rustling Leaves Beret.
- String Theory, Caper Aran, colorway Skerry, & Water's Edge Cardigan.
- Rocky Coast Cardigan
- Wildflower Cardigan
- Gnarled Oak Cardigan
- The String Theory yarn I'm thinking of using for a Gnarled Oak Cardi of my own.
- Quince & Co.
- Special Season Finale episode of NNK that brought tears to my eyes.
I was also priviliged to have knit two items for some of the Coastal Knits trunk shows: the Rustling Leaves Beret & the Sand and Sea Shawlette. Unfortunately, I don't have any pics to share, but they both turned out beautiful and were a true pleasure to knit up. If you own the book already, check out the last page. It's got my name on it under "fabulous test knitters"!! Sorry, had to brag a little there.
I have big plans to knit up a Gnarled Oak Cardigan (Alana)...
...and a Rocky Coast Cardigan for myself...
I'm still looking for just the right yarn and colors though! I'll know it when I see it, I'm sure.
The Coastal Knits duo has put up for grabs two of their lovely, shiny, new books for you to have a chance at winning and what's a YOTH giveaway without the yarn, right?! So, I wrangled up a few of the yarn brands used in this book to send over a couple skeins to give away as well for a sampler set of sorts!
(From the bottom up) String Theory's lucious Caper Aran in the colorway Tavikki, The Fibre Company's romantic and oh-so-very-soft Organik, and Quince & Co.'s interesting and wonderful sparrow yarn.
Two followers have the chance at winning a printed copy of Coastal Knits and a skein each from the sampling above. That way you can meet the yarn in person and swatch for a project or two or three if you feel like it!
I would like you to do the following if you would like to be entered into this week's giveaway:
1. Read over the rules if you have not done so already.
2. Leave a comment on this blog post by the end of Sunday, 12/18/11. Have you seen Coastal Knits? Do you possibly own the book already? If so, what have you knit or are wanting to knit from the collection?
I'll randomly pick the winners in 2 weeks and post the results along with the new giveaway, so be sure to check back. Good luck everyone.


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Full Disk Encryption for Your Laptop
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I had an interesting query about my last blog post [Enterprise Systems are Security-Ready], basically asking me what I decided to do for Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) for my laptop.
Earlier this year, IBM mandated that every employee provided a laptop had to implement Full-Disk Encryption for their primary hard drive, and any other drive, internal or external, that contained sensitive information. An exception was granted to anyone who NEVER took their laptop out of the IBM building. At IBM Tucson, we have five buildings, so if you are in the habit of taking your laptop from one building to another, then encryption is required!
The need to secure the information on your laptop has existed ever since laptops were given to employees. In my blog post [Biggest Mistakes of 2006], I wrote the following:
"Laptops made the news this year in a variety of ways. #1 was exploding batteries, and #6 were the stolen laptops that exposed private personal information. Someone I know was listed in one of these stolen databases, so this last one hits close to home. Security is becoming a bigger issue now, and IBM was the first to deliver device-based encryption with the TS1120 enterprise tape drive."
Not surprisingly, IBM laptops are tracked and monitored. In my blog post [Using ILM to Save Trees], I wrote the following:
"Some assets might be declared a 'necessary evil' like laptops, but are tracked to the n'th degree to ensure they are not lost, stolen or taken out of the building. Other assets are declared "strategically important" but are readily discarded, or at least allowed to [walk out the door each evening]."
When it was [time for a new laptop] in 2010, I spent a week [re-partitioning the drive], [transfering files], [installing programs], [re-organizing my folders], and finally [testing my system]. It was dual-boot so that I could run either Windows or Linux, as needed, to demonstrate various software solutions at the IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center.
Unfortunately, dual-boot environments won't cut it for Full-Disk Encryption. For Windows users, IBM has chosen Pretty Good Privacy [PGP]. For Linux users, IBM has chosen Linux Unified Key Setup [LUKS]. PGP doesn't work with Linux, and LUKS doesn't work with Windows.
For those of us who may need access to both Operating Systems, we have to choose. Select one as the primary OS, and run the other as a guest virtual machine. I opted for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as my primary, with LUKS encryption, and Linux KVM to run Windows as the guest.
I am not alone. While I chose the Linux method voluntarily, IBM has decided that 70,000 employees must also set up their systems this way, switching them from Windows to Linux by year end, but allowing them to run Windows as a KVM guest image if needed.
Let's take a look at the pros and cons:
In theory, I could have tried the Windows/PGP method for a few weeks, then gone through the entire process to switch over to Linux/LUKS, and then draw my comparisons that way. Instead, I just chose the Linux/LUKS method, and am happy with my decision.
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Great drawing! I really enjoy seeing your work! Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
That's exactly how I feel when the Mets are on the road. In a hole.. wondering if we will ever turn road games into wins..
Well, this was a good start and hopefully we can score a few runs for Johan!ReplyDelete
More coffee, more coffee, more coffee. Game ends at 1 AM, get up at 5 AM for work.ReplyDelete
Worth it to see that guy take the slider for strike 3.
You nailed Pelfry's nose!!! Great drawing!
Great recap, as always Joe!ReplyDelete
You know the funny thing is for the 1st time I wasn't wondering how you would record the moment but rather I was wondering how happy you must be to be able to actually write something other than "still walking" in the Beltran Watch.ReplyDelete
Ace in the hole, Ace in the hole... Looking like an ace with your team in the hole...ReplyDelete
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Great work, Joe. AS...... ALWAYS.
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text: I try not to go more than a week without posting something. Unfortunately, it has been 11 days dues to holidays that won't be letting up anytime soon, and also my IT support specialist classes. (Last night, I finished Course 2, Week 1, out of 5 courses.) I just don't like blogs that give a … Continue reading Eric Trump and his shekels


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SparkLAN's 802.11g WL-850R Mini PCI, combines with Ralink RT2561 chipset, offers better performance and enhanced network security than 802.11b series. WL-850R Mini PCI module is compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g devices. With OFDM modulation, WL-850R provides up to 54Mbps data rate which is desirable for multi-media data transmission. Some Applications: integrated wireless capacity for notebooks and web PDAs


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There are many different ideas about the best ways to help children learn to read, or help struggling readers. Some consistent suggestions include: reading aloud to children, providing frequent opportunities for children to practice their reading with material they enjoy, and developing vocabulary - the number of words a child knows. Some books we recommend for learning more about how a child acquires and builds reading skills, include:
- From Phonics to Fluency: Effective Teaching of Decoding and Reading Fluency in the Elementary School by Dr. Timothy Rasinski
- What Really Matters for Struggling Readers by Richard Allington
Some of our favorite suggestions from these educators are included on our handout:
- Ways to Help Your School-Age Child with Reading
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Some websites with literacy activities and advice for parents
- Read Write Think
Use the search tool to find fun interactives and online resources that promote comprehension, critial thinking and other literacy skills.
- Reading Rockets
A national multimedia project, Reading Rockets offers research-based and best-practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. Includes section on the ABCs of Teaching Reading, free reading guides and other resources for parents and teachers.
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- Help My Child Read
Compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, this page includes publications from a variety of sources with suggestions for how to help a child learn to read. Some of the publications are produced by the U.S. Department of Education, such as "Helping Your Child Become a Reader."
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See the lists of Too-Good-To-Miss titles for recommendations of some our favorite stories for children by grade level.
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"Sight Words" are words that appear frequently in reading material for beginning readers. Many of these words are difficult to sound out with the usual decoding rules and, thus, are good ones to memorize.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The Brandeis baseball team made its New England debut a strong one today as the Judges defeated Western New England University, 2-1, on the road, behind a combined six-hitter from senior Dylan Britton (Poughquag, N.Y./Arlington) and sophomore Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./St. Peter Marian). With the win, Brandeis improves to 5-10 on the season, while WNE - ranked 20th in the nation according to d3baseball.com and #29 by the American Baseball Coaches of America - falls to 6-5. The game was Brandeis's first in New England after three cancellations due to weather and/or poor field conditions.
Britton tossed six-and-a-third innings, allowing all six Golden Bear hits. He struck out three, walked one and hit a batter. Britton surrendered just one run, coming in the first inning. With one away, WNE loaded the bases on two singles and a hit batter. Britton minimized the damage by inducing a pair of groundouts to second, with Golden Bear LF Thomas Perun picking up the RBI. After the first, Britton allowed just one WNE runner past second base, including working around a leadoff single by shortstop Kyle McKelvey in the sixth.
After Britton retired the first batter in the seventh, Brenner came on and was outstanding in earning his second save of the season and his career. Brenner retired all eight Golden Bear hitter he faced, allowing just two balls out of the infield in the process to nail down the Judges' first victory in the last seven meetings with WNE. Britton earned the victory to improve to 2-1 on the season.
Offensively, the Judges tied the game in the fourth inning on back-to-back hits. Sophomore 2B Tom McCarthy (Yonkers, N.Y./Fieldston School) stroked a double to right field to get the rally started against Western New England starter Trevor Breton. Junior Kevin Barry (No. Andover, Mass/St. John's Prep) followed with a single to left to move into a three-way tie for the team lead with his eighth RBI of the season.
Brandeis had a chance to take the lead in the fifth with runners on first and second and two away. Senior catcher Chris Ferro (Walpole, Mass./Walpole) singled, but the go-ahead run was cut down at the plate. The Judges finally went ahead in the seventh. Rookie RF Max Hart (Montville, Conn./Montville) led off the inning with a double and was bunted to third by senior pinch hitter Pat Seaward (York, Maine/York). Sophomore SS Brian Allen (Salem, N.H./Central Catholic) delivered the game-winning RBI when he reached safely on a ball hit to second base. It was ruled an error, but the run would have scored anyway, and rookie CF Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon) made it an earned run charged to Breton with a single to right field. Breton escaped further trouble thanks to a line-drive double play but the damage was done. Breton fell to 1-1 despite 8.1 innings in which he allowed seven hits and just two runs. He fanned and walked four.
Hart was the game's only multiple hitter, going 2-4 with a double and the game-winning run. McCarthy's two-bagger was the only other extra base hit for the Judges, while McKelvey's was the only one for WNE.
Brandeis returns to action Friday afternoon at Amherst College for a 3:30 contest.


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Machinarium might be coming to PS4
An age rating handed down by PEGI hints at an impending release for the classic point-and-click adventure on the PlayStation 4.
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Machinarium, Windosill, Samorost 2 and Lume featured in Humble Weekly Sale
The Humble Weekly Sale is back with the ability to pay-what-you-want for a bundle featuring Machinarium, Windosill, Samorost 2 and Lume. Pay $6 or more and you will also unlock Botanicula and Shelter, plus five digital soundtracks. The games are available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Andorid depending on the offering. All games except for […]
Machinarium now available for iPhone
Amanita Design's Machinarium will now feet neatly inside your pocket, as the rather well-liked adventure game is now available on iPhone. It's been available on iPad for a little while, and the game is now a Universal App, so if you already have it on your tablet, you can download the game to your iPhone […]
Good Friends Bundle now available on Steam
The rather awesome Good Friends Bundle, which includes Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, Portal 2, Cave Story + and more, has arrived on Steam.
PSN indie sale discounts Machinarium, A-Men and Smash Cars
Sony has posted a small indie sale on a trio of games. Machinarium, A-Men and Smash Cars will be discounted until July 31.
Machinarium's Josef and Super Meat Boy's Dr Fetus headed to Runner 2
Gaijin Games has revealed two more characters coming to Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien in this week's Good Friends DLC pack.
Machinarium will release for Vita in Europe next month
Machinarium was released for Vita in the US back in March, and come next month, those who reside in Europe can get in on the fun. The lovely indie game, which I personally enjoyed immensely on PC, will come with all enhancements added with the PS3 version, an improved zoom feature, and PSN leaderboards. Be […]
Machinarium to be released on Vita during March
Machinarium is heading to Vita around the end of the month, Amanita Design has announced on the PS Blog. The lovely indie game contains all the enhancements from the PS3 version, along with added features specific to the handheld. The game can be controlled with the analog sticks and buttons, and also through the touch […]
US PS Plus update adds free Quantum Conundrum, Machinarium discount
This week's US PlayStation Update includes just two new items, but both of them are pretty sweet. Starting with the next Store update, Plus members will find Airtight's first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum ready for their Instant Collection, and score a sweet 30% discount on indie adventure Machinarium. Full details on the PlayStation Blog.
Humble Bundle for Android 4 now available
Humble Bundle for Android 4 is now available for purchase and includes six games for Android, Mac, PC, and Linux.
Machinarium releases on PSN in North America next week
Machinarium will release on PSN in North America on Tuesday October 9 for $9.99, according to Amanita Design. The Vita version of the adorable puzzler is also in development, but the studio has "no idea when it will be released." The game was released on PSN last month in Europe and was downloaded over 100,000 […]
Red Dead Redemption, Machinarium, Scott Pilgrim, more head up PS Plus September
Red Dead Redemption kicks of the PS Plus offerings this month starting today. You can nab the awesome western game for free until October 2. However, there are other goodies in store for subscribers this month such as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Double Dragon Neon from September 12 through December 4. The lovely […]
Machinarium headed to European PlayStation Network in September
A clever sort posting on the EU PS Blog hazarded a guess that September's PlayStation Plus content would include Machinarium, Amanita's charming adventure. "Give the man a cookie, he's 100% right," Sony's Ross McGrath replied. The point-and-clicker first released in 2009 but is yet to make it to a PlayStation console; the ESRB has listed […]
Machinarium listed for Vita by ESRB
US ratings board the ESRB has posted a listing for a Vita version of Machinarium. Thanks, PSNStores. The Amanita point-and-clicker originally released in 2009.
Amanita Design launches in-browser Botanicula demo
Machinarium and Samorost developer, Amanita Design has released an in-browser demo for its charming point and click adventure, Botanicula. The demo is available through the game's official website, alongside the full DRM-free version of the game that features a soundtrack MP3 and e-artbook for $10. Head through the break for a teaser trailer.
Humble Botanicula Bundle includes three Amanita Design titles, Kooky, and Vectorpark's Windosill
The newest Humble Bundle is now available and includes Amanita Design's Botanicula, Machinarium, and Samorost 2. If you pay more than the average going rate of $8.74, you'll also get the film Kooky and Vectorpark's Windosill. The Humble Botanicula Bundle also includes the soundtracks to Botanicula, Machinarium, and Samorost 2. The charity this time out […]
Machinarium developer in "love" with iPad
Amanita Design is super keen on the "relaxed" nature of the iPad 2, which will soon be graced by a port of Machinarium.
PS3 release of Machinarium "will be the ultimate version"
Machinarium's PS3 version will be the "ultimate version" when it's released, the game's developer, Jakub Dvorský, has said.
Machinarium dev announces next project, Botanicula
Amanita Design, the developer behind one of the most well-regarded indie games of the past few years, Machinarium, has announced it next project.
Thursday Shorts - funding, investment, and startups edition
Today's bits and pieces are largely about money moving around, a thing of great interest.
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Machinarium, Windosill, Samorost 2 and Lume featured in Humble Weekly Sale
Machinarium's Josef and Super Meat Boy's Dr Fetus headed to Runner 2
US PS Plus update adds free Quantum Conundrum, Machinarium discount
Red Dead Redemption, Machinarium, Scott Pilgrim, more head up PS Plus September
Machinarium headed to European PlayStation Network in September
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Texas Impact CPRI AmeriCorps*VISTA Outreach Coordinator (McAllen), BTT Gateway Job ID 7000
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Texas Impact CPRI AmeriCorps*VISTA Outreach Coordinator (McAllen), BTT Gateway Job ID 7000
AmeriCorps *VISTA is a federal volunteer program which stands for Volunteer in Service to America. Becoming an AmeriCorps*VISTA is a perfect for those interested in a career with non-profits or government. Texas Impact is looking for VISTA candidates interested in spearheading a project that will help Texans living in poverty across the State to be connected to social services. Texas Impact's Community Partner Recruitment Initiative (CPRI) Outreach Coordinator will work to recruit faith and community based organizations to join the statewide Community Partner program. Texas Impact, in partnership with, Baylor University's Texas Hunger Initiative and the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, have partnered with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to implement and promote the Community Partner Program providing a great opportunity to work with a wide network of professionals.
Duties and responsibilities of the CPRI VISTA member include:
• Recruit organizations to become Community Partners
• Assist organizations with volunteer organization and program implementation
• Act as a liaison between the state's Health and Human Service Commission and recruited organizations
• Develop and execute a written work plan and timeline for outreach
• Develop program materials
• Assist with the facilitation of community partner orientation, training and assistance
• Maintain accurate records of work
• Report on progress in statistical and narrative reports
• Serve as public ambassador for the CPRI project
• Participate in all CPRI and AmeriCorps training, conference calls, events, service projects, and other activities.
To apply, follow the directions below. Application deadline is 5/31/2013.
1. Create an account and fill out general AmeriCorps application via website at www.americorps.gov
2. Once the application is complete, then type into the program search bar, "CPRI Outreach Coordinator". You should find there are a number listed based on city. Select which city you wish to apply for and then submit.
3. After you have submitted the application through www.americorps.gov, please email a letter of inquiry and a resume to email@example.com


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Hey there,
It's been a long time since my last post. I must've kinda forgotten about this blog – or just couldn't bother writing anything about my projects. I'm planning to revive this blog and try to make regular small updates even on small projects.
Some of the projects I'm going to post about include:
- MLP – Massive LED Panel
- 3D – Engine on Teensy 3
- The smaller counterpart of the LED panel running snake
- LED ring clock prototype
- Android dead reckoning test
- Playing with the neato XV-11 LIDAR
- Quad- and Hexacopter Projects
Some of the projects I am planning to start in the future include:
- A robot that brings me drinks! (using the LIDAR)
- Ultrasonic Indoor Positioning System
- Part database – catalogue all the stuff in your mess!!
- FPV – Hexacopter
I also added a donate button in case you want to support some of the aweseome projects!
If you have any ideas or suggestions, don't hesitate to share them in the comments.


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China's central bank signaled on Wednesday it was prepared to change its monetary strategy to fend off inflows of speculative capital, as Beijing struggles to control a tide of cash washing in from overseas markets.
The move came as April exports blew past expectations, which appeared on the surface to indicate that both China's economy and global demand were on the mend. But economists were quick to suspect the figures were artificially inflated by investors who were disguising speculative bets on the yuan currency as trade payments.
Faced with the risk that such inflows could cause the yuan to appreciate so quickly that it destabilizes exports and the broader economy, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has begun intervening heavily in the domestic currency market this year, buying up dollars and selling yuan.
This leaves the question of how to keep the yuan it has sold from distorting domestic markets.
On Wednesday morning, during a routine call to primary dealers in China's interbank market, dealers told Reuters that regulators had queried them for demand for three-month bills.
(Read More: China Trade Data Provide a Boost for Global Economy)
Hours later, after markets had closed, the PBOC said it would auction 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) of three-month bills on Thursday.
While a relatively small amount, the central bank has not issued bills - which drain liquidity in tenors between three months and three years - since 2011. It has instead relied on short-tenor bond repurchase agreements to move money rapidly in and out of the market, much as central banks in developed economies do.
The move suggests that the PBOC is preparing to make systematic longer-term cash drains from the money supply to blunt the impact of hot money flows, with a potential knock-on impact on interest rates, market sentiment and economic growth.
The announcement came days after the country's foreign exchange regulator released new rules to crack down on inflows of hot money disguised as trade payments.
Calls to the PBOC for comment were not answered.
The last time the government made technical adjustments to its money management methods in February, domestic equity markets swooned as investors bailed out of stocks, worried that the changes heralded a wider monetary tightening that would constrict growth.
But the PBOC must balance the risk that the change will negatively impact markets against the distorting effect the inflows are having on the wider economy, in particular on exports, and by signs that capital is once again being misrouted internally into speculative channels like property instead of the real economy.
(Read More: Fix? Experts Warn of 'Glaring Discrepancies' in China Data)
A Reuters estimate of hot money flows based on official data indicates that as much as $181 billion in speculative cash may have entered China in the first quarter, fueled in part by loose monetary policy from the United States and Europe.
And that estimate likely understates the true figure, since it doesn't account for inflows disguised as trade payments.
These inflows have helped push the yuan to new highs against the dollar on a near-daily basis, attracting even more speculation. On Wednesday, it closed at a record 6.1410 per dollar, up 1.5 percent for the year so far after rising slightly over 1 percent in 2012.
Policy Headache
While China's capital account is tightly restricted, it is not hermetically sealed, and some of the speculative inflows are conducted through legal channels.
But there are two major points of concern. One is that domestic trading companies are betting too much on further yuan appreciation, to the extent that they are borrowing the dollars they need for trade with foreign companies in order to increase their yuan stockpiles, which most economists see as unsustainable.
The other is that companies are falsifying trade transactions to get their hands on even more yuan, muddying macroeconomic indicators and embarrassing regulators.
Official data showed that April exports grew by 14.7 percent from a year earlier, well above expectations of 10.3 percent, but the numbers only fueled skepticism that financial maneuvering by exporters and speculative inflows are masking weakness in real demand.
(Read More: China Services Sector Grows at Slowest Pace in Nearly 2 Years)
Particularly suspicious were figures in both March and April showing explosive growth in exports to Hong Kong and bonded trading zones, that appeared completely disconnected from export growth to ultimate destination markets in the U.S. and Europe - and from tepid export figures for neighboring Asian economies.
Louis Kuijs and Tiffany Qiu, economists at RBS in Hong Kong, estimated that actual April export growth was only 5.7 percent, implying that the other 9 percent was actually comprised of falsified invoices created to allow trading companies to increase their yuan holdings.
"It's creating a big headache for policymakers," said Wei Yao, economist at Societe Generale.
Don't Panic
However, interbank dealers who spoke to Reuters did not expect a resumption of bill issuance to panic the markets this time around, as investors are well aware of the hot money issue after repeated regulatory warnings and crackdowns.
(Read More: Yuan Surge Shows China Isn't Worried About Economy)
Both equity and money markets were relatively bullish on Wednesday, and money rates eased on expectations that the central bank will actually allow more funds, not less, to flow into the market through scheduled open market operations on Thursday.
Liu Junyu, a bond and money market analyst at China Merchants Bank in Shenzhen, said that the market did not read the PBOC's move as a portent of more drastic tightening measures like interest rate hikes or increases to reserve requirement ratios at banks, both of which would make more profound and durable adjustments to base money supply that might choke off China's economic recovery.
"Given so much weak economic data and recent dubious trade data, the PBOC will probably keep monetary policy unchanged and neutral," he said.


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Neumann KM 185 D - Super-cardioid digital microphone, Nickel
The Neumann KM 185 D is a part of the modular KM A / KM D miniture microphone system from Neumann. The KM185-D consists of a KK 185 hypercardioid capsule and a KM D output stage, both in a nickel finish.
The modular KM A / KM D miniature microphone system is a further development of the successful KM 100 series. The newly developed passive capsule design is available with 8 different directional characteristics, and can be combined modularly as desired with an analog (KM A) or digital (KM D) output stage in accordance with the AES 42 standard. The new, considerably smaller microphone capsules and an extensive program of accessories permit excellent adaptation of the microphone system to a wide range of applications.
Through the use of the most up-to-date electronic components the system offers many electroacoustic and operational advantages, such as lower self-noise, a wider dynamic range and very high immunity to electromagnetic interference. The acoustics of the capsules were taken from the proven KM 100 system.
KM D Output Stage
The KM D digital output stage converts the signal from the capsule directly into a digital signal. The result is an AES/EBU signal with 24 bits and a large dynamic range. The integrated digital signal processor (DSP) permits remote control of the microphones, including the digital gain, pre-attenuation (6 dB, 12 dB or 18 dB) and low-cut filter (0 Hz, 40 Hz, 80 Hz or 160 Hz). An integrated peak limiter and compressor/limiter with additional de-esser function prevents any overloading of the audio signal.
The dimensions (diameter 22 mm, length 93 mm) of the analog and digital output stages are identical. As a result, all accessories can be used in combination with both output stages.Upon request, a mechanical adapter can be supplied to adapt microphone capsules of the KM 100 system (AK series) to the KM A and KM D output stages.
The modular solution permits the microphone capsule to be separated from the output stage by a distance of up to 100 m. The LC 4 microphone cable with a length of 5 or 10 meters is available as a standard solution. Alternatively, capsule extensions of different lengths, swivel joints and stand mounts, etc., can be used for a flexible system setup.
The capsule heads KK 183, KK 184 or KK 185, together with the appropriate output stage, are also available as a set, in which case they are referred to as KM 183 A, KM 183 D, etc.
Neumann KM185-D Features
- Miniature microphones with 8 exchangeable capsules, compatible with the analog miniature microphone system KM A
- Set includes windshield and clamp
- Extensive accessories
- TRUE NEUMANN SOUND: The legendary Neumann sound in the digital realm. Pure Neumann capsule sound.
- TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL: The satisfaction of recording the uncolored original, with no "bottlenecks" between the capsule and the recording system.
- TRUE CONVERSION: The guarantee of having one of the best A/D converters available.
- TRUE HANDLING SAFETY: Anti-clipping processing ensures handling safety, and reduces stress.
- TRUE TIME SAVINGS: Reduced time requirements and personnel costs, particularly due to faster post production processing.
- TRUE ECONOMY: Lower investment costs, since separate A/D converters and preamps are no longer needed. This also means space and weight savings (e.g. in the OB van).
In The Box
- KM 183 D Microphone
- WNS 100 Windscreen
- SG 21 bk Stand mount swivel
- Wooden box
- For close miking of instruments when there is no need to attenuate extraneous noise, and in a balanced acoustic environment to record acoustic guitar, wind instruments, strings, percussion, drums
- Ideal as AB stereo pair because of the flat frequency response in the diffuse sound field
- Main mic, especially for capturing room acoustics
- For stereo recordings with a baffle plate
- Spot mic for piano, wind instruments, organ, choir
Neumann KM185-D Specifications
- Acoustic operating principle: Pressure gradient transducer
- Directional pattern: Hypercardioid
- Frequency range: 20 Hz - 20 kHz
- Sensitivity1): -42 dBFS
- Equivalent noise level, CCIR3): 25 dB
- Equivalent noise level, A-weighted3): 16 dB-A
- Signal-to-noise ratio2) CCIR3): 69 dB
- Signal-to-noise ratio2) A-weighted3): 78 dB
- Max SPL at 0 dBFS: 136 dB
- Max SPL with 18 dB preatt.: 154 dB
- Latency 44,1/48 kHz (samples): 41
- Latency 88,2/96 kHz (samples): 49
- Latency 176,4/192 kHz (samples) AES 3: 99
- Current consumption: max. 150 mA (DPP)
- Weight output stage: 70 g
- Weight capsule: 11g
- Diameter: 22 mm
- Length: 108 mm


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Here is a List of the current tools mantained and used by the Pharoers
Developer tools
- Autotest: automatically runs unit tests as you write code
- Automatic Method Categorizer
- Class Use Discovery: discover the classes that were used for a particular time duration or block
- New Inspector
- Nile
- OCompletion
- OmniBrowser
- Refactoring Browser
- Script Manager
- Shout
Web development
Application Development frameworks
- Magritte: fully dynamic meta-description framework
- Mondrian: an agile visualization engine. It enables to quickly and flexibly render any kind of data.
- ProfStef: framework for creating and playing interactive tutorials
- HelpSystem: create documentation in-image
Monitoring & Analisys tools
- Memory Monitor: Graphical tool to visualize the memory activity. Very close to the activity monitor present in most operating systems.
- Moose: extensive platform for software and data analysis.
- Spy: a flexible and open framework for designing and implementing program monitor. Spy enables easy-to-realize analysis.
Communication tools
- RemoteFrameBuffer(RFB): client and server Smalltalk implementation of the VNC protocol
- FFI: Foreign Function Interface
Persistence tools
Relational Databases
- Postgres Driver: Postgress Version 2 driver
- SqueakDBX: OpenDBX plugin which will allow users to perform relational database operations (DDL, DML and SQL) through an open source library.
Relational Databases - ORMs:
- Glorp: Generic Lightweight Object-Relational Persistence
- SqueakSave: object-relational (O/R) mapping framework
Object Oriented Databases:
- Goods: An object oriented database
- Magma: An object oriented database
- SandstoneDB: Simple object database that uses SmartRefStreams to serialize clusters of objects to disk
Alternative Persistence tools:
- SPrevayler: prevalence is based on the idea that all data is kept in RAM
- CouchDB: Document-oriented database.
- TokyoTyrant: Binding for TokyoTyrant, a single machine key/value store.
- Cassandra: Ways to access a Cassandra database.
- Riak: Interface to Basho Riak's REST API


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Project dedicated to the translation of the Marathon saga, initiated by Bungie in 1994 with the appearance of the first game for Macintosh, namesake of the saga. As an ancestor of Halo, Marathon understands an expanded universe related to different titles taken by the study through history, that make up the Universe of the saga. Our goal is to translate to leave the immense history behind the games that make it up to the service of the Latin community.
At the same time, the Marathon community has worked to create its versions within the Marathon Universe, achieving quality products. For this reason, we will also take into account the translation of the different versions made by the community.
The titles to be translated are the following:
Marathon - Not Started, compatibility issues
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Ratner Steel, Roseville, MN, installed a pair of stretcher levelers, from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL, onto existing steel-processing lines. The new equipment improves stock flattening and relieves trapped stresses to eliminate the possibility of springback. One stretcher leveler can process material to 1⁄4 in. thick and 100,000-psi yield strength; the second unit can handle material to ½ in. thick and 75,000-psi yield strength (3⁄8 in. thick and 100,000-psi yield).
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I usually try and maintain some kind of system when it comes to reviews, almost a one in one out thing so that I can work through the piles of products in a democratic order. However, sometimes I get something that I like so much I have to push it to the front of the queue…no…this review simply cannot wait.
Aveda's Art of Nature collection for Spring 2013 is a mixture of pastels and brights, 14 products in total;
I was sent a selection of products to try. I haven't really used much Aveda make up before so this is all new to me!
They are FABULOUS and interesting, which is rather important when everyone just keeps releasing the same old thing….
In this post I'll take a look at the eye products. There are 2 eyeliners and 6 eyeshadows in the collection (how amazing does that turquoise look?).
I was sent a medium green (981 Papyrus) and a medium peach (984 Bare Bellis). The eyeliner I have is Jade Vine a super vibrant green- the other shade is a deep indigo blue which is lovely too but I'm glad I have green.
I may love green, but I don't have good experiences with green eyeliner. Most are not vibrant enough (if you're going to do green you may as well DO green) and I don't know how greens are formulated but I find they don't wear well on my waterline. I have many many many eyeliners and I can't name a truly stand out good green eyeliner.
I didn't know what to expect with the eyeliner but Jade Vine is a beauty! (The same for the lipliner which I will review in the next post). It's a matte pencil so it feels different to my beloved metallic pencils, such as Urban Decay 24/7 which are a bit waxy and very glidey.
The Aveda eye pencil is rich, soft, creamy, pigmented but has a 'thickness' to it – it's almost like an old fashioned kohl it's so dense textured. I was not expecting that. The result is it lasted all night, and it works on my waterline!
A note about Aveda make up if you've never used it before – the brand is eco-concious and recycling friendly which is why the powders (eyeshadow, foundation, blush) come in plastic, ready to be placed into a palette – the idea is to save on resources!
Aveda make palettes in a few sizes or you can use your own. I love depotting everything so this suits me, but you should be aware that they don't come in individual cases!
The two eyeshadows are pretty and medium pigmented. They left a sheer wash of colour which was pretty enough but these aren't super duper NARS like pigmented. Bare Bellis is such an interesting colour – it looks nude-peach to me but there's a lavender feel to it.
The eyeshadows lasted fine on me, the eyeliner as I mentioned earlier is super long lasting. It was the last thing left on my face!
Here I am wearing all 3 colours:
Bare Bellis is just a shimmery flesh tone on my olive complexion.
I can't think of another green eyeliner I own like this one…I may need a back up!
Petal Essence Single Eyeshadows are £11.50 each, the eye definer is £13.50.
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Inside a tooth is a fine channel called the root canal which contains the dental pulp. This pulp consists of nerves and blood vessels. If the pulp becomes diseased or dies, a toothache or an abscess may occur. In the past, these problem teeth were extracted, but now root canal treatment can save the tooth.
Why does pulp become diseased?
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Your own teeth are better than artificial teeth because:
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At Netflix we work hard to improve personalized recommendations. We use a lot of data to make recommendations better. What may seem an arbitrary action — scrolling up, down, left or right and how much — actually provides us with valuable information. We work to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best user experience.
It is obvious that to capture the large amount of data generated, we need a dedicated, fast, scalable and highly available and asynchronous collection system that does not slow the user experience.
In this post we discuss the decisions and considerations that went into building a service that accepts a few billion requests a day, processing and storing these requests for later use and analysis by various systems within Netflix.
We did not want this service to disrupt the user experience, hence, the main objective was as low a latency as possible. It also needed to scale to handle billions of requests a day. The data sent to and processed by this service is noncritical data. That was an important factor in our design where we made a conscious choice of being ok with dropping data (user events) as opposed to providing a sub-optimal client experience. From the client side, the call is fire-and-forget. That essentially means that the client should not care what the end result of the call was (success/failure).
Data Size
The average size of the request and the logged data is around 16 KB (range: 800 bytes ~ 130 KB) whereas the response average is pretty consistent at around 512 bytes. Here is an example of the data (fields) that we capture: video, device, page, timestamp.
The service needs to handle a billion plus requests a day, and peak traffic could be 3 – 6 times the average when measured in terms of requests per second (RPS). To achieve our goal of having a low millisecond latency for this service. Here are some of the practises we adopted:
Holding on to the request is expensive
This service is developed using Java, deployed on a standard Tomcat container. To achieve a high throughput, we want to free up Tomcat threads as soon as we can. To do that we do not hold on to the request for any longer than required. The methodology we used was simple, we grab whatever data we need from the HTTP request object, push it onto a thread pool for processing later and flush the response to the client immediately. Holding on to the request for any longer translates to a smaller throughput per node in the cluster. A lower throughput per node in the cluster means having to scale more horizontally and scaling horizontally beyond a point is inefficient and cost ineffective.
Fail fast / first
Return as quickly as you can, which means you try to identify your failure cases first, before doing any unnecessary processing. Return as soon as you know there is no point moving forward.
An example: If your data must have some data from the cookie, try to crack the cookie first, before dealing with any other request parameters. If the cookie does not have the required data, return, don't bother looking at any other data the request body contains.
HTTP codes
We captured all the 4xx / 5xx / 2xx responses that we serve. Some services don't care about a failure, in those cases, we just returned a HTTP 202 (accepted) response. Having these metrics in place helps you tune your code, and if the calling service does not care, why bother returning a 4xx response. We have alert triggering mechanisms based on the percentage of the HTTP response codes.
Dependencies can and will slow down sometimes
We did an exercise to identify all dependencies (other Netflix services / jars) that this service depended on which were going to make across the wire calls. We have learned that however reliable and robust the dependencies are, there will be network glitches and service latency issues at some point or another. We do not want the logging service to be bogged down by such issues,
For any such service calls, we guard them by wrapping them using Java Futures with appropriate timeouts. Aggressive timeouts were specially reserved for those calls that were in the hot path (before the response is flushed). Adding a lot of metrics helped in understanding if a service was timing out too often or was the slowest.
Process Later
Once we had all the data we needed, we put into a queue for asynchronous execution by an executor pool.
The following diagram illustrates what has been described above.
Garbage Collection
For a service written entirely in Java, an important factor when deploying is pause times during Garbage Collections. The nature of this service is an extremely large volume of really short-lived objects. We played around with GC tuning variables to achieve the best throughput. As part of these experiments, we tried various combinations of the parallel generational collector and the CMS (Concurrent Mark Sweep) collector too. We setup canaries taking peak production traffic for at least a couple of days with different combinations for young gen to heap ratios.
Each time we had a winner, we pitted the CMS canary against the best canary with the parallel collector. We did this 2-3 times until we were sure we had a winner.
The winner was analyzed by capturing the GC logs and mining them for timings and counts of new gen (par-new), Full GC's and CMS failures (if any) etc. We learned that having canaries is the only way of knowing for sure. Don't be in a hurry to pick a winner.
Auto Scaling
Measure, Measure
Since traffic (rps) is unpredictable, at Netflix heavily leverage auto-scaling policies. There are different metrics that one could use to auto-scale a cluster, the most common ones being CPU load and RPS. We chose to primarily use RPS. CPU load is used to trigger alerts both at instance and cluster levels. A lot of the metrics gathered are powered by our own Servo code (available on github).
We have collected the metrics over a few days, including peak traffic at weekends and then applied the policies that enable us to effectively scale in the cloud. [See reference on auto-scaling]
Have Knobs
All these throughput measurements were done in steps. We had knobs in place that allowed us to slowly ramp-up traffic, observe the system behavior and make necessary changes, gaining confidence in what the system could handle.
Here is a graph showing the RPS followed by a graph showing the average latency metrics (in milliseconds)over the same period.
The real magic of such voluminous data collection and aggregation is actually done by our internal log collectors. Individual machines have agents that send the logs to collectors and finally to the data sink (Hive for example).
Common Infrastructure / Multiple end-points
As different teams within Netflix churn out different features and algorithms, the need to measure the efficacy and success of those never diminishes. However, those teams would love to focus on their core competencies instead of having to setup up a logging / tracking infrastructure that caters to their individual needs.
It made perfect sense for those teams to direct their traffic to the logging service. Since the data required by each team is disparate, each of these teams' needs is considered as a new end-point on the logging service.
Supporting a new client is simple, with the main decision being whether the traffic warrants an independent cluster or can be co-deployed with a cluster that supports other end-points.
When a single service exposes multiple end-points with hundreds of millions of requests a day per end point, we needed to decide between just scaling horizontally forever or break it down into multiple clusters by functionality. There are pros / cons of doing it either way. Here are a few:
Pros of single cluster
– Single deployment
– One place to manage / track
Pros of multiple deployment
– Failure in one end-point does not affect another, especially in internal dependencies
– Ability to independently scale up/down volume
– Easier to debug issues
As the traffic was ramped up, we have been able to scale up very comfortably so far learning, lessons as we went along.
Data is being analyzed multiple ways by our algorithmic teams. For example – which row types (Top 10, most recently watched etc.) did most plays emanate from. How did that vary by country and device. How far did users scroll left / right across devices – and do users ever go beyond a certain point. These and many other data points are being examined to improve our algorithms to provide users with a better viewing experience.
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Incumbent Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott and challenger Tim Fisher, both Republicans, are slated to go head-to-head in the Aug. 14 primary election.
Only the Lee County voters who are registered as Republican can cast a ballot in the sheriff's race in the primary. The top vote-getter will face off against two new candidates in November in the general election.
Candidate Lee Bushong is running for sheriff with no party affiliation and candidate Christian Meister is a write-in candidate on November's ballot.
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All Lee voters can cast a ballot in the sheriff's race in the general election.
In the primary:
Tim Fisher
Age: 46
Residence: Cape Coral
Occupation: Former LCSO sergeant
"We need to get back to the basics of law enforcement," Fisher said when asked why he is running for Lee County sheriff. "I'm a cop, not a politician."
He cited a need for more deputies on the road and cuts to the department's command staff as some of the reasons behind why he is seeking the office.
"So that we are a deterrent to crime," Fisher said.
Asked why voters should pick him in August, Fisher said his opponent - Scott - has been sheriff for eight years, and Scott's "political and biased agenda has not brought public trust and safety to" Lee County citizens.
"I have the experience in criminal law investigation that Mike Scott never had," he added. "He does not know how to investigate crime."
Fisher's overall platform is getting back to the basics of law enforcement.
"I want to bring back the sheriff's office to being the unbiased and impartial law enforcement agency that we need to be," he said.
One focus is respectful communication with the public and employees.
"I want to restore public trust and safety as a priority, rather than as politics," Fisher said.
He also cited aggressively combating violent crime, which he said has culminated with a 40 percent jump in murder, and reducing the sheriff's budget, which he said has grown more than 30 percent in eight years.
"The citizens of Lee County deserve a sheriff that is not surrounded in controversy," Fisher added.
Mike Scott
Age: 49
Residence: North Fort Myers
Occupation: Lee County sheriff
"Law enforcement, it's my passion," Scott said of why he is running for a third term as Lee County sheriff. "It's what I've done all my life."
He explained that as sheriff, he can continue to cut the sheriff's budget and crime rate and implement programs, like the department wellness center.
"Things along that line that I want to continue," Scott said.
Asked why voters should select him in August, he cited his work on seven consecutive budgets and four consecutive years of reduced budgets.
"I'm proven over eight years," Scott said. "I think my performance at the FBI Academy speaks volumes and all the other training."
He noted the still lagging economy, and explained that the person elected should be able to hit the ground running and not need to learn the ropes.
"I just don't think it's time for on-the-job training and a learning curve," Scott said.
One of his priorities and a focus of his platform is the budget.
According to Scott, the challenge and goal is to provide and maintain high levels of service for Lee County citizens in a budget-friendly manner that is price tag mindful.
"Our portion of the budget is the largest component within county government," he said, noting that reducing cost is always a priority.
"The budget really is going to continue to be the focus," Scott added.
He cited public safety as another focus of his.
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Annexation is the means by which property owners in unincorporated areas can join the City of Lake Oswego, receive city services and vote in city elections. Usually, access to one or more major urban services is the reason residents and property owners outside the city consider annexation. These services include sanitary and storm sewers, city water, improved road maintenance, and greater police protection.
In 2004, the City Council adopted Resolution 04-38, a natural resources policy, discouraging the destruction of natural resources in unincorporated areas before applying for annexation to the the City. These policies were updated December 3, 2019, with Resolution 19-59.
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Steve wrote earlier today that he feels like he is living in a personal Groundhog Day, where it is perpetually April 1. I have that feeling too, never more so than with regard to the Middle East. The phrase "deja vu" doesn't begin to do it justice. Today we got this report from the Associated Press: "Thousands of Palestinians protest in West Bank." Stop me if you've heard this story before:
Thousands of outraged Palestinians took to the streets of the West Bank on Thursday, joining funeral processions and demonstrations after two protesters were killed by Israeli troops and a Palestinian prisoner died of cancer in Israeli custody.
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Of course, seasoned observers of the region–or, one might say, those who are not pathologically stupid–will have some obvious questions. Like, why did Israeli troops kill two "protesters," and why is the fact that a Palestinian inmate died of cancer a ground for political complaint? You can discern the answers to these questions from the AP's account, but it takes a little effort. The AP gives us Mahmous Abbas's take on today's events:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was responsible for the violence, claiming it was trying to divert attention from a four-year standstill in peace efforts.
"It seems that Israel wants to spark chaos in the Palestinian territories," he said. "From the beginning, we have said we want stability and calm. Despite that, Israel on every occasion is using lethal force against peaceful young protesters, and peaceful demonstrations are being suppressed with the power of weapons. This is not acceptable at all."
But wait! The AP also tells us this:
Tensions rose further Wednesday when two Palestinian youths were killed in the northern West Bank after throwing firebombs toward Israeli troops. In an apparent show of solidarity with Abu Hamdiyeh, militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into Israel for three straight days, drawing Israeli retaliation, in the greatest challenge yet to a cease-fire reached in November.
So the "peaceful young protesters" carrying out their "peaceful demonstrations" on behalf of "stability and calm" were hurling firebombs at Israeli troops. How peaceful can you get?
Then there is the Palestinian who died of cancer, Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh. He was hailed as a hero by the Palestinians:
Mourners carried Abu Hamdiyeh's body through the streets of the town, while chanting anti-Israel slogans and burning U.S. flags. Masked gunmen fired into the air, while Abu Hamdiyeh was given a full military burial.
The AP tells us that "[t]he Palestinians have blamed Israel for not giving him proper treatment." Is there any evidence for that claim? None cited by the AP, certainly, and Israel is famous for providing first-class medical treatment to Palestinians, including Palestinians caught in acts of terrorism. And who was Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, anyway?
Abu Hamdiyeh had been serving a life sentence for involvement in an attempt to carry out a suicide bombing in a crowded Jerusalem restaurant a decade ago.
So, if you put it all together, we can distill from the AP's report that thousands of Palestinians "protested" because 1) Israeli soldiers defended themselves when they were attacked with firebombs, and 2) a 64-year-old terrorist died of cancer, probably because he smoked too many cigarettes. The "peaceful protests" included "militants in the Gaza Strip fir[ing] rockets into Israel for three straight days,"[m]asked gunmen fir[ing] into the air," and "[s]everal hundred people … clash[ing] with Israeli troops, hurling stones and firebombs." But to the AP, it's all a puzzle. The AP says it is easy to understand why the Palestinians are so addicted to firebombs:
The issue of Palestinian prisoners is deeply emotional in Palestinian society. Nearly every Palestinian family has a member or close acquaintance who has spent time in an Israeli prison….
You might think that fact reflects very poorly on the Palestinians, but no! The AP thinks it is an indictment of Israel.
All of this makes my head hurt. It is Groundhog Day X 100: we have seen the same fatuous reporting on the same dance of death more times than any of us can remember. Some months ago, I wrote that Israel should give up on the Palestinians and annex the West Bank. The West Bank has no rightful owner under international law, and no one has a better claim to Judea and Samaria than Israel. A half million Israelis now live on the West Bank, and others, including Caroline Glick, have since joined the call for annexation. Recently some Israelis floated a proposal to pay Palestinian families a substantial amount of money to vacate Judea and Samaria and go somewhere else, like Gaza, or Jordan or Syria or Egypt, or Europe, where they are ostensibly so popular. These are all good ideas, in my view. And they would allow us to wake up from Groundhog Day to the prospect of real change in a small but long-troubled corner of the world.


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Jovan Belcher's autopsy report has been released, and it reveals that his blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit at the time of his death. Recall that a sleeping Belcher was pulled from his running car outside of Brittini Glass's apartment by Kansas City police officers at 3 a.m. on the morning of the murder-suicide, and then allowed to return to Glass's apartment in order to sleep. The fact that Belcher's BAC was at .17 five hours later would suggest that he was incredibly intoxicated at the time that he spoke to the police.
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Managing Gain Stages
Anyone with a cable TV box has juggled two volume controls. Set the cable too low, crank the TV, and you'll hear too much background noise. With the cable too high, you can get distortion or a honky sound even with the TV volume low. Even a basic recording setup makes you manage multiple volumes, too. Here's a Golden Mean approach for setting them.
Your Keyboard's Volume Control
An old rule says to leave it at maximum, then set levels for recording on your mixer or audio interface. That's a good place to start, but on some keyboards, full throttle might make hiss audible while almost-full volume sounds clean. Call up the sound you'll record with, but don't play. Move the volume knob or slider slowly from low to high, and listen carefully for background noise. If an increase happens, most likely towards the top of the range, back off until it goes away. Chances are, any making up you'll do using the gain control of the gear that's listening won't add as much noise; if it does, the process is easy enough to undo.
Don't forget MIDI volume. Make sure a pedal, other controller, or even the sound program itself isn't keeping it below maximum (127) without you knowing. Also, the edit menus of some synths have an output parameter that works in the digital domain—another option if you need hotter levels without added noise.
Faders and Gain Knobs
Next come the inputs of your audio interface, compact mixer, or standalone recorder. Either you're in a channel (or two) with an input gain knob—also called trim or sensitivity, which are not the same as faders on the device or in your DAW's mixer window — or you're not.
In the first case, leave the channel fader at "unity," usually indicated by a zero located most of the way up the fader's travel range, and start with the trim all the way down. Play as loud as you mean to and adjust the gain until your loudest peaks hit the "yellow" zone on your physical or onscreen mixer's meter, but not the red. With most keyboards, you'll turn up the trim very little, or not at all, unless something else in the chain is quieting the signal first.
This is why many audio interfaces and compact mixers have trim knobs only on their mic inputs: Line-level ins are pre-optimized for things such as keyboards. If your keys are too quiet no matter what, you may wish to go for the extra gain of a mic channel. Otherwise, it's one less volume control to worry about. Depending on how your mixer works, the channel fader may or may not have any effect on the level that'll get recorded, and it may not have any visible effect on the meter, depending on your setup. If not, don't be afraid to lower your keyboard's volume a bit more if it's still too hot.
What sounds too loud or too soft through your listening system may be the perfect level for the A-D converters of the audio interface or recorder itself, so use only your headphone, "monitor out," or "control room" volume to get a comfortable listening level.
Soft Synth Secrets
Many soft synths have their own volume control in the plug-in window, and the rules are different for soft synths. Push the soft synth's volume too high, and often, you'll overload its mixer channel in the host program, distorting the sound. Try this advice from recording engineer Orlando Rashid (Jamie Foxx, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg): "Insert a compressor plug-in on the audio or instrument channel where the soft synth lives. Set it so it's not really compressing, or just barely hitting. Keep the soft synth's volume on the low side, and use the compressor's output or make-up gain to make it louder." Some DAWs also have simple "trim" plug-ins, useful for adjusting software instruments that don't have their own volume.
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Jet Edge, Inc., St. Michael, MN, acquired Calypso Systems, Dallas, TX, which had exited the waterjet industry early last year. Jet Edge plans to reintroduce several Calypso products—described by the company as "entry-level solutions for price-conscious buyers"—under Calypso's brand names.
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Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have run out of rehearsal space. Dressing rooms, too.
The award-winning production duo is planning the most performance-filled Oscar show ever. They promise a "wow moment" in each of its 13 acts, so the show demands a more dynamic stage and more dressing rooms and rehearsal time than previous Oscar productions.
"I don't think any Oscars have been as performance-based," Meron said.
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It's no surprise, given the pair's hit-filled history: They produced 2003's best picture, "Chicago," and count TV's "Smash" and the recent Broadway revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" among their credits.
With an unprecedented number of performances, this year's Oscars could look a little more like the Grammys, which is typically like a three-hour all-star concert with a few awards thrown in.
The Grammys have it easier, of course: It's a show about music wherein the nominees are accustomed to live performances, plus the Recording Academy gives out the bulk of its 81 awards during an untelevised ceremony that precedes the main event. The Oscars televise the presentation of all 24 of its awards and have traditionally relied on clip packages to showcase the cinematic achievements of its honorees.
Packing the Academy Awards with performances of various kinds should up the entertainment factor.
"Some of them are musical, some of them are dramatic and some of them are comedic," Zadan said, adding that running out of space for their A-list roster of performers — including Barbra Streisand, Adele and Norah Jones — is "a great problem."
"When you do an Oscar show, you don't have a dressing room problem. The presenters don't get dressing rooms. And how many people perform on the Oscars, like one or two?" he said. "We have a staggering amount of performers, and each of them needs a dressing room... We're measuring the magnitude of how big the show is by the fact that we don't have (enough) dressing rooms."
Just added to the list of stars who may need spots? The cast of "Chicago."
The producers announced Monday that Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere will reunite on the stage where "Chicago" won its Oscar 10 years ago.
"In a night of celebration of the music of the movies, we find it very appropriate," Meron said.
So will the musical cast sing?
"We can't talk about what they're going to do!" Zadan said.
Here's what they will talk about:
— Expect a dynamic, screen-filled set to accommodate the movie-focused numbers: "We're using a lot of cutting-edge technology with new LED screens of different sizes, shapes and configurations... It's kind of thrilling what we're doing with screens," Zadan said. "There will be, too, the regular screen that you have to use each year... but then we have all kinds of other screens that we're using in the show that are completely unique and different and allow us to do stuff with cinema, so it's not a concert thing where somebody comes out and sings a song. It's all integrated into movies."
— Look for a lot of host Seth MacFarlane: "He's going to be very present as a host, as a host should," Meron said.
— And expect to hear him show off his chops: "Seth will sing. He's got a great voice," Zadan said.
"Seth really does understand and have great reverence for the music of the movies," Meron added. "He loves it."
— And about those "wow moments?" Among them will be a celebration of the James Bond film franchise, a tribute to movie musicals, Streisand, Adele, a "special appearance" by Daniel Radcliffe, Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and maybe something from the cast of "Chicago."
"We think seeing the cast of 'The Avengers' is pretty wow," Meron said.
Better book them a dressing room.