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Thursday on the NewsHour, special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly using a grand jury in Washington to investigate Russian election meddling. Also: White House policy on Afghanistan in flux, the NAACP warns against travel to Missouri, financial barriers to creating new antibiotics, realistic prospects for tax reform, a museum embraces its industrial past and keeping doctors in rural Africa.
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Aram's take: This kid is gonna be scary good. Whether that's at QB or LB, yo no se. But either way, or both, he's got a very bright future. When I saw Amat earlier summer, Camargo was playing LB and looked a little raw while learning the ropes. But he's already got a varsity body. My favorite part of the reel is at 0:56 when he puts that kid on an island, then beats him to the corner. Looked like it was against Crespi, but hard to tell.
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Source: Blair has its man, now waiting on screening process …
Blair has found its next varsity football head coach, but is waiting for him to clear the screening process before an announcement is made, according to a source.
The program has been without a coach since Gary Parks resigned after the 2011 season, after spending four years at the school.
The school's initial hiring process turned out poorly with its final three choices not ending up with the job for reasons varying from a failed background check to lack of a teaching a job to poor equipment and facilities.
Blair opens the season on Aug. 24 against Hoover. The Vikings have not had an organized practice since June, according to defensive end Logan McClain.
Even when a new head coach is named, the school may not be out of the woods because there may not be enough players to a field a varsity team.
Aram's take: At least the process is moving along. We'll have to see what kind of player turnout there is once a new coach is named. I'm speculating, but perhaps the school will only field a frosh team this season. Safety is becoming an issue with each passing day. Granted, CIF rules state a team needs only 14 practices before it can play its first game and players need only 10, but if the rest of your competition has been holding workouts and practices and conditioning and passing games ALL SUMMER LONG and you haven't, then they're gonna be way ahead of you timing-wise and that can create problems.
Monrovia LB Brett Walsh commits to Northwestern …
Monrovia standout linebacker Brett Walsh committed to Northwestern on Tuesday.
Walsh led Monrovia in tackles last season with 192 and forms the area's top linebacker tandem with George "G5" Frazier, who is headed to Colorado.
Walsh also had offers from Nevada and South Dakota.
Aram's take: Great choice! You got BigTen football and great academics … and Chicago nearby. Congrats to Walsh!
All-encompassing SGV(N) Top 25 post-passing circuit
Andy Sherwood (left), Josh Savage (middle) and Jonathan Lyles (right) are three reasons why Damien was almost No. 1.
This is the second-to-last preseason ranking. There will be a final preseason ranking after the teams are in pads (probably right around a week before the season).
1. Charter Oak — Physically the most impressive team around. Offense progressing well, too.
2. Damien — My No. 1 team if Alex Hernandez doesn't transfer.
3. Chino Hills — Huskies drop a tad because I'm worried about the run game.
4. St. Paul — Threw against top-flight competition and held their own.
5. West Covina — Don't know what SGV Shootout title portends, but man that's scary.
6. Monrovia — Didn't light it up this summer as I had hoped, but that's being nitpicky.
7. Bishop Amat — Uninspiring summer is cause for concern for some, but not others.
8. La Habra — Not as flashy as previous summers, but then again, things go in cycles.
9. St. Francis — I'd rather have QB solved and worry about everything else than the opposite.
10. La Mirada — Offers are rolling in for the talent, so let's hope for no repeat of '10.
11. La Serna — Scary thought: QB Palmer looks like he's gotten even better.
12. San Dimas — Valle Vista has gone from Saints cakewalk to "Watch out for Northview".
13. Ayala — Jordan Robinson hailed as best skill player in league by Sierra coaches.
14. South Hills — The size is there as we all now know, but depth and QB are worries.
15. Claremont — Yet another Sierra team having a solid summer. What a league.
16. Diamond Ranch — Quiet summer, but talent is looking better and better to me.
17. Maranatha — Skill talent is there, but cohesion just isn't quite there yet.
18. Cantwell — As good as shot as anybody in the Northwest.
19. Arcadia — Although not to last year's level, passed my eyeball test at SGV Shootout.
20. Northview — By far the most impressive turnaround compared to last year.
21. San Gabriel — You'd think the Mats would thrive at passing games, but not so.
22. El Monte — Love how the Lions have tested themselves against top competition.
23. Arroyo — After seeing QB Nathan Coto, fears about Knights have subsided.
24. Pasadena — Supporting cast for QB Cox is developing … slowly.
25. Duarte — Absolutely scary size. This team is poised to make a major leap this season.
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Charter Oak beats Claremont to win Claremont Tournament … Amat falters in pool play …
Charter Oak beat Claremont in an all-Sierra League final to win the Claremont Tournament on Saturday afternoon.
The Chargers have lost just one tournament game this summer, against Hart in the Under Armor Tournament.
"Our goal was to get better and compete," Charter Oak offensive coordinator Dominic Farrar said. "Ultimately, at the end of the day, what we used this opportunity for was competition and evaluation.
"No one remembers what you did in July and ultimately for us it doesn't matter what we've done in July as long as we continue to develop our identity."
Farrar singled out big performances by receivers Aaren Vaughns, Brice Bobo and Brian McIntyre, and defensive back Donavin Washington. Coaches also praised the linebacker corps.
Quarterbacks Kory Brown and Ross Barrera split time on Saturday and remain locked in a battle that's still too close to call.
The Chargers beat La Serna to reach the finals. Claremont beat Crescenta Valley.
Bishop Amat, which also participated in the tournament, did not advance out of pool play and was in the consolation bracket.
Aram's take: Pretty scary sign for the Chargers to get a tournament championship under their belts. It's well known how good Charter Oak's defense is going to be. But if this team has an offense, too, WOW! Good showing from Claremont, too. Don't forget, the 'Pack have some solid experience back on offense. About Amat, I know it's only passing league, but this wasn't the strongest field from top to bottom and for the Lancers to not advance to the championship bracket is very disappointing.


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PEORIA — Mayor Jim Ardis continued to maintain Thursday that the reporting on the Twitter incident that has become a global news story has been filled with "mischaracterizations of the basic facts."
Ardis stuck to a prepared text at a hastily arranged media event hours after the American Civil Liberties Union held a news conference to announce it was filing a lawsuit against the mayor and city in the ongoing imbroglio. He refused to take questions or go beyond the statement, citing the pending litigation against him and the city.
"It is important for people to know that the media has distorted the facts of this situation from day one," he said in part, reading from a statement that was quickly posted on City Hall's website.
Some of Ardis' claims in his statement, though, are themselves not fully supported by the facts. Others, say an area professor who teaches about social media, may hold water, particularly when it comes to assessing how widespread the readership of the tweets was.
The mayor maintained that because of unclear reporting, a false impression was created about the Twitter account's parody status.
"Everyone condemning me has to know that at its inception, the sight (sic) was not labeled as parody," Ardis said, according to the version of his statement posted by the city.
However, that fact was reflected in the initial print media mention of the account, the first time it received public mention by journalists.
The @peoriamayor account was first referenced in the Journal Star's weekly Word on the Street political column on March 17.
The commentary noted the account had existed for several weeks, and critiqued the humor used. It then noted that "the words 'parody account' were added to its description last week, just to make sure nobody thought it was legit."
The first news story on the account, which ran April 17 after a police raid two days earlier on the 1220 N. University St. home of account creator Jon Daniel, described the label that was added to the account. It also detailed the length of time it went without being described as a parody.
"The @peoriamayor account began in late February or early March with a photo of Ardis and a bio that stated he enjoyed serving the city and included his city email address," the story stated.
"The content of tweets, or entries on the account, ranged from ambiguous to offensive, with repeat references to sex and drugs — and comparisons of Ardis to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford as Ford's drug use while in office became public.
By about March 10, the bio of the Twitter account was changed to indicate it was a parody account."
Ardis maintains that prior to that label being applied "there was no way for someone to know that what was being said under my name, picture and contact information was not coming from me. My identity as Mayor was stolen. Anyone reading the content would assume they were reading my comments as the Mayor."
However, with a proliferation of parody accounts online — and the advent of "verified" Twitter accounts for politicians, entertainers, media members and other public officials — at least one academic who teaches about social media says that regular users of the service likely weren't taken in.
"Nobody is going to mistake that for an actual elected political official," Sara Netzley, associate chairwoman of Bradley University's Department of Communication, said Thursday. "No reasonable person is going to read (the tweets) and think that's what the mayor of a fairly large-sized city is going to say online, in public. … It would take someone who's pretty naive, pretty new to the Internet and social media to walk away thinking, 'Yep, that's Mayor Ardis.'"
The mayor also maintains that "media statements that the sight (sic) had a limited number of followers doesn't address that there were likely many more who visited and read the postings before knowing it was not really me as portrayed."
There's some merit to that, Netzley said.
"I suppose it would be difficult to track," she said. "We can't say as observers exactly how many people were exposed to those messages."
But given the way social media works, it's not unreasonable to conclude the reach still was fairly limited, Netzley said.
That's because "to come across that particular account, you would have to be searching for Peoria, Ardis, some combination of words being used" in the account name or biography, she said.
"You wouldn't see it if you weren't looking for it."
Furthermore, Netzley said, "limited followers generally leads to limited exposure, limited social media sharing."
Ardis also alleged that there has not been an "accurate accounting of the content attributed to me" prior to reading aloud a collection of tweets that included profanity and vulgarities.
Print reports of the tweets have included descriptors including "profane." The initial March 17 mention of the account noted that after several initial, benign tweets, "the phony Ardis' subsequent tweets featured repetitive references to drugs and sex combined with profuse profanity."
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Big Ten Weekly Five: 05.31.12 EditionPosted by Deepak Jayanti on May 31st, 2012
- The Indiana–Kentucky series just isn't happening. The negotiations had begun again a few weeks ago but the latest proposal was rejected again. According to reports, Kentucky rejected the four-year extension proposed by Indiana which includes a game at Kentucky and Indiana. The positive sign is that the schools appear to be continuing to try to keep this traditional rivalry alive for the sake of college basketball and the fans of the respective schools.
- Illinois' decision to hire John Groce was met with a fair amount of friction by some alumni because they had their doubts about his ability to recruit in Chicago. Groce continues to search for a top assistant who would focus on player development but also help him lead the effort to establish recruiting connections in Chi-town. Isaac Chew was brought in as an assistant due to his ties to Chicago but he left Champaign after a short stint to work with Buzz Williams at Marquette. Illini fans can't be discouraged with this news because Groce understands that the rebuilding effort will need a great coaching staff and is willing to take his time to put it together.
- Ohio State's Jared Sullinger is considered one of the top ten players in the upcoming NBA Draft. Most of the mock drafts have Sullinger slated to go in the later part of the Lottery. Sullinger may not have a clear position in the NBA but his leadership during his sophomore year to lead the Buckeyes to the Final Four will certainly help his case as the pre-draft workouts will pick up pace over the next few weeks.
- While Jared Sullinger may be a consensus pick in the Lottery, Illinois' Meyers Leonard will need to prove his value during the workouts a little bit more. Leonard hopes to be a first round pick in a draft that features several big men such as Thomas Robinson of Kansas and North Carolina's Tyler Zeller. Leonard could have used another season at Illinois to polish his post moves but his physical abilities and work ethic ought to help him get to the next level.
- Tom Izzo and politics? Why not? Izzo could not have become a great college coach without his abilities to sell the Michigan State program and his brand of basketball. Now, he is trying to translate his leadership experience in public policy as he is one of the key speakers at the Mackinac Policy Conference in Michigan. Perhaps listening to a coach with multiple Final Fours and a National Championship can help build teams outside of the basketball court.


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EAST COUNTY — Charlotte Rawlings is keeping her hands extra busy these days, but it's for a good cause.
As a member of Braden River Presbyterian Church's Lady Crafters, Rawlings and more than a dozen other women are busy crocheting and knitting rectangular squares that will be pieced into afghans for soldiers who have been wounded in combat.
"It's a wonderful feeling to know you can bring some joy and comfort to our wounded soldiers who are doing something for us," Rawlings said.
The project is part of a nationwide effort called The Handmade Afghans Project, an endeavor to thank the nation's soldiers for their sacrifices. Project coordinators such as Rawlings organize friends and colleagues to crochet or knit 6-by-9-inch rectangles from acrylic, four-ply, worsted-weight yarn and then collect the pieces, grouping them by color. Then, they send those pieces to another coordinator to be washed, pieced together as a twin-sized blanket and, then, delivered to injured soldiers.
The blankets are sent to 10 military hospitals, including Walter Reed A.M.C., in Washington, D.C., Landstuhl Regional Hospital, in Germany, and Craig Joint Theater Hospital, in Afghanistan. More than 3,300 afghans have been delivered since the project's inception in late 2004.
Women in the Lady Crafters group met earlier this month to turn in their first batch of rectangles, which are grouped in sets of seven. Some women had just joined in on the project, having been detained by the busyness of the Christmas holidays, but others had already made several batches. Rawlings completed 86 squares before the group's first meeting in January.
"Now (that the holidays are over), we'll be able to move forward and really turn them out," Rawlings said.
Wilda Svoboda, who hosts the Lady Crafters group at her East County home twice a month, echoed Rawlings' enthusiasm for HAP.
"It's a great project," she said. "It shows that we really care about the people who have served our country."
Rawlings said she came up with the idea after seeing a picture in the newspaper of a group of women from Ana Maria Island who was participating in the project.
"I thought, 'What a neat thing to do,'" Rawlings said. "Maybe our church would like to do it. The more I looked, the more excited I got."
After a few phones calls for information, Rawlings couldn't wait to get started. Her Lady Crafters group agreed to adopt the project as one of their 2010 projects.
And now throughout the year, participating women will knit or crochet the squares in their spare time or at the group's meetings. The Lady Crafters will be undertaking several other projects this year, as well, including making banners for their church and other projects.
For information about The Handmade Afghans Project, visit the organization's Web site, www.rectangle6x9.org.
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The deal may benefit about 466,000 homeowners in California, the Attorney General's office estimated Thursday.
Critics say the settlement aids irresponsible homebuyers. Yet Harris rejected that belief in her statement, saying the crackdown on fraud targets homeowners hurt during the bubble.
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Keith and I met when we were 14 years old and we both say that we would never have guessed that we would one day be husband and wife. Our wedding day was one of the best days of our lives because we got to publicly declare before God and our family that we promised to love and cherish each other forever.
Our wedding day was one of emotion, both joy and tears. We had waited and planned for the day for about seven months and we were so excited when it finally came. One of the funniest moments of the day was when we were all dressed and ready and our photographer Toby was ready to start taking pictures of me and the bridesmaids. He immediately found what he called "a rare spot" in my parents' bedroom where "natural light" was coming in from their skylight. Toby was very excited about the natural light! He told us all to gather tightly so he could use the natural light. The funny part was that this was in a small part of my parents' vanity and bathroom area and all of us girls fit, but then there wasn't much room for Toby. But he really wanted to get these pictures, so he was actually sitting in the sink in my parents' bathroom, and at times standing on the vanity to try to be far enough back to get all of us girls in the picture, yet still get the natural light! We were all cracking up because here is our photographer actually sitting in the sink just to get a great picture! The pictures did turn out great; some of my favorites are of me and the girls.
Although the day was filled with extreme joy, there were many tears shed during the ceremony. My dad and I have talked about how the moment he and I began our walk down the aisle, it was all over — we couldn't hold back the tears. The most emotional moment for Keith and me was when we recited our personally written vows to each other. They were true expressions of the promises that we intend to keep for one another for as long as we are alive. That moment of exchanging vows was very intimate: though there were hundreds of people watching, the only person I noticed was Keith. I didn't even notice that our friends and family were just as emotional as we were. I found this out when people came up to Keith and me after the ceremony and told us what an emotional ceremony it was and how they couldn't help but cry because of the emotion they felt.
One of my favorite moments was when our pastor told us that one of the photographers came up to him after the wedding and said, "What happened in that ceremony? I have been doing weddings for years and I have never seen a ceremony so emotional, where everyone was affected." Without hesitation, our pastor said, "Jesus was here." I began to tear up when he told me that story because more than anything about that day Keith and I wanted the Lord to be apart of it. We know that He is the one that brought us together and will keep us together.
Another moment in our ceremony that helped dry up the tears was after Keith and I had presented our mom's with their flowers, hugged our parents, and then made our way back up to the altar. At that point Pastor Oris was nowhere to be seen. The musical piece had now stopped and Keith and I looked at each other like we didn't know what to do. We thought we had forgotten something we were supposed to do from the rehearsal. So we turned around to our friends and family with confused looks on our faces and everyone started laughing. Keith dad yelled out, "Do you want me to tell a joke?" Everyone was really laughing at this point and then Pastor Oris came running back into the church. He was laughing himself as he explained to everyone that he had gone to get the bread and wine for Communion but the door was locked, so he had run to get the key from his office, which is why it all took so long.
There were many more unique moments in our wedding, from our best man having to leave because he felt like he was going to pass out, to Keith's little nephew taking the microphone the DJ had laid on the table and starting to sing "The Wheels on the Bus" at our reception. All of these imperfect moments made our wedding perfect in our eyes. Thank you, Bella, for capturing all of our wedding moments in a very creative way!
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- "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
~ Le Corbusier
- "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
~ Philip Johnson
- "There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through"
~ Dan Rice
- "Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity."
~ Spiro Kostof
- "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
~ Coco Chanel
- "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul"
~ Ernest Dimnet
- "An architect is the drawer of dreams"
~ Grace McGarvie
- "Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music"
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
~ Laurie Anderson
- "A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
~ Philip Johnson
- "Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
~ Philip Johnson
- "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture."
~ Malcolm Miller
- "Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over"
~ Ernest Hemingway
- "Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair"
~ Karen Moyer
- "Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror."
~ Louis Henri Sullivan
- "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture"
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man."
~ George E. Hartman
- "Architecture is politics."
~ Mitchell Kapor
- "A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
~ Lord Byron
- "Architecture is the work of nations"
~ John Ruskin
- "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight."
~ Henry Watton
- "I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]"
~ G. K. Chesterton
- "I think Miss Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)"
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- "The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
~ J. Russell Lynes
- "Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture."
~ Ernest Hemingway
- "Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships."
~ Paul Goldberger
- "A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts"
~ Joseph Addison
- "[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt."
~ Robert Moses
- "True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- "The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature."
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- "And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time."
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen"
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
~ Vincent Scully
- Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
~ Charles, Prince of Wales
- You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe – when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
~ Charles, Prince of Wales
- To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
~ Robert A. M. Stern
- In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
~ Le Corbusier
- Buildings should be good neighbours.
~ Paul Thiry
- Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
~ Arthur Erickson
- A building is a string of events belonging together.
~ Chris Fawcett
- Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
~ Tao Ho
- Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people, and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
~ Kisho Kurokawa
- I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
~ Claes Oldenberg
- Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
~ Alan Kay
- Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
~ Mies van der Rohe
- When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
~ Louis H. Sullivan
- Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
~ Thomas Fuller
- No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~ Constantin Brancusi
- The flowering of geometry.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
~ Walter Gropius
- Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
~ Mies van der Rohe
- An arch never sleeps.
~ Hindu proverb
- An architect never sleeps.
~ Brent Thompson
- Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
~ Ralph Rapson
- The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
~ Lao-Tzu
- Good architecture lets nature in.
~ Mario Pei
- Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
~ Leonard Baskin
- Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
~ Walter Gropius
- The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
~ Harwell Hamilton Harris
- Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
~ Etienne Gaboury
- Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
~ Eero Saarinen
- In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.
~ Chao-Ming Wu
- A house is a machine for living.
~ Buckminster Fuller
- A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.
~ John F. Kennedy
- Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
~ Le Corbusier
- We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
~ Winston Churchill
- I call architecture 'petrified music'.
~ Goethe
- Form ever follows function.
~ Louis H. Sullivan
- The purpose of a structure is to meet our needs, the purpose of architecture is to thrill us.
~ Brent Thompson


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Cash is KingBy Jeffrey Rothfeder
Case Study: Leiner Health Products and Restructuring
January 2001 was make-or-break time for Leiner Health Products, the largest manufacturer of private-label vitamins and supplements in the U.S. In 2000, Leiner had revenue of $662 million, with 60 percent of its sales driven by discounters like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sam's Club and Costco Wholesale Corp. On the face of it, this would seem to be a reliable and desirable customer base. But depending on these high-volume, low-margin, just-in-time inventory customers meant Leiner had to make sure its inventory management, supply chain, customer service and cash flow systems were operating in near-perfect sync. To be profitable, products had to be manufactured and shipped by specific dates to fulfill the requirements of in-store promotions. And Leiner had to bill and collect timely payments from these favored retailers while keeping track of a confusing series of discounts and special arrangements agreed to by the company's salespeople.
Two years ago, all of this was beyond Leiner's abilities. The company had no idea who its best customers were from one week to the next, let alone a plan for consistently delivering products to them on schedule. What's more, Leiner had just been hit by a bombshell: In May 1999, an international cartel of 27 vitamin supply companies was found guilty of price-fixing. That sent vitamin prices tumbling and Leiner was left holding about $150 million in overpriced inventory, which it had to mark down by as much as 50 percent. As a result, in 2000, Leiner lost $2 million before interest, taxes and depreciation. And with only about $8 million in cash on hand at the end of that year, Leiner was facing default on interest from $280 million in bank debt and $85 million in bonds.
A significant portion of future revenue was in jeopardy as well: Wal-Mart, its largest customer, threatened to pull its business because Leiner was repeatedly late in restocking Wal-Mart's shelves. So it was no surprisebut no less disconcerting to stakeholdersthat company president Gale Bensussen said at an early 2001 meeting: "We're in triage here. We're bleeding and we don't know from where and why."
Simply put, Leiner was in an information rut. The Carson, Calif.-based companywhich manufactures everything from vitamins A, C and E to Saint John's wort and sells it to retailers who label it with their own store brandshad enjoyed six heady years of solid growth and expansion, supported by cash flow and borrowed money. But during that time, Leiner executives had let the company's computer systems and databanks deteriorate. What was once a simple, easy-to-manage company serving relatively few large accounts with a limited number of products had become a hodgepodge of operations long on redundancy and complexity and short on usable data about such vital issues as which products are most profitable, which customers are most valuable, which accounts receivables are lagging and why, and which items must be manufactured and delivered on a tight schedule. Manufacturing and supply-chain information had become unreliable. Salespeople signed up orders without knowing whether they could be completed and shipped by a set date and the accounting department was managing cash flow from sheets of paper handed in by sales staff.
Many of the problems lay in the fact that Leiner had no CIO who could coordinate technology implementation and data distribution. The person most closely resembling a CIO was too busy overseeing Leiner's manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system to worry about Leiner's mushrooming IT woes. "This sort of do-nothing scenario is an option to only go backwards," says David Coles, a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal Inc., a New York City-based turnaround firm hired by Leiner in January 2001.
By that time, Leiner was spread thin, supporting 150 customers with 4,000 separate vitamin lines manufactured at five plants. Customer service performancemeasured by on-time and complete ordersdipped under 70 percent. Open chargebackspayments held back by retailers pending investigation into whether Leiner had billed them properlywere shaving $17 million from annual revenue. And inventory turns were an anemic 2.5 times a year, nearly half of what private-label pharmaceutical companies generate in profitable years.
The Road Back
The Road Back
Leiner is a cautionary talebut not an unusual oneof a cash-rich company in the midst of a go-go run that allowed itself to become information poor, and eventually suffered for it. It's a dangerous chain: As operations expand quickly, the habit of closely tracking fundamentalsprofitability measurements, capital expenditures, customer service performance, inventory levels and manufacturing capacitydiminishes, and the fear that something will arise to slow the business is foolishly cast aside. Companies undisciplined about data are too often instigating their own slowdownwithout detailed information, supply chain and accounting operations suffer, customer service slips and margins wiltand then find themselves in a losing battle to access the internal data required to get back on track.
"When Leiner's business tumbled, the executive team didn't have enough information to make important decisions about how to salvage the company," says Coles, who was appointed Leiner's interim chief financial officer in October 2001, a position he held until February 2002. "In the average high-growth organization, 20 percent of operational data reports are actually read and 80 percent are ignored. That's bad enough. But Leiner ignored even more reports than that, because so little of its data was valuable. That had to be fixed. At any company, if the right things get measured, the right things get done."
A&M, the lead player in the turnaround, and Leiner's management brought in supply-chain consultants and a cash flow software provider to help in the effort. Their mandate: pinpoint data that was germane to the company's current operations, toss out irrelevant, legacy information, and modernize systems so they provide a minute-by-minute picture of what management needs to know to run operations.
Manufacturing and inventory were among the first problems to be tackled. A&M's team ran a channel profitability analysis to assess earnings margins by account. That generated a long list of products that were being produced for customers who were costing Leiner more money to service than they were contributing to revenue. So the company decided that if these loss-leader customers weren't willing to pay more, Leiner would simply exit those businesses and drop the accounts. This exercise pruned Leiner's customer base by about 50 percent and the number of products it made by 60 percent. "Those sound like quite dramatic reductions, but the impact on sales was only something like 15 percent," says Coles. Which means, Coles adds, that 60 percent of what he calls Leiner's operational complexityproducts that were not making money and taking up significant manufacturing time and expensewas responsible for only 15 percent of revenue. Having eliminated these unprofitable customer relationships, Leiner shuttered three of its five factories, chalking up $40 million a year in savings.
Leiner's turnaround experts then focused their attention on the two remaining plants. The primary problem at these factories, it turned out, was excess inventory, again the result of an information shortfall. When an order was placed, Leiner's MRP system would issue a materials requirements plan blindly, without knowing whether the factories had enough capacity to handle the job and without accurate forecasts about future demand or current customer needs. Leiner's procurement team would then purchase raw materials to fulfill the MRP request, but the amount of raw materials bought almost always exceeded production capacity at some point. The result was excess inventories, which inevitably led to a cash crunch. So to save money, the procurement group would arbitrarily decide which raw materials to buy and which to put off. Ultimately, that meant some products couldn't be manufactured and some customersit could be any one of Leiner's customerswould not get their deliveries on time.
"It was a vicious cycle of overcapacity in the plants leading to too much inventory and then a panicky decision to cut inventory randomly, which led to a drop in production; at any part of the cycle Leiner was losing money," says Bob Murray, president of REM Associates, supply-chain consultants hired by Leiner. "During Leiner's high-growth phase in the 1990s, when vitamin sales took off, the company let its manufacturing database and infrastructure fall apart, instead of shoring them up in a way that would enable Leiner to make as much product as the market demanded, but always make it efficiently and profitably."
Over six months, REM collected production information from historical sales trends, point-of-sale systems at key customers and current manufacturing output, producing more than 17,000 new data elements to update the MRP software. In addition, the data entry component of the MRP system was refined to make sure that it received up-to-the-minute data about customer orders and delivery timelines. With more accurate forecasts about plant capacity, customer replenishment requirements and future demand for specific products, the MRP software could be programmed to limit its requests for materials to orders that were actually going to be filled. Primarily because of this MRP upgrade, Leiner cut its inventories of raw materials and finished goods by $50 million.
During the MRP upgrade, REM learned that corrupted data were poisoning Leiner's product pricing strategies. The company was setting wholesale rates based on the production pace of its fastest machines. But since very few of its products were actually manufactured that quickly, Leiner was underpricing itself and severely crimping its own margins. REM re-created product costing models based on the actual machines used to manufacture them and the models provided data to negotiate new and more profitable terms with customers when sales contracts expired.
"Sometimes companies just stick values into formulas without realizing how critically important data is," say Howard Weisz, an REM consultant. "It's not uncommon to have a team of people making decisions that aren't the best because their data is wrong."
Cash is King
Cash is King
Cash flow was another Leiner blind spot. Dependent on discounters for most of its business, Leiner's accounts receivables system had to navigate a maze of in-store promotions and special pricing arrangements offered by different retailers at different times. To bill properly, the system had to keep track of each customer's sales efforts, even as they changed, sometimes from week to week. Leiner's antiquated paper-based approach to accounting simply wasn't equipped to service complex customers.
A salesperson would make a deal with a retailer and hand the contract to marketing or bookkeeping with little follow-up to make sure the data was entered correctly and the account billed appropriately.
That's why Leiner was awash in chargebacks. Customers routinely questioned the accuracy of bills, tossing the problem in Leiner's lap and asking it to provide a detailed breakdown of charges. But Leiner was unable to resolve claims quicklyif at alland many bills remained unpaid pending further investigation for up to 90 days. Significant portions of Leiner's revenue were tied up in disputes, instead of paying for ongoing business activities. "Cash flow is all about improving accounts receivables and cleaning your balance sheet for the first 13 weeks of a turnaround," says Coles. "Accurate and fast collections is an absolute priority."
Leiner hired Emagia Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif. company that makes cash flow software, to install a database management system that would monitor and store customer contracts from initial invoice to payment. To fill an order, charges and billing information had to be entered by sales, marketing or accounting staff and double-checked for accuracy before it was processed; paper orders were eliminated. In addition, no change in the size or price of a shipment request could be made without first inputting it into the cash flow system. When a retailer asked Leiner to verify a bill, Emagia's software would instantly determine where the order originated from and automatically send an e-mail to the sales or marketing staffer requesting a detailed explanation of the charges attached to the order. When it was received, it was sent back to the customer for payment.
Emagia's program produced almost immediate resultsa critical outcome for Leiner, which needed nearly instant cash to fund day-to-day operations and keep creditors at bay during the turnaround effort. Within six weeks, the software slashed Leiner's payments backlog by about 75 percent. What's more, the system now delivers daily reports to Leiner management of how many chargebacks are claimed, how much cash flow is stuck and why. Just as important, it details the bottlenecks in the billing resolution process so executives can fix the organizational weaknesses before a new round of chargebacks can occur.
By October 2001, 10 months after Leiner began its turnaround effort, the company was heading in the right direction, but it wasn't immediately obvious. Sales in the six months ended Sept. 30 had slipped by $4 million compared to the year before, thanks mostly to discontinued products and fewer customers, while Leiner's net losses increased by about $15 million, fueled by the high costs of restructuring. And although improved inventory and accounts receivables systems had helped cash and equivalents balloon to $20 million compared with less than $8 million the year before, "bondholders were betting that we would not turn around," says Coles.
That was actually good news for Leiner; its survival depended on getting out from under its onerous interest obligations, which by 2001 were running at about $40 million a year. Consequently, Leiner's management was able to work out a prepackaged bankruptcy in which bondholders accepted $15 million in cash and newly created preferred stock for their $85 million in notes. Leiner's bank covenants were extended and the company received an additional $20 million in revolving credit.
"What was impressive about this turnaround was a management team that had done business a particular way for many years, but they still understood what their problems were and what they lacked," says Peter Shabecoff, managing director at North Castle Partners, a venture capital firm that funds health and nutrition companies and the largest shareholder in Leiner. They weren't in denial; they were willing to bring in outside help and there were no ego clashes. North Castle first invested in Leiner in 1997 and as the company was going into Chapter 11, North Castle backed Leiner with an additional $20 million.
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In April 2002, Leiner emerged from bankruptcy. Many of the benefits from the new systems had taken hold and management was able to see the gains generated by the vastly improved access to essential data. Some of these gains are anecdotal: Chief Executive Officer Robert Kaminski now has a computer display on his desk that provides a minute-to-minute view of the company's financial performance measured by working capital, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow and inventory. Kaminski, who calls his digital dashboard the Jumbotron, has said, "It tells you what you can't do without to run a company."
But there have also been vital statistical improvements at Leiner. Employee output is up more than 63 percent without additional investment in capital equipment; the company's key accounts are all still under contract and enjoy upwards of 95 percent accuracy in on-time deliveries and complete orders; total supply chain costs are down 15 percent; accounts receivable are being paid at a pace faster than industry averages; and inventory turns have improved 60 percent, to about 4 a year. All of this translates into impressive profits as well: After two years of negative numbers, Leiner recorded a positive EBIDTA of $40 million in fiscal 2002 and the company says EBIDTA will increase to $70 million in fiscal 2003, about 12 percent of sales. In addition, Leiner's bank debt-to-EBIDTA ratio, which was 9.5 in January 2002, fell to 2.4 in February 2003.
With the turnaround on course, Leiner is determined to learn from its near-death experience. For one thing, Leiner is continuing to improve its supply-chain and manufacturing systems as well as its forecasting capabilities, because "you have to keep ahead of the technology," says company president Bensussen. "Our retailers demand it, especially in difficult economic times." At the same time, Leiner is adding new products again, recently launching private-label versions of Advil Liqui-gels painkiller and the allergy pill Claritin. Over-the-counter drugs have typically represented about 25 percent of Leiner's sales in past years, but the company hopes to increase this to 30 percent or higher within the next five years or so. And even sooner, Leiner expects a bump in sales of multivitamins as aging Baby Boomers expand the market for daily pills. All of this, says Bensussen, is part of a diligently plotted business plan for short- and long-term growth: "It's very well programmed. Now that we've streamlined our supply chain and accounting systems, updated the data we have available for forecasting and analysis, and our service levels have reached historical highs, we're not going to let it slip."
Finding out how much it didn't know about itself was a tough lesson for Leiner. And after its dip into Chapter 11, it's not yet clear that the new growth strategy will succeed in a sluggish economy. But if Leiner struggles again, at least it will know where the bleeding is coming from.
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 12:02 AM
So - is audacity the reason for my sound woes? And if so, sadly I'm on a PC, so no GarageBand for me. What can I use that will do the same thing?
Posted 29 April 2009 - 01:13 AM
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 04:59 AM
Posted 29 April 2009 - 05:37 AM
I'm pretty sure it's a combination of the cruddy microphone and the location of the PC.
However, I find the noise reduction routines work well, especially when followed up by the silencer for those difficult-to-shift 'stains'.
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 08:57 AM
I find Audacity a bit noisy at times, could be your soundcard, what type are you using?
Posted 29 April 2009 - 10:16 AM
Posted 29 April 2009 - 02:02 PM
Basically, a good mic, stand, sound card and leads should not be under-estimated.
(A good audio editing app won't go astray either.)
But there are ways around it...
Very irritating - MUST be eradicated at all costs.
These are usually sound card related - change settings or try another card (or mic?) to isolate the problem.
Also, make sure you're recording with plenty of head room - clipping will give you clicks!
Speaking further away from the mic should avoid POPS.
[But this may introduce problems with VOLUME - see NOISE below.]
Use a mic stand. Pretty obvious I know...
but a sturdy stand is essential to judge your input volume and avoid BUMPS etc.
Use a pop filter/screen...which sits between your mouth and the mic to help dissipate air.
(These are meant to curb those pesky 'blown' syllables starting with 'p' and 'b' etc.)
You can make a cheap screen from a steel coathanger and some pantyhose.
(The pantyhose can be used or unused - depending on where you get them from?
I also suggest avoiding the crotch area unless you're into that sort of thing ; )
Er...maybe you'd be better off buying one...as MELLOWHARDY suggests.
To get your mic active/working (especially cheap ones) you'll probably need to
crank your mic input close to the max - hello loads of horrible noise!!!???
You can 'noise reduce' this out but it's a pain and does affect the sound.
A good way around this, so you can hang back from the mic and avoid POPS,
is to use a pre-amp (and/or buy a more sensitive/expensive mic : )
The idea of a pre-amp is to boost your mic signal so you can drastically REDUCE
the mic input volume on your PC - and thus reduce the noise + hum caused by it?
You could even, in theory, avoid that (hideous) MIC input altogether and use another less sensitive input?
An old 4 track or small mixing desk (with hot mic inputs) or even an amp/EQ could serve as a handy pre-amp.
REVERB can add body and ambience to your sound.
Some sound cards have onboard reverb but you've gotta assign it + set it up.
(Use with caution tho...it's most often better to add it in post...on a copy of your VO track.)
The trick with reverb is to use it sparingly.
Set it up so you can JUST hear its effect...with a very short echo or delay.
If you can easily hear the echo (in situ) then you've probably gone too far?
Also, think of where the character is going to be speaking and the nature of the conversation.
Are they just in a small room...in a long corridor or hall...or are they outside?
Obviously, you can vary the reverb to suit the situation.
A smidge of reverb in the right place will really enhance your recordings.
You can pick up a cheap second hand EQ for under 20 buks these days. (Try Cash Converters?)
Chances are you might even have one laying around?
You may need some leads/adapters but why not run your mic thru it?
You could, with a li'l practice...
1) Reduce POPS by cutting the lower frequencies.
2) Reduce NOISE (or HISS) by cutting the higher frequencies
3) Increase general VOLUME - pre-amp! (some EQ's have a handy boost)
4) Do a 'comb' or cut lotsa frequencies to alter your voice for different characters. (Haven't tried it...should work tho? ; )
So, that's my 2 cents worth - hope it helps.
I admit I'm no expert...and a good mic has been on my 'TO BUY' list for about 15 years : )
But I have recorded a lot of stuff (mainly cranked guitar : ) with low end equipment...
...and achieved quite reasonable results.
Basically, if you have crappy stuff, the main thing to use is your BRAIN! : )
Posted 29 April 2009 - 02:04 PM
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Okay, some good news: you don't need another audio software [or a Mac, lol]. Audacity isn't causing what you're hearing in the example below.
I heard the popping sounds you mentioned around 1:35, and in a few places earlier than that were some milder versions of the same thing. What is happening is: wind is hitting the diaphragm of your microphone, overloading it temporarily and causing a pop. The wind in this instance is coming from your mouth, but if you were recording outside, regular "wind" can do this to a microphone too.
There are some syllables which tend to create bursts of wind (air flow) more than others; these are often referred to as "plosives." Put a hand about two inches in front of your mouth, and make a "P" sound. Or a strong "B". Generally, sounds which involve putting the lips together, and then opening them while release air pressure, these are your plosives. (Notice that "M", "L", and even "F" aren't nearly as windy, using that same test.)
Basically, if air flow of even small direct force strikes the diaphragm of a sensitive microphone (sensitive = good, in general), then it's going to create a pop or a distortion of some kind... one that is terribly difficult to remove from the recording after the fact. So you want to avoid this air flow hitting the mic at all costs.
There are a few solutions. The easiest and most practical is to simply adjust the placement of your microphone when doing voiceovers. Instinct is to put the mic right in front of your mouth when speaking, and this is when those problems arise. Try placing the microphone even with the tip of your nose, pointing straight at your face. Unless you have a massively deep voice, you'll be like most people in that your whole face cavity is actually a resonance chamber which amplifies your voice, so this will often pick up the same or very similar sounds to what you'd get pointing the mic at your mouth... except you're out of the air stream so there should be no pops. If you find that your recording sounds a little muffled ("S" emits high frequencies, and makes a good tester for this), then keep the mic at that same elevation, but angle it down a bit toward your mouth. Play with the mic position a bit until you find something comfortable but out of your vocal air stream, and you'll be in great shape.
Another solution is to buy (or make) a windscreen. Essentially, this is a piece of nylon (think panty hose) stretched over a circle or square shape, which you can hang in the air between yourself and your microphone. This windscreen will stop most of the air flow with little to no impact on sound quality... but even with a windscreen you probably want to avoid putting the microphone directly in the airflow path as a strong plosive can overpower even the best windscreen. (I said "make" because I've seen people make windscreens out of pantyhose and a coat hanger, if you're so inclined... or you can buy one from most any music retailer that sells microphones).
There are also windscreens that are like a foam cap you put on the top of your microphone. These are useful for outdoor situations because the wind is coming from multiple directions, but I don't recommend them for indoor voiceover because their impact on high frequencies (loss) is noticeable.
You mentioned a hissing; I didn't notice any in the movie example you gave me, music would obscure most of that anyway. But in general, hiss is caused by one of the following: 1) Noise in the room (air conditioner, computer fan, etc.), 2) Lower grade microphones, 3) Bad connection somewhere between the mic and the PC, and 4) Recording at too low a level (this is rarely an issue when recording to digital). Hiss is much easier to remove afterward, though if you can eliminate hiss in your original recording you'll always be in better shape than scraping away part of your recording after the fact.
Anyway, I hope these tips help.
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 05:43 PM
Posted 29 April 2009 - 05:58 PM
Sounds like you've got a very very sensitive microphone. OR you're a really windy person.
Seriously, though, the kind of pops tkd27 was experiencing are solely about air flow hitting the sensitive part of the mic. There are other kinds of distortion that can come across as pops, however. In your case, Jorge, if they seem to increase proportional to your speaking volume, then I'd suspect that's something else... perhaps distortion from the mic input levels being too hot? If you want to, send me a sample and I'll confirm / assist. Like you said, when you get 3-4 feet away from the mic, it's recording as much of the room reverb as it is your direct voice; that should be fixable once we confirm what's happening.
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 07:21 PM
I don't really know too much about recording sound, but I do think that poor sound quality is the one thing that can let great machinima down, and for some reason sound quality seems to be overlooked by many machinimators when making movies. Perhaps we think of machinima as a purely visual medium? We put so much effort into getting the right look that maybe getting the sound right is just a detail that can be overlooked.
As I said, I'm not an expert in this field, but I heartily recommend the Zoom H2 for recording audio. It is a decent condenser mic which records directly onto an SD card. Just whip it out and hit record!
I used this for all the audio in Clockwork with the exception of the narrator who was working remotely. The problems I had with the sound quality from his files mean that I'll only ever use a remote VO recording if I'm sure they can give me recordings with no pops or hiss.
I use Audacity and Cubase for editing sound. The noise removal filter in Audacity is handy, and I did use it for the narrator, but it does introduce an annoying buzz...
Anyhoo, my two bits worth.
Posted 29 April 2009 - 10:55 PM
Yep, that's some good advice from Overman about mic placement.
That's incredible Act3, that you were getting pops at that distance.
What a voice! : ) (Good mic too...I assume.)
Also, I seem to recall you were getting some reasonably bad clicks a while ago.
A problem you have since resolved - did you end up isolating the cause?
It's just that I'm curious and it may help others out?
Do tell!
Posted 29 April 2009 - 10:56 PM
Posted 29 April 2009 - 11:51 PM
Overman and RUN415 - much awesome information there! Thanks
FWIW - my mic is a standard VOIP mic - it wasn't the cheapest, but not at all high end either. I have no problems with my sound quality other than the pops, so I'm quite happy to know why it's happening.
If anyone is interested, the sound sample I gave Overman was my movie Run Luther, Run, so if you'd like to see exactly the problem Overman describes, there it is: http://www.moviestor...Servlet?id=1299
The pops really become noticeable @ 1:35.
Thanks again to everyone, especially Overman!
Posted 30 April 2009 - 09:55 AM
A problem you have since resolved - did you end up isolating the cause?
It's just that I'm curious and it may help others out?
Do tell!
Actually, those clicks were from using Audacity (Clarks episodes ""Meet the Jimenez's", "Crack-erjacks" and "Reminisce").
My resolution was switching to GarageBand. I can now voice Jeffrey Clark without any problems :-)
I'll find the time soon to do a quick recording using Audacity. I'll PM you the file when I get the chance.
Posted 30 April 2009 - 12:11 PM
Posted 02 May 2009 - 02:30 PM
We have two computers here and I use Audacity on both. The one computer has an onboard sound card and when I record I get a hissing and humming in the background that's hard to get rid of. But the other computer has a SoundBlaster in it and I don't have any problems whatsoever with it.
Although I have put a sponge over the mike. I just cut a hole in the side of the sponge and put it over the mike. It looks odd but does the trick. I could talk right into the mike closeup and not get any feed back. Whereas with the other computer all you have to do is just move the cord and it comes through in the recording.
Just a thought.
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Posted 06 June 2009 - 07:43 AM
I echo Iceaxe's recommendations for the H2 as well. This hand device is much more than a mike ... it's nearly a portable sound effects studio. As a recording device with no moving parts and local storage via SD card, you can take it out into the world. Or you can solve a big bunch of noise problems by simply moving into the next room to record your sounds / voices, then uploading them (again via SD card or by simple USB file transfer) onto your machine. For me that was the big barrier, the hum put out by my heavily fanned PC.
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