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I recently put up an album that I found in SoulSeek. I uploaded it here, because I liked it. I did not rip the mp3s myself. Is there something wrong with that? The person that ripped these files and put them in their SHARED folder, seemed to think so.
I'm very frustrated with this unwritten "rule book" for music blogging. I am doing this because I love music, playing music, music is MY LIFE. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes. I'm not trying to say I'm better than anyone, and I'm not trying to get cool points. I'm not attempting to take credit (?) for uploading things first. I'm not even sure what "taking credit" for uploading music that isn't your own means anyway.
If anyone has anything to say about this... leave a comment. If not, that's fine too! I'm going to continue doing what I do.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I recently put up an album that I found in SoulSeek. I uploaded it here, because I liked it. I did not rip the mp3s myself. Is there something wrong with that? The person that ripped these files and put them in their SHARED folder, seemed to think so.
Posted by soundhead at 5:05 PM
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Oh my god, losers on Soulseek have been banning me for no apparent reason beyond maybe I'm not in their circle jerk. I offer a lot of songs in return but I still get banned. I've never asked one of these putzes about it because they're what I have to scrap off the bottom of my shoes after a day at the dog track. The best part is I know most if not all of them did nothing more than collect the songs in the way I was doing. For free!
Uck 'em! Do what you want to do, Your blog is great.
- April 17, 2008 at 6:28 PM
I've noticed this on other blogs too, people griping and moaning about ownership of an album they ripped, put up, then the same rip is provided elsewhere. And these people get very narky about it too, which is just sad and absurd. They aren't in any position to declare ownership, I thought music blogging/slsk'ing was about sharing among the people? Not mean selfish petty mindedness. I think your blog is fantastic and has afforded me the chance to hear yet more music of this nature which is otherwise near impossible to find.
Cheers and keep up the good work!
- April 17, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Fuck 'em. it should be a download free-for-all. Your blog, your passion, your favorites.
My only complaint is when someone steals my words as if they are their own. I could give a shit if some one reposts everything I post... but write your own fuckin words. Even at that, I wouldn't loose sleep over it. I misspell half of what I write anyways and rarely make sense. Can I say FUCK one more time before I go...
- April 17, 2008 at 8:28 PM
just discovered yr blog recently and love it! thanx much! don't let these jackasses get to you... to many good blogs have disappeared for that very reason.
- April 17, 2008 at 8:55 PM
- Fantasmi said...
They're all just jealous cause you got a classy looking site...
Why the fuck did they even upload their music on Soulseek then?
Keep up the great work my friend!
- April 17, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Music blogs, I believe were first created for a sole purpose. To share amongst the people who had a mutual love for what was being posted. There are so many whom have complained of the first posting,copywright, ownership, rip quality, and that the music sucks. Well, sound is free. No-one that I know of has been selling these albums, nor has anyhting other been said than " If you like it,buy it." Iam glad that everytime I use a sentence,word, or audible noise that someone else has, that I don't have to pay some royalty. I am sure the bible is copyrighted to someone.So, if verses were printed in full text somehwere and a reader became a christian from its message, does who owe the copy holder money because he heard the message? Is this analagy too far off? I think not. This has gotten rediculous and petty lately. Soulseek is a preview place. Anyone who would have actually bought an album anyways will get rid of the mp3s and buy the real album itself when, and if it is available. Anyone who wants to split straws that someone is hearing for free 5 songs off of something they are trying to sell can either be anal or take it in stride. Eitehr way. I think this is an excellent blog, and no ill ilk will change that. People are not just going to abandon all money transactions of music because of some post by the brave pioneers that are music bloggers.
- April 17, 2008 at 9:40 PM
- Admin said...
If you know and like this kind of music is also thanks to persons that are sharing their own private collection, losing time to rip at least at a good quality and then upload/share it for the community.
Is a long and not so easy job, nobody is paying us to do it, just the passion for music and the love to share. Im into p2p programs since 97/98, when Napster was at the beta version, so i know what im talking about.
We are not in the position of course to decleare nothing, we r not the owners of these albums or nothing, but AT LEAST we buyed it and we shared for you all. If the work of rippers is not appreciated, i can even stop my blog... because everything i always ripped is coming from my collection.
For me - i repeat - is totally senseless to open a blog and re-share what is normally shared in every p2p program. So why not share the same albums that are uploaded in another blog? Pratically, is pretty much same, it changes nothing..but is very rare that it happens! So, the question is: WHY?
- April 18, 2008 at 2:18 AM
Ok I am a little less ' Fuzzy ' now, and I see what the context being discussed is better. Album ripps,post, and shared files are just that. Shared, or to be shared among the people. No-one should claim they were the first to rip it so they have dibs. I think it is better for it to be placed into multiple facets, so those whom have been exposed into one place, may find it in another. When you see an album's post it doesn't have the prefix of" Charlie's rip, or etc. " Anyone who would pitch a pity party over their shared material being further shared is ,in my opinion, unaware of the concept or definition of the word.
- April 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- tristan.koreya said...
Just take into consideration the fact that Soulseek if full of files downloaded on the blogosphere, ripped by owners of blogs : do people sharing these files on Soulseek credit these blogs ? Never of course ! Blogs are just one of the many ways to share rarities and help them to circulate. Reclaiming rip copyright is just absurd !
- April 18, 2008 at 7:34 AM
- Admin said...
Maybe i was not clear myself in the post before. I try to explain it better.
Probably you already know (or can imagine), that exists a parallel "movement" of mp3s,shared between a close circle of fans and no longer available in large compilation as New Wave Complex or Flexipop: what you find in the net is simply the iceberg of all this "movement".
One of the reason why it happened is almost clear. The ripping is increasing day by day the prices of records .. 5 / 6 years ago bands as the Factory or Schleimer K, just to do two examples, where not so "famous" as now, and it was possible to buy them for a normal price, in fact i did (ok i was lucky, i buyed Factory for 1€ eheh)
To do another exemple web-to-web: check out what happened with the Party Wall 12'': i buyed for few euro on discogs, then i ripped it and then some weeks ago I saw somebody buying it for 40 or 50 dollars on Ebay. Unfortunately, the facts are talking for me .. we are attending to a sort of backfire ..
Thanks to P2P programs i discovered a lot of bands and i think is normal and correct to rip and share what is not available still.
I never said that the rippers got the copyrights on what they rip, cause is crazy even to think a topic like this. But the rippers are simply the motor, the engine of all this big mechanism, they spended or still spending a lot of money to buy records, cause Music, when is a passion, u can't control simply.
Also, one basic thing for me is to NOT RIP the things that r available to buy from the labels we all like (Annalogue Records, Minimal Wave, Viny On Demand, etc). They do great and difficoult job, with a small quantity of copies, they simply have to survive to print other things.
It's a long and very complicate topic, in fact im not satisfied at all for what i wrote..but at least i hope to give some ideas to think about.
What tristan.koreya also said about Blog->Slsk is true and is another good observation on this topic
- April 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Digital Liver said...
though we have made great strides towards taking competition out of the internet paradigm
it will still exist because first the majority of people in the world that use the net are from western developed nations that no matter how socially liberal they may be still operate within a system of competition which is refelcted in everything- market, education, work, all the culture industries: music, film, literature, tv, advertising, fashion, etc.
and second the industry still controls the belief in competition in order for their bottom line proft to sustain and thus the majority of such industry is adapting to the internet and slowly buying up large infinite virtual tracks of cyberspace in an attempt to rectify corporate union
claiming ownership of ripped music is a way for the person caliming ownership to create social space between themselves and others which once at a distance the other has the potential to be perceived as less- which is reflective of the competitive nature of industry
yet the internet has the potential to enlighten us and part of that enlightment will come through sharing without claims or ownership
free is freedom and is ours if we only give ourselves over to it
-soundhead is ultra////
- April 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- soundhead said...
thanks for the feedback everyone.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Unknown said...
I agree with most of you and think the various egos that get involved where people claim some sort of ownership of something they do not own is pretty silly. I got called out for this some time ago when discussing the band the Desperate Bicycles, which I had ripped to share with friends, as it was out of print, then saw it for sale on eBay and eventually all just posted online. I was naive perhaps, but at the time, in pre-soulseek days, I thought there was some difference between making a mixtape of rare stuff for fellow fans and blatantly selling the thing online, or even sharing it for every and anybody.
I'm more resigned to expect that to happen.
However I see TP is, I think, referencing my complaint on the Ike Yard post when he talks about someone being anal when complaining about someone giving away 5 songs of something that is for sale. Let me make this clear. Music is not free. We're entering a weird stage where suddenly artists and labels are going to have to learn that they can expect to not make a single dime from actual sales. They can look to alternative sources of income, tour and play live...though that's tough on certain types of bedroom artists, or, god-forbid, reissue labels.
People can complain all they want and talk about how sound is free to share...but unfortunately there are copyright laws in existence and I guarantee if you were on the other side of fence you'd be greatful for that. It's not up to a blogger or a blog reader to decide which or how much copywritten music should or can be shared, and so long as we as a record label continue to invest time and money in remastering, packaging, liner notes etc and trying to hope that the artist gets their share of whatever meager profit there is, it's in our interest to have some say on how much of a particular release is or can be shared.
Now there are artists who share everything, they know they're not going to make any money, or they asssume people will buy the vinyl or CD eventually. To think that everybody who downloads music off a blog or Soulseek will try it out, and if they like, then purchase the music, is completely naive. If that is what you do, then more power to you. But for everybody who must own the CD or vinyl, there's a dozen people who primarily listen to music at their computer, on their iPod, not to mention iTV and Squeezebox type devices streaming the music to their stereo, and are more then happy to just download ripped copy of something for free.
- April 18, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Things We've Made said...
i get music from soulseek, but i also love blogs like this and mutant sounds, systems of romance, etc... people need to lighten up and just be thankful we live in a tech age that ALLOWS us to discover forgotten bands and music that have been neglected for decades. the fact that smaller labels are realizing this and reissuing $$$ albums on cd for the first time is only icing on the cake.
- April 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I am not calling you anal Acute. I respect fully that you have released something so great as a collection of Ike Yard's work. I was a little out of it when I wrote the first spiel from last night. After re-reading it, I would restract alot. What my main point about the Ike Yard thing was that 'yes' the songs included in the post were part of a collection that was in print. But, the actual post was a self-contained ep that was out of print. So, I saw nothing wrong with it being posted. I am sorry for my rash words and meanderings that hadn't very little to do with what we were talking about. I fully respect the rights of the holders of music. I know that these artist and labels have to be supported in their efforts or they would cease to exist. Music is just such a great love of mine, but unfortunately with the cost of today's liveing, it becomes a luxury rather than a neccessity as it feels to be. I have become too acustomed to the free shareing of today's world. Be it right or wrong. I apologize to anyone I have wronged by my actions of not fully supporting the industry or have said harm against. I just love music, and usually can not afford to always purchase it properly. As far as the thing about someone makeing a mix of music, then getting mad about its' use elsewhere should do whatever anyone else does. Get a copyright. Then you will have something to bitch about. Other wise ..Wah,wah. Or like a friend of mine use to say" Two tears in a bucket...Fuck it."
- April 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM
- Digital Liver said...
it is silly to suggest that music wouldnt exist without industry or profit making labels
the people are speaking through the new medium and that is people are wanting to move towards no cost
given that industry controls everything else- electric, water, food, transportation, etc etc...
why the fuck should we degrade art by commodifying it and attaching price?
it is time to move beyond that 20th century paradigm
attaching money to the whole thing corrupts the whole system
i would rather listen to my friends who make music for free give it to me for free and infuse it with some type of unique and independent essence that speaks more to OUR times and deals with contemporary issues as oppossed to buying remined music for a decent amount of money just becasue the music snobs have deemed it valuable when just 10 years ago this stuff was largely forgotten
blogs and bloggers are ensuring that it isn't forgotten
but attaching elitism, $$$$, etc. to it will turn it into just another coke product
instead of keeping the reverence which so rightly deserves to be attached to this wonderful music
- April 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Why does everything have to be for money? That's a good point. Why can't it be quid quo pro? This for that. I think the economy down to the price of a piece of bubblegum would be better of if everything was just exchanged for various trades. Someone needs something? Well, just trade it to them for so many of what you need. Things worked far better that way.
I need good music, and artist need more exposure resurgence. Blogs do that.
- April 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Mars said...
I found a solution to the whole Soulseek mess. I don't use it.
Love your blog, man!
- April 19, 2008 at 12:56 AM
really like this blog. mind telling us what album you're referring to?
- April 19, 2008 at 9:03 AM
- soundhead said...
yes, i mind. sorry.
- April 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Which album it was that started the controversy is unimportant. It is the principal behind it..
- April 19, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Totally silly complaint. I used to post stuff that I found on Soulseek on my blog all the time. No one complained. They have nothing to complain about! It's not like they own the copyrights. Keep on sharing.
- April 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
this is exactly why I stopped using soulseek ages ago. There is enough in the blogosphere to make up for it.
- April 21, 2008 at 10:09 PM
I have found hella' lot o' stuff on the seek, that I haven't in blogs.So, I don't know dude. It's a bitch when someone banns you for no good reason. Two soloutions to this are 1:Bann them too and ignore them,2: Start another account name and try again. THey won't know it's you;)
- April 24, 2008 at 7:01 AM
- frankie teardrop said...
this is one of those arguments i can see both sides of, being both a blogger AND a musician myself. in the end, though i prefer if our record was purchased, i am all for the sharing of it so long as it is heard.
though the kind of music we're posting on our blogs is cherished and adored by some, it's also very underexposed and unheard. it's a shame really, and when i got into blogging, my sole intent was to share incredibly rare sounds and give information about each, a combination of soulseek and allmusic, if you will. even if i post something that's still somewhat available (infrastition, for example), i give several links so readers can pick these releases up. i do, often. if a band is newer, i simply post one or two tracks for a teaser and point them in the right direction. i've shifted away from newer sounds lately, but i may go back to it here and there...
as for rips, i have been fortunate enough to have friends digitize things for me. some of my posts feature my own rips and friend's, but some also are gathered from p2p networks. i try to be cautious about reposting an exact record that another blog hit on, but that's been increasingly hard to keep track of (as i note in my last entry). however, in the end, so long as no one is stealing my words without linking back to me, i don't mind if someone reuploads and shares it somewhere else.
is this conclusive? pardon the rambling. just tossing in my pennies.
- April 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- Digital Liver said...
it will be nice when we no longer even care about claiming ownership to our own words or msic but everything is just for anyone to use however they want everything becomes recyclable without any claims of property [which is reflective of turning abstraction into logical commodity] or any contractual terms.
- April 25, 2008 at 2:43 PM
I believe in day jobs...to not produce or share music because you can't profit from it is ludicrous, selfish, and honestly completely fucking evil. You can't set a price on art...you just can't. The world has changed (for the better I think) and the artists need to get a grip that they may need to do "unpleasant" things like (gasp) W-O-R-K like the rest of us "proles" to keep their dreams alive.
No "us and them", EVER!!! --S
P.S.: Yes, upping brand new releases is in bad tase (I just love how the cocksucking buzzkill RIAA-calling nerds seem to ASSUME you're a TOTAL pirate for being pro-download).
- May 2, 2008 at 2:55 AM
- Christopher said...
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- May 15, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- Gerard said...
I may as well throw in my two cent in to the debate. I don't believe in puttin a password on to any RAR files i put up, unlike alot of blogs but I was pretty pissed off when I came across a blog that just copied and pasted the majority of my posts up onto his blog, with no reference to where he got them in the first place.
I wont have minded if he had referenced were he came across them. It's all about common courtesies, which seems to has gone out the window.
- May 23, 2008 at 2:10 AM
You can say whatever about the world that we should live in but the reality is this: if you didn't create something, then you have nothing invested in it and you shouldn't care either way. If you did create something then you should be able to do whatever you want with it, including sell it, eat it, throw it in the garbage or give it away. As far as rights are concerned laws concerning copyrights are here to stay so just get used to it. They've been put in place to protect the artists rights so you have to deal with the flip side which is, not everything is free. Don't get me wrong, I download the hell out of whatever I want and wherever I can find it but if someone who owns the rights to it asked me to stop I would comply without resistance because the reality is that people own things and it's not just Western civilization. Musicians have made a living playing music since the beginning of civilization. Unfortunately we can't take certain luxuries form civilization and dump the legal aspects because they are annoying. The bigger picture is that property laws are in place because without them all you're shit would get stolen. Music recordings are included in intellectual property although mp3 sharing inevitably has created some massive grey areas that may never be black and white which is fine to me because I really do think everyone benefits from sharing. However I do disagree with the notion that you can somehow keep sitting at home playing music while our economy gets converted to wilderness and nobody gets paid for anything. You know whoever says that artists shouldn't get paid should be the unassuming poster child for the right wings. Our governments already removed just about every bit of funding for the arts in general so don't encourage them to starve us even more. We SHOULD be getting paid to provide good music to our community to ensure that it doesn't whither and die.
- August 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM
nice work,man.keep on going,big thanks from south argentina
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Apple seems to be revamping a lot of things pertaining to its next generation iPhone, as the device is also expected to feature a smaller dock connector. This means that most of its accessories will be adjusted to fit the new input on the smartphone.


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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Kids' Valentines
I have so many things to do and so much going on but I had Sam home from school today (and probably tomorrow...I think he has an ear infection). But a sick kiddo seems to be the way that the Lord is reminding me to slow down.
Take care of what is most important.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
10 comments:
- Bonnie B. said...
Hi Amber. It's good to meet another paper addict. Cute valentines! I was seriously just thinking about the kid's valentines earlier today. I remembered your cute mouses last year and thought, I wonder what she's making this year? lol! You must have read my mind!
- February 4, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- Bonnie B. said...
okay, so i don't know where i saw the mice valentines. I thought it was here, but couldn't find it in your archives. But then I saw and remembered the alien/nerds ones Sam did last year. Still, so cute!
- February 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM
- Our Complete Family said...
They turned out darling Amber! I, too, have a problem with crafting things taking over my craft room! I am going to purge and donate all things I haven't used since Miss Priss was born and that should help me tons!
Hope your little man gets well soon. Mine has her 1st ever ear infection right now. Must be the time of year???
Hang in there hugs coming your way....Les
- February 4, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Montay said...
I think they are so cute !!!
- February 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM
- Nicole said...
Your Valentines are adorable! You are the funnest mom! Hope your little one gets feeling better soon!
- February 5, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Ruth Ann said...
Very cute Valentine Cards! I can't wait until my boys are in school so we can make fun cards like this! Thanks for sharing!
-Ruth Ann
- February 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Laurel @ Ducks in a Row said...
I love them! I wish I was into paper, but I'm not. Wish I was, though, especially this time of year.
- February 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Kathleen said...
cute valentines :-)--we finished some of ours today as well with OUR sick child. i definitely think Someone wants both of us to slow down...although i wish it were on a day when i didn't have so much fun stuff planned!
- February 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Jeni said...
Those came out so cute and fun! I love the rounded edges on the first layer...guess what I will be trying next.
Hope everyone at your house is much better by now!
- February 10, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- Ice Cream said...
These beat Spongebob cards hands down!!!
- February 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM


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At one point in my life I was stuck in a dark
depression for close to a year. Though I was the only person who could free
myself from it, I was too numb and empty to even try. Anyone who has ever
suffered from depression, knows exactly what I'm talking about and may have
found themselves in the same place at times. Adhering to my own narrow misconception
about depression, I thought I was the only one suffering. However, my entire
family and close friends had to suffer from my
depression as well. I know that when I'm in a happy and healthy place I'm
generous with my love, fun to be around, forgiving, and my actions and behaviors
are positive. On my 'dark days' I'm completely useless to the people that are
close to me, and it becomes very obvious to them that I am not myself. On the yogic path I am
beginning to explore, my meditation practice is a beautiful but constant
struggle. However, I can honestly say that in the little time I've been
practicing, I feel more grounded and content than I have in a very long time.
And this has broader, sweeping effects on my relationships and everyone close
to me.
As a full-time student and part-time server,
like so many others, I lead a busy and sometimes hectic life. I often become
consumed and overwhelmed with school and the stresses of working in the service
industry. In fact, working with what is sometimes a rude and demanding public
has proven to be a constant mental challenge for me. I have found through
meditation, however, that taking the time to clear my mind and quiet my
thoughts has done wonders for my overall mental and emotional health. The most
surprising change is my level of compassion, which I must admit, does not come
naturally to me. But finding the space to cultivate compassion rather than
allowing anger and impatience to pervade is slowly becoming a part of my new
existence as an "unlikely" yogi.
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In a recent article, blogger Timothy Eden
discusses the question
of whether meditation is self-indulgent. He refers to meditation as "spiritual
housekeeping." This brought to mind an important question for me: Would I
consider taking a daily shower, exercising or eating healthy self-indulgent?
Meditation is merely the cleansing of one's thoughts and mind. Only in North
America would we dissect something so simple and common that brings us pleasure
and is incredibly beneficial to our overall health. Maybe the benefits of
meditation are self-serving, and some would say that sitting quietly does
nothing to help humanity, but as witness to my own transformation through meditation,
I can attest to the potential it has to affect, not only me, but everyone in my
life. This makes me wonder what the world would be like if every single person
were able to practice meditation. It seems only natural that this would create
a shift in perspective that could reach toward the greater good.
In what ways has mediation changed your
behavior or your life for the better?


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When he's not intimidating passersby in a black Benz, cruising in an Avantime, driving an M5 to death or lapping a circuit with an NSX, our friend Nino Karotta is building Aardvark, the mother of all protean project cars. Aardvark was allegedly a Datsun 260Z when Nino acquired it about a dozen years ago and it has went through slightly more iterations than Nissan's entire line of Z-cars.
He is currently turning it into a front-mid engined track car powered by a V6 from a Nissan 350Z and made of various Nissan, BMW and custom-built parts. To spare you all the bother of reading subtitles, he's shot an English-language video of the project as it currently stands, presented here for your geeky pleasure.
If pickup points, rear subframes and custom floors with extra bracing make you all woozy inside, you can follow Nino's project on Driftworks, where he's written several posts in English about it.


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Florida Snake Identification Key
Glossy Crayfish Snake
Scientific name: Regina rigida (SAY 1825)
The following will separate the two Glossy Crayfish Snakes found in Florida. If you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below, you probably can do so using the geographic location alone.
Select the box below that is the closest match to your snake:
Narrow dark lines on sides of throat; central Florida to Virginia.
Your snake could be a Glossy Crayfish Snake, Regina rigida rigida.
No lines on sides of throat; Florida panhandle.
Your snake could be a Gulf Crayfish Snake, Regina rigida sinicola.
I'd like to start over from the beginning
I'd like to try identifying my snake another way.
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By way of a tweet, O2 has confirmed that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will be coming to its bubbly network.
Vodafone has also confirmed to TechRadar that it will be ranging the gaming handset in the UK.
The handset was only officially confirmed over the weekend and is set to get its official debut at Mobile World Congress on 13 February.
Play dot com
We don't let silly things like official announcements get in the way though, having already had a sneaky bit of hands on fun with the Xperia Play.
With a slide-out gaming pad it's not the slimmest handset in the world, but it does come with a 4-inch touchscreen and Android 2.3.
Despite Vodafone and O2 both promising the handset to us Brits, we're still awaiting news of a UK release date and UK pricing - hopefully Sony Ericsson will reveal both on 13 February.


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skim the surface (of something)(redirected from skimmed the surface)
skim the surface (of something)
To do, engage with, or understand something to only a minimal or superficial degree. I know you feel like you know everything about philosophy now, but this introductory course only skims the surface. Jack never felt satisfied devoting his time and attention to one thing, so instead he's skimmed the surface of a number of hobbies and interests.


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New features include WaterBlog, Water Hero section and WEF's Resources Library
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) has launched the first phase of its program to use its website—www.wef.org—to provide access to the world's best science, engineering and technical practices for water quality improvement.
Visitors will find a redesigned, user-friendly site including new components such as WEF's first "WaterBlog," a new section called "Today's Water Hero" and a major new library of resources called "Access Water Knowledge," with comprehensive technical and educational material for water quality professionals.
WEF President Rebecca West is currently hosting the first WEF WaterBlog. The subject is "Virtual Water"—how much water is needed to produce the food, clothes and other goods and services.
Access Water Knowledge provides online access to WEF publications, including the new Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, a searchable database of papers presented at WEF conferences since 2000. It also incorporates Knowledge Centers for key information on biosolids, collection systems, infrastructure, membranes, microconstituents, nutrient removal, storm water, sustainability (energy and climate change), utility management, wastewater treatment, wastewater treatment design, industrial wastewater treatment, wastewater treatment operations, water reuse, water security, watershed management and wet weather.
These areas offer convenient access to information from WEF and other credible sources, including the latest technical research, books and articles and news features, as well as WEF's training and networking opportunities for water quality professionals.
Phase II developments, including the addition of a more complete water library, are now underway. Slated to launch in 2009, the site will feature a new look and search system that will allow users easy access to the latest in water quality information, research and news.


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66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none.
67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!
68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep — die!


text: For those of you who don't know, Multiwinia is the fourth game developed by Introversion Software. I was a huge fan of Defcon and Darwinia. Multiwinia looks like it's shaping up very nicely. In this video we take a look at the "King of the Hill" mode where players try to control zones.


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catch (one's) death (of cold)(redirected from catch death of cold)
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catch (one's) death (of cold)
To become ill with the common cold. This phrase is often used hyperbolically. You'll catch your death of cold if you leave the house with wet hair—it's freezing outside! I hate going to the doctor's office—I always seem to catch my death after being around all those germs!
catch one's death (of cold)and take one's death (of cold)
Fig. to contract a cold, a common respiratory infection; to catch a serious cold. If I go out in this weather, I'll catch my death of cold. Dress up warm or you'll take your death.
catch one's death (of cold)
see under catch cold.
catch your death (of cold)catch a severe cold or chill. informal
catch your ˈdeath (of cold)(old-fashioned, informal) (usually said to emphasize how cold it is) get a very bad cold: Don't go out without your coat — you'll catch your death.
catch (one's) death
To catch a cold or other illness.


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Big Sway Bar, Soft Springs Setups - BBSS
The Trend Of Using A Big Sway Bar And Soft Front Springs Has Swept Over The Short-Track Industry
There is a setup trend that has taken hold in circle track racing over the past several years in which teams have been using much softer front spring rates and very large-diameter sway bars. Some teams have had a measure of success while others have become frustrated trying to make it all work for them. Before softening up your setup and sticking in a large sway bar, let's look at how the sway bar works, what influences the bar has on the setup, and where we can possibly utilize this combination.
When racers across the country were asked if lap records have fallen since teams have switched to the big bar/soft springs (BBSS) setups, the general consensus was that lap times are about the same as before for the fast cars. If that is true, then why bother?
In other conversations, racers tell me an inexperienced driver can generally do better with the BBSS setups than trying to figure out the more conventional setups. That being said, the majority of all setups suffer from an imbalance anyhow, and maybe the BBSS setups bring the car closer to a balanced state than ever before for some teams.
Jay Fogleman is a top Hooters ProCup driver who has a great deal of short-track experience in the Late Model divisions. Fogleman thinks that with the BBSS setups, along with the stiffer right-rear spring, the car already feels set on initial entry without having the driver wait for the car to take a set. This lets the driver get into the throttle sooner, whether that is an improvement or not. The bottom line is that, in some cases, it makes the driver feel more confident.
Since opinions vary, it gives us something to think about and play with. After all, racers were born to experiment, and for most circle track racers, the search for the ultimate setup is nearly as much fun as the results. Let's take a good look at what sway bars do, some general characteristics of sway bars, and how we can utilize the BBSS setups.
Definition A sway bar is, in effect, a type of torsion bar designed to act as a mechanical resistance to body sway or roll. As the car rolls, the bar must twist, and the stiffness of the bar, or resistance to twisting, determines its effect. Most asphalt cars have sway bars in the front suspension and sometimes in the rear suspension. Using a sway bar means softer springs can be used without the negative effects of excess body roll.
One type of sway bar seen on a circle track car is the one-piece tubular or solid type that resembles the stock sway bars that come on factory passenger cars. On the Nextel Cup cars, and increasingly installed on Late Model Stock cars, are the straight bars with arms attached over splined ends of the sway bar.
Sway bars are rated by the pounds of resistance per inch of arm movement of each arm. A bar rated at 300 pounds per inch means that if the bar is secured and the end of the arm is moved 1 inch, we would measure 300 pounds of force or load if the end of the arm were resting on a spring rater.
A coil spring is merely a sway bar that is coiled. When we compress a coil spring, the resistance is created by the wire twisting exactly as it does in a sway bar. The amount of resistance is related to the diameter of the wire, the length of that portion of the wire that is allowed to twist, the length of the connecting arm, and the stiffness of the metal, usually referred to as the shear modulus.
The shear modulus (SM) is different for various types of metals. It is represented by a number multiplied by 10 to the sixth power to determine the pounds per square inch (psi) rating of the metal. The number for cold-rolled steel is 11.5. Heat-treated carbon steel is rated from 11 to 11.9, and stainless steel is rated at around 10.6. It is almost impossible to know for sure what the SM is for a particular bar, but, for our calculations, we can use an average number of 11.5, which would be an average of the various metals used.
The rate of the sway bar is affected by the construction of the arm and how much that arm will bend when under a load. Aluminum arms will bend quite a bit, especially with larger-diameter bars. This affects the net rate of the bar as felt by the car. Although steel arms are heavier, they are much better to use with a large sway bar than aluminum when bending is a problem.
The resistance to twisting in a bar is the greatest at the outer portion if we view the bar in a cross section. The middle of the bar offers very little resistance, just as a small bar is easy to twist. If we take a 111/44-inch bar and gun-drill out the middle, we will have a much lighter bar with almost as much resistance to twisting as the original solid bar. If we drill out a 31/44-inch hole, the thickness of the wall of the sway bar is now 11/44 inch. That outer 11/44 inch of the bar has much more resistance than the inner 31/44 inch.
Using an example of a bar with 32 inches of effective length with 12-inch arms, a standard metal 111/44-inch sway bar has a rate of 597 pounds per inch of arm movement. In contrast, a 31/44-inch sway bar has a rate, using the same length and arms, of only 77 pounds. The rate of sway bars increases in an algebraic fashion. While a 1-inch bar is only rated at 244 pounds per inch, a 2-inch bar is rated at an incredible 3,911 pounds per inch.
The length of the sway bar arms does affect the rate of the bar. A shorter arm results in a stiffer overall rate at the end of the arm than a longer arm. For example, a 10-inch arm on a 1-inch sway bar yields a rate of 293 pounds per inch. If we increase the length of the arm to 12 inches, we see a reduced rate of 244 pounds per inch.
How to Mount Sway Bars The sway bar should be free to twist with no binding. The attachment where the sway bar is connected to the chassis should be free of any restrictions so that bar can twist freely as the chassis rolls. The NASCAR-type sway bar is mounted in a tube with bearings at each end so the bar is free to rotate without restriction.
The arms should be clamped tight to the bar if using a straight-style sway bar. Where the bar is attached to the lower control arm, the connection should be positioned at right angles to the sway bar arm as well as the lower control arm. Any angle in the link can greatly increase the "felt" rate of the bar.
Sway Bar Preload One benefit of using a sway bar is that it helps us get more bite off the corners. Sway bar preload, actually pre-twisting the bar, increases this bite effect. It also causes an increase in the crossweight percentage. It is best to put in preload and then set the correct crossweight in the car. That is opposite the way teams have usually done their sway bar preload, but we need to know exactly how much crossweight is in the car when we race it. If we set the crossweight and then preload the bar, we don't know where our crossweight is.
One of the drawbacks of using a large-diameter sway bar is that we cannot preload the bar. If we try, the whole chassis will rotate, or roll left, and the ride heights will go crazy. I have watched a team fight forever to get the proper ride heights while preloading the large bar they had installed. The bottom line is that we need no preload on a large-diameter bar. The larger size provides the effect without using preload.
How Sway Bars Affect Our Setups In past articles on chassis setup, we have stressed that our two suspension systems must be balanced and working together. We design our suspensions for spring rate and moment center location so that both ends of the car are working in harmony. The end result of a balanced chassis is that each end of the car tends to roll to the very same angle in the turns. Since the sway bar adds resistance to chassis roll, it has an effect on the balance of the car.
If we add a sway bar to our car, it has the same effect on chassis roll as adding wheel rate to the car. The car senses the spring and sway bar rates at the wheel, and those rates are reduced by the motion ratio or installed ratio. So we need to translate the sway bar rate to a rate at the wheel to understand the true effect. This is an important point, because if we mount the sway bar arm closer to the ball joint, we end up with a stiffer sway bar rate at the wheel. A sway bar arm mounted inboard toward the inner chassis mounts of the lower control arm has a much softer rate.
Going Big on Bars and Soft on Springs When we install a large-diameter bar, we are effectively adding spring rate to our cars in a big way. Let's say we have a touring Late Model car that has 300-pound springs in the frontend. If we install a 111/42-inch sway bar, the effect on reducing body roll is just the same as if we added 1,237 pounds of spring rate to the car. We could install 1,550-pound springs in the front of the car and have the same diminishing effect on body roll.
The effect on body dive is not increased when using a large-diameter sway bar. So we may be able to increase the aero downforce on our cars by installing softer springs with the BBSS setups. The car will compress in the turns instead of rolling, and the overall attitude of the car will be lower. With a lower-sprung mass, the center of gravity will be lower and less weight will transfer from the left-side tires onto the right-side tires. More retained left-side weight means more overall traction. A lower body profile means less drag, more overall downforce, and more load on the tires.
This all seems like a win-win situation. It can be, except for one fact: We still need a balanced setup in order for our car to be consistently fast. When we reduce the front roll angle to a fraction of the old roll angle, we need to also reduce the rear roll angle by the same amount. So, the teams have found that they need to increase the right-rear spring rate a great deal and create a large spring split in the rear of the car to reduce the rear roll angle.
In past articles, we have explained the dynamics of a straight-axle suspension system. The lateral force vector is in a direction that is down and to the right, usually pointed between the rear tire contact patches. If we have a spring split in the rear, the effect of the spring split will cause either an increase or decrease in the rear roll angle, depending on which side is softer.
If the left-rear spring is softer than the right-rear spring, the car will roll less. If the right-rear spring is softer than the left-rear spring, the car will roll more. So, in order to reduce the rear roll to match the front stiffness, we see rear spring rates that might be as follows: left-rear = 175 and right-rear = 300. Some teams will run the same spring on the left-front, right-front, and right-rear corners and a much softer spring on the left-rear corner.
Note: The spring rates shown will not necessarily work for your particular car. Develop your own setups based on the information from your car. We do not recommend you use these spring rates. They are being used as an example of the general trends in setups.
The problem that has surfaced when using the bigger sway bars in conjunction with softer front springs is the search for balance. Even if a balanced BBSS setup is a bit faster than a balanced conventional setup, the balanced conventional setup will always beat an unbalanced BBSS setup and vice versa. The unbalanced situation is reversed in most cases with the BBSS setups. In the "old" days, our setups were unbalanced such that the front tended to roll less than the rear, putting excess load on the right-front tire. With BBSS utilizing a stiff right-rear spring, if the Panhard bar is not set correctly, the front may tend to roll more than the rear, putting excess load on the right-rear tire. In reality, it can easily go either way, so balance does matter and may be harder to recognize with the BBSS setups.
The RaceTrack Matters The type of racetrack will largely determine the success of the BBSS setups. Usually, the higher-banked half-mile or shorter tracks do not require the BBSS setups. If the track has quick transition of its banking angle from turn to straightaway, a large bar might not allow the car to adjust to the change.
Flatter half-mile tracks and larger-distance flat tracks offer an opportunity to benefit from the more aero-efficient attitude of the car for better downforce and less drag. In any event, remember that the car must be balanced so that each end is working in unison and all four tires are providing maximum grip, and then your car will be as fast as it can be.
Several years ago, the Busch Series championship was won by a team that ran a very stiff right-rear spring at nearly every track. At that point in time, the sway bar rates had not reached the size that they are now. But, nonetheless, that car was more balanced than most of the other cars it was competing against. The setup used might have looked something like this without the large sway bar. Teams who race cars similar to the Busch cars might be running setups similar to this one with the larger sway bar.


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I clearly dont have enough time or energy for the blog lately. So let's try something new. No talking. Just what Im digging at the moment....this blog is about tastemaking for the most part anyway, so if youve been following for long enough, who cares what I have to say anymore?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
9 comments:
- November 25, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- WordSmith said...
If you don't have time, you don't have time...but you know we all enjoy your commentary. Do what you gotta do.
- November 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- Rodrigo said...
i agree with wordsmith...
but then again, the music you choose speaks for itself.
U'll keep us (the readers) just as long as you provide the (high) quality we expect from you, regardless of text.
- November 25, 2009 at 6:44 PM
- Unknown said...
Hope you keep this going strong! Love the content and your views on what good hip hop is. I'd love it if you update the album of the week, kicks of the week, etc more often. I think this is where I first heard of Clae shoes and now they're the only kicks I buy(well besides air maxs)
- November 25, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Leks said...
Been a big fan for a while now and your blog motivated me to make one of my own (http://jamandahalf.com). Let the jams keep coming.
- November 28, 2009 at 2:04 AM
keep going!
Full Clip and Different Kitchen are the best hip hop blogs out there, you both stand for something. Make it a part of your life, and get on with it.
As you say: Most hip-hop these days is awful, but we have selective hearing. Very selective.
well, curate that shit. we're waiting.
- November 30, 2009 at 5:10 AM
- The illDefined said...
I stand by my man wordsmith. This blog game is nothing to be taken lightly, it takes heavy tolls on anyone thoughtful/ignorant enough to participate.
You have great taste, so your recommendations will always be appreciated. Your commentary was always stellar though, too.
Hope all is well. From one blogger to another, keep going man!
- December 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- December 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- DUKES said...
Thanks for all the support and love, it brought me back...
- December 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM


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Snap o' the Day: Freedom!
The student newspapers at UVA and Virginia Tech won a First Amendment Award from the Virginia Press Association for just saying no to an ABC Board ban on campus newspaper alcohol advertising. Flanking VPA President Nancy Embree on March 21 are David Grant, editor of the Collegiate Times and Andrew T. Baker, editor of the Cavalier Daily.
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HONEYLOVER OF THE MONTH: Ruth Askren
BEES RESCUED FROM: A pile of abandoned carpet-padding in a garage in Bel Aire, two back-to-back wooden fences between neighbors' yards in Van Nuys; a swarm on a cactus in Pacific Palisades; a tree trap-out in Baldwin Hills; and an overcrowded hive a beekeeper wanted to get rid of.
When I was a kid I would catch bees and keep them in a jar for a few hours, just to watch them (– I did this with lizards and spiders too!). I became a beekeeper in my 50's as a project for my aging dad and I to do together, because we both love to tinker, and beekeeping is definitely a hobby for tinkerers! A retired engineer, he enjoyed designing a great anti-ant hive stand and often comes up with new and ingenious solutions for various bee problems. My hives are on my parents' property in Pacific Palisades, where Dad can keep an eye on them.
As I wanted to learn more than I could teach myself, I joined the Backwards Beekeepers club and soon began participating in volunteer feral bee-rescues. Saving bee colonies seemed a logical outcome of my naturalist tendencies. I loved being able to see into the world of wild creatures, not in a jar! And, like my dad, I'm obsessed with tools and this work enables me to use most every kind! Learning about others' beekeeping methods has been a fun and satisfying part of the project. Now I run Bee Capture, a bee rescue business (www.beecapture.com), taking bees out of walls, attics and trees all over the LA basin.


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Forgive me for being a bit indulgent here, but I had to dedicate a blog post to a wonderful, faithful friend who is no longer with us: my old, run down fence.
Sure it had it's flaws, like rotting fence posts, or needing a new coat of paint. But it sure was the perfect place to hang quilts for blog photos, lending its rustic charm.
This fence has been a happy part of our lives this past year. And in some cases, the absence of our fence was an even happier part of our lives.
So here's a little behind the scenes story for you. Summer of '08, after 16 years of faithful service dividing two backyards, the farthest back panel of our fence started to lean in a somewhat scary fashion. While we and the neighbors decided what to do, we just removed that panel – which turned out to be the coolest thing our children had ever seen. Now they suddenly had a 'secret passageway' to our neighbors' backyard. So we left it that way. Because we had the world's greatest neighbors.
Well, Spring of '09 the rest of the fence dividing our yards starts to tip due to rotting posts and one day we came home from church to find a gusty storm had blown some of the panels over. So we had to take the rest of the panels down while we decided what to do. And in the process we created one huge yard. The bad news was my favorite photo spot was removed. The good news was I could sit at my sewing machine in our downstairs family room and watch my children play in the neighbor's yard (which they much preferred to our own.)
The downed fence created a golden, memorable summer. There truly is nothing better in the world that having wonderful next-door neighbors. The kind who make life better and you don't want to share a fence with.
But alas, we both had weird, dysfunctional houses (not neighborhood, mind you) that we'd endured and been frustrated with for years and the night I went to deliver this quilt, we mutually confessed that we were each looking for some place new. But during the drama of finding the right new house we enjoyed our shared yards and dreaded the thought of knowing we were going to have to repair the fence before either of us could move.
To the right is where the missing fence belonged.
Don't you love that mountain?? I miss that too.
The night I watched the final fence repairs in August I was melancholy. And when I woke-up the next morning and went into my nicely fenced-in yard I felt claustrophobic and full-on depressed. I knew it was the beginning of the end of that sunny period of our lives.
But isn't that the secret of life? Enjoying what that space of time has to offer and opening up our hearts (and fences) to the great people God puts in our path? And now I have a snazzy new fence, with no rotting posts (but no place to shove thumb-tacks either.) I know that after we settle in, we'll find new places to take pictures of quilts and new people to open our hearts too, but I'll always treasure the memories of the summer we lost a fence.


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I need your help!
I am switching to netbeans and have been having some major problems.
After about 6 hours I finally figured out how to get the image to show in netbeans.
Is there a way to write the code where it will work in JGrasp and netbeans?
The working code for netbeans is
menuPic = new javax.swing.JButton(); menuPic.setIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("image/w2.png")));
and the working code for JGrasp is
menuPic = new JButton(); ImageIcon bottompic = new ImageIcon("image/w2.png"); JButton menuPic = new JButton(bottompic);
I hate JGrasp but thats what my teacher uses to grade, so I want to be able to write it in netbeans and copy and paste the code to JGrasp and it be able to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


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Manal Al-Sharif
A woman with the simple demand:
I need to drive in my daily life.Before coming to Little Rock, I had had dissidents on the brain due to the first award of the Vaclav Havel Award for Creative Dissent. I was moved by Vaclav Havel and his friends' simple desire to live in freedom when I lived in the Czech Republic. Now, a generation later, I was fascinated by the lady who so eloquently described what the simple ability to drive in her daily life would mean to her. I find the idea that anyone would deny her that, unimaginable.
Dan Choi
Former U.S. Army Officer and
American dissident
who worked to end
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'
the policy demanding gays lie about their identity
while serving their countryI thought about Dan Choi, the gay West Point-educated Arab linguist, who had the simple desire to serve his country in the American military. He was discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for being gay at a time when our country could have used every single Arab linguist available.
Elizabeth Eckford's dignified and quiet demand:
"I want to go to a good school."
Live in freedom and safety, drive, serve one's country. Another simple wish from history, this time from Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957: go to a good school. Regular people asking their society to grant them dignity and equality. It's stunning what humanity puts them through when they ask for it.
Global Dissident Eve Ensler
demanding that peopleWho are the dissidents pushing buttons in your country or culture? If they are pushing for change and meeting resistance, what is they want that seems so outlandish? How do you and I evaluate whether or not our own attitudes are on the right side of history? For example, I find the American political party, the Tea Party, often 'pushes my buttons.' But if you boil down their demands to one thing, "live within our means as a nation," that doesn't seem outlandish, does it?
all over the world
rise up and change the global paradigm
on violence against women.
all over the world
rise up and change the global paradigm
on violence against women.
I always want to make sure I'm on the right side of history. Their single demand deserves respect in my book, even though I don't always agree with how to get there.
6th generation Iowan and Eagle Scout
Zach Walls
demanding the State not discriminate
against his familyI leave you with the message of one last dissident asking for respect. He's from my home state of Iowa. All he wanted, was for Iowa lawmakers not to write discrimination against his parents into the State of Iowa constitution. His name is Zach Walls. Seems like a simple enough request, doesn't it?
What dissidents 'push your buttons' in your country? Do you agree with their cause or disagree? How do you decide whether or not you are a barrier to progress (one way to look at it) or a steward of traditional values (another way to look at it)? I ask to learn. This difference between these two ways of seeing things is at the heart of so much of our political hearthaches. Let's listen to each other.
I see what the people of Little Rock achieved when they thought of themselves as "us:" together they built the most beautiful high school in the United States of America the year it was built. When they chose to think of themselves as "us" and "them" what did they achieve?


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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
The Family and Local History Handbook 13
While in London at Who Do You Think You Are, Live I was one of several hundred people who picked up the 13th edition of The Family and Local History Handbook. That's in advance of the official release on 30 May 2011.
The Handbook is rather like a genealogy magazine, but a bumper one, an annual edition. At 450 pages and weighing 800 grams (1-3/4 pounds) its a sizable volume.
The first 232 pages, 60 articles, run the gamut from straightforward information such as "General Register Office – Certificate Services", to descriptions of institutions such as "The Jews' Free School" and events such as "The Wreck of the Royal Charter", to the saga of "Henry Jenkins" who lived to see a total of nine monarchs on the English throne.
The next three short sections are on Welsh, Scottish, and Irish research respectively, a total of 36 pages. Then there's a section of five articles on digital genealogy, set off by being printed on blue paper, followed by 12 articles on military history.
The last major section, printed on yellow paper and comprising 90 pages is the Genealogical Services Directory. It has contact information for family history societies in the UK and overseas, libraries, record offices and archives, registrars of births deaths and marriages, probate records registries and sub registries, cemeteries and crematoria, museums, military museums, and police records and museums. The information given is usually the organization name, mailing address, website, and sometimes e-mail address.
A full table of content is at http://www.genealogical.co.uk/flhh13.html
The cover price is 10 pounds, plus 12 pounds for p&p outside Europe. Order at www.genealogical.co.uk
If there's nothing new to you in this volume you're probably ready for that family history credentials examination.
4 comments:
Why isn't this available on CD?
- 22 March, 2011 08:54
- JDR said...
The handbook can also be pre-ordered at Amazon.ca for $15.98 & is eligible for free shipping (for orders over $25).
- 22 March, 2011 11:03
- Cannuk said...
Yes, it is cheaper at Amazon.ca but it has not been released yet. If you are depending on timely directory entries, this may be a concern for you. The articles, however, in these handbooks are always excellent. For my birthday/Christmas my husband got me the CD Omnibus set of editions 1 - 10 and I love it. I agree with DWP. Gosh, I wish this came out annually on CD or as a download as well.
- 22 March, 2011 15:29
- Family Tree Sleuth said...
H, just to let you know, there's a Twitter account for this as well - http://twitter.com/#!/FamHistHandbook, maybe it's worth lobbying there for a CD copy. :)
- 23 March, 2011 07:08
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Historical:SoC 2009 student proposals
Student Proposals: Student info and short project synopsis, with link to a new Wiki page where the project is expanded in full detail. See template below:
- 1 MO Faruque Sarker: Handling very large images using VIPS
- 2 Lukáš Jirkovský
- 3 Prashant Kumar Aanand
- 4 León Moctezuma: QuickTimeVR Playback in VLC
- 5 Dev Ghosh: Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools
- 6 Yulia Kotseruba: Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
- 7 Mokhtar M. Khorshid: Accounting for Camera Movements
- 8 Tim Nugent
- 9 Seth Berrier: Simple Masking & Bracketed/HDR Exposure Stacks
- 10 James Legg: Enblend / Enfuse Gimp plugin
- 11 Sumit Sinha
- 12 Joe Templeman
- 13 Achin Agarwal
- 14 Satyajeet Singh
MO Faruque Sarker: Handling very large images using VIPS
- A second year PhD student at U of Wales, Newport under Robotic Intelligence Lab (my homepage at: http://ril.newport.ac.uk/sarker/index.php).
- Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10 x64, Pentium 4 3GHz, 32GB RAM
- I'm interested to work in processing large images in Hugin. We have got a 16 mega-pixel Prosilica GE4900C CCD camera for tracking about 30 mobile robots. It gives about 50MB image file per frame using a huge memory. I'm running my tracking algorithm on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 and got some nice results of tracking markers (http://ril.newport.ac.uk/sarker/index.php?pid=21).
Handling very large images using VIPS
Lukáš Jirkovský
- first year undergrad of University of West Bohemia
- Platform used for coding: Arch Linux, Pentium 4 Northwood 2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM
- Coding skills: C++, PHP, Java, Matlab
- Ghost removal for enfuse
- http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/stativ/t123797116006 Project proposal in Google's webapp
Prashant Kumar Aanand
- 2rd Year student pursuing a Bachelors in Architecture and Regional Planning at Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA.
- Coding platform : Ubuntu 8.10 * 32; Pentium 4; 3GHz; 2GB Ram.
- coding skills : c++, Java, Matlab.
- Hugin colour balancing :- introducing new features like temperature curves etc
- Hugin raw support : better modularization
León Moctezuma: QuickTimeVR Playback in VLC
- Enrolled last Semester Bachelor of Computer Science at [www.buap.mx Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla].
- Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10
- Project proposal on the VideoLAN Wiki
- Mentor (VLC): Most likely Antoine Cellier.
- Comentor (FreePV): Yuval Levy. Note: we're discussing this with VLC / Jean-Baptiste Kempf, including Wiimote navigation.
- http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/review/google/gsoc2009/leonox/t123831053541 Google webapp proposal
Dev Ghosh: Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools
- PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10, AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2 GB RAM, Eclipse
- Coding skills: C/C++, MATLAB, Python
- Possible Mentor: Daniel German
- Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools
- Google webapp Proposal Link: (Incomplete and can't edit right now. Please see wiki link above.) http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/dkg/t123865551999
Yulia Kotseruba: Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
- 4th year Computer Science student at University of Toronto studying Artificial Intelligence
- Coding Platform: Mac OS 10.5.6, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, XCode, Eclipse
- Coding skills: C/C++, Java, Python, Matlab, OpenGL, Prolog
- Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
- LightTwist
- http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/albiorix/t123854228105 Google proposal
Mokhtar M. Khorshid: Accounting for Camera Movements
- Holder of B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics from AUC (top of my class) and starting my master studies in Computer Science.
- Coding Platform: Vista 64-bit (as well as Windows XP 32-bit Professional & Ubuntu 8.10 on secondary machines), Quad Core 2.4 GHz, 6GB RAM, 8800 GTS graphics card, Visual Studio 2005/2008 .NET (in addition to Eclipse + GCC).
- Coding skills: Expert in C++ (10+ years), seasoned algorithm designer (ACM programming contestant that ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in various national and regional contests), I have experience with Computer graphics, OpenGL, and wxWidgets. Last year I participated in GSoC and built the wxWallCtrl, check an unofficial binary sample here: [1]. I am familiar with SVN, Perforce, and SourceSafe and most bug tracking systems.
- I am the lead software architect of the I2B game project ([2])
- Accounting for Camera Movements
- My GSoC proposal link is [3]. We are currently discussing concrete requirements since task may be altered.
Tim Nugent
- 3rd Year PhD student in Bioinformatics at University College London, UK
- Ubuntu and Centos Linux, with XP imprisoned in Vmware
- Coding skills: C/C++, Perl
- Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
- Bracketing Panorama Model
Seth Berrier: Simple Masking & Bracketed/HDR Exposure Stacks
(Sorry for the last minute addition. Hope I can find room among this qualified bunch!)
- 6th Year PhD student & Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science at University of Minnestoa, USA
- Main Coding Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 w/ Apple GNU Toolchain & Eclipse IDE, 15" MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4G mem, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
- Other Platforms:
- Win XP Pro w/ Visual C++ & VS .net, 2k5 or 2k8 OR MinGW & Eclipse IDE
- Other *nix platforms (Ubuntu & Solaris in particular) using basic GNU toolchain from shell
- Computer Science Knowledge:
- Veteran in C++ (with a bit of C#, Java, Perl, LISP, StandardML, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, VB for Apps, HTML, Javascript)
- Very experienced in OpenGL, GLUT, Cg and general graphics algorithms
- Basic knowledge of Qt GUI programming & Qt Eclipse integration
- Experienced with Matlab and some LabVIEW
- Good Numerical Methods foundation with some practical experience
- Basic, non-theoretical experience in real-time image processing for computer vision (Hough transform, Canny edge detection, etc)
- Simple Masking & Bracketed/HDR Exposure Stacks
James Legg: Enblend / Enfuse Gimp plugin
- I'm in the third and final year of a Computer Science and Mathmatics BSc at the University of York, in the United Kingdom.
- Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10, Pentium dual-core 2GHz, 2GB RAM
- The Enfuse / Enblend Gimp plugin will allow a user of the Gimp to use the Enblend or Enfuse algorithms to merge layers of an image through the Gimp's menu or using a Gimp script.
Sumit Sinha
- 2rd Year student pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA
- Coding Platform: Vista 32-bit, Dual Core 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM, Visual Studio 2005/2008 .NET.
- Coding skills: C/C++, JAVA
- Better Algorithm for Seam Optimization in Enblend/Enfuse
- Hugin RAW support
Joe Templeman
- Studying at Imperial College London, 2nd Year Computing MEng student
- Main coding platform: Ubuntu 8.04: 2.66Ghz C2D E6750, 4GB RAM, Eclipse, GDB etc
- Alternative platforms include Windows XP, Dell D430, 1.2Ghz C2D ULV, 2GB RAM, Visual Studio 2005/2008, Eclipse
- Experienced C and Java, also C++, Haskell, Prolog
- Strong mathematical and theortical grounding including
- Logical/Inductive reasoning about programs
- Formal specifications
- Software engineering design patterns
Photography Skills:
- Nikon D50, D1H, 8mm Peleng fisheye, 15-30mm Sigma
- I've not been very active recently but I invested a lot of time into Hugin and panoramas in general and hosted a load on Flickr.
- I've also worked as a part time post-production photography consultant specialising in photo-stitching, specifically Hugin.
- http://www.bennorthover.com/folio4.html (The stereographic projections I assisted on are 3,4 and 5th and published as an advert in the economist)
- Mask editing built into hugin, moving on to a enblend plugin for gimp for further and more specific mask editing.
- googleapp proposal
Achin Agarwal
- Second year undergraduate student of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
- Coding Platform: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.53 GHz, 512 MB graphics card NVIDIA chipset2250, Windows XP, Visual Studio 2005/2008.
- Coding skills: C, C++, Java, OpenGL, MATLAB.
- Utility for creating a Philosphere.
Satyajeet Singh
- Final year undergraduate student at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University, New Delhi, India.
- Coding: Intel P4 3.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP, Fedora Core 9, Visual Studio 2008, OpenCV
- Coding Skills: C, C++, Visual Basic. I like coding and have developed recent interest in the field of Image Processing in last 10 months.
Photography Skills:
- Canon 7.2 Mega Pixel Camera
- Yes, I do photograph panaroma
You and Us:
- Open Source Projects:
- OMR-AI: Low cost OMR processing solution
- DEDUCTO: A board game for OLPC
- Vision of Project: Many a times when creating panoramas, there may be moving objects and high exposure difference which can disturb resulting panorama. I wish to create a continuous tone panorama.
Dynamic Image Stitching with High Exposure Difference


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The video at TRI is captured on Sony PMV-EX3 cameras. The imaging devices in these camcorders are three 1/2 –inch CMOS sensors that allow us to produce video in full HD resolution of 1920x1080. In the edit room the live video can be cut on a Panasonic AV- HS450N HD/SD video switcher. The switcher's Multi-Viewer function allows us to display up to 20 different images on two monitors, which we use as a virtual monitor wall. The program video from the switcher is sent to our web streaming servers and to an AJA Kona LHi capture card on a Mac Pro. Using Final Cut Pro, the video is captured, stored and ready to edit.
TRI Studios utilizes a secure highly scalable streaming platform that has the ability to broadcast high bitrate HD video with fast video start-up times and uninterrupted playback at HD bitrates. TRI features 2 Digital Rapids StreamZHD encoders and broadcasts using the H.264 video codec at 720p, 30 frames per second with AAC audio. We also utilize two high redundancy/high-capacity all fiber (primary & backup) networks that offer maximum streaming throughput to its end users. Because TRI uses the largest live HD CDN, video is delivered faster and more consistent than any other network and is fully integrated with support across Flash, iPhone and iPad with detailed analytics.
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Sony PMV-EX3 cameras w/ (4) 32GB and (2) 16GB SxS memory cards [x3]
Sony RM-B150 camera RCUs [x2]
Sachler tripods with fluid pan-heads [x2]
20 ft. straight dolly track
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Digital Rapids StreamZHD video streaming servers [x2]
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7 750W Arri Chimera
10 750W Source Fair Jr spots
2 Arri Soft2000 softlights
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Food and Wine's Hawaii Picks for People's Best New Chef
By Martha Cheng
From left: Chris Kajioka, Kevin Lee, Sheldon Simeon
The public doesn't get much of a say in most national Best Chef awards. But Food and Wine's annual People's Best New Chef contest gives you a chance to cast your vote.
In the Northwest and Pacific region (100 chefs were picked out of 10 geographic regions), three Hawaii chefs made the cut:
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Murray Hill & New Providence, New Jersey, U.S., August 11, 2010 – Linde North America has begun production at one of its newest plants, which makes carbon dioxide (CO2) from ethanol in Fulton, New York.
Linde North America is a member of The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company. The new 600 ton-per-day CO2 plant is located at the Sunoco ethanol plant, housed in a former brewery in the Riverview Business Park, some 25 miles north of Syracuse.
"This plant enhances our ability to provide a reliable supply of CO2 to our customers in the Northeast. Linde now has the largest CO2 production capacity in the region – over 1200 tons a day," said Pat Murphy, president, Linde North America.
Sunoco's Fulton plant is the largest ethanol plant in the Northeast, using some 41 million bushels of corn, much of it grown locally, as feedstock to produce approximately 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. More than 65 workers are employed by Sunoco, Linde and the project's other on-site partner-suppliers.
Michael G. McKee, general manager of Sunoco's ethanol business, said, "Sunoco's partnership with Linde is good for the environment and the local economy. Capturing, processing, and re-selling CO2 will mean more jobs for the local economy and further position our ethanol facility as one of the nation's cleanest and greenest."
Linde's plant, which produces CO2 for use in food, beverage and chemical manufacturing, captures CO2 emissions from the ethanol plant that would otherwise be vented into the atmosphere. Linde purifies and liquefies the CO2 for sale to customers located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England.
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CO2 comes from a variety of sources including ethanol plants, oil refineries, ammonia plants and natural wells. U.S. cleaner fuels legislation has boosted the growth of fuel ethanol production for use as a gasoline additive.
The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2009 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 11.2 billion (USD 15.3 billion). The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.
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