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Quote:Originally posted by Kempoman: Let's say that you are feeling something (I think that anyone who has ever tried this exersize has) let's say that it feels like a ball or pressure in the space between your hands the registers on your palms.Now you are thinking "Wow, what is this feeling? Is this qi?". I think we've all been down this path and asked these questions.The one question that we need to ask is "If it is then what do I do with it?". I mean really isn't qi better off inside the body? What is most likely happening is that you are learning how to direct your focus/attention/yi to your hands. This causes an increase in bloodflow to the area and the hands feel different than normal. Many descriptions and feelings have been expoused by many qigong(kiko) practicioners many times before. They run the gambit from sensations of heat, cold, heaviness, lightness, red palms, splotchy palms, white palms. This feeling after a while can even be felt in the forearms, then eventually the entire body. Perhaps it is just you learning to listen and become more aware of what is going on inside you.Is there some actual ball of energy (whatever that means) bewteen your palms, probably not. Can there be sensations and changes in feeling from qigong work? Sure, all the time. Still, my question remains. What do you do with the ball if it is there? I think that we have shown over and over and over that you can't throw it and hit someone with it. Healing? Perhaps I have seen some very cool things done by qigong and reiki masters. The practice of qigong is to increase the health of the indiviual and it has little martial benefit. Martial gongs are entirely different that those that you are doing for health (and you can not learn them from a book or video, they must be learned by direct transmission only). Even the Zhuan Zhuang (Post, Standing Stake) if not done correctly will not yield any martial benefits, only health (which aint a bad thing).What most of you out there are looking for is down another path. You are doing gongs for health whether you know it or not. These are relativly simple exersizes that can ususally be learned from a book. However, most of you who keep wanting the 'chi-balls' to be real are looking for somemystical martial power that you think 1) your teacher has 2) you've seen on Saturday morning Kung-Fu theater or 3) seen on dragonball-z.You are mistaken, plain and simple. The martial power that you are looking for has its basis in Internal Martial Arts like Xingyiquan, BaguaZhang and Taijiquan. Masters of these arts can do things to you that will seem like they have a mystical martial power that you are looking for, when in reality they have the following:1) They have placed 'gong' into their body. This means that they have conditioned their muscle, tendons and sinews using their respective system's gong building methods.2) They have learned to move in a connected/whole-body/internal fashion. Chi-balls are stupid compared to this kind of movement. 3) They practice this stuff regularly, instead of writing about it on a message board.So you feel a little heat, pressure, tingling between your palms? So what? It means little or nothing in the context of martial power.Kempo(100% chi-ball free)man
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Traditionally, churches had a lot of space and each room had a purpose. There was a room for worship, a separate room for meetings, a hall for meals, and classrooms. Recently, many churches are using smaller spaces and the room has to serve many purposes. It is important to choose church furniture that can function in many different contexts to be efficient in space and finances.
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Qatar Airways plans to start new service between Miami and Doha, Qatar in the Persian Gulf on June 10, the airline announced Monday.
The new Miami route will be the Middle Eastern airline's sixth U.S. destination.
"Qatar Airways' decision to include Miami among its handful of U.S. destinations continues to confirm Miami-Dade County as a global center for business and tourism travel, and MIA as one of the premier airports in the world," Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez said. "We welcome Qatar Airways to our community and look forward to the economic and cultural benefits of greater ties to Qatar and beyond."
The Doha service is expected to create 536 jobs and $78.3 million in projected business revenue within Miami-Dade County, according to an aviation department economic impact study.
Qatar plans to operate nonstop service Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays between Miami International and Doha International airports. From Miami, the flight will depart at 9:15 p.m. From Doha, the flight will leave at 8:40 a.m.
Qatar will operate Boeing 777-200LR aircraft on the new route, which has 217 seats in economy class and 42 flat-bed seats in business class.
"Miami is a magnet for international banking and multinational corporations," said Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker, in a statement. "Known for year-around sun, Miami also attracts visitors to its vibrant tourist and entertainment industries. It's only natural that we would open a route to this important and affluent destination."


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I recently moved into a shared apartment, I had to left my dog behind. Now I don't know what to do, I asked my roomate if I can bring her in. He says it's ok, but I am not sure.
I go to college so I will be out say 6 hrs in the afternoon, and I will start working in a week or so, night shift.
Any thoughts? What should I do? Any of you living in a small apartment, how do you do it?


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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Can Government Fix the Over-Built Housing Market?
Why did we get a massive over-building of single family homes and a plethora of bad mortgage loans?
Responding to Liberals' Wall Street Pirouette, a reader wrote, among other observations:
I was right with you until…
"the huge overproduction of housing would not have
What "over-production"?
Remember: supply, demand and price balance except where
force or fraud intervene, in a theoretical environment of
scarcity. So, how do you precisely define
"over-production" or "over-supply" or "surplus" or
My explanation
Bottom line: the crash of the housing industry, the subprime mortgage meltdown, and the securitized debt disintegration that threaten the financial community originated with the Federal Reserve. In the extended period during the 1990s and into recent times, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan kept interest rates artificially low by flooding the market with excess money. Chairman Bernanke, who believes that the Depression was caused by the government's failure to spend enough, is carrying on that destructive policy.
The Fed's current emergency actions may temporarily bail out Wall Street, but they will only impede and prolong the workout in the housing industry. Continuing inflationary expansion of the money supply will keep us at square one, with unqualified buyers who will have no equity in the properties they aim to buy using mortgage loans which their incomes are insufficient to service.
The interpretative problem originates in Keynesian macroeconomics, part of the religious dogma of liberal-progressives. Keynesians assume that aggregate demand and aggregate supply for the economy as a whole are single "things" that can be reduced to one supply-and-demand graph. This is an oversimplification that masks a huge complexity of demand and supply factors, along with widely differing time scales of production.
Keynesians' oversimplification leads them to the assumption that, if aggregate demand is less than aggregate supply, then the government has only to put more fiat dollars into consumers' hands to increase consumption and to re-energize economic production and employment.
What in fact occurs is that additional artificial-money handouts from the government simply drive up prices, prolonging and aggravating the distress.
Instead, government needs to butt out and let normal market processes take place. Wage rates, housing prices, and housing inventories need to fall as fast as possible in order to clear the market. Once inflation fears are quelled by restricting the money supply and new lower costs and prices enable buyers to qualify for sound mortgage loans, the housing industry can rebound on a profitable basis.
I find the Austrian economic school version, as I understand it, a more reliable analytical tool than Keynesian doctrine.
Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, et al focused upon the lengthy time scale that applies to production of capital goods (which includes all the intermediary steps from raw materials to manufacturing the machinery and tools for production) that are necessary for the production of goods for immediate consumption.
Monetary manipulation by the Fed sends misleading signals to the very large part of the economy that is involved in long-cycle production of capital goods. Excess expansion of the money supply leads capital goods producers to over expand their investments in production capacity to meet an illusionary, credit-based consumer demand. Additionally, the artificially low, Fed-managed interest rates make investment in capital projects appear to be profitable, though they may be uneconomic at free-market interest rates.
Capital goods producers, in our present case, are home builders and building materials suppliers. They are parts in a long time-scale of production that cannot possibly respond to short-term government consumer handouts or to the Fed's low interest policies implemented by expanding the money supply.
Homebuilding, in most jurisdictions, is a very lengthy process, commencing with locating developable sites, demographic analysis, securing options on the land, drawing up site preparation and building plans, getting them approved by local authorities (usually with months or years of lawsuits and other community action opposed to any new development), and finally obtaining land financing, construction loans from banks, and arranging packages of permanent mortgage financing for home buyers when the finished product eventually hits the market.
It is not unusual for builders of multiple homes on large sites to have two to five years of time, effort, and money invested before they see a dime of income. In most cases, their profit on a development deal is realized only at the back end, after several years of building homes, when all the original capital investment and land acquisition financing has been paid off.
That is why real estate, and to some extent all capital goods production, is such a boom-and-bust business. Once having embarked on a large project, the developer can't just stop it or put it on hold, because the interest meter is always running on his land loans and construction financing.
Misunderstanding the nature of the problem, Congressional liberals aim to end recessions by churning out an endless array of government spending programs, and the Fed accommodates them with a flood of money.
That over-expansion of the money supply and, in the early stages, the artificially low interest rates for loans make developers think that consumers have sufficient real savings to buy their products and that the projects will be profitable. Remember that developers must make multi-year spreadsheet projections of costs and revenues to determine the economic feasibility of a project and to persuade lenders and equity investors to finance it. And their spreadsheet projections must employ assumptions about interest rates.
The result is commencement of long-term projects that lead to oversupply of finished goods several years later.
Whenever we experience economic shocks such as the current subprime meltdown, the natural, though misguided, tendency is to search for a villain, somebody or some institution whose malfeasance caused the problem.
In fact, such shocks are inherent in the Fed's creation of excess money supply and artificially low interest rates. Once the dollar begins falling in foreign exchange markets and inflation worries begin to take hold, the Fed has to slow down creation of money in an effort to keep inflation within its policy limits and to fix interest rates at what its bureaucrats have selected as the appropriate level of market interest rates. When the Fed begins to change course, the game is up.
Deals that appeared several years earlier to be profitable no longer are when inflation drives up production costs and selling prices. But the capital goods capacity expansion and finished goods oversupply are already in the pipeline.
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There's not a lot of new Google TV hardware here at CES 2013, but Asus is breathing some new life into the platform with the new Qube.
The boxy Asus Qube runs the latest version of Google TV, which means it features the redesigned PrimeTime guide and improved voice search capabilities. The hardware looks like a cross between a Boxee Box and the Vizio Co-Star, with rectangular edges and a chunky double-sided remote.
It's yet another Google TV box with a bewildering remote covered in buttons, but the Qube supports both motion control and voice search, which should take some of the focus off button-fumbling.
The Qube will also sport an Asus-designed custom user interface, which makes it possible to group downloaded apps. (Last year's Vizio Co-Star was the first Google TV box with a skinned user interface, although it wasn't able to make Google TV that much easier to use.) Asus is also providing 50GB of Asus WebStorage to Qube buyers.
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Space-Time Associates has released an update for TinyBooks, bringing it to version 1.1.3. TinyBooks is a small business accounting and bookeeping application. The update ships with printing fixes. According to Space-Time Associates:
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new Macintosh accounting/bookkeeping program called TinyBooks(tm).
TinyBooks is designed for Sole Proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances. TinyBooks is a simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping program.
TinyBooks, based on years of experience "doing the books", is written exclusively for the Macintosh (OS9 and OSX) and is available now.
Whatis New: Fixed column heading alignment on Interim Expense and Income printouts
You can find more information about the TinyBooks update at the Space-Time Associates Web site. TinyBooks 1.1.3 is free for registered users, while the full version is available for US$49.00.


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Tea Party organizations that championed the congressional upset victories of Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Scott Brown in Massachusetts and Marco Rubio in Florida now have their eyes — and their pocketbooks — aimed at Texas.
Tea Party political action committees are targeting U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz as their conservative of choice, offering support and campaign spending to bolster his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Dallas.
The SuperPAC arms of their fund-raising organizations have already spent over $100,000 to promote Cruz, according financial disclosure data.
Senate Conservatives Fund, the Tea Party aligned independent group led by South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, boasts investing $280,000 to elect Cruz.
Calling for an "all-out SCF Surge" in fund-raising efforts for Cruz, DeMint challenged his donor base to reach their goal of raising over $200,000 to rival Cruz's opponent, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who has self-financed just under half of his campaign.
"Ted is running against a well-known Republican with deep pockets," DeMint posted to the group's website. "SCF members helped launch Josh Mandel's campaign in Ohio this past June by investing over $110,000 in his campaign in just over 48 hours, and now we need to do the same for Ted Cruz in Texas."
Club for Growth PAC, another supporting group, is conjuring comparisons between Cruz, who is of Cuban decent, with the Cuban "crown prince" of the Tea Party movement, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.
"We endorsed Marco Rubio when he was 30 points down to Charlie Christ, and now they call him Senator Rubio," said Barney Keller, spokesman for Club for Growth.
According to campaign finance filings, independent group spent over $14,000 for Cruz since endorsing him in June.
Former House Majority Leader and Texas Republican delegate, Dick Armey, who now runs FreedomWorks, is also putting money behind his early endorsement of Cruz. Independent expenditure data shows FreedomWorks spent over $16,000 advocating Cruz in the past two months.
As Cruz's campaign pointed out, he is the only candidate in the country to earn endorsements from this Tea Party trifecta.
"I am humbled and gratified by this incredible outpouring of support," Cruz said in a statement announcing having raised a total $2.8 million for his race. "All across Texas, and all across the nation, we're seeing tremendous enthusiasm and excitement, as grassroots activists, Tea Party leaders, Republican women, and trusted conservative leaders are all uniting behind our campaign."


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Barrymore: Toronto Review
Fourteen years' passage is no great obstacle for Christopher Plummer in Barrymore, which recreates the quasi-one-man show that earned him a Tony in 1997. If the play itself (by William Luce) might have welcomed a subtler translation than the one offered by Erik Canuel, its core performance remains transfixing enough to draw small crowds of drama buffs to the arthouse.
Set in Broadway's Majestic Theater (but filmed at Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden center, a stately standin) the story imagines an attempt by aging, booze-ravaged John Barrymore to restart his stage career. Having rented the theater for a one-night "audition" for financial backers, we see his rehearsal for that make-or-break night, when his only audience is an offstage prompter (and longtime Barrymore associate) Frank.
Though Frank works desperately to keep Barrymore working on Richard III, the play he hopes to mount, the actor proves endlessly distractible -- taking anything from an apple to a flyswatter to no object at all as an excuse to break into colorful, remorse-soaked anecdotes about his legendary family, failed marriages, and the playwright Ned Sheldon, the dear friend who got him to take acting seriously.
Barrymore isn't quite 60 when the action takes place, which doesn't hinder the 81-year old Plummer a bit: We imagine Barrymore's famous dissipation couldn't have left him with more stamina or steadiness than Plummer shows here, and this actor's nimble mind easily follows the alcoholic's eager jumps from one excuse to another to divert attention from his inability to remember what comes after "Now is the winter of our --" Given permission -- make that a mandate -- to chew scenery, Plummer is misty-eyed one minute, regal the next, and full of Borscht-belt shtick whenever more elevated trains of thought evade him. Not only is he splendid, he does a delightful impression of another Barrymore, Lionel, who upstaged his younger sibling at every opportunity.
Still, filmmaker Canuel isn't quite sure Plummer will keep moviegoers awake. He reminds us of his presence at regular intervals, whisking in visions of Venice or home when Barrymore's stories wander there, and dissolving to black-and-white soliloquies to show us how brilliant the actor's early Shakespeare outings were.
It's an understandable impulse, but one Canuel follows without finesse, occasionally making the project look a little shoddy. John's big sis Ethel, always after him to give up Tinseltown tawdriness for the purity of the stage, would not have approved.
Venue: Toronto International Film Festival
Production Company: Barrymore Entertainment Limited.
Cast: Christopher Plummer, John Plumpis.
Director-screenwriter: Erik Canuel.
Based on the play by: William Luce.
Producer: Garth H. Drabinsky.
Executive producers: Steve Kalafer, Peter LeDonne, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Albrecht, Gene Saks.
Director of photography: Bernard Couture.
Production designer: Cameron Porteous.
Music: Michel Corriveau.
Costume designer: Santo Loquasto.
Editor: Jean-Francois Bergeron.
Sales: Andrew Herwitz/The Film Sales Company.
No rating, 83 minutes.


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Late shot in OT decides game
Staff writer
Brandee Burnett scored a tying basket in the final 28 seconds of regulation Dec. 18 against Centre that led to a 48-46 overtime victory for the Lady Warriors.
Centre maintained a slight lead until Warrior Rayna Barnes scored a tying basket with less than 3 minutes remaining in the final quarter.
Burnett made the first two of nine unanswered points for the Warriors in overtime before Centre's Shelby Makovec made a shot with 27 seconds remaining. After Burnett added one from the line, Makovec made a trey and a free throw and Beka Basore added two to close the gap with two seconds remaining.
Bryanna Svoboda stole the incoming pass and barely missed making a game-winning shot at the buzzer.
Leading scorers for Peabody-Burns were Burnett, 13, Paige Lewis, 12, and Barnes, 11.
Makovec led Centre scoring with 18 points, followed by Basore with 13.


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Heightened consumer demand for increased food safety assurances moves down the chain with retailers and service providers asking suppliers to provide verifiable proof that robust food safety control systems have been effectively implemented. These systems must have been properly validated and show evidence of continuous monitoring procedures. This is where the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program comes in.
SQF is recognized by retailers and foodservice providers around the world who require a rigorous, credible food safety management system. Using the SQF certification program will help reduce assessment inconsistencies and costs of multiple assessment standards. What's more, the SQF Program is recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and links primary production certification to food manufacturing, distribution and agent/broker management certification. Administered by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), SQF benefits from continual retailer feedback about consumer concerns. These benefits are passed on to SQF certified suppliers, keeping them a step ahead of their competitors.
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Gold Consolidates:
"After rapidly rising between mid-August and mid-September, Gold has since been consolidating," BNP Paribas analyst Anne-Laure Tremblay said. "Short term, we could see a limited correction before the price resumes its ascent. The U.S. dollar has been strengthening of late, particularly against the euro. This is likely weighing on the Gold price. Beyond this, the Gold market is just taking a breather, as it is not far off the $1,800 an ounce level, which constitutes a strong resistance." The break in price in Gold has not gone unnoticed by investors. Gold-backed funds increased by almost 300,000 ounces this week according to reports. One piece of news that also gained attention this week is the amount of Gold that countries have been adding to their central banking systems. South Korea and Paraguay lead all other countries by adding more than 24 tons of Gold to their reserves in July alone. "Whether you're looking at physical flows into ETFs or the options market, activity has clearly been on the bullish side, and that will see prices move higher as we go through the fourth quarter," said Credit Suisse analyst Tom Kendall.
QE3 Questions?:
Not all members of the U.S. Federal Reserve appear to agree on the benefit or effectiveness of the recently announced new round of quantitative easing (QE3). Charles Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, is concerned that not only will the new bond-buying program not work, but that it might also call into question the credibility of the U.S. central bank. "We are unlikely to see much benefit to growth or to employment from further asset purchases," said President Plosser. "Conveying the idea that such action will have a substantive impact on labor markets and the speed of the recovery risks the Fed's credibility." U.S. investors are buying U.S. Treasuries at a quicker pace than international investors for the first time since 2010. This has certainly contributed to the U.S. debt climbing above $16 trillion USD for the first time. U.S. Treasuries have become popular despite their record-low yields because many investors also share the concern that QE3 will not succeed in stimulating the economy and creating more jobs. International investors still own 50.4 percent of the U.S. Treasuries, but this is down from the 55.7 percent share owned in 2008.
Spanish Gamble?:
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy seemed to be gambling with his country's well-being. The latest speculation out of Spain was that Rajoy was delaying a bailout request because he believed that issues in Italy will worsen, making the bailout terms friendlier for Spain when it does finally request a bailout. Raphael Gallardo of Rothschild Asset Management said that Spain "would be in better company and would suffer less of a stigma if it was to ask for a rescue at the same time as Italy. Italy needs further austerity efforts so those are probably more reachable with the support of the European Union and the ECB." Protests on the streets of Spain intensified during the week as the country began to roll out economic reforms along with its new budget. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said, "We know what we have to do, and since we know it, we're doing it. We also know this entails a lot of sacrifices distributed… evenly throughout the Spanish society." His words, and the measures he intends to enact, are not enough to soothe all dissenting voices. A member of parliament was quoted as saying, "On paper they can make it all add up, but it will be hard to make the budget credible given all the reasonable doubts on the deficit target. It will be really tough to make the markets buy it." An audit of Spanish banks was also expected to be completed this week. The eurozone's third largest economy has seen much trouble lately, and has been hit hard by the housing crisis. Citizens of Madrid continue to protest the announced austerity measures , and one region of the country has even threatened to break away from Spain. The overwhelming expectation is that these measures are the first part of Spain formally requesting a bailout from the European Union. At one point, Spain was feared as "too big to fail," or at least too big to bail out, so it will be interesting to see how the EU handles this situation.


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SAN FRANCISCO--If you were walking down Second Street here yesterday morning, and thought you might be losing your mind, let me reassure you: Those really were life-size Lego Chewbacca and R2-D2 models and the world's-largest Lego Millennium Falcon.
On March 31, Legoland California will pull back the wraps on its brand-new "Star Wars" Miniland, an all-new interactive area at the amusement park that will feature more than 2,000 individual models from the George Lucas-created universe.
And yesterday, as part of a small tour to promote the new attraction, several Legoland personnel swung through CNET's headquarters here to show off some of the best of the models that will soon be entertaining kids and adults alike at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif.
As part of my Road Trip at Home series, I got the chance to take a look at the models--all of which were designed and built at Legoland Germany and then shipped mostly assembled to California. The Legoland people brought only a few models for me to inspect, but even that small collection was enough to stop almost every passerby in his or her tracks. After all, who can help doing a double take if you see a giant Lego Millennium Falcon resting on a cement pedestal on an average city street.
According to Legoland California master model builder Gary McIntire, Lego's retail "Star Wars" line has been the most successful in the company's history, so it should come as no surprise that Lego and Lucasfilm got together to design and build a full-scale Miniland.
"Putting Lego and 'Star Wars' together is a natural," said McIntire. "It's like peanut butter and jelly."
Over the course of 13 months of development and construction, eight master model builders, as well as two animation electricians at Legoland Germany designed the 2,000-plus models that all told required more than 1.5 million bricks and weigh 1.3 tons. Legoland Germany, as well as the company's flagship park, Legoland Billund in Denmark, and Legoland California will each get a "Star Wars" Miniland. Most of the models were made three times at the German model shop, with full sets of the models being shipped off to Billund and Carlsbad.
The models are based on all six of the live-action "Star Wars" films, as well as the animated "Clone Wars" series. The Miniland will feature models that depict one scene from each of the six live-action films and from "Clone Wars." From the original three films, visitors will be able to see Lego renditions of Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine--Uncle Owen's farm; the cantina; and the starport, where the Millennium Falcon will be installed--the Rebel's Hoth refuge from "Empire Strikes Back;" and the Endor system from "Return of the Jedi." As well, from the prequels, the Miniland will feature scenes from Naboo, Geonosis, and Kashyyk and Mustafar. Finally, "Clone Wars" fans will recognize a scene from Christophsis.
Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and more
Yesterday, I only got a chance to see life-size models of Chewbacca and R2-D2. But visitors to Legoland will be able to lock eyes, so to speak, with both of them, as well as a life-size Darth Vader.
According to Lego, planning for the attraction began in March 2010, and involved in-depth consultation between Legoland and Lucasfilm. Among the reference materials used in designing construction blueprints for the models were pictures and drawings of figures, vehicles, spacecraft, landscapes, and more.
"The model designers used a special Lego drawing paper for this, on which one square is equivalent to one Lego knob," a "Star Wars" Miniland release reads. "In the next step, they calculated how many bricks and which colors and forms would be needed for the models. For particularly difficult model parts, prototypes are first built, before the model is constructed brick by brick. To help the Lego models last longer, all of the bricks are glued together and then sprayed with a special UV coating."
And how many bricks are used in the individual models? It's hard to say in the case of many of them. But suffice it to say, it would be beyond most fans' budgets to build even one of the large-scale models I got to see yesterday. The Millennium Falcon model required 19,000 bricks, while R2-D2 came in at a healthy 15,000 or so, and topping the charts was Chewbacca, McIntire said, at about 32,000 bricks.
But while a cursory look at the Millennium Falcon made me think that perhaps the model builders had created some custom bricks just for this project, McIntire assured me that wasn't at all the case. Each and every bit of the models is "pure Lego," he said, save for some wiring for lights. "That's something we really pride ourselves on," McIntire said, referring to the builders' refusal to use special bricks in any of their models. "We don't cheat."
The Lion King remake brings renewed life to a Disney classic: Jon Favreau's version offers incredibly lifelike characters, but at what cost?
SDCC, the biggest convention ever, had a very small start: What started as a gathering in a basement has exploded into one of the world's biggest cultural blowouts.


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Well, the person who correctly guesses the chord is supposed to post a new chord for everyone to guess.lunchmeat wrote:Hate to ask....are we allowed to play this game if we can't record a chord? I really want to step into this.
You can record with a cheap pc microphone & Audacity, which is free. That's what I use.


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Curl has released its of Curl Data Kit Data Services (CDK-DS), an addition to the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform that is an implementation of the Adobe Action Message Format (AMF) protocol, a binary protocol for communicating and exchanging data between a RIA client and server platforms. AMF is supported by the open source BlazeDS platform, Adobe Flex LiveCycle Data Services, and soon the Zend PHP platform.
This initial release of the CDK-DS implements all of the remoting and web messaging services that are supported by the BlazeDS server, including publish/subscribe, server push, remote procedure calls (RPC), and security and authorization features. Additionally, all communication with the server is asynchronous, an important option for usability, as it keeps the user interface active even while waiting for a response from the server.
"Although AMF was originally developed by Adobe for Flex and Flash developers, it is well suited for use with other RIA technologies including Curl," says Bert Halstead, chief architect, Curl. "We recognized the elegance of AMF as a fast binary protocol and adopted it for use with the Curl RIA Platform."
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GALES FERRY, Conn. -- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth freshman Sarah Kieran (Plympton, Mass.) qualified for nationals after taking first in her Open over fences class and second in her Open flat class at the Region 1 IHSA Show at Mystic Valley Hunt Club on Saturday. Kieran will be representing Zone 1 Region 1 as the Cacchione Cup rider at IHSA Nationals on May 1-4 in Harrisburg, Pa.
The Corsairs equestrian team tied for third place this past weekend. Senior co-captain Kathryn Gardner (Concord, Mass.) earned a first place finish in her Intermediate flat class and captured third in Novice over fences. Sophomore Alexandra Koury (Holden, Mass.) finished in third in her Novice flat debut, while junior Rachel Pacheco (Fall River, Mass.) placed sixth in her Novice flat class.
In the Advanced Walk Trot Canter division, junior Natalie Fernberg (North Attleboro, Mass.) took home third place, while junior co-captain Sarah Murray, sophomore Erin Robinson (Medway, Mass.) and freshman Jillian Ruyffelaert (Northampton, Mass.) all finished in fifth place.
Sophomore Lillyanna Kuehl (Westford, Mass.) placed third in the Walk Trot division, while sophomore Ciara Barrigas (Sandwich, Mass.) and freshman Kira Hallberg (Foxboro, Mass.) each placed fourth.
This concludes the 2013-14 regular-season; however the Corsairs will be hosting the Region 1 IHSA Finals on Saturday, March 29, at Claddagh Farm in Tiverton, R.I. UMass Dartmouth will be sending Kieran, Colleen Waclawk (Millis, Mass.), Koury and Hallberg back into the show ring to compete at Regionals.


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Irish Colcannon PotatoesWell, y'all knew I had to sneak in at least one more dish for St. Patrick's Day, and this dish of Colcannon is a very appropriate one that I've been meaning to add since last year. Easily grown in Ireland, potatoes have always been a mainstay of many Irish diets, and often are the star of the meal. This little ole Irish lass does indeed love her potatoes.
Colcannon, translated literally, means white-headed cabbage, and is really nothing more than very simply seasoned mashed potatoes, mixed with cabbage and butter, it's everything that I happen to love. Y'all know I had to sneak a little bit of my favorite Cajun seasoning in there too now, didn't ya?
According to Darina Allen, author of Irish Traditional Cooking, where this recipe came from, Colcannon varies by region, and might contain spring, green or Savoy cabbage, or even kale instead of cabbage. Sometimes parsnips, onions or green onion are added. One thing is for certain, and that is in Ireland, Colcannon is a traditional dish served at Halloween. Often, much like our king cakes at Mardi Gras time down here, a token is buried in the Colcannon - most often a thimble and a ring though the tokens also vary by region. The person lucky enough to find the ring would soon be married, but the person who found the thimble would have the unfortunate fate of a spinster.
So well loved that poems have even been written about it (the Irish do love their poems), Colcannon is traditionally served in a hot dish, with a pat of butter nestled and melting in the center. Ain't a thing wrong with that y'all!
Adapted from Irish Traditional Cooking by Darina Allen
Recipe: Irish Colcannon Potatoes©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 pounds baking potatoes (Russet, Idaho, Yukon Gold)
- 1 small Spring, Green or Savoy cabbage
- 1 cup of half and half or milk
- 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste, optional
- Kosher salt & freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons of butter
Scrub and boil whole unskinned potatoes in boiling salted water. After about 15 minutes, pour off all but about 1/3 of the water. Cover and steam potatoes over medium heat until completely cooked and tender. Test with a knife. Remove, reserve water and set aside and keep warm.
Core and quarter the cabbage and slice it across the grain. Add to the pot of water the potatoes were cooked in and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until tender, adding additional water if needed; drain.
Add the half and half to the pot and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, skin the potatoes and mash into the hot half and half, along with all but a pat of the butter; beat the potatoes until fluffy. Stir in the drained cabbage and transfer to a hot serving dish with the remaining pat of butter melting in the center.
Note: Can also be made ahead. Mix together (omit butter on top) and transfer to a buttered casserole dish; cover. To reheat, preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and bake covered for about 25 to 30 minutes. Use leftovers to make Tater Cakes.
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Tech-Savvy Bear Steals iPad
Campers at Jenks Lake in California's San Bernardino National Forest got an unexpected visitor over the weekend when a bear sauntered into camp and stole a backpack containing an iPad. Not that we blame him, of course. Those things are expensive!
Jesse Dinkel, a 44-year-old theater producer, caught the bear on film as it returned to the camp for a second time and swiped a Tupperware container full of food. The bear had already snagged a backpack containing an iPad and granola bar 15 minutes before.
Dinkel followed the bear after it left camp and recovered the container, but the iPad, alas, was nowhere to be found. "The Tupperware did get recovered just down the hill a ways," said Dinkel. "But who knows what happened to the backpack. Those bears are really fast and he just took off."
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Report: Orioles land free-agent gem Ubaldo Jimenez
The Baltimore Orioles have addressed their biggest offseason need - starting pitching.
Free-agent right hander Ubaldo Jimenez and the Birds agreed to a deal Monday worth $48-50 million over four years, according to multiple reports. The deal is pending a physical.
Jimenez, 30, was 13-9 with a 3.30 ERA and 3.43 FIP with Cleveland last year. He turned down a $14.1 million qualifying offer from the Indians, so Baltimore would have to forfeit its first-round draft pick (17th overall) to sign him.
Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette has been searching for a veteran starter for much of the offseason to help anchor the rotation. Jimenez is 82-75 with a 3.92 ERA over eight major league seasons.
The 30-year-old right-hander broke into the majors with Colorado in 2006. His best season was 2010, when he went 19-8 with a 2.88 ERA in 33 starts for the Rockies.
SN's Ryan Fagan wrote in November that Jimenez "struggled through forgettable seasons in 2011 and 2012, but flashed his 2010 Cy Young contender form in the final four months of 2013."
Baltimore allowed 709 runs last season, more than any other team in the league that finished above .500.
Earlier Monday, South Korean right-hander Suk-min Yoon and the Orioles finalized a three-year contract for $5,575,000, a deal that could escalate to $13,075,000 if the pitcher starts 26 or more games each season.
The 27-year-old was 73-59 with a 3.19 ERA in nine seasons with the KIA Tigers in the Korean Baseball Organization.
Yoon is expected to compete for a spot in Baltimore's starting rotation.
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Kim Kardashian and her sisters don't always get along, but when push comes to shove, they're there for one another — no matter what. On Sunday, May 19, the 32-year-old reality star showed just how strong their bonds are when she shared a sweet note on her blog from her younger sister Khloe, 28, in which the latter praises her seven-months-pregnant older sibling for standing tall in the face of daily criticism. (Kim has been bullied for her weight ever since announcing in late December that she is expecting a baby with boyfriend Kanye West.)
"I find it disturbing that society loves to critique a woman's shape," Khloe's heartfelt letter begins, citing the 28-year-old star's own experience with fat-shaming. "That is low in and of itself, but I cannot tolerate one more vicious attack on my sister!"
Calling Kim's body critics "true scum," Khloe goes on to say that she will "hurt for [Kim] for years if all she remembers is the pain" from this pregnancy. "Kim, you may be one of the strongest people I know," she writes. "I have no idea how you endure such abuse but still smile and shine everyday. I commend you for not putting your head down and going into hiding like so many would."
"I need you to know how truly magnificent you are! You may be one of the most beautiful women I have ever laid my eyes on," she adds. "Your beauty runs deeper than just what some may see. I know the beauty of your soul."
Khloe then urges her sister to "never let anyone take that away." It breaks her heart, she says, to see Kim sad.
"You are perfect the way you are! This is your life! Your body! Your baby!" she writes. "I wish you could see how you have this pregnant glow and you sparkle everyday. Your belly is fantastic…You are growing a miracle inside of you! I love you! And I will do anything in my power to protect you!"
The feeling is clearly mutual. "I have the best sister in the world," Kim gushed on her website. "I love you very much, Khloe!"
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Malia wrote:I've learned one thing from this most recent job search: It's not only who you know, but it's who you know who plays *golf* that gets you the job. My current manager made good conversation about me on the golf course with the guy who offered me the job! My friend Angie and I decided that we must learn golf, as that's where real decisions are made .
Malia wrote:Saturn, you might not know much about U.S. geography, but I don't know much about N. Ireland's, so I guess we're even! And frankly, I think only .01% of the American population knows where Spokane is.
When I went to school in England, I had the hardest time explaining to people where Washington State was. A lot of folks thought Washington State was *inside* Washington D.C.--or vice versa.
A little bit of trivia: Washington State and England (not the whole of Britain, just England) are about the same size.
As dks lives in Texas, I'd bet 3 Englands can fit into *her* state!
Malia wrote:Credo,
ENJOY your time away from work! You'll be working long and hard enough when you get back to school
Credo Buffa wrote:I got a job today! It's not the one I was talking about before, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. In the meantime, though, I interviewed and was offered a job somewhere else, and seeing as time is of the essence here, I took it. It's only $7/hr, but between this and my job at the movie theatre, I should be able to make the extra money I'm hoping to by the time I leave for Ireland!
Oh, and it's raining today! We've been bordering on a drought here, so this is very, very, very good.
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With a rebel yell: "more, more, more"
More, more, more.
This weekend the LibreOffice community will meet again in Hamburg for the third Hackfest at this location:
here is how it looked last year:
Like last year, this years Hackfest gets kicked off with a meet and greet at the Schachcafe on Friday 20:00 o'clock local time. Think of it like the "beer event" at FOSDEM, which helps everyone warm up for the event — except it will not be February and not freezing cold. Looking this picture, it likely wont be much like cold FOSDEM at all:
All details can be found on the Hackfest 2013 wiki page. Thanks to Lanedo for sponsoring this event and also big thanks to Attraktor.org for hosting us again!


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Looking like a newborn version of Pixar's famous Luxo lamp mascot, these Tiny Tim Booklights are just begging to be brought to life in an animated film. Standing just five inches tall they're still fully articulated and presumably cast a soft glow on your reading material via a battery-powered LED bulb. For $10 they're not only a great gift for Pixar fans, but anyone keeping the printed book dream alive. We just wish they'd make a Kindle-friendly version too.
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We encourage the comments and participation of SugarCRM customers, developers, partners, contributors, employees, competitors, and even the media. Again, this is all about open dialog – NOT one-sided marketing speak.
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HICKORY, N.C. --- Lees-McRae sophomore Schuylor Dickerson tallied a pair of goals, but No. 14 Lenoir-Rhyne used an eight-goal first period to hand LMC a 20-3 loss in nonconference men's lacrosse action Wednesday afternoon at Moretz Stadium in Hickory, N.C.
The Bears (5-2) had three players with at least three goals while holding a 47-30 groundball advantage. The Bobcats (0-7) had an impressive performance from sophomore Dustin Barrow (Columbia, S.C.), who won 10 face offs.
Four different L-R players registered a goal in the first 4:34 of play while Collier Stone recorded an assist and the first of his game-high five goals.
Dickerson (Crozvet, Va.) corralled a pass from Louis Parks (Mays Landing, N.J.) before whipping a shot past Alex Squires at the 3:12 mark, 6-1.
L-R's Cole Abourjilie scored consecutive goals in the last 95 seconds of the first period, 8-1.
Dickerson struck again with 11:42 remaining in the second period to cut the deficit to seven, 9-2.
The Bears ripped off a 10-0 run before a Dalton Lamb (Clemmons, N.C.) goal from Barrow snapped the skid at the 7:51 mark.
The Bobcat defense forced 16 turnovers while Treven Saliminen (Lynden, Wash.) paced the team with six groundballs. Junior Benjamin Shifflett (Clemmons, N.C.) earned eight saves.
LMC returns to action Saturday, March 22 in a Conference Carolinas contest at Mount Olive in Mount Olive, N.C.


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ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota State Patrol says two men were killed when one of them drove the wrong way on an interstate in southern Minnesota.
The crash happened shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 35 near Albert Lea near the Iowa border. The patrol says 46-year-old Kirt Schmidt of Owatonna was traveling south in the northbound lanes and collided with a car driven by 28-year-old James Winnes, of Albert Lea. Winnes' vehicle was pushed into a semi.
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Topic: Mandalorian Rebellion 2 (Didn't know what to call it)
Devon sat in the pilot's seat, trying to be quiet so as not Lukian. She loved her ship, the way it purred when running right, everything.
"Hey, Devon," Lukian greeted Devon, sounding slighhtly groggy. "Morning, L. Did I wake you?" "Nope," she slipped into the co-pilots seat, knees drawn up, eyes closed, trying to wake up, "What did you get Red and Jun for a present?" she asked Dev. "A little something so they could buy a house of their own. I think Jun wanted to live someplace besides that apartment building at the starport. Now, get dressed, L, I'm going to touch down in a bit." "'K, Dev."
Devon stuided the world, it was beautiful from space, a perfect planet to hold a wedding. She put the ship through it's autopilot cycle, and followed Lukian to change clothes. Devon wore her good set of armour, a sand-gold colour with scarlet trim. Lukian didn't have her armour, yet, so she wore a sand-gold tunic and a pair of scarlet breeches.
Devon, now clad from head to toe in her armour, stood in the back, so that nobody would recognize her. Lukian stood beside her solemn, and silent. Early, again, Dev. She was early for somebody else's wedding. That was sad by all standards, "Lukain, put our gift on the table. We'll go for a walk to wait for the ceremony to start." The dressed up girl nodded, and returned quickly, "Can I take off the shoes?" "For a bit, L." "Hey, is the nice man going to come?" "I don't know," she placed Lukian on her shoulders and went outside.
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Regional Momentum Fuels Global Growth in Cisco Customer Collaboration
Those of you who follow my blogs know about the tremendous, sustained growth in Cisco's contact center business over the last several years. For example, in the last four years Cisco has closed the market share gap on Avaya/Nortel by nearly 23 points worldwide and by over 33 points in North America. If this trend continues, Cisco will overtake Avaya for #1 market share worldwide within the next three years, and in less than two years in North America.
We began our drive to #1 in North America, but other regions of the world are repeating that success. Asia Pacifc, India, and the Middle East represent key growth regions for us, and to help provide insights into those areas I recently spoke with the CEO of Servion, Mr. Balakrishnan "Bala" Kavikkal. Servion is an accomplished specialist in Cisco customer care implementations, with over 1000 deployments at large enterprises, multinational corporations, and telecommunications service providers handling hundreds of millions of calls annually.
Bala described some of the key transitions he's seeing in the customer care market, which include the ever-increasing pressure on business's gross margins as they strive to meet rising customer expectations on an explosion of customer interactions across a variety of channels. Businesses are also starting to embrace Opex spending for cloud and as-a-service customer care solutions. Cisco's portfolio of customer care products helps Servion thrive in the midst of these market transitions and spending models.
I asked Bala why Servion chose Cisco's customer care solutions to fuel its own business growth, and to share his perspective on why Cisco and Servion have achieved so much mutual success. Not surprisingly, he spoke of Cisco's global reach and the power of the Cisco brand, but he also stressed the quality and value of our customer care products and how Cisco is now widely-recognized as a visionary in contact center solutions. Bala appreciates how Cisco provides "clarity" to our partners and empowers them to succeed.
I was particularly gratified by Bala's remark that Cisco is a compelling solution provider that no CTO or CIO can ignore if they're looking for a customer care solution. Business buyers have heard of the power of Cisco Customer Collaboration and they want it to drive the success of their own businesses. That's why Cisco has become such a leader in this market.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees says he is donating $1 million to Superstorm Sandy relief efforts.
Brees told CBS' "Person to Person" in an interview to air Friday that the donation will come through the Dream Foundation he runs with his wife, Brittany. He did not say who will be receiving the donation.
Brees says he and his wife want to give back what's been given to them. They say their foundation will also be donating $2 million to various New Orleans organizations over the next several months.


text: Michael Niedermayer schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Thilo Borgmann wrote: > >> Vitor Sessak schrieb: >> >>> Thilo Borgmann wrote: >>> >>>> Kostya schrieb: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:20:32PM +0100, Thilo Borgmann wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> no. 12: "16-bit Interplay Video Decoder" >>>>>> Sounds interesting and as there is a working 8-bit decoder, wich throws >>>>>> some errors if operating on the 16-bit demo file, there seems to be a >>>>>> good starting point. Unfortunately, the section about 16-bit opcodes is >>>>>> far from useful, if opcodes would have to be changed, this task becomes >>>>>> very difficult... >>>>>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Interplay_Video >>>>>> >>>>>> -> The suggestion in the wiki is to ask the development community >>>>>> (you!) about a good start-off with that problem. So I do: Anyone who >>>>>> can help on this? Anyone with more information about the 16-bit mode? >>>>>> (Already inspected the code here... sounds like altering the #define'd >>>>>> functions but how to know if it is 8-bit palette mode or 16-bit >>>>>> whatsoever mode?) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I suppose, it's only Google who knows more about this format. >>>>> Maybe some container parameters should give demuxer a hint on whether >>>>> this >>>>> is 16-bit mode or not. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> no. 23: "CorePNG Decoder" >>>>>> Well, the descriptions sound quite easy, BUT the current svn version of >>>>>> ffmpeg (as well as my very old one) say that it "could not find codec >>>>>> parameters". Thus, I suppose there is no existing PNG1 decoder wich >>>>>> decodes RGB I-Frame video? Is there a PNG1 coded RGB I-Frame demo >>>>>> video? So this task seems to me like implementing a whole decoder on >>>>>> top of the png image decoder? >>>>>> http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/PNG1/ >>>>>> >>>>>> -> Seems to be a not that difficult task but to have a complex >>>>>> start-off. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone has an idea about these? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I've looked at it once. If you use PNG decoder for that frames you'll >>>>> see >>>>> good picture for the first frame and many colourful dots on the latter. >>>>> That's >>>>> because its developer(s) decided to store latter frames as a difference >>>>> to >>>>> the key frame and you have to use demuxer keyframe flag to distinguish >>>>> between >>>>> both. >>>>> >>>>> Download http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/PNG1/corepng.avi >>>>> run >>>>> ffmpeg -i corepng.avi -f image2 -vcodec copy %04d.png >>>>> and see that for yourself. >>>>> >>>>> P.S. We of FFmpeg welcome creativity since it's not that rare when the >>>>> only >>>>> information about codec is located in libavcodec/*.c >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Ok next problem arises. I'm currently trying to distinguish the I and P >>>> frames to be decoded. >>>> As you mentioned, I tried to check the keyframe flag, that comes from >>>> 'outside'. >>>> For that, I "av_log"ed the "key_frame" and "pict_type" attributes: >>>> >>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>> static int decode_frame(AVCodecContext *avctx, >>>> void *data, int *data_size, >>>> const uint8_t *buf, int buf_size) >>>> { >>>> PNGDecContext * const s = avctx->priv_data; >>>> AVFrame *picture = data; >>>> AVFrame * const p= &s->picture; >>>> #ifdef DEBUG >>>> av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "data->key_frame: %i, data->pict_type: %d\n", >>>> picture->key_frame, picture->pict_type); >>>> av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "s->picture->key_frame: %i, >>>> s->picture->pict_type: %d\n", >>>> p->key_frame, p->pict_type); >>>> #endif >>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>> (source listing is highly mailing list dependent - tell me how you like >>>> it if this is a pain in your eyes) >>>> >>>> As these debug outputs are telling that every frame is a key frame, which >>>> most of them are not, the question is if I'm looking at the wrong >>>> attributes or if this information is not parsed at all? >>>> >>> There are three possibilities: >>> >>> 1- This information is coded somewhere in the AVI format (and thus it is >>> the work of the AVI demuxer to read it and set the parameters). >>> >>> 2- This information is in some reserved bits of the PNG stream (and so it >>> is in pngdec.c that it should be read). >>> >>> 3- This information is nowhere and the codec follow some stupid convention >>> like one frame every X are key-frames. >>> >>> I suggest you to look in the available documentation/source code to know >>> where this information is supposed to be. I find (1) unlikely since ffmpeg >>> AVI demuxer is not so buggy, and it would set picture->key_frame >>> correctly... >>> >>> >> Found something here. I think, the avi dumexer does its job and reads the >> keyframe flags. I tested this by logging the PKT_FLAG_KEY or'ed into the >> 'flags' attribute of the 'AVPacket' structure (libavcodec/avidec.c: >> avi_read_packet) >> This detected a keyframe at the 1st, 7th, 8th, 21st and 22nd frames of the >> stream, which makes sense as far as I can tell. >> >> Ok, but unfortunately, the AVPacket structure is not passed completely to >> the decoder (libavcodec/pngdec.c: decode_frame()), just the attributes >> 'data' and 'size'. (attribute 'flags' hold the keyframe information, as I >> said above). These attributes are passed at the top level - ffplay.c: >> video_thread(). >> >> Next to this, an 'AVCodecContext' is passed to the decoder function. I've >> already tried to get the keyframe information out of them but they declare >> al frames to be keyframes. (see above for that) >> As far as I understand the code now, this AVCodecContext is created once >> for each stream and therefore can not carry the information per frame. >> (This ist right, isn't it?) >> >> > > >> Well, the keyframe flag is not coded in the PNG buffer either. So I do not >> see a chance to get the keyframe flag from the packages read by the demuxer >> into the decoder function. At least, not without changes at top level, >> which means at ffplay.c which is not an option in my eyes. >> > [...] > >> So, I wonder how other codecs get told about a keyframe they have to >> decode... >> > > other codecs store the keyframe info in the frames passed to the decoder. > btw, where is the source for corepng? i mean not a win32 self extracting > thing > > It can be selected during the codec installation. Comes as a rar-archive afterwards. Attached it for convenience. The part that selects keyframes in that can be found in the vfw/VFWhandler.cpp in the functions: DecompressXXXFrame. Stored in the flags as ICDECOMPRESS_NOTKEYFRAME. As far as my search revealed, this is supported by the AVI file functions of video for windows. > > >> As you mentioned, the demuxer detects the keyframes but the >> picture->key_frame is not set. I checked this by my first attempt in >> reading ist value (was always set to 'keyframe') and by looking into the >> avidec.c (which is the avi demuxer, or am I completely wrong about that?), >> where the key_frame attribute is never touched. >> >> Though, what would be the preferred way to carry this information from the >> package-struct to the decoder function? (I hope I just missed a clue >> somewhere but I looked through the code the whole day...) >> > > If it really is not stored in the frames there are only 3 ways > > 1. change every muxer and demuxer that allows corepng to add&remove a > byte specifying the keyframe and fix pngdec/enc to handle that byte > 2. add a avcodec_decode_video2() that takes a AVPacket and update > ffmpeg.c and ffplay.c (this was planned since a long time and is welcome) > 3. try I & P and compare which is closer to the previous frame > this if course is not 100% but easy > > 1) Well for the decoding it might not make a difference in my eyes, but when it would come to encoding, this would not comply to the original CorePNG anymore, would it? 3) Ok, but we want to do it as good as possible. For now, there are other Ideas left to try. 2) Sounds good, will try to do this. Unfortunately, there will be no progress today as I've got other work to do. I will start with that tomorrow. 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Visuano uses a Kinect box and other technology to translate music into digital projections. The accompanying garment was designed from sustainable, flexible and breathable materials and serves as a screen for the animations. c. Martin Seck
NEW YORK, May 6, 2013—To kick off its third annual Parsons Festival, last evening Parsons The New School for Design and its sister school, Mannes College The New School for Music, presented The Future of Orchestral Garments. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and its Music Director Marin Alsop challenged students to envision the future of orchestral performance, and the resulting event brought together fashion, music and technology in new and innovative ways. Maestra Alsop and the BSO are in New York City this weekend to perform in Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music Festival.
"The BSO and The New School share a spirit of innovation," said Alsop. "It was great fun to unleash the students' and musicians' creativity to produce functional and fashionable performance attire—which is only 200 years overdue! I'm pleased to see that the same breathable fabrics that have benefitted athletes are finally being considered for use in concert dress. The way the orchestra looks and feels on stage is yet another element that helps us create a concert experience that is as inspiring as the music we perform."
Parsons faculty members, fashion designer Gabi Asfour of threeASFOUR and wearable technologist Sabine Seymour, led the yearlong collaboration. The fashions were designed by students in the Integrated Design Program at Parsons, which enables students chart their own course of study and approach fashion through a variety of alternative practices. Students created garments that brought together high-tech materials with vintage pieces, creating performance wear that is sustainable and responsive to the way musicians move and play.
Wearable technology, designed by students in the Design and Technology program at Parsons, is being incorporated into several of the looks. This technology will demonstrate how the performance itself can be enhanced by new means of visual expression, with the garments and performance space itself serving as a canvas for motion and sound-activated digital projections.
"The BSO collaboration is one of a number of projects with external partners that bring together students and faculty across The New School," said Joel Towers, executive dean of Parsons. "Not only are we committed to providing our students the type of real-world experience this project represents, but also to an interdisciplinary approach to design, which emphasizes collaboration with those in other fields."
In addition to meeting with BSO musicians during important benchmarks in the project, Parsons students engaged regularly with students from Mannes College, who provided knowledge and insight into the design process. At the event, Mannes students performed three selections— William Bolcom's The Serpent's Kiss for solo piano, When Music is Missing, Music Sings by Stuart Saunders Smith (a percussive work for found instruments); and Lowell Liebermann's Piano Quintet.
"This partnership with the BSO and our New School colleagues at Parsons epitomizes Mannes' progressive approach to classical music education," said Richard Kessler, dean of Mannes. "Hands-on engagement with cutting-edge technologies and leading professional artists is fundamental to preparing the next generation of great performers to succeed in music's rapidly evolving world."
The Future of Orchestral Garments can be viewed on the New School Livestream Channel. For more information on the Parsons Festival, which brings to the public exhibitions, performances, and other events that celebrate the creativity and innovative spirit of the next generation of artists and designers, visit www.newschool.edu/parsonsfestival.
The New School, home to Parsons The New School for Design and Mannes College The New School for Music, is a leading progressive university in New York City, founded in 1919 as a center of intellectual and artistic freedom. Today The New School is still in the vanguard of innovation and experimentation in higher education, with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students in design and the social sciences, liberal arts, public policy, management, the arts, and media. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is internationally recognized as having achieved a preeminent place among the world's most important orchestras. Acclaimed for its enduring pursuit of artistic excellence, the BSO has attracted a devoted national and international following while maintaining deep bonds throughout Maryland with innovative education and community outreach initiatives. The BSO made musical history in September 2007, when Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra's 12th music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra. With her highly praised artistic vision, her dynamic musicianship and her commitment to accessibility in classical music, Maestra Alsop's leadership has ushered in a new era for the BSO and its audiences. For more information, visit www.BSOmusic.org.
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Mapping Twitter Chats
This is a network map of the almost 1000 tweets during the #ideachat 1 hour session in November 2010. Individual participants in the chat are shown as purple nodes and the "whole group" is shown as the large green circular node. If someone tweeted to everyone in the group, at least twice in the session, an arrow would be drawn from their node to the big green node. People who tweeted to each other [@ messages or RTs], at least twice in the 1 hour session, will have arrows drawn from the tweeter node to the subject node. @blogbrevity <--> @cocreatr indicates that they both sent 2 or more tweets to each other during the session. [We do not show the hundreds of single tweets in the session -- we are looking for key participants.]
Node size on the network map reflects a new network metric we are experimenting with called "attention" which tries to determine both quantity and quality of links pointing at someone. It's not just the number of tweets pointed at you, but who they come from that matters. We will also post an interactive version of this map that will allow you to filter on the type of tweets and their timing during the 1 hour session.
From: blogbrevity's posterous Thanks, Angela!
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Posted: 3 February 2011. Updated: 9 April 2015
I am so impressed with ADI that I am going to make another investment in their mind-boggling work, and I invite you, in fact, I urge you to 'man-up' and join me, too.- Bob Barker, former host of the Price Is Right and ADI supporter
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 01 2011 - It is called Operation Lion Ark. Its the biggest-ever animal rescue of its kind, and now a host of celebrities are urging people to get behind the cause and send a donation to help save the lions. This month, Animal Defenders International (ADI) will airlift 25 rescued lions from Bolivia to the USA and are urgently calling for support for the massive operation.
Hollywood has stepped in with the generous support of Jorja Fox, CSIs Sarah Sidle, and celebrity TV presenter Bob Barker, whose substantial support has made the project possible so far.
Twiggy, Brian Blessed, Joanna Lumley, Julia McKenzie, and Benjamin Zephaniah, along with Meg Mathews, Wendy Turner Webster and Prunella Scales, are among the first celebrities to get behind the Appeal from international organization ADI to help get these magnificent animals to safety.
The incredible effort that has seen ADI rescue every circus animal in Bolivia began several years ago with an ADI undercover investigation that exposed horrific abuse in circuses across South America. This led to a nationwide ban in Bolivia and similar measures are under consideration in Brazil and Peru.
Last November and December, a year after the ban was passed, ADI and the Bolivian authorities swooped on circuses all over the country removing animals lions, monkeys, horses and other animals. ADI now has 24 lions in its care in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and will collect a final lion later this week, with plans to move all lions in one massive airlift to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado.
Jan Creamer, ADI President, who is in Bolivia this week co-ordinating Operation Lion Ark said: This is a huge undertaking, we have travelled thousands of miles all over Bolivia seizing animals and we now have 25 lions in our care in facilities we have had to build there and then as animals were removed from circuses. We are funding a massive construction project with 80 acres for the animals to roam, at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. We have a wonderful home ready for these animals; we just need to get them there thats where we need peoples help, to get the Lion Ark in the air.
This is the first time in history that an animal protection group and a government have worked so closely and systematically to eradicate animal suffering when the Lion Ark takes off, a chapter of animal suffering will close. As well as being wonderful for the animals saved, this sets an incredibly important precedent.
Former host of the Price is Right, ADI Ambassador, Bob Barker said: "I am pleased and proud to say that a couple of contributions of mine helped ADI in their history making accomplishments in Bolivia. I am so impressed with ADI that I am going to make another investment in their mind-boggling work, and I invite you, in fact, I urge you to 'man-up' and join me, too. Believe me, you'll get your money's worth."
CSI actress and ADI Ambassador, Jorja Fox said: "I hope you'll join me in supporting Operation Lion Ark. These majestic animals have been through so much and now through the compelling and daring acts of ADI, they are finally going to have a life of ease, dignity, and grace. We'd love for you to be a part of this amazing and unprecedented epic event.
Brian Blessed, the revered actor, author, and ADI supporter said: I have closely followed ADIs rescue effort in South America, having personally met Tilin, a wonderful baboon that they rescued last year who is now safe and extremely well in the UK. Operation Lion Ark is absolutely sensational, a staggering achievement, which will reverberate around the world. ADI is a wonderful, miraculous, organization, so please lend your support to their campaign and visit their website to find out how.
Legendary actress Joanna Lumley said: I send ADI my very best wishes and hope the campaign is a great success.
Twiggy Lawson, model, actress, singer, author and ADI supporter said: I am very happy to lend my support to ADIs lion rescue and campaign, and applaud them for rolling their sleeves up, getting out to Bolivia and bringing these magnificent creatures to safety.
Julia Mckenzie, star of Miss Marple said: "I am very happy to lend my support to Operation Lion Ark and am looking forward to mid-February when they find final sanctuary in the US."
Renowned writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah said: I am fully behind this Operation Lion Ark. As a real animal lover I dont think animals are for our entertainment and it is our duty to respect and protect them.
Meg Mathews, celebrity designer said: ADIs record breaking Operation Lion Ark needs help to give these lions the future that they so richly deserve after the life they have led. Please go to the website and make a donation to help secure their future and assist ADI with their ongoing rescue work.
Wendy Turner Webster, author and television presenter said: When ADI informed me of the lions plight, and the suffering they had endured, I simply had to become involved in this amazing campaign and do all I could to help get these lions to their new life.
Other celebrity supporters include actresses Prunella Scales, Liz Fraser, Sheila Steafel and Carol Royle and actor John Challis.
Jan Creamer, ADIs President said: These animals have had a shocking life. A few weeks ago, when we were removing them from the circuses they were in the most deplorable conditions I have ever seen. Our task has been to provide food, water, veterinary care and kindness, now these animals are transforming before our eyes we can see the joy on their faces.
But their new lives will not really begin until we get them to safety and that is the real challenge. These animals, who for years knew only a small, cramped cage, will have acres of freedom to roam, run and play. They can be lions, as they were intended to be.
To learn more about this amazing story of triumph over adversity and make a donation to help with the rescue effort, visit http://www.savethelionsappeal.com, or call (323) 804-9920.
About Animal Defenders International:
With offices in Los Angeles, London and Bogotá, Animal Defenders International campaigns to protect animals in entertainment; replacement of animals in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; vegetarianism; factory farming; pollution and conservation. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide. ADI-gathered evidence has led to campaigns and legislative action all over the world to protect them.
ADIs Mission: To educate, create awareness, and promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice, and the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals wherever possible to alleviate suffering, and to conserve and protect animals and the environment.
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As of late, we have been getting sub- standard posts and they will not be tolerated. All posts in the link forums must adhere to these simple rules >> http://forum.icefilms.info/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=58168 << or will be denied for first time posters. Existing members need to adhere by these rules or their posts will be overlooked for mainsite addition or simply deleted. It is not that hard to do, but I will give you a walk-through.
Four things are what we require:
> Title
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> Download link(s)
There is also a thread on this topic if you need help. >> http://forum.icefilms.info/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=62404 << Refer to it if need be, or inquire in the general discussion thread. I will walk you through it step by step. The first thing required is the title, which you enter in the subject line of your post. Put in the title of the release or the title it goes by with IMDB. (The release year in brackets behind wouldn't hurt either.)
You put that here:
All post require an image/poster or description. Insert your images here:
(don't make it too big or too small, just right^^)
It is preferable that you do not "hot link" images as they will get taken down in a few hours of your posting. Instead, use an account with a free image hosting site. I used to use Lulzimg, but they died. Imageshack is your best bet. For those to lazy to do that, it is why we allow for the option of a description as an alternative. Please provide a description If you do not provide an image. I myself prefer using Moviefone descriptions, but you can use any you wish.
Always include a IMDB link in your post. IMDB links go here:
Of course, you need to provide the download link. ALWAYS code direct links. All direct links go here:
Always code direct links anywhere you post them on this site. It keps the prying eyes of bots at bay and helps keep the links alive. Those are the basics. You can also tweak the post with NFO, spoilers, youtube trailers, etc. Ignore the megavideo, moveshare tags as they are irrelevant.
An example of how a post could look:
Suck.2009.DVDRip.XviD-UnKnOWn Joey Winner (Rob Stefaniuk) is a down and out musician, whose band has been playing to empty clubs for over a decade. When his manager (Dave Foley) advises Joey to fire him, his girlfriend (Nicole deBoer) dumps him, and a mysterious bartender (Alice Cooper) suggests he should kill himself, hes about ready to call it a night. Everything changes however when bass player Jennifer (Jessica Pare) goes to an afterhours party with rock and roll vampire (Dimitri Coats). When Jennifer returns shes different. She has a charged, sexual, death energy that is perfect for rock. People start turning up to the gigs and seem hypnotized by the new and improved line up. As the band tours down this highway to hell, the body count rises with the ticket sales. The band assumes Jennifer keeps getting sick in the sun and disappears at night because shes on drugs. Once they get past the American border guard (Alex Lifeson) they play shows with the likes of Beef Bellows (Moby), record with an artist in exile named Victor (Iggy Pop), and wind up on The Rockin Roger Morning Show (Henry Rollins). But The Winners are not at the top yet and if Eddie VanHelsig (Malcolm McDowell) has anything to say about it they never will be. When the mysterious bartender returns with an offer for Joey, we realize why so many bands nowadays suck. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323605/
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