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Attached you will find a copy of a recent magazine advertisement that we ran, this gives you an idea of where our design is heading.
We are very excited about our company, and we want a logo that excites us too.
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The Pirates comes to town looking very much like the 2011 version of the club that collapsed down the stretch and finished with a below five hundred record yet again, and nothing like the surging contender earlier in the year. The Pirates sit just two games over five hundred now and are losers of six straight games, three of those against the Cubs in Pittsburgh last week. The Cubs on the other hand are playing solid baseball, winning five out of their last six games, all on the road which is really saying something given how bad they have been away from Wrigley this year. Solid starting pitching and the long ball have paced the Cubs in September as they have ten home runs, 5th most in the National League this month. No one has contributed more to that total than Alfonso Soriano as he has five home runs in just 12 games this month. After being pulled in the third inning two nights ago, and missing yesterday's game it sounds like Anthony Rizzo will be back in the Cubs lineup tomorrow, that collision could have been much worse.
Here are the pitching matchups for the four game series.
Friday September 14, 2012
Pittsburgh: James McDonald (12-7, 3.93 ERA)
Cubs: Chris Rusin (0-2, 5.73 ERA)
Saturday September 15, 2012
Pittsburgh: Jeff Locke (0-1, 4.11 ERA)
Cubs: Jason Berken (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
Sunday September 16, 2012
Pittsburgh: Wandy Rodriguez (10-13, 3.72 ERA)
Cubs: Chris Volstad (3-10, 5.99 ERA)
Monday September 17, 2012
Pittsburgh: Kevin Correia (10-9, 4.29 ERA)
Cubs: Travis Wood (6-11, 4.23 ERA)
Season Series: Series Tied 6-6
Prediction: Cubs win series 3-1
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Santeramo Overpaid Construction Company
NORMAN NOTE: Last month acting Broward Teachers Union President John Tarka told union leadership to prepare in two weeks for the arrest of his predecessor, Pat Santeramo. Well it's now been more than two weeks. Here's two posts I wrote this past November about the case that for some reason don't come up on Google anymore:
Embattled Broward Teachers Union President Pat Santeramo often ran the 11,000-strong BTU in secretive fashion -- and some of the exorbitant amounts he paid to contractors remain shrouded in suspicion.
Santeramo directed about $190,000 in union money to a Coral Springs company called Marstan Construction during the past two years, according to an audit conducted by the American Federation of Teachers. The work included a renovation. The audit found the company was grossly overpaid.
"ATF's research suggests that the amounts are approximately double the reasonable and customary charge for this type of work," the auditor wrote.
The company is listed to the home of David S. Esposito, the former chairman of the Broward County Finance Authority. Esposito, an appointee of former Broward County Commissioner Ben Graber, left the authority in 2010. When I contacted Esposito he was in no mood to talk about his firm's work for the BTU.
"I refer all questions to my attorney, Mike Moskowitz," Esposito said before hanging up the phone.
Moskowitz, a lobbyist and Democratic Party official, is also representing Santeramo, who is under criminal investigation. Moskowitz is also the attorney for Ashbritt, a company accused in an audit of ripping off the school board of about $750,000 after Hurricane Wilma.
BTU executive board member Leslie Janin-Starr said the union payments to Marstan had been a sore point for months.
"I kept asking how much are we paying them, what's going on?" said Janin-Starr, who helped uncover the union's problems, leading to a criminal investigation. "It kept getting shifted around in different budget items, so it was very hard to see what they were doing. I asked Pat, 'Where are all the bids? And secondly is he union?' There were no bids and he wasn't a union contractor."
Why Santeramo paid Esposito's company so much money is still a mystery -- and on top of that are questions about lawn care and cleaning expenses. BTU paid $525 a month for lawn service and $1,044 a month to a company that cleaned the building. Again, there's no evidence of bids and the cost for both services seems inordinately high.
... And the follow-up post that was published the next day:
The more we find out about David Esposito, the contractor who was allegedly paid double the work he did for the Broward Teacher Union, the more suspicious it gets.
This was a deal made in the political world from the get-go.
Esposito, as reported here yesterday, was paid $190,000 over the course of two years for renovation work on the BTU building. An audit by the American Federation of Teachers found the amount was twice the amount the union should have paid him.
... Santeramo and Esposito have apparently known each other for decades. Back in 1992, Esposito ran for the Broward County School Board, according to published reports (hat tip to Red Broward). At the time Santeramo was already serving as executive vice president of the BTU, which plays a deep role in school board elections.
Esposito in fact comes loaded with political connections. At the time he started doing the work, he was a member of the Broward Housing Finance Authority (after being appointed to the position by former Broward County Commissioner Ben Graber in 2002). He stopped serving on the Authority in 2010.
Esposito is also a long-time official in the Broward Democratic Executive Committee. Records show he's currently a committeeman at the DEC, which continues to be headed by lobbyist Mitch Ceasar. He's also a former president of the Coral Springs Democratic Club.
And it gets even more interesting: Esposito and his Marstan firm gave a total of $1,000 to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink's campaign on May 22, 2009. Also giving $500 was a Maureen Esposito, believed to be his daughter of the same name.
On that very same day, BTU board member (and Davie Vice Mayor) Caryl Hattan, BTU office manager Arlene Marotta, BTU spokesman John Ristow, and other union officials also contributed $500 to Sink's campaign.
Those Sink contributions were reimbursed by Santeramo with union funds in a matter that is now under criminal investigation by the state. Were Esposito's contributions also reimbursed with union money? That's not known but it would seem to be a good question for the State Attorney's Office.
... One more piece of trivia about Esposito: In 1990, he ran against (and lost to) politically connected engineer Tom McDonald for a seat on the Port Everglades Commission. From a Sun-Sentinel article at the time: "David Esposito, 41, a contractor from Coral Springs, based much of his campaign on attacking McDonald`s political alliances and business ties to the port. McDonald`s firm does work for the port as well as other county government agencies."
Looks like Esposito picked up some pointers from McDonald as well.
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after receiving such ill tidings from her master, Umble rushes to the highest tower of her castle to her daughter Maldini who is the fruit of her passions with Luke Skywalker. Upon entering the chamber where the five year old practices saber techniques with a training droid outfitted with a sith holo-cron, the young girl bows before her mother in fear.
Maldini: (bowing) what is thy bidding, mother?
Umble Zarr: (quickly pulling her from the ground) our time together quickly comes to end!
Maldini: (standing scared) how can that be? You just barely entered my life.
Umble Zarr: (slapping the child) do not feel love or pity for those whom hate you child. You will live to destroy this galaxy! Promise me this!
Maldini: (glaring) yes mother.
Umble Zarr: I will soon be dead, take this holo-cron it contains your purpose. Continue your training while you travel the galaxy aboard the attack cruiser Ive had built for you, it has a droid crew so you wont be distracted from your studies.
Maldini: (glaring) where do I go from there?
Umble Zarr: journey to the gypsy moon of Nefta, there you will meet my killer. He wouldnt pass up your allegiance, learn what you can from him. But dont allow him to interfere with your purpose!
Maldini: (glaring) yes mother.
The young Sith Mistress lifts off of Gogek within her new attack cruiser, Umble Zarr watches from her massive castle window as the vessel leaves the atmosphere and her evil mother. Montagra leaves the castle with Space Raider commodores all of which are dressed in space suits.
Aboard the Jedi escort, a trimmer in the force cuts Lukes meditation short.
Luke: how can that be?
Jacen: what is it uncle?
Luke: I feel as if the force is attempting to tell me that two beings directly connected to me are in existence, but their auras are vanishing from my insight just as quickly as Ive sensed them. But thats impossible, my son is dead .
Jacen: Im sorry.
Luke: dead, never to achieve his destiny.
Chi-Ro: may I take this opportunity master skywalker to request your tutelage in my master hood of the Jedi arts.
Luke: I accept chi-ro, but must curse you for interrupting my connection to nothing its ok. I accept. If we survive.
Chi-Ro: thank you master Skywalker.
Rahem bows and leaves the cabin of the escort, Luke and jacen continue mediating. The Jedi escort and the millennium falcon as followed by a legion of v-wing fighters blast out of hyperspace, they run head long into a junk blockade. The Jedi escort speeds past as the v-wings as led by the falcon engage the junk fleet blockade. the escort charges past the blockade to only get shot down by the commanding barge and pulled down into the atmosphere of the planet by Umble Zarr. As the vessel plummets towards the rocky toxic waste filled surface, Luke is teleported out of the ship by umble zarr into an awaiting empty torture device.
A massive compound unguarded by any turrets or canons. Within the castle, Umble gloats over Luke.
Umble Zarr: at last I have you all for my own.
Luke: Ive come to kill you umble! Nothing more than that.
Umble Zarr: a pity we could have restructured the galaxy together, set everyone in their places. Obtain the power for which no one can dream. Together we could take the void apart and form new worlds in which to gaze upon.
Luke: you cant give back youve taken from me.
Umble Zarr: This is the torture of a Teras Kasi whom wants you all for herself.
Luke: (grimacing in pain) id that supposed to make it more painful and meaningful than a little dark-force lightning from the emperor.
To demonstrate she uses the force to quarter him and electrocute him with Teras Kasi bolts of defense. Upon completing this show of power, Luke uses the force to break free of the device and back flips into the air igniting his saber hilt before he lands locking swords with umble.
Luke: youve stolen from me youve taken the futures hope .youve awoken my Dark Side!
Umble Zarr: this is not the time to refuse me again, our daughter Maldini shall triumph over the force! There is no greater enemy, it uses me as well as you in this game it plays against time.
Luke gives in and expels force lighting countering her attack, the two start a mighty force power struggle while lightsaber dueling.
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PITTSBURGH— Gazing at a snapshot from a family picnic, you recognize instantly that the tuft of leaves hanging over Uncle John is not part of a tree growing out the top of his head. Any fool can see he is standing in front of the tree.
Perceiving a three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional image is something humans take for granted, but it's something that has long flummoxed computer vision systems. Now, however, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have found a way to help computers understand the geometric context of outdoor scenes and thus better comprehend what they see.
The discovery promises to revive an area of computer vision research all but abandoned two decades ago because it seemed insoluble. It may ultimately find application in vision systems used to guide robotic vehicles, monitor security cameras and archive photos.
Using machine learning techniques, Robotics Institute researchers Alexei Efros and Martial Hebert, along with graduate student Derek Hoiem, have taught computers how to spot the visual cues that differentiate between vertical surfaces and horizontal surfaces in photographs of outdoor scenes. They've even developed a program that allows the computer to automatically generate 3-D reconstructions of scenes based on a single image.
"The technique provides an approximate sense of the scene, a qualitative grasp of the structure of a scene," said Efros, assistant professor of computer science and robotics.
In their latest work, to be presented at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 17-22 in New York City, the Carnegie Mellon researchers will show that having a sense of 3-D geometry helps computers identify objects, such as cars and pedestrians, in street scenes.
Identifying vertical and horizontal surfaces and the orientation of those surfaces provides much of the information necessary for understanding the geometric context of an entire scene. Only about three percent of surfaces in a typical photo are at an angle, they have found.
Using 300 images gleaned from a Google search, Hoiem showed the computer numerous examples of vertical and horizontal surfaces, allowing a machine learning program to develop statistical associations between certain shapes, shadings and other characteristics typical of each orientation.
The program also takes advantage of the constraints of the real world — skies are blue, horizons are horizontal and most objects sit on the ground.
"In our world," noted Hebert, a professor of robotics, "things don't just float."
To demonstrate the utility of this technique, the researchers have designed a graphics program to automatically generate 3-D reconstructions by "cutting and folding" along vertical and horizontal lines in an image.
"It's like a children's pop-up book," Efros said.
"The amazing thing they did was show that it was actually possible," said computer vision pioneer Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon. "I would say it's a breakthrough."
A Longstanding Problem
Inability to understand the geometric context of a scene has limited the ability of computers to recognize objects. Though researchers have had some success at identifying objects, such as faces or cars, the lack of context results in preposterous mistakes, such as faces seen in clouds, or cars perched in treetops.
Scientists have struggled since early times to understand how people visually perceive three dimensions. Ancient Greeks reasoned that the eyes must emit rays that bounce off objects, measuring distances much like today's laser rangefinders. By the 19th century, scientists realized that a pair of eyes gives humans binocular vision, allowing them to perceive depth. But stereoscopic vision is useful at distances of no more than 50 meters. Even then, the mind often overrides binocular vision, such as when watching a football game on television.
Vision was an early problem that artificial intelligence researchers tried to tackle and "context-based" outdoor scene analysis was a favorite subject during the 1970s.
Researchers found they could describe the geometry of an object, such as a chair, but matching the description with actual pixels proved a herculean task. Statistical learning tools were limited then and research computers were about 100 times less powerful than a typical laptop today. By 1980, most had concluded that the feat was either impossible or, if possible, computationally impractical.
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Even when Efros and Hebert assigned Hoiem to use machine learning techniques to teach visual context to a computer two years ago, they regarded it primarily as a learning exercise for their student. "We didn't believe it would work," Efros said.
To their surprise, Hoiem found the computer often discerned which surfaces were vertical or horizontal, and whether a vertical surface faced left, right or toward the viewer. Based on the examples it was shown, the computer identified each feature in an image and assigned to it a probability that it had a horizontal or vertical orientation.
In their latest work, the researchers have used the geometric context information to improve the ability of computer programs to recognize objects within the scene. And improved object recognition, they note, should ultimately provide feedback to further improve understanding of the geometric context.
"If you can find a car," Hebert explained, "you know it is on a flat surface."
A composite image, showing a photograph and three 3-D reconstructions derived from it, is available at www.cs.cmu.edu/~efros/img/popup.jpg. Animations of the 3-D models can be viewed at www.cs.cmu.edu/~dhoiem/projects/popup/index.html.


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While the fact that I, as an atheist, marrying a christian was a sure fire way to lead to disagreements it went a bit too far today.
She has spending each day at a ongoing church revival for the last two weeks. Today I finally raised a bit of concern for just how much time she was spending there each day (from about 10am to 3pm and then 6pm to 11pm each day). Her response was something that I have never experienced before - She "rebuked me in the name of Jesus", called me a devil and proceeded to follow me around the house talking in tongues. WTF! How is that any different then a small child sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "nanana I can't hear you!"? To me that is just incredibly disrespectful and dismissive as if anything said couldn't possibly be from a spouse but had to be the boogieman.
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All I can offer is this isn't something to leave alone to fester til the 'next time.' Good luck to you and I am sorry you are having to deal with this in your marriage cause she is being very disrespectful to both you and the kids in her lack of balanced priorities.
The only redeeming factor here is if someone posts, "I love this Christain man, should I marry him?" *saving link...
I don't know how you do it. I just can't imagine. It seems that there is a divide that may not be able to be mended. I couldn't imagine my wife (if i had one) calling me a devil. The issue seems so huge, and i don't know how it can be avoided.
Hey Brian, I know it's way late, but I feel like I have a pretty solid grasp on the basics of Christianity and thought I might be able to help you out. First, 1st Peter 3:1-2 is a much better place to start than 1st Timothy 2. It gives the reason behind the action, basically, if she is a jack ass she won't have any influence over you, but if she is submissive, you might be persuaded to become a believer. Note that 1st Peter explicitly says wives must obey even unbelieving husbands.
Second, and perhaps more to the point here, is 1st Corinthians 14:27-28, where it says you should only speak in tongues if there is someone else available who can interpret. Otherwise, they should keep silent and talk only to God.
Fire can only be fought with fire. Once someone is that far into religion, you have to play within it's own rules to get them out.
Humble Pie, Wow! That's good. I hate that we have to know their book better than they do but it seems like it could really help in this situation.
Brian, I really hope things get better after the retreat - but it seems this has reached a level that you cannot ignore. Especially at the age your children are at. If it were me, I'd do a lot of thinking about what I could stand to live with, what is appropriate behavior in front of the children, and what is good for the children's development. You need to have one or more discussions with your wife to establish house rules.
She chose to marry you. Humble Pie makes a good point that her belief framework says she should be submissive to her husband. You allow her to have her faith - but she has taken it beyond reasonable level.
I hope you can work things out.
Bingo on the 1st Corinthians verse.
Drop her, drop her like a bad case of fleas, and never look back...
Sorry, I know I should not be so gung-ho about it, but think about what she is going to do to your kids...
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On this day — the Senate is locked, stocked, cocked and then stuck on the issue of campus carry; work progresses on a compromise between the House and Senate on sonogram legislation; the Comptroller's office explains how 3 million Texans had their personal information made available; and more Prop 12 bonds for road construction
It's one of those things that just seems to get curiouser and curiouser — Sen. Jeff Wentworth's proposal that would allow holders of concealed handgun licenses to bring their weapons into college classrooms and dormitories easily passed the Senate last session. Even with hours of testimony from police chiefs, college students, faculty and administrators against the bill; it easily cleared out of committee to the entire Senate, where it's gotten stuck.
It was held up last Thursday because Democrats who supported the measure were unsatisfied with various proposed amendments that dealt mostly with local issues. Passage was thought to be a near certainty on Monday, until it wasn't. The Houston Chronicle's Joe Holley reports:
"I'm hoping this is just a bump in the road," said Sen. Jeff Wentworth, sponsor of Senate Bill 354.
Although 13 of the 31 senators are signed on as co-authors, Wentworth needed 21 votes to bring the bill to a vote. The San Antonio Republican had only 20 last Thursday when he initially brought it up for consideration, and still did not have 21, the required two-thirds of the Senate, on Monday.
One opponent of the bill, Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, said he conducted an informal poll among college students in his district and found overwhelming opposition to the bill. "I asked the professors that I know personally to take a poll this morning, and the majority on all the campuses — the students that were involved in the poll — overwhelmingly wanted me to vote against this bill."
***So, Um… 3 Million Texans?
Houston Chronicle/Express-News Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac reports that the Comptroller's office disclosed yesterday that they had mistakenly posted identification information of more than 3 million Texans on the Internet. In a statement, Combs apologized for the accidental release of the information. The Attorney General's office has opened a probe into the matter.
The Austin American-Statesman's Kate Alexander has additional details on the security snafu.
***More Bonds for More Roads
TxDOT's funding problems are no mystery — revenues from the state gas tax and federal government make up the balk of TxDOT's funding and as those sources of revenue decline; TxDOT's costs keep rising.
The state's population continues to grow creating significant demand for new road construction and the state's aging transportation infrastructure is becoming more expensive to maintain the older it gets. All three of those factors combine to create the financial disaster that TxDOT is currently confronting and that the Legislature has been largely ignoring. HC/E-N Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac reports:
Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, told the Senate Finance Committee, on which he serves, that he'd like lawmakers working on the next two-year budget to authorize another $3 billion in debt through Proposition 12 bonds.
Williams, chairman of the Senate's Transportation and Homeland Security committee, also said lawmakers should allocate debt service for another $1 billion in Proposition 12 bonds that lawmakers told the Texas Department of Transportation to move ahead with in 2009.
Lawmakers two years ago told TxDOT to start on $2 billion worth of projects from Proposition 12 bonds, but they only set aside debt service for $1 billion of it, he said.
– Peggy Fikac writes about Gov. Perry's appointment to lead Texas' efforts to lobby Washington D.C. The kicker? He ghostwrote Perry's 'Fed Up'
– The Express-News' Scott Huddleston reports on the continuing controversy over the DTR's stewardship of the Alamo.
– The Chronicle's Jeannie Kever reports on how West Texas' shrinking population has become a somewhat defining factor of life.
– The Dallas Morning News reports that Metroplex area school districts are ready to spend money from their reserve accounts to blunt the worst effects of proposed state spending cuts.
– The Texas Tribune's Aziza Musa reports that the Senate is working on a compromise sonogram bill.
– The Express-News' Vianna Davilla reports from Fort Davis on the wildfires sweeping through West Texas. The Tribune's Matt Stiles has put together a series of graphics mapping the state's recent past with massive fires.


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Mossberg's Mailbox
A Stylus for the iPhone
Here are a few questions I've received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability.
I am a Palm Treo user and would like to get an iPhone for the apps. But I have tried the virtual keyboard on the iPhone in the store and hate it. Is there a stylus you can use for better accuracy, or some software trick?
I don't know if they improve accuracy, but there are several stylus brands made for the iPhone and iPod Touch. They are aimed at making typing easier, especially if you have long nails or are wearing gloves. One example is the Pogo, a $15 iPhone stylus from a company called Ten One Design, at tenonedesign.com.
In addition, there are several iPhone apps that attempt to help typing accuracy by allowing you to compose emails, text messages and Twitter posts using a wide, landscape keyboard rather than the narrower standard keyboard. You type your message in these apps, and then the app sends them to the iPhone's email program for transmission. One that I have used is called TouchType. It works with email and Twitter, and costs 99 cents.
Another interesting solution is a free app called ShapeWriter, which lets you type by sliding your finger along a keyboard to connect the letters in words. You never have to lift your finger until you are done with a whole word. Messages you compose in ShapeWriter can be saved as notes or shipped to the email program for sending.
Finally, I should note two things about typing on an iPhone. First, it's difficult to know if you'll be comfortable with it from just a few minutes in a store, because it usually takes a few days to master. Second, some people won't ever find it acceptable, and these folks should choose a phone that has a physical keyboard.
In your review of the new version of the Safari Web browser, you said some Web sites were publishing methods for undoing some of the changes in it that you criticized. Can you explain how I can do that?
There are two methods for changing Safari 4 so it looks and works more like the previous versions, while retaining its faster speed. One method involves typing techie commands into the computer. But, for mainstream users, I recommend another: downloading a new free utility called Safari 4 Buddy. It's available at swoon.net/site/software.html.
Safari 4 Buddy allows you to just check off buttons that can change the placement of tabs in Safari 4 so they're under the toolbars, rather than at the top of the screen, and restore the blue page-loading progress bar that Apple killed. It also permits users to change other settings Apple omitted from the browser's Preferences menus. I have tested it and it works.
However, this utility works only on the Mac version of Safari 4. I don't know of any way to make these changes in the Windows version. Also, there's no guarantee that Apple won't make future modifications to the browser that might reverse any customizations Safari 4 Buddy makes.
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Conservative Convergence = Liberal Freak-Out?
Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSBlog predicts that Citizens United will come down either tomorrow or Monday morning:
As we have previously noted, the Court will issue opinions tomorrow. The next opinion day is Monday, January 25. After that, the Court is not scheduled to issue opinions until Tuesday, February 23. The month-long gap results from the break between the Court's January and February sittings.
The Court could add an additional opinion date. That would have been extremely unlikely under Chief Justice Rehnquist. But in a variety of small ways, the Roberts Court has taken a more pragmatic approach that deviates from certain traditions.
Nonetheless, the Court is an institution that does rest on tradition, and it will have a strong institutional preference for sticking to its usual calendar. The Court is also well aware of the public interest in having the campaign finance case decided, as illustrated by the fact that it held oral argument in late summer, outside the usual argument calendar.
If Goldstein is right, and if the Court holds to its expected 5-4 conservative victory despite doubts created by the decision's delay, expect a left-wing freak-out.
First, a Republican takes Ted Kennedy's Senate seat tonight, destroying the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority and perhaps with it Kennedy's dream of health care reform.
Next, should the Court strike down McCain-Feingold's restrictions on corporate campaign expenditures, expect liberal commentators to reveal doomsday visions of insurance companies emptying their coffers in the 2010 campaign on a multimedia effort to smear all incumbents supportive of health care reform as fascists, socialists, and communists.
That's a vicious one-two punch from our Legislative and Judicial branches. But should that combination come to pass, expect the Executive Branch to stay cool, adjust to the circumstances, and move ahead. There will be neither war nor implosion.


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Abstract: Super-Pythagorean fields can be thought of as arising from a weakening of the requirement of Euclideanity, while preserving the requirement of Pythagoreanity. Given that Pythagorean and Euclidean fields arise naturally as coordinate fields of planes with free mobility, and of those satisfying the circle axiom, it is natural to ask whether super-Pythagorean fields have a natural geometric meaning. In [P] we have provided axiom systems for Euclidean planes with super-Pythagorean coordinate fields with or without order. Two axioms of those axiom systems, A7 and A8, are artificial, in the sense that they do not reflect simple geometric intentions. This shortcoming will be remedied in this paper, where we shall display two axioms with clear geometric content to replace the above two. Moreover, in their new formulations these axioms will be affine statements. [P] Pambuccian, V.: Euclidean superpythagorean geometry. Beitr. Algebra Geom. 39 (2), (1998), 255-258.
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Yesterday's Disunion blog in the New York Times has a nice piece by Adam Goodheart exploring slavery as it still existed in Washington, D.C., when Abraham Lincoln arrived there toward the end of February 1861. One of the interesting things Goodheart notes is that slave trading, albeit in a more limited fashion than before, was still occurring in the nation's capital, following the letter if not the spirit of the Compromise of 1850.
Adam Goodheart writes:
The slave trade – although supposedly outlawed in Washington more than a decade earlier – still operated there quite openly, with black men and women frequently advertised for sale in the newspapers, and occasionally even sent to the auction block just a few hundred yards from the White House. The ban, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, technically only forbade the importation of blacks into the District of Columbia to be sold out of state. The law permitted a local master to sell his or her own slaves – and there was little to keep them from being sent across the river to Alexandria, where slave trading flourished on an industrial scale, and the unfortunate captives might easily be forced aboard a cramped schooner bound for New Orleans or Mobile. Nor was it an uncommon sight to see a black woman going door-to-door in the most fashionable neighborhoods of Washington, begging for small donations toward buying her children out of slavery.
So Lincoln found slavery in the nation's capital essentially as well entrenched as when he had spent a term as Congressman there in the late 1840s, still an integral part of the city's economy and society. Adam Goodheart observes:
Congressman Lincoln was so appalled by his experiences that in January 1849 he introduced a bill to completely – albeit gradually – abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. The law would have provided compensation to masters for emancipating their slaves, a scheme similar to the one eventually implemented in Washington (and attempted in Delaware) during Lincoln's presidency. The proposal was a topic of lively conversation at Sprigg's boardinghouse. "Our whole mess remained in the dining-room after tea, and conversed upon the subject of Mr. Lincoln's bill to abolish slavery," one congressman wrote in his diary. "It was approved by all; I believe it as good a bill as we could get at this time."
Not surprisingly, Goodheart adds "The proposal went nowhere in Congress."
Of course, as President, Abraham Lincoln would have more power to deal with slavery and over the course of the war would work to abolish it. But it should be remembered in February 1861, Lincoln was merely determined to stop the institution's further spread west and still hopeful he could achieve reconciliation with the southern states, including those who had already seceded. An important purpose of Civil War Emancipation is to see day-to-day the events that transformed Lincoln from merely a free-soiler into the "Great Emancipator."


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Exactly 30 years ago (1982) the Moottorilinnut (Motorbirds) album was released by the KIMMO KUUSNIEMI BAND. It was the first Finnish metal album sung in the native tongue.
The album also hit some other firsts:
It featured one of the first female metal singers, Muska Babitzin, sister of the late Kirka Babitzin. Muska sang three tracks on the recording; her 'Metallinen Sateenkaari' ('Metallic Rainbow') and Kirka's 'Tuhannen Megawatin Totuus' ('Truth of 1000 Megawatts') have become Finnish metal anthems and karaoke favourites.
In 1982, Kimmo Kuusniemi also produced and directed a full album length music video for Moottorilinnut. It was the first full album length metal promo in Finland, and maybe in the world.
Kimmo Kuusniemi Band had been known as SARCOFAGUS, a true pioneer of heavy metal. Sarcofagus was formed in 1977 and had already released the first Finnish heavy rock single 'GoTo Hell – All Those Lies' in 1979, and albums Cycle Of Life in 1979 and Envoy of Death in 1980. Envoy Of Death in particular has reached cult status, heavily influencing future metal generations.
All these early recordings have now been re-released by Finnish Svart Records as luxury edition vinyls.
Kuusniemi says: "It is great to hear that my music influenced many and found a following. And the SVART record releases are a great bonus, they even released our first Live In Studio 1979 tape as a luxury vinyl. It is especially nice to see the Moottorilinnut album and DVD in proper distribution for the first time ever. Only 30 years later! Maybe it was about time…
The 'Moottorilinnut' video changed my career path and made me into an international film maker. A few years ago my international TV documentary Promised Land Of Heavy Metal took me back to my roots and also tells about the phenomenal explosion of the Finnish metal scene."
Sarcofagus has recently recorded Back From The Dead album, 13 tracks recorded live in studio in one day featuring a selection of songs from all the old albums that were performed by Sarcofagus Finnish tour in 2010.
Just like with Moottorilinnut video project, the band is now working on a groundbreaking DVD that will be released with the recording.


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|Andrew Sorensen live-coding at OSCON 2014
Shortly after Andrew Sorensen began the performance segment of his keynote at OSCON 2014, the #oscon Twitter topic began erupting with posts about the live coding session. Comments, retweets, and additional links persisted for that day and the next. In short, Andrew was a hit :-)
My first encounter with Andrew's work was a few years ago when I was getting back into Lisp. I was playing with generative music with Overtone (and then, a bit later, experimenting with SuperCollider, Hy, and Twisted) and came across his piece A Study in Keith. You might want to take a break from reading this port and watch that now ...
When Andrew started up his presentation, I didn't immediately recognize him. In fact, when the code was displayed on the big screens, I assumed it was Clojure until I looked closely and saw he was using (define ...) and not (defun ...). This seemed very familiar, and then I remembered Impromptu, which ultimately lead to my discovery of Extempore (see more links below) and the realization that this is what Andrew was using to live code.
At the end of the performance a bunch of us jumped up and gave a standing ovation. (In fact, you can hear me yell out "YEAH" at the end of his presentation when he says "And there we go."). It was quite a show. It seemed that OSCON 2014 had been given a theme song. The next step was getting the source code ...
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Andrew gave a presentation on Extempore in the ballroom right after the keynote. This too was fantastic and resulted in much tweeting.
Afterwards a bunch of us went up front and chatted with him, enthusing about his work, the recent presentation, the keynote, and his previously published pieces.
I had Andrew's ear for a moment, and asked him if he was interested in sharing his keynote source -- there had been several requests for it on Twitter (that also got retweeted and/or favourited). Without hesitation, he gave an enthusiastic "yes" and we were off and running for the lounge where we could sit down to create a gist (and grab a cappuccino!). The availability of the source was announced immediately, to the delight of many.
Setting Up Extempore
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To ensure anyone else who is not familiar with Extempore can also have this pleasure, I've put together the all the prerequisites and setup necessary in a forked gist, in multiple parts. I will go through those in this blog post. Also: all of my testing and live coding was done using Ben Swift's Extempore Sublime Text plugin.
The first step is getting all the dependencies. You'll want to start the downloads right away, since they are large (the sample files are compressed .wavs). While that's going on, you can install Extempore using Homebrew (this worked for me on Mac OS X with no additional tweaking/configuration necessary):
With Extempore running, let's do some setup. We're going to need to:
- load some libraries (this takes a while for them to compile),
- define some samples, and then
- define some musical note aliases for convenience (and visual clarity).
The easiest way to use the files below is to clone the gist repo and load them up in Sublime Text, executing blocks of text by hi-lighting them, and then pressing ^x^x.
Here is the file for the fist two bullets mentioned above:
You will need to edit this file to point to the locations where your samples were downloaded. Also,
at the very end there are some lines of code you can execute to make sure that your samples are working.
Now let's define the note aliases. You can just hi-light the entire contents of this file in Sublime Text and then ^x^x:At this point, we're ready to play!
Playing the Music
To get started on the music, open up the fourth file from the clone of the gist and ^x^x the root, scale, and left-hand-notes-* constants.
Here is the evolution of the left hand part:
Go ahead and start that first one playing (^x^x the definition as well as the call). Wait for a bit, and then execute the next one, etc. Once you've started playing the final left hand form, you can switch to the wider range of notes defined/updated at the bottom.
Next, you'll want to bring in the right hand ... then bassline ... then the higher fmsynth sparkles for the right hand:
Then you'll increase the energy with the drum section:
Finally, you'll bring it to the climax, and then start the gentle fade out:
A slightly modified code listing for the final keynote form is here:
Variation on a Theme
I have recorded a variation of Andrew's keynote based on the code above, for your listening pleasure :-) You can listen to it in your browser or download it.
This version plays part of the left hand piano an octave lower. There's a tiny bit of clipping in places, and I accidentally jazzed it up (and for too long!) with a hi-hat change in the middle. There are also some awkward transitions and volume oddities. However, these should be inspiration for you to make your own variation of the OSCON 2014 Theme Song :-)
The "script" used for the recording can found here.
Links of Note
Some of these were mentioned above, some haven't been. All relate to Extempore :-)
- A Study in Keith.
- The Disklavier Sessions - 2013
- Andrew on Github: https://github.com/digego
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/digego
- Extempore:


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Prosecutors from Attorney General Martha Coakley's office questioned two Chelsea Housing Authority employees under oath this week about their political connections to Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray, part of an intensifying criminal investigation into whether the housing agency's former director illegally turned the workplace into a political machine aimed at helping Murray win election.
The employees, who are maintenance workers, testified that they attended three fund-raisers for Murray, giving $100 each time and meeting the lieutenant governor. One of them, Robert Hamilton, also said that former housing boss Michael E. McLaughlin asked him and other employees to help get out the vote for Murray and Governor Deval Patrick on Election Day in 2010.
"I didn't want to go, but Mike [McLaughlin] said he wanted faces up there," said Hamilton, referring to one of the fund-raisers. Hamilton, 69, said he has never been politically active and had only voted twice since 1968 before being recruited to help Murray.
So far, at least seven housing authority employees have been called before the state grand jury and several said the line of questioning has been consistent: "They asked how much did you donate, how were you asked, were you pressured, what would be the consequences if you did not?"
One employee, who testified earlier this summer and asked not to be named because grand jury proceedings are secret, said that prosecutors appeared to be using a spreadsheet of employees who donated to Murray.
Meanwhile, state housing officials confirm that they are investigating a separate allegation by another former employee who said McLaughlin harassed her for failing to carry out his political directives, such as an order to attend a rally for Murray and Patrick in Everett in 2006. Lori DiPlatzi has sent a demand letter threatening to file a federal lawsuit against the authority, contending that McLaughlin made her work life a "living hell" by making derogatory, sometimes sexually charged, remarks about her.
An attorney for McLaughlin and a spokesman for Murray declined comment.
McLaughlin, who was forced to resign last November after the Globe revealed his inflated $360,000 annual salary, was a political ally of Murray; the two men exchanged nearly 200 cellphone calls in 2010 and 2011. As an employee of an agency that receives federal funding, McLaughlin was not allowed under federal law to engage in any political activity on the job or conduct political fund-raising. Massachusetts law also prohibits fund-raising by appointed public officials such as McLaughlin and pressuring employees to take part in politics.
Murray has said that McLaughlin did not serve as a fund-raiser for him and, in January, asked state regulators to review his campaign finances for any improprieties. Officials at the Office of Campaign and Political Finance turned the case over to Coakley's office for criminal investigation, one of several ongoing investigations of the Chelsea Housing Authority.
McLaughlin's former employees have said in interviews that he pressured them to make political donations, attend rallies, and even cajole public housing residents to back McLaughlin's preferred candidates, including Murray. They said McLaughlin pressured employees to quit when they did not do as they were told.
DiPlatzi, who worked as a housing manager from 2005 to 2008, has told housing authority officials that she finally resigned because McLaughlin became so hostile over her failure to help during political campaigns, including Murray's first race for lieutenant governor in 2006.
"Starting in 2006, Ms. DiPlatzi and several of her colleagues were pressureed to attend various fund-raisers for then-candidates Deval Patrick and Tim Murray and new demands were made to frequently attend political rallies for Mssrs. Patrick and Murray," wrote Jeffrey Turco, DiPlatzi's lawyer, in a May 25 letter to Chelsea Housing officials threatening to file a federal discrimination lawsuit over the political pressures.
When DiPlatzi failed to attend a weekend rally for Murray and Patrick in Everett in 2006, she said that McLaughlin criticized her in front of the other employees. "You haven't been much help lately," McLaughlin said, according to the letter from Turco.
Turco wrote that McLaughlin pressured DiPlatzi to register to vote in Chelsea — even though she lives elsewhere — so that she could vote for a state Senate candidate supported by McLaughlin. When she refused, McLaughlin made her feel like she was not "part of the team," according to Turco.
DiPlatzi said through her attorney that McLaughlin's treatment of her descended into "off-color and downright offensive sexual jokes and innuendoes. . . Repeated comments about my dress and appearance made my time at the Chelsea Housing Authority a living hell."
It is unclear whether Murray would face legal consequences even if prosecutors can prove that McLaughlin ran an illegal political operation on his behalf. Murray aides have said that McLaughlin was one among many campaign volunteers, even though he spoke numerous times with Murray's lead professional fund-raiser, according to phone records. Chelsea employees say McLaughlin acted as a host at several Murray fund-raisers that Murray attended.
Murray, who was questioned by federal and state investigators working on the McLaughlin probe in June, has declined to say what he was asked about because investigators requested that the discussion remain confidential. Murray's attorney, former US attorney Donald Stern, was present for the interview, a rare questioning of a top state official in a criminal investigation.
Murray has said that he broke with McLaughlin after learning that McLaughlin had deliberately concealed his $360,000 paycheck from state regulators, reporting that his income was less than half that amout. McLaughlin made more money than perhaps any other public housing official in the United States in 2011, even though cellphone records show he worked only 15 full days in Chelsea all year.


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Lest you think that I have nothing else on my mind besides tennis whites (that's partially true), let's turn to other Wimbledon-related topics:
GRUB: Elsanta, the "Pete Sampras" of strawberries, is the kind served in the world-famous Wimbledon dish. (On The Baseline)
TECH: MYiOTA announced that it will offer a service to mobile phone customers which will offer point-by-point updates at Wimbledon. I wonder how this will fare compared to what Alcatel did for the Mexican Open earlier this year. (via Pocket-lint)
TECH, pt. 2: The two show courts getting HawkEye technology will be rid of Cyclops. No longer will there be those annoying beeps that call out let cords. (via The Ocala Star-Banner)
>> TSF's wimbledon coverage


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By piecing together the genetic information locked inside a frozen, fossilized bone, scientists have deciphered the complete genome of an extinct prehistoric horse that roamed the Yukon more than 700,000 years ago. The work rewrites the evolutionary history of the horse and smashes the previous record for the oldest complete genome ever sequenced. In doing so, it redefines how far back in time scientists can travel using DNA sequences as their guide.
Every time a cowboy throws a leg over the saddle and gallops off on his horse, he's riding on top of 4 million years of evolutionary history. But this history is mostly a mystery. We know surprisingly little about how natural selection and thousands of years of selective breeding by humans have shaped these animals on the genetic scale.
Horses were once considered a textbook example for the smooth transition of one species into another, a perfect illustration of Darwin's theories. Ancient equine species – dog-sized animals with five toes – gradually evolved into towering, hooved thoroughbreds. Or so the story went. But with every fossil that was unearthed, a more tangled picture emerged.
Then DNA sequencing came along, allowing scientists to reconstruct how organisms change over time down to the resolution of single letters in the DNA code.
In the new study, a multinational team of scientists led by Ludovic Orlando and Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen used what's become a common approach: comparing the DNA of modern species to DNA recovered from fossil remains, in this case a fossil bone fragment found near Thistle Creek, Canada. By pushing DNA sequencing technology to its limits, they were able to rewind the evolutionary clock back further than ever before.
The previous record for oldest genome was an 80,000-year-old ancient cousin of humans whose genome was sequenced from a single finger bone found in Siberia. The Thistle Creek horse appears to be nearly ten times as old, which provided new challenges for the scientists. DNA sequencing technology is constantly improving, but the information that researchers get in the end is only as good as the DNA that they start with. And that's where scientists like Orlando are fighting a losing battle against nature.
Recent technological advances, several developed solely for this work, allowed the horse genome wranglers to read their DNA sequences with as little as a single molecule of starting material. And beefed up computing power meant they could rebuild genomes stretching billions of bases from chunks as small as 25 individual letters. "It is a 12.2 billion-piece jigsaw puzzle," said Mike Bunce, a paleogeneticist at Murdoch University, who was not involved in the study.
Not only was the DNA heavily degraded, the bone itself had adopted a host of microbial residents, the tiny engines of decomposition, each full of their own DNA. The team again turned to powerful computer programs to pick out which sequences belonged to the horse and which belonged to the bacteria.
The final product of all this work was a complete rough draft sequence of the Thistle Creek horse's genome.
In order to place the Thistle Creek Horse on the evolutionary timeline, the researchers compared its genome to those of a younger extinct species, several modern domestic horses, a donkey, and a wild Asian horse. The results of this comparison, reported today in Nature, push back the origin of the Equus lineage, which includes all living horses, zebras and donkeys, to a common ancestor living 4 million years ago.
As part of their analysis, the team sequenced the genome of the Przewalski's horse, an endangered species native to the Mongolian steppes. Their results confirm that the Przewalski's horse is Earth's last remaining truly wild horse population, highlighting a critical need for species conservation. Finally, along the way, the researchers assembled the first complete genome of the donkey, a creature that seems forever doomed to life in the horse's shadow.
The team also uncovered other chemical secrets locked within the Thistle Creek bone. Using machines designed to smash proteins into their amino acid building blocks, the researchers decoded the sequence of 73 prehistoric horse proteins. Orlando says they originally looked at the proteins as a way to gauge how well the sample had been preserved, but were surprised to find so many untouched. Studying the proteins that flowed through the bloodstream of this horse provides a snapshot of molecules in action taken three quarters of a million years ago.
But the most fascinating question raised by the work is this: How damaged and scarce can ancient DNA be before scientists will be unable to weave a genome from its frayed strands?
Last year, Bunce and colleagues squashed the dreams of Jurassic Park fans when they demonstrated the frustratingly short half-life of DNA. Every 521 years or so, about half the DNA in any particular sample will break down into its chemical components. Even when buried in permafrost, Earth's cold-storage freezer, long DNA molecules become short ones and individual DNA bases are erased forever. While this spells a huge setback for scientists aiming clone extinct species, it doesn't rule out sequencing extinct genomes.
Bunce predicts that in the coming years, there will be a race to sequence even more degraded prehistoric genomes using less DNA.
Eddy Rubin, director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute, predicts a shift in how researchers study these ancient species. "DNA is really a very accurate predictor of what happened," he says, "much more so than bony structures." Rubin suggests that a warming climate and thawing permafrost means "there may be other samples that reside in friendly environments out there that could push back what we know about the origin of species."
That includes our own. The ability to reconstruct fossil genomes is already revolutionizing the study of human origins.
Until recently, scientists trying to retrace our evolution have focused primarily on bones uncovered in tropical environments, such as the famous Australopithecus skeleton known as Lucy. But important human relatives like Neanderthals and Denisovans lived alongside our ancestors as far north as Siberia.
This new research provides a scaffold to build upon as genome detectives push the one million year threshold. And as DNA sequencing technology marches forward, geneticists are able to reach further back in time. But the Thistle Creek horse reminds us that decoding a DNA sequence only tells part of the story. Researchers around the world continue to analyze the genetics of horses past and present using this data as their guide, perhaps one day identifying the changes that molded modern horses.
As scientists amass more and more sequencing data from less and less starting material at an ever faster pace, they promise to keep their colleagues busy figuring out what it all means for many years to come.


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Researchers and industrial engineers teamed up to develop new cost-effective techniques for moulding longer-lasting fibre-reinforced plastics that stand up better to impact, fire and even vandalism!
With its bottom-up approach, EUREKA supports the development of rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily life of everyday people. The commercialisation of the innovative products, processes and services from hundreds of successfully completed projects have added billions of euro to national economies.
Here is a selection of our best innovative R&D projects.
Raising the productivity and competitiveness of European businesses through technology. Boosting national economies on the international market, and strengthening the basis for sustainable prosperity and employment.


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Thursday, June 24
Announcing the ThinkFood Cookbook
Maybe you need more brain food. Yup. There are foods that help your boost your brian's fitness including dark chocolate, flaxseed, salmon, and tuna.
Not sure how to get more brain-healthy foods into your diet? Then you'll be glad to know that there is a new cookbook called Thinkfood, Recipes for Brain Fitness.
Posit Science (a leader in brain training software) joined forces with 50 bloggers, including me, to create this cookbook, featuring 50 unique, delicious, brain-healthy recipes ranging from appetizers to entrees to desserts.
The cookbook won't be released until July, but in the meantime, you can sign up for their free email Recipe of the Week campaign. Each Wednesday over the next 50 weeks, you'll receive a brain-healthy recipe, meet the blogger who created it, and get tips about brain-fitness foods. My recipe will be featured in September, so I'll give you a heads up then.
So before you tackle the Sunday Times crossword puzzle this weekend, you might want to power up on a chocolate croissant. I'm just saying.
10 comments:
- chris said...
How great! Congrats! Love it...will sign up for the emails, for sure!
- June 24, 2010 at 7:44 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Congratulaltions Susan on your contribution!
- June 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Suzanne said...
wow what a great book to have contributed too, i truly believe in feeding the brain and the body!
- June 25, 2010 at 3:12 AM
- carrie said...
Congratulations! I love this idea and can't wait to see it when it comes out.
- June 25, 2010 at 5:16 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
chris-I'm glad to hear that! Hope you enjoy them!
suzanne-And that's what this cookbook is all about.
carrie-Thanks a lot! It's coming out next month.
- June 25, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- Katherine said...
A lot of these links to the bloggers don't work :-(
- June 25, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- lisaiscooking said...
Can't wait to see your recipe!
- June 26, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- Tom Kutey said...
What a great theme for a cookbook. Besides brain-friendly foods, the process of planning a meal, selecting recipes, shopping for fun, new foods, etc. can also be challenging, engaging activities that can help boost brain functions.
I like your blog!
- June 26, 2010 at 7:22 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
katherine-Thank you for telling me. I'll check them out.
tom-Good point! I hadn't thought of that.
- June 27, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- Christine said...
Congratulations Susan! I'm signing up for the recipes now.
- June 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM


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that's really not how I want to control my DAW. I mentioned this a bit in the comments section of tonebenders episode 2 (check it out!) but I want to go into more detail here.
First of all, I get why random access control surfaces are probably the future - the ability to implement custom interfaces that are not tied to dedicated knobs and sliders is a powerful concept - but the fact of the matter is that finger access is never going to be as fast and accurate as mouse access for fast, sample-accurate and detailed editing tasks.
it also doesn't seem like you'd get the same "feel" as you would with a hardware controller if you're doing fingertip mixing. All of these "pictures under glass" offer only visual feedback when you manipulate them, which IMO takes you out of the process of manipulating sound.
It also reminded me of this little rant I came across a while back - which very eloquently details the ways in which our hands manipulate the world and receive feedback, while pointing out that the touchscreen interface concept basically breaks that concept by refusing to give tactile feedback. It forces us to use our eyes to see if we did anything and to measure the degree by which we've done those things.
We can close our eyes and turn a knob or move a fader, and instinctually feel the degree to which we've moved those things. This is an important concept in manipulating audio, and all of these touchscreen interfaces break that concept.
I'd personally much prefer to see a system that looks like a flat tablet, but actually has a grid of actuators that pop up tactile feedback (much the way a refreshable braille reader does), and have that give feedback. Maybe it could also be both touch and pressure sensitive, so that it could move with your hands as you manipulate the interface.
I think that would end being more useful for audio specific tasks, and as an interface in general. Our hands currently aren't getting any feedback from our screens.


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What's in your bag, Y'akoto?
The Ghanaian-German singer's musical style combines soul, pop, folk and blues. Her most recent album, Mermaid Blues, is also political – as well as sensual and strong. The 30-year-old artist will be touring the German festival scene in August. Lufthansa Magazin caught up with her at Hamburg Airport and took a peek inside her bag
The sound of Y'akoto
"Fool Me Once"


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Distance from Deer Creek, MN to Renville, MN
Driving distance between Deer Creek, MN and Renville, MN is 138.67 miles (or 223.17 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Deer Creek, MN you would reach Renville, MN in about 3 hours 5 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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After the main event of UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage in Denver, the night's big names met with the media for a rundown.
Dana White announced the winners of the post-fight bonuses. Jon Jones and Rampage Jackson earned Fight of the Night for their light heavyweight bout that waded into the championship rounds. Knockout of the Night went to Josh Koscheck for his first-round finish of UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes. Nate Diaz scored Submission of the Night for his armbar-by-way-of-triangle-choke finish of Takanori Gomi. Each bonus was $75,000.
Video highlights of the following fighters are linked below:
Jon Jones and Rampage Jackson
Josh Koscheck and Nate Diaz
Rampage Jackson's best one-liners
UFC 135 Post-Fight Press Conference
Highlights from the UFC 135 post-fight press conference:
Watch Past Fights
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Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm
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How often do we pray for God's will to be done and then try to fulfill our own plans without a moment's thought what God says? We find Jacob doing this very thing when he is about to see his brother Esau for the first time in 20 years. Brother Dwight Coffman uses this passage to show how it's possible to pray for God's will while trying to fulfill it by doing the wrong thing. When we do such things, we find ourselves wrestling with God rather than walking in step with God's Spirit. We pray this message is a great benefit to you.


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But at its heart it strikes a deep, true chord: when Wallen is let off the leash of very short scenes and has the leisure to unfurl her best music, moments of great beauty emerge from the distillation of uncomfortable contemporary truths. How and why do we create in a world that is "baking in its own shit"? Thus the artist character, trying to work out what lies behind the "dark, malevolent" quality of what he's just painted, faces the existential question of any creative here and now, and it's a knock-em-dead performance by that brilliant, all-giving, stage-creature baritone that is Omar Ebrahim.
A reflective ensemble number accompanied by purling strings and pizzicato almost a la Bach or Mozart proved another highlight, evoking the classical underpinning of Wallen's eclectic contemporary idioms; and the recurring, developing chorus, ratcheting the tension, helps to bind together a tricky multi-protagonist structure. Wallen's music has - as it often does - empathy, riff-edged sophistication, high intelligence and, best of all, a big, strong heart. And much of the singing was spectacular.
The problems are that mosaic structure and the staging. The latter first: the Linbury is opened up and the black and white stage is in the centre with seats on both sides. The singers must address one side, then the other and whichever you're on, you tend to miss the words when performers' backs are turned. The brevity of the scenes and the inevitable awkwardness of moving quickly from one to the next means that the flow of drama and music is constantly interrupted, and punctuation by supposed news announcements - delivered in a tone that is unfortunately more Open University than Newsnight - do little to help. Just when you think it's getting off the ground, it stops again.
There's one format in which Yes would work brilliantly. It is TV. On film you could project writing instead of the spoken announcements, create an unbroken musical web that slides easily from scene to scene without interruption and develop each character that much more; at the moment we can only see a tantalising glimmer of them.
Greer's libretto may at times feel difficult - the words of John Stuart Mill don't lend themselves especially well to singing, and using terms like "relevance" and "diversity" risks missing the mark in the context of operatic drama rather than commentary from outside. But the threads and connections build: the phone call from Greer's mother, talking about stargazing, finds an echo in the final words from the white grandson of an East Ender. Greer's mother says, "Nobody does that but us", yet this child from another place, another culture and a family of another mindset proves that in fact...we're all the same. We are all the same: we are all human beings. Why is that always the hardest lesson for us to learn?
So, in short: Yes is maybe a success in the making, it has some wonderful moments, it is brilliantly sung, it could use a bit of rethinking and - perhaps appropriately for an opera based around a forthcoming TV show - it ought to be a film. Stand by for snide remarks from white males.


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Ellie Goulding Covers Glamour UK, Talks Taylor Swift + Katy Perry Friendship [PHOTO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Ellie Goulding appears as the cover girl in the August issue of the U.K. edition of Glamour this upcoming month. In the article, the 27-year-old singer talked a little bit about her friendship with fellow superstar singers Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.
"We're friends because they understand the predicaments. They see what is and isn't real," the British singer admitted.
She even shared that she gets some tough love from Swift occasionally.
Goulding said, "I'm not anywhere near their level of fame, but if I say, 'Oh God, Taylor, this happened,' she'll be like, 'Girl, that's nothing.' Suck it up, kind of thing!"
"I have strong female characters all around me, really cool women," she continues. "My tour manager is a woman, my manager is a woman. I want to be surrounded by powerful women, not men."
As for her sexy figure, the singer wanted to put an end to a rumor that she's had any kind of body surgery. "I'm petrified of anything like that. My friends will think that's hilarious. I ran every day for seven months, maybe too obsessively, and when I stopped I became curvier. My boobs look bigger because my waist is smaller. People underestimate how you can shape your body. Since I stopped eating meat and fish, my body's better than ever."
See Taylor Swift + Other Celebs' Yearbook Photos


text: Jens Martin Lekman (pronounced "Yens", born 6 February 1981 in Angered, Sweden) is a Swedish indie pop musician residing in Melbourne, Australia. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings; the lyrics are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. His work is heavily influenced by that of Jonathan Richman and Belle & Sebastian, and he has been likened to Stephin Merritt (of The Magnetic Fields) and David Byrne.


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Randy Gonzalez, the Stark County Democratic Party chairman, said he acted in good faith and did his due diligence by consulting lawyers before supporting George Maier's appointment as Stark County sheriff ("Sorting out the Supreme Court's ruling on sheriff," Nov. 8).
This pompous bravado existed despite serious, well-thought-out concerns raised by several lawyers and citizens about Maier's qualifications to hold office. Now, despite the Ohio Supreme Court's clear edict finding Maier unqualified, Mr. Gonzalez is at it again. With even more bravado, he told The Repository that he talked to five lawyers, whom he won't name, and that he plans again to help to appoint Maier as sheriff.
Talk is cheap. Where are these mysterious lawyers now that the county will be on the hook for spending more taxpayer money to pay the legal bills for both defending Maier and prosecuting Sheriff Tim Swanson's successful claim? Will Gonzalez or Maier personally pay these bills?
At a minimum, decency requires that Gonzalez lead and ask Maier to step aside so the party can appoint someone who is clearly qualified.
If both believe Maier is qualified and the best candidate, he is free to file to run in the spring primary. Then, when the inevitable legal fight over his qualifications comes, it will be on his personal tab, not the taxpayers'.


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Drivers in cars and tractor-trailers slowed along U.S. 74 as patches of clunky sleet splattered against their windshields Friday morning.
An east-moving storm system brought periods of freezing rain and sleet to Cleveland County.
Cleveland County Schools� administration dismissed students at 9:30 a.m.
Periods of freezing rain and sleet were possible through the night.
County residents with travel plans should use caution this morning as overnight temperatures were expected to drop into the mid-20s and produce black ice on the roads.
�The roads will be wet with slick spots in elevated areas,� said Scott Krentz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. �We�re not expecting major road problems, but bridges and overpasses could be icy.�
Cleveland County is expected to be dry through the weekend and into next week, Krentz said.
Temperatures are forecast to remain cold, with highs in the 40s each day heading into next week.
Reach reporter Alicia Banks at 704-669-3338, email at email@example.com and follow on Twitter @TheStarAlicia.
What�s the weekend forecast?
High 30/Low 27
-Precipitation chances at 80 percent
-Patchy fog after 9 p.m. with freezing rain ending before 11 p.m.
High 47/Low 24
-Patchy fog in the morning and then becoming mostly sunny
-Winds about 5 mph
High 45/ Low 29
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Because of this blog, I was actually contacted by a family member about using prednisone for a more chronic tendonitis. Whereas steroid injections might help with chronic joint problems and some types of fasciitis, systemic prednisone will not help with chronic tendonitis. I am not a sports doctor. I am in training to be an eye surgeon, so realize I don't have the most experienced advice. But I just thought I would share my thoughts rather than having lots of reades running to their doctors and asking for prednisone.
In other news, step-daughter looked awesome this morning.
I have to say I love having her here.
I haven't been running enough to even have a running song recommendation :(.


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ths necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
About Us: Tropical Health Systems is start up company that is developing a medical device for the treatment of malaria. The dialysis type device uses proprietary magneto aphaeresis technology to treat this killer disease.
Requirements / Scope of Work
The initial scope of work includes the following.
1. Logo for the company.
2. Business card design for the company.
3. Letter head design for the company.
Tropical Health Systems
Please note the following regarding the logo.
1. Logo must have a global appeal, since our product will be sold overseas and in areas that are malaria endemic.
2. Logo must be versatile. Something that can be used on the website, presentations, advertising materials and other brochures.
3. Logo must be easy to understand.
4. Logo must be in sync with our business and the diseases. Malaria is the greatest threat to human health and economic welfare on the planet. The logo must convey a sense of the humanitarian crisis that is malaria and the socio-economic issues associated with the disease.
5. We would PNG and JPG versions of all files that are developed.
6. Logo must be printable in color and black & white. This would be nice but not a must have.
7. Logo must be simple, eclectic and crisp. Not looking for typical logos of medical device companies. Something that is simple.
Please note, once the logo and other material have been developed. We will have additional work for web site design templates, so there is a possibility of additional follow up work.
- Open to new ideas.
- Open to color schemes.
- Open to tag lines.
- Creativity will score high points.
- Something typical.
- Something too complicated.
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HomickLabs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We are a mobile software consultancy and product incubator preparing to launch the new Appetizr.mobi platform that will be used by other mobile developers and digital media publishers.
Appetizr.mobi is targeted at digital media publishers and mobile application developers. This audience is up-to-date with current web and mobile trends and there's a good chance that they're viewing the project on their smartphone. They will be expecting designs which are simple yet fresh, creative and memorable.
We are looking for a logo to represent our new Appetizr.mobi platform.
The final project should include both an image/icon and a wordmark such that they can combined and used together yet be recognizable independently.
Intended Usage:
The logo will be used as an anchor for the design of the Appetizr.mobi website. It will also be viewed and displayed on various mobile/handheld devices either directly via the website or embedded in a native mobile app.
Other Notes:
- Feel free to experiment with either of "Appetizr" and "Appetizr.mobi"
- Logos can use the fact that our name is pronounced 'Appetizer' for ideas (ie. sliders, kababs, shrimp cocktails, or other appetizers) or could be based on the letter 'A'; creativity greatly appreciated
- No hard colour requirements; get creative!
- The icon representation should scale down well and remain recognizable at 40x40
- We'll require a layered .psd
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text: The latest IPCC report from shows clearly that economic growth is a key driver of carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time the experience gained in the Nordic countries shows that a different, more sustainable development is possible whereby strong climate policies are not contrary to economic growth. In fact, strong climate policies can promote growth and job creation. The Nordic countries have high domestic mitigation ambitions and have been successful in demonstrating that it is possible to combine ambitious mitigation targets and policies with economic growth and prosperity.