text: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:20:18AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Don Moir <donmoir <at> comcast.net> writes: > > > >> I am using about a month old ffmpeg. > > > > > > Please consider reading http://ffmpeg.org/contact.html (esp. the part > > > about thread hijacking) and http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html > > > > I figure someone that is in there with IFF currently might want to know > > about it. There is no hijack about it... just common sense. > > You misunderstand: > Everybody here does want to know about problems with FFmpeg (and I am > particularly interested in transparency bugs), but not in unrelated > threads that incidentally are about the same format, apart from the > fact that bug-reports are not welcome on ffmpeg-devel if you don't > want to work on the fix yourself. > Both trac and ffmpeg-users are followed by developers so there is no > reason not to report problems there. Gents, is there a sample file available that demonstrates the issue? > > Anyway, please test following inlined patch and report back. > (@Peter: Any comments?) Carl, this patch is no good. The decoder already supports some transparency. It sets the alpha bits to 0xFF for all standard pixels, and clears them to 0x00 for transparent pixels. I dont know what the problem is. (Re you patch, there are other pix_fmt==BGR32 tests elsewhere in the code; so you need to changes these lines too for it to function.) -- Peter (A907 E02F A6E5 0CD2 34CD 20D2 6760 79C5 AC40 DD6B) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/attachments/20120722/7ceee609/attachment.asc>


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The Party is ON in Santa Monica!2 Share Tweet
And Fire Groove light dancers are here to join the party!
It's a light painting party here in Santa Monica! Fire Groove dancers are putting on a show, painting the night with their live light performance!
We're all snacking on Russian appetizers and mini cupcakes from famed LA bakers Sprinkles!
We're poppin' bottles of local California champagne and wine with Russian beer to boot!
We have community members from all over LA in attendance – and a few Lomography crew members all the way from New York!
Back to the party – gotta ring Santa Monica in in style :)
Cheers from the Lomography team in Santa Monica!
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If you know me, you know that I am a big fan of the pictoplasma events. They are not only about my favorite subjects like characters, animation and playful design but also amongst the most pleasant, friendliest and well organised fairs you can attend. Dany and I already got our tickets, and you can come, too. Get tickets here. I am already looking forward to a weekend of watching movies, lectures, meeting people and getting inspired.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Touch Up Old Photos
Step 1
Scan and import the old photo into the photoshop. Next go to Image> Adjustments> Hue/ Saturation and adjust the Saturation slider to 40 and click OK.
Step 2
After you done that, go to Image> Levels. Set the input levels to 0, 1.00, 236 and click OK.
Step 3
Make a new layer. Choose a suitable color and spray around the photo. This is to hide the dirt surface of the photo. Adjust the Fill opacity to 90%, so that you can actually still see the bottom layer of the photo.
Step 4
It is time to erase that color that you've just sprayed around the photo. Use the Eraser tool and erase the highlighted red area as shown above.
Step 5
Use the same step as above to remove the color on the props.
Step 6
Once you've done erasing all the overlapping color, its time to touch up the photo. Use the Smudge tool to smudge around that person's face to give it a smoother feel/ look. You can adjust the strength to 40%, so that it doesn't look like over smudged.
Step 7
Use the Stamp tool to hide teared/ pealed surface of the photo. Simply hold the "Alt" key and click on the area that you want to copy from, then brush the area that you want to hide. It's that easy! Do the same process all over the photo and you're done!
Step 8
If you think that the photo looks dull, no worries, you can add colors on it. Simply create new layers(set the layer style to "overlay") and start coloring on the photo.
Download the PSD sample here : http://www.ramesstudio.com/adobetuts/oldphoto.psd
That's all folks! What do you think? :)
9 comments:
- Gabriel Lai said...
This is a good tutorial.. Thanks Rames!
- December 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM
- Bavani Ratnam said...
Eh this one is good! I've always wanted to do this. I know now it's not impossible hahaha..thanks man!
- December 19, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- Kavi said...
this is, by far, THE BEST THING u've taught us! Nostalgic!
it's gonna be super handy!
- December 19, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Dariusz Ejkiewicz said...
Istead of using the eraser tool it would be better to just give that layer a mask, that way if we would go too far with the deletion of certain areas we could always go back.
Very nice tutorial and you do great work over her!
Maybe some tutorial about basic vectoring of photos in Photoshop ?
- December 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- Jeffro said...
Hmmm.. this technique really eat a lot of time ei? *phewww..* manage to do one after a while.. =D
- April 2, 2009 at 12:11 AM
may i know how to spray...i didn'n get it hiihihih..
- April 25, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- adobe basics said...
very good now we have repair our old images.
- November 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
- Idiosyncratic. said...
thanks a lot! this was simply perfect!
- May 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM
- bala said...
Dear Sir,
I am 70 ears old. I want to make a old photo of my grand son's photo to new. I tried various methods. I could not anything. Will you please help me solving this problem.
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Label: Inakustik
Review By: Alan Holloway
The first time I saw Michael Schenker, (supporting The Scorpions), he was off his tits, but the last time, (at the Steelhouse Festival), he was much better, aided and abetted by a solid band and decent singer. As this DVD shows, the solid band, decent singer and not being off his tits is a continuing affair.
Filmed at a sold out show in Madrid, 'On A Mission Live' certainly has plenty going for it, not least the inclusion in the band of ex Scorpions members Francis Buchholz and Herman 'Ze German' Rarebell. As rhythm sections go it's not a bad place to start, and when you add former Rainbow vocalist and professional Scotsman Doogie White to the roster it's pretty hard to do much wrong as long as your superstar guitar player is behaving himself. As I've already said, though, Michael shows all the skill that made him a legend among guitar freaks.
The two hour set is well balanced between old and new material, from classic Scorpions and UFO to modern Temple Of Rock. It's not a huge venue, which means there's no big stage show or lighting to impress, but there's plenty of good music to do the talking throughout. Schenker has plenty of opportunity to shine and show off his impressive guitars, including the new twin neck flying M, and the camera takes the opportunity to show us his flying fingers whenever pertinent. Second guitarist Wayne Findlay is no slouch either, and it's nice that Schenker is man enough to give him the solo on 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' (although Schenker gets to play his own bit in this extended version).
As live DVDs go, this is a pretty good addition to your collection, and will be extremely fawned over by Schenker fans. The band is tight, the mix spot on and the songs ranging from good to great with plenty for the older fans. The mark of a good DVD is whether you would have wanted to be there, and this passes that mark with flying colours, or should that be a flying V...
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Dan Gellert: Grounded in Tradition, Playing from the Heart
Jun 01, 2003
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Arto Järvelä: In Time-Honored Finnish Style
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Note: The following is an excerpt. To download a free pdf of the entire article, visit our Articles from sold-out issues page.
In 1984, I was fortunate enough to meet an elderly fiddler, Carl Grexton, from Grandview, Manitoba, on a trip he made to Ontario. Later he sent me a tape, which had, scribbled on the label on one side, "Grandy Fagnan, MB [Manitoba] Métis Fiddler." The music I heard on this recording is somewhat indescribable, a bit rough and out of tune, and frequently accompanied by loud, steady, two-foot rhythms which have the precision of a military drum, much like those often heard in Québec and Acadia. But that is not what caught my attention the most. Although the tunes seemed to be, basically, jigs and reels and sounded vaguely Scots-Irish, they were so unpredictable and so lacking in any perceivable structure (by me, at the time) that I wondered at first if they weren't improvised. I was hooked. Within the year, I had gone back to school, got a grant from the National Museum, borrowed a Uher, and landed in Dauphin, Manitoba.
When I arrived, fiddling was a well regarded, but fading cultural expression, as it was in much of rural Canada. In the dominant Euro-Canadian farming community of the area, it was pretty much restricted to the over-sixty set and consisted mainly of jigs, reels, polkas, waltzes, some schottisches and foxtrots, and Ukrainian tunes. But there was another culture here, an older, often almost invisible world of Native and Métis peoples ("Métis" is a French word meaning "mixed"). It is hard to describe the relationship between these two cultures -- English Euro-Canadian and Native/Métis. With the French in the middle, they intertwine, they permeate each other, and, in this mingling, determine much of the character of the rural Canadian prairies. But it is not an equal partnership, and each regards the other with a certain amount of distrust.
Carl was the key. When younger, Carl had worked in the bush further north cutting timber, and had met Grandy, the man on my tape. Grandy came from Camperville, Manitoba, a largely Métis settlement about seventy miles north of Dauphin. Over subsequent years, Carl played and socialized with many fiddlers of Native and Métis heritage, which, I learned, was an extremely unusual thing for a "white" prairie farmer. He, alone amongst his Euro-Canadian peers, seemed to admire their way of playing, their quirky repertoire, their driving rhythm. He lost touch with Grandy for many years, but, a couple of years before I arrived, he and Bill Henry, a musician and reporter for the local paper (and whose photos you see on these pages) decided to take a drive to Camperville. They found Grandy, brought him back to Carl's house for a couple of weeks, made the tapes, sent one to Ontario, and here I was. Only later did I come to appreciate how easy it would have been to never learn of the existence of this music, to never even suspect the extent of this 200-year-old, indigenous tradition, born of a blending of cultures that could only have happened in Canada. It was all because Carl was the sort of person who could see past the odd timing and rough sound to the powerful soul of the music.
Over the next couple of years, Carl and Bill were frequent companions on my visits to fiddlers. Through them, I found myself in the bosom of a culture. I met players of many backgrounds and recorded dozens of hours of music in people's living rooms, at community halls, weddings, dances, house parties, and just sitting around the kitchen. We went to see Grandy in Usherville, Saskatchewan. Further explorations on my own led me to the Ebb and Flow area east of Dauphin where I met and recorded Emile Spence, Albert Beaulieau, Lawrence Flett and Frank Desjarlais, and up to Camperville to Fred and Hyacinth Mckay and Rene Ferland. Bill gave me tapes of Willie Mousseau, a wonderful player of about Grandy's age who had passed on before I got there. Eventually, I met Lawrence "Teddy Boy" Houle who now resided in Winnipeg (about 150 miles southeast of Dauphin), and heard tapes of his father, Walter Flett. Later, Lawrence accompanied me on another recording expedition which resulted in more recordings, and eventually, a four-record set -- Old Native and Métis Fiddling in Manitoba.
In the intervening years, I have come to further understand both the roots and the extent of what we can generally call "Métis fiddling," comparing it to what we know of other Métis communities, as well as to old Native, French-Canadian, and Scottish music. This is an on ongoing endeavor, but we do know now that elements of the old style and repertoire are common to French, Native and Métis communities throughout the Northwest into Alaska, across Québec into Acadia, and down into the U.S. We know that not only Scottish, French-Canadian, Anglo-Irish and American influences are at work in the older repertoire, but that this music also owes a great deal to the traditional music of Native peoples.
Let's go back. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Scots, mainly from the Orkneys, and French-Canadian voyagers from Québec and Acadia came to the prairies in search of furs. They intermarried with Cree and Ojibwa women, creating a mixed culture which is commonly called "Métis." Métis peoples came to dominate the prairies in many ways for over 100 years, as traders, trappers, interpreters, and general go-betweens for the French, Scots and First Nations peoples. Today Native and Métis peoples in Manitoba still speak several languages -- English, French, Cree, Ojibwa, Swampy Cree, Saulteaux (a dialect of Ojibwa), and a mixed language which eventually became known as Metchif. Surnames are French, Scottish (usually Orkney), and Native. Within the same families, some may identify themselves as French, some as Ojibwa, Cree or Saulteaux, and some as Métis.
By the 1880s, the buffalo were gone and Native and Métis peoples who had depended on them were starving. Reserves were created for those who could claim substantial Native blood -- parcels of land set aside for their exclusive use, usually near water and not much good for farming. But those who did not qualify for Reserve status, or who lost it over the years were left pretty much to fend for themselves in whatever way they could. Today, people survive by fishing, trapping, farm and casual labor, running small local businesses or working for the government and social service network. Some head for the cities and higher education.
Until recently, fiddle was the musical center of Métis culture, having been passed on by both French and Scots traders to their mixed offspring. Fiddles were played for dancing, for listening, for celebration, and sheerly for personal enjoyment. Over the years, the fiddle took on the status of a cultural icon, a symbol of the Métis people. It was said, in the communities I visited, that every male at one time picked up a fiddle. (Why not the women? Not a respectable female pursuit, I suspect, although no one said so in so many words.) The banning of Native ceremonial practice in the late 1800s, no doubt, further strengthened fiddling as the main musical expression; in fact, outside of hymn-singing in church, it became the only form of music-making in some areas for quite some time.
[This article appeared in the Winter 01/02 issue of Fiddler Magazine, which is now sold out.]
[Anne Lederman is a performer, teacher and Adjunct Professor at York University, currently living in T oronto. A former member of bands Muddy York and The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, she currently performs with her own group, Fiddlesong, and with Njacko Backo and Kalimba Kalimba. For information on her recordings, including her recent fiddle recording called 7 Cats, see her website at www.annelederman.com.]


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We've added a whole host of talented musicians and DJs to our MoodMixes catalogue during April and May. The wide variety of genres and top quality musicianship demonstrates that we only add high-end music for background use to our website.
Here's an overview of our latest additions. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we do.
If you are looking for music that creates the perfect start to an uplifting weekend then check out our hottest release, Creation and Destruction by Love Amplifier. It's packed full of feel good dance tunes making an ideal choice for bars and clubs.
Fashion Themes from Alexander Lisenkov contains a fabulous collection of upbeat electronic dance grooves ready made for the catwalk. This album is also suitable for a broad selection of hospitality venues.
Looking for this year's hottest summer album? There's no better choice than another high-energy release from Vate. Cachonda is perfect for independent clubs, festivals or beach bars.
For music a little more chilled then perhaps Daniel Estrem's album Telemann Trios on Guitar is more appropriate – wonderfully relaxing colorful classical guitar music ideal for restaurants.
Renowned talented soloist Sebastian Forster adds to his classical collection with exquisitely performed Beethoven's Sonatas providing great energy, drama and passion in Magnificent Obsession series with Vol 6.
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Also new to our alternative rock collection this month is Cole Pond by The Donnis Trio, a confident indie folk driven EP with melancholy vibes – a great choice for smaller, more intimate venues.
A strong selection of crisp, acoustic instrumental guitar sounds also comes from Jon Swift's album Travelog. Relaxation at its finest! Bellwether, Arbutus from Nathan Mathes also consists of easy-going, laid back summery tracks perfect accompaniment to a refreshing beverage.
Introducing Claudia Schwab to MoodMixes! Claudia's album Amber Sands is a combination of refreshingly original Irish, Indian, Swedish and Eastern European music styles overlaid with Austrian yodelling. This album is definitely worth a listen and would make great audio for businesses serving international cuisine.
If you run an Irish themed bar or club then don't miss this! Ahoy and shiver your timbers to some Irish World music with a smattering of pirates from Barbepeste Official Orchestra. Bootleggers is full of fun tracks and individuality.
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We would also like to welcome Oliostere to MoodMixes. Their new release, Circonflexe, is cool progressive jazz at its finest. According to the band the concept of the album revolves around claves and rhythmic patterns making each track distinguishable.
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June 5, 2017 - The Peninsula Metropolitan YMCA's Fourth Annual STEM Fair will be held Thursday, July 20 at the Virginia Air & Space Center, 600 Settlers Landing Road. This year the fair is expected to serve more than 1,400 campers from 13 different branches of the Y. Students, families and anyone interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is encouraged to attend. Things start at 10 a.m. and end at 3 p.,m. For more information on the STEM Fair, contact Tina Banks-Gray at 757-345-8310. You can also watch a video about the 2016 STEM fair online.


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Posted on September 12, 2010 - by Denise
And then there were two…
I have been thrilled by a daily sighting of the hedgehog that lives in my hedgehog box. It is behaving much more predictably and 'hedgehog-like' than last year's, which I eventually discovered was quite ill, with lungworm, and had to take to the Devon Wildlife Hospital.
This hedgehog comes out at dusk every day and snuffles around the garden, using the same route every time. It uses the same tunnel every day to get into the neighbours' garden and I can still hear it snorting for a few minutes even then. During the recent meteor shower, my husband and I were lying on a picnic rug, looking up at the sky, when the hedgehog came out. It stuck to its exact same route, even though we were there and must have come within ten centimetres of my head. The bats also flew very close to my face, but I had complete faith in their echolocation!
For my birthday, a friend bought me a hedgehog box. He didn't realise that I already had one. It was a very thoughtful present and I thought that maybe it was worth putting it out under the hedge. This one had two 'rooms', which I thought might be preferrable, with its increased shelter, to the existing hedgehog. A few days later, I heard a hedgehog come out of this new home at dusk. I was stunned at how short an amount of time it took for the home to be discovered. However, when my husband was cutting the lawn last week, he heard some strange grunting noises coming from the original hedgehog box. I worried that this one had lungworm too, although it was a very different noise to the painful coughing I heard with the last hedgehog. However, just to make sure, I telephoned the Hospital again. The gentleman told me that hedgehogs do sometimes make some strange noises and gave me some hints about how to tell if the hedgehog is healthy. Unfortunately, this meant disturbing the hedgehog as I had to check that it's nose was slightly dripping and its eyes were alert.
I opened the entrance to the hedgehog house, without touching the hedgehog and watched for about a minute, during which time it kindly obliged by staring right back at me, eyes wide open and nose reassuringly dripping. I put the box back and thought that seeing as that hedgehog didn't seem to be particularly disturbed, I could justify opening the lid to the new box to see if that was now empty again. It also had a hedgehog in it, that I think had moved in within about two weeks of me putting the box down. Whether the two hedgehogs are of different genders I don't know and won't check for fear of causing disturbance, but here's hoping…
I have since been listening very carefully for any further concerning noises, but have heard none, so fingers crossed that both of these will be around next year too!


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The Prezi was already one of our favorite infant car seats and now Maxi Cosi their stepping up their style with a Prezi that has a white shell. What a great match for the Moodd stroller! This striking car seat is identical in functionality and great features like the Air Protect technology and easy adjust harness, just with a cool new look. If you're more a fan of the black base, don't worry, that will stay in the line as well. The new car seat comes in Reliant Blue, Passionate Pink and Devoted Black and will retail for $299.99 at NessaLee Baby.
The Maxi Cosi Prezi and other Maxi Cosi products are available in-store at NessaLee Baby or via www.NessaLeeBaby.com


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Back to School, Resigning at "The Job"
Yes, it's official. At 10am this morning, while sipping a hot cup of coffee I tendered my official two-week job resignation notice while pondering over the minutia I may or may have not anticipated, and a rather long checklist of to-dos.
In seventeen days time I will be a pupil of microbiology, anatomy and physiology, global microbials and a plethora of other scientific musings in the hopes of satisfying prerequisites towards an accelerated nursing program. Since I have an official military obligation (another school entirely) to satisfy January thru May of 2011, time is short and the sequence of courses must be absolutely harmonious to gain acceptance in Fall of next year to the accelerated program.
Am I nervous? Hell yes, but with anticipation and promise of a career path that I can commit myself to fully, that melds with my values and future goals/personal potential.
Eventually, my Bachelors of Arts will be accompanied by a Bachelors of Science. Until then, tons of prereq's, an 18 week military obligation and then the program proper. I'm excited! It appears that not all things become jaded with age...:)


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As an explanation to those who don't write or read many blogs, Wordless Wednesday is just that. Its a day when Bloggers take the opportunity to simply publish photographs.
My blog has now run through a whole years cycle of gardening, at the moment, the seedlings are all growing strongly and the rest of the garden is finally coming back to life. So rather than bore you with my witterings about a garden, which at the moment, would read exactly the same as a blog I wrote this time last year, I have decided just to publish pictures and let you make up your own words to go with them.
|The Pollinators are back !!
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Hidden Numbers Frozen
In this cool winter awaken your senses with this one-of-a-kind Hidden Numbers Frozen Game. Find the numbers hidden in the frozen movie pictures. Avoid clicking unnecessarily as otherwise for every 10 wrong clicks 100 points will get reduced. Good luck and have fun
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Yesterday I was at Kinnarps in Norrköping, my home town. They had a ladies evening with local businesses invited to promote their products to the guests, and Parfymeri1 where I work was one of them and I got to tag along.
I decided rather than doing treatments I was going to have a hand model to demonstrate some nail art on. She had an idea of doing a live feed on Facebook. Said and done, that's what we did. A bit scary and out of my comfort zone but lots of fun. You can find the videos here.
This is the before picture, My has a clear gel overlay that we did the day before.
She was an excellent model and filmer. And this is the end result. I used only CND Shellac colours, 'Cream Puff', 'Aqua-intance' & 'Digi-teal'.
If you watch the videos, please leave a comment here or on Facebook so I know if it's something you would like to see again, and what I should improve on. 💙


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after much thought i've decided to move and start a new blogging space for myself.
but i will continue to keep this blog public so that it can be a resource to someone in need. and, if you are reading along, and would like to contact me, please don't hesitate. :)
Opaline, the "must have" lacquer!
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Identical Cousins Sponsorship Slots Open
We have some sponsorship slots open for future episodes of Identical Cousins, the podcast I do with Michael Simmons.
If you might be interested, contact me or Michael. (There's Twitter info on the site. Or you can email me using brent plus the domain name of the business I own.)
Past sponsors have included Windows Azure Mobile Services, FastSpring, and Pinbook. You'd be in great company.
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The 1969 Caprice Classic Cars Specs, Review, & Photos Collection HD
What I appreciated when I discovered The 1969 Caprice is their diversity. The first Caprice is an introduction to the whole piece before all the dramas that are going to happen. The first Caprice is light and talkative quite happy almost innocent. Then, the second caprice is much more theatrical quite Venetian, like a Vivaldi's opera.
There is the third one with the syncopations in C minor. It's beautiful melancholic and sad. It is linked with the fourth Caprice which is very determined almost protesting with a lot of strength. Towards the end, the Caprices are almost abstract. It is where The 1969 Caprice Classic goes very far into strange spheres. For example, in the 16th caprice or the 22nd. In the 22nd, he reaches such a high position on the fingerboard leading 17th position.
Photos of 1969 Caprice Classic
The C Sharp goes over the fingerboard of a modern violin. The note is almost barely audible. The 1969 Caprice parts try to make us listen to something we can't hear. In the 24th Caprice, there are lots of original ideas. The metrics change, and it is good. This is very modern and unique. At the same time, this last Caprice is the longest.
The 1969 Chevy Caprice 4 door has good sales at the first year. The next year Chevrolet providing more package occupied its design and body styles like the station wagon and the two door hardtop. Caprice becomes a luxury car rapidly, and other cars manufacturer know it will be the fierce rival in the class. To keep this momentum without interruption, Chevrolet makes some downgraded to The Impala, so The 1969 Caprice became the new top offers.
The 1969 Chevy Caprice Specifications
- Drive Type: Rear Wheel
- Engine Location: Front
- Engine Type: V8 5354 cc – 326.7 cu in – 5.4 L
- Weight: 3895 lbs or 1766.742 kg
- Power: 235 HP (172.96 KW) @ 4800 RPM
- Bore : 4.0 in | 102 mm.
- Stroke: 3.3 in | 83 mm.
- Models: V8 327
Production Figures – 1969 Chevy Caprice Value
- Total Chevrolet Production for 1969: 1,109,013
- Total production of Caprice for 1969: 166,900
- Production Years for Series: 1965 – 1970
- Price: $3,295-$3,675


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There have been genuinely interesting books about the tortuous path that new IT hardware follows to market: Tracy Kidders 1981 landmark The Soul of a New Machine, for example, superbly balances the human element against the complexities and limitations of new technology. Sad to say, Itanium Rising gives the genre a different and much less impressive aura.
Although this newly-published Prentice-Hall title does shed some light on the decisions that went into Intels daring move to the IA-64 architecture, it also casts confusing shadows with self-serving distortions and even contradictory statements about what it is that makes Itanium (allegedly) destined to succeed.
Authors Jim Carlson and Jerry Huck are both affiliated with Hewlett-Packard, which has made a big bet on Itanium as the successor to its own PA-RISC. Their desire to justify HPs decision comes across as a desperate "food fight" strategy, throwing every possible buzzword and argument at the reader in the hope that something will stick. In the process, they commit far too many self-serving simplifications and make outrageously false comparisons between Itanium and alternative architectures.
By the time we get to page 5, for example, were already being subjected to a sales pitch that makes no logical connection between Itaniums risks and potential enterprise rewards. Offering the scenario of a failed input/output card in a server, the authors assert that "On a typical Itanium-based system, you can pull out the card while the system is still running and plug another one in...You dont have to shut the machine off." This is probably true—we could argue about whether enough Itanium machines have yet shipped to make the word "typical" meaningful—but this benefit is in no way due to the choice of microprocessor.
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The authors cant seem to keep track of their own strategic views. On page 12, the authors predict, "the Itanium processor is the chip platform that will enable HP and Intel to stand out as a [sic] technology pioneers in an industry that is rapidly falling victim to mass commoditization." On page 13, however, we learn that, "Because it is based on an industry standard architecture backed by volume manufacturing, Itanium-based systems can decisively claim the ability to run a computing environment at a significantly lower cost than a comparable RISC-based system."
The sloppy syntax and careless editing of these excerpts is unfortunately common throughout the book: on page 51, for example, we read that Intel co-founder Gordon Moore said that the future of processor performance improvement depends on "the two size factors: bigger dice and finer dimensions." After momentarily wondering if Moore had been using a gambling metaphor, I realized that an editor had almost surely inserted "dice" for what Moore habitually refers to as "dies."
Whats most offensive, though, is not errors of form but travesties of content. Trying to distinguish the Itanium from all that has come before, the authors start waving their hands, saying that "All CISC and RISC machines are based on the model of a Von Neumann engine…where the processing must appear to be done sequentially." The basic model of the Von Neumann machine, with a processor using storage registers for immediate data and a random access memory for storing other data and instructions, applies to the Itanium as well.


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Senior Scientist, Downstream Process Development
Downstream Process Development Shanghai subdivision is responsible for the purification process development, scale-up, technical transfer and support for the pre-clinical and clinical manufacturing at Wuxi AppTec biological facility in Wuxi, China. The scope of downstream process development includes the cell culture clarification (centrifuge and depth filtration), column chromatography, viral inactivation/removal, and ultrafiltration/diafiltration.
- Leads 2 – 3 scientists to develop scalable protein purification processes for pre-clinical and cGMP clinical manufacturing,
Troubleshoot the issues of manufacturing, and develop new purification technology to improve the development efficiency and low the cost of development.
Design the downstream processes that are efficient, robust and scalable for the clinical manufacturing.
- Assist the group leader to coordinate the work between the downstream development group and other functional groups to meet the project objectives and timelines.
- Coach the junior staff on the process development and validation.
- Establish the robust purification development and scale-up platform.
Basic Qualifications:
- PhD with 1+ years downstream process development experience
- Experience in developing the large-scale chromatography, centrifuge and depth filtration harvest, ultrafiltration/diafiltration, and viral inactivation and removal
- At least one year's leading project experience
- Experience in technical transfer.
- Ph.D from Biochemistry, Biophysics, or related fields.
- Proven track record of productivity and publications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
Job Function: Research & Development
Primary Location: China-Shanghai


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Bank of Starbucks: $4B+ Loaded Onto Cards
At the root of our newfound appreciation of Starbucks (SBUX) stock, and the job Howard Schultz is doing managing the company, is the growing sense that the coffee chain's improved sales and widened margins aren't done yet.
While Schultz, in his public remarks, talks about the smell of coffee and, at times, national economic issues, the Starbucks turnaround story, six years old, is built on prosaic yet crucial improvements like barista productivity in the stores and cost control at headquarters. To better understand the company's performance and the stock's appeal, you can unleash some financial advisor tools.
Another admirable development: Starbucks, long thought of as an indulgence for consumers, has persuaded customers to plan to indulge by socking away billions of dollars a year on Starbucks gift cards (for others and for themselves). Starbucks, of course, gets to hold your cash and it can also reliably count on a growing percentage of its revenue because the sales were in essence made days, weeks or even months ahead of time.
For fiscal 2013 ended September 29, people loaded $3.7 billion onto Starbucks cards, up 27.5% from a year earlier, when card loads were $2.9 billion. Growth continued in the first fiscal quarter ended December 29, with card loads rising 24% to $1.4 billion. At that rate, card loads will easily eclipse $4 billion in fiscal 2014.
Comparable-store sales are expected to rise mid-single-digits this year. With new store openings by Starbucks and by licensees, overall revenue is expected to grow 10% or more above fiscal 2013's $14.9 billion. So, card loads rising faster, Starbucks is enjoying a loyalty dividend.
At the end of the first fiscal quarter, about $1 billion of that cash was sitting on Starbucks' balance sheet as deferred revenue, according to William Blair analyst Sharon Zackfia. She writes that the rising card loads speak to the strength of the Starbucks brand. That deferred revenue, notably, is also more than the $728 million of coffee, roasted and green, that Starbucks had sitting around as of September 29, 2013.
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Credibility and trust are the key issues in today's information(overload) age where news emanates from multiple sources, including sources other than journalists. More so than ever, news is also real-time and unrelenting: there's lots of it.
Here, below, I created this pyramid which helps demonstrate news hierarchy and flow in the social media age. It proposes that journalists have an important role to play as interpreters, fact checkers and guardians of accuracy in this new paradigm of fast, unrelenting, real-time information. It suggests that media's value lies decreasingly in being first with a story, because for breaking news stories they'll mostly be beaten every time by their own readers: the millions of users out there.* These are users plugged into social networks, blogs and social media sites. These are users armed with cellphone cameras, laptops or computers.
Journalists are increasingly relying on social networks, blogs and myriad other web-based user-generated content sites as sources. While using these new real-time sources to enrich the reporting process, journalists should never forget their important role: the value of media, it seems, could lie in providing interpretation, context, analysis and understanding around a story — being that further stamp of credibility and mark of accuracy on raw, real-time news and information that often originates from untested or unknown sources.
Is this media's role in the social media age?
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Gucci Mane Speaks At Career Day [#BIGDUMMYFILES]
God bless the kids. Gucci Mane is participating in Career Day at the Crawford Long Middle School in Atlanta. One of the biggest problems in this world is that the youth aren't being guided.
It's good to see rappers giving back to the community, but come on Gucci Mane is probably the worst role model for a kid to have. This man has killed someone, been to jail for stupid reasons multiple times, Gucci has been caught on camera hitting women, pushed a woman out of a moving car, and maybe responsible for some of the worst raps in the history of man kind. Even after all of his actions, he still managed to become a millionaire.
Despite his personal issues, Gucci Mane is not a good career advice person, he ruined his own career when he made an album with Kreasyhawn. I really hope he spoke to those kids about avoiding some of the situations that destroyed his career.
I'm not even mad at Gucci Mane for trying to give back. Here is some free advice Gucci, go down to the scared straight kids and talk to them. My problem is with the person who thought it was a good idea to invite Gucci Mane for career day. Welcome to the BIG DUMMY FILES.


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Safe Way To Wash a Computer Motherboard
What will happend when you clean a motherboard?
1. Motherboard with no Screen can be Fix when washing .
2. Motherboard performance will be a speed as brand new.
3. When ever you want to sell your PC washing it is Good.
What are the things must do?
1. Remove Cmos battery first
2. Use liqud detergent like Joy to wash your motherboard, mus not do it with powder because powder particle may sink to tiny opening and can damage your motherboard or shorted.
3. Dry it with blower or dryer gently.


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When a man is really scruffy to the point where he really needs to shave his face
Jon looked like a scruffaluffagus today; his beard was getting scratchy and unruly.
by D.J. D May 01, 2011
During the act of a scruffy you can use a scruffaluffagus to really get him.
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Having grown up here in the U.S. I never took reincarnation seriously. I considered it total nonsense used by circus freaks to cheat gullible people out of their money. Only later in life did I start to read books on the topic (James Van Praagh, John Edward, Dr. Brian Weiss, etc.) and change my opinion. For quite some time now, I realized that the evidence for life after death and reincarnation was substantial and I consider it a fact and not something I "believe".
Once I took a matter-of-fact attitude towards it, I started to become annoyed by those who consider it a matter of faith or blind belief. I consider it unfinished business to move reincarnation out of the realm of 'pseudo-science' and firmly into a 'science'. That will require investment of money and time and also the need for uniform testing of professionals involved in the field and global standards. As long as hardcore Abrahamics (Christians/Muslims) and Dogmatic Atheists have more power and/or media influence, these changes will not occur.
- Niraj Mohanka
Boston, MA
There are theories on the transmigration of the soul by Plato.
But personally, today we are not ready to expand our consciousness and research on the subject, there's too much hate and intolerance in the world.
This is my site which features past life test for fun purposes, check it out if you'd like.
Past Life Tests
more than Hindu stories of reincarnation, the whole monastic ethos of Tibetan tulkus was thoroughly fascinating.
Perhaps becuase until yesterday Tibet seemed to be like one huge monastery :)
One huge problem with human memory based on vision what is real and a creation of illusion. But the whole matter of the inequity of birth and cicumstance is often explained by karma and reincarrnation.
But even the Druze and some other Middle Eastern sects believe in similar theories.
Once again my grateful thanks to Mr Elst for sharing his scholarly work with all of us!
I am interested in knowing whether Professor Elst relates reincarnation to past karma or does he too believe in reincarnation without that being, in no way, related to karma?
I'm skeptical about the lack of evidence for an element of karma. Karma as it is really likely to operate would be virtually undetectable within the limits of just two lifetimes. The popular idea of karma (on the level of "I must have separated a cow from her calf in a past life and that is why I am now being separated from my son") can only be a crude representation of what actually happens, especially because karma is unlikely to be "moral" in the human sense: in the cosmic scheme of things, even the worst human crimes, even genocide, may not register as a mark on the debit side of an individual's karma. I know that there are texts that debate this issue of how moral karma is, but I don't know those texts. It would be very interesting to hear from those who know that debate.
One thing about even the Indian conception of reincarnation that suggests that it is grounded in reality is the fact that its element of wish fulfulment is quite weak, as compared to the concept of heaven in India and elsewhere. Growing up Baptist Christian, I learned that after death the saved will live forever in heaven where they will also find their loved ones. In other words, earthly life in effect never ends, and the individual is immortal. But I find that even unlearned Hindus (of the Brahmin community into which I married, the only Hindu community I really know) accept the quite grim and unconsoling version of rebirth found in Sanskrit texts: the reincarnated being, while carrying the physical and mental impressions of the karma of past lives, does not consciously remember those past lives (unless he is born with or attains to extraordinary spiritual insight, in which he is not attached to his past lives anyway); even if you met other reincarnated beings whom you knew in past lives, you won't remember that you knew them. None of this does much to alleviate the individual's terror of extinction and separation from his loved ones. So insofar as this vision of reincarnation has evidently not been constructed with the intention of alleviating that terror, it has a feeling of truth about it.
the qs of karma
its not just cosmic even in the larger sense of the family the debt might have to be paid by the extended family.
even though I am not a scholar i know we relate to karma simply but the question is complex, judgement is always weighed in terms of the society one lives in.
It is even more difficult to explore the rational in real terms today because our sensibilities are all broken, our idea of Hindu in real terms is more provincial(our caste, language area of family etc) which radically differs.
then we are dispersed and constantly make opportunistic bargains with our environment so to weigh ones life is very difficult.
having reflected greatly on my life in deep measure- I can safely say no spiritual guru today can help a person with the inner self only we can do so. Too much information and material both old and new has to be contended with to even begin.
[The writer is inclined to the oft-heard position that we shall never fully know, but that is to be doubted.]
Doubt ? Without doubt, sir, it is near to impossible. Understanding 'life' (hence rebirth , reincarnation, moksha etc.) is same as understanding the term 'energy' which is same as understanding the ultimate truth called 'god/gods'. To do this we have to understand just two physical aspects : Zero and Infinity, because life seems to appear out of nowhere (zero) and disappear into everywhere (infinite cosmos above us) Scientists investigating zero created a stir recently with the discovery of 'god particle' or boson, but nothing has been concluded as yet. Let us discuss infinity. Can we ever reach the boundary walls of this universe? Before that let us find out if, within a generation, we have the means at all to reach the nearest star which is 4 light years away. What is a light year? If we travel at the speed of light (3 lakh km/second) it will take 4 years to reach this star. The max speed reached by any spacecraft, with the aid of gravitational pull of various planets, is only 30km/sec. We need a 10,000 fold increase in speed to reach this star in 4 years. If not wait 10,000 x 4 = 40,000 years to reach it !!. Scientists and engineer s have given up the idea that speeds beyond 30km/sec. can be achieved with current technology, and they don't foresee any rapid strides in technology in the near future. It is a fact that newton's theories created a revolution after 2 centuries. But that was the age when telecom was nil, and very few people were involved in scientific research. Today it is vastly different. Looks like scientific ideas and inventions have reached a saturation. No further progress is possible unless something dramatic turns up like understanding einstein's space-time relationship. The vedhic wisecracks also seem to have given up the idea. They could realize the power of the human mind , which no other organism seems to have, but not that this mind is capable of understanding life. To them gods/life is the ultimate truth after which there would be nothing new for humans to understand. The universe might as well self-destruct and start re-assembling again. The wheel goes full circle !! (Kaal chakra).
people who know the subject of past life regression know the meaning of cellular memory.
charaka in 4200 BC, did past life regression and vaccination using leeches , knowing the science of cellular memory.
punch into google search
by the way , something about your next post--
eckhart lifted whole sale from vedas and upanishads.
capt ajit vadakayil
I was the ardent disbeliever in the idea of Reincarnation.
Being myself a born Hindu , even then it looked stupid to me.
But now , it is proving to be true , to my utter disbelief.
Recently , the foremost Artificial General Intelligence Researcher & leading Cognitive Science thinker , Ben Goertzel has conceded Reincarnation to be true.
The Morphic fields is the reason he has given
I for one thought any discussion on reincarnation would be incomplete without mentioning the contributions of Edgar Cacey, considered a prophet. He was an ardent Protestant but suddenly acquired this power to "see" people's past lives. He himself used to be a physician in a previous birth. In the current birth even though he was not a doctor, he could provide surprising remedies to hopelessly ill people.
Unlike your view sir, he definitely links reincarnations to Karma. He didn't know this term, but pronounced it in his trance. Most of the cases he dealt with are well documented.
Just don't give up on this "Hindu-Buddhistic" angle, yet.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy has discussed the various positions that Vedic texts seem to take on the rebirth topic. While the Samhitas and Brahmanas appear to say that there are 3 "births" to every man - first, his natural birth, second, his son's birth, and third his grandson's birth, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad seems to propose a more general theory, saying "tam vidyaa-karmaNI samanvaarabhete" (his learning & works follow him from this body to the next). AKC feels that this theory is in reality not the rebirth of the personality, but only the transmigration of the Self with subtle tendencies.


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Name: Lauren Colton
Age: 21
Country: United States
Occupation: 4th year student at Cornish College of the Arts, Expo at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar, and professional homebody.
Band: One can't do it! Microphones, The Smiths, Of Montreal, Kidcrash, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Gregor Samsa, Modest Mouse and Why? are the staples.
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Photography is practicing noticing important things. It just makes life easier/better in general.
What's your favorite camera and film?
My good old Minolta X-370. I'll shoot with anything, but mostly whatever is on sale at Walgreens.
Your portraits are powerful, tell us about them, do you prepare them or you just let you go with the flow and shoot?
Well first off, geez, thank you, that is a wonderful compliment. If I'm shooting people I know closely, I don't plan at all. When your subject is comfortable it is pretty easy and photographs just happen. If it is a planned shoot, or with models, I tend to make a list of words or feelings I want to convey and try to only think those things as I'm shooting. Sometimes I'll have a specific shot in mind, though, and set it up.
How does it feel to live in the city where the grunge was born? Does it have the same vibe of the underground rock and roll?
Hah! well, I moved over here 3 years ago from Spokane, so I kind of missed the whole grunge thing. Right about now there's more of an aloof metal thing going on- people thinking they're punks and refusing to look you in the eye. It's kind of obnoxious, honestly. Being a genuinely nice person doesn't really seem to be in fashion. But maybe that is the vibe you're talking about? Hah. There are a lot of great shows here though, something for everybody. So that's cool.
Do you think the art may be able to change the world?
Eh, that's hard. Definitely not mine. The world seems so fucked lately. I guess if someone makes something that could actually be seen by an audience outside the art world, that would be helpful. The stuff JR was doing in Israel and Palestine seemed to open some minds on an individual level, and I guess that is all one can hope for.
If you were a photograph, how it would be?
Oh gosh I don't know. Probably stupid. Something that would make people laugh. It would definitely be at the beach, though.
Oh gosh I don't know. Probably stupid. Something that would make people laugh. It would definitely be at the beach, though.
Are you interested in other expression of art besides photography?
I do some different print arts since my school has the facilities. I do a lot of photo lithography, which is just on newsprint and I paste up places sometimes. Etching is fun too, and I also like to build things. I'm going to try and have a bit of a sculptural addition to my BFA show, which happens in Spring.
What's your favorite photograph of your work? And why?
I think this is my favorite picture I've taken in a while. My boyfriend fell asleep while eating a baked potato, and he woke up right as I was taking it.
Place to hang out Friday night?
My apartment. King of the Hill is on Insant.
Beer or Wine? Winoooooooo