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Liar, Liar, Your Truth is on Fire
Roswell Oxymoron: An Honest Ufologist
When it comes to the Roswell Incident, ever notice how ufologists who sell related books and DVD's insist they only tell 'the truth'? It's never a case of them being 'fairly certain' or 'pretty damn sure'. They claim they absolutely speak the truth, and yet ironically, they lie.
Take Jesse Marcel Sr. for instance. Although he passed away in 1986, the former intelligence major from Roswell Army Air Field who supposedly recovered a flying saucer in 1947 started telling 'the truth' about himself sometime during 1978.
Marcel apparently made many spectacular claims.
• He earned a physics degree from George Washington University
• He also attended LSU, NYU, and OSU
• He shot down 5 enemy airplanes
• He was an aid to General Hap Arnold
• Hap Arnold decided Marcel should go to intelligence school
• He was awarded 5 air medals
• A pilot since 1928, he logged over 3,000 hours flying time
• He wrote the report Truman read 'on air' confirming Russia's 1st atomic detonation
Unfortunately for hapless boob Marcel, researcher Robert Todd acquired Marcel's military records and, except for 2 air medals, proved his claims were lies. Predictably, people wondered—if Jesse Marcel Sr. would embellish his education and military record, did he bend 'the truth' about his flying saucer?
Still, ufologists tell us Marcel was an illustrious military officer. However, according to researcher Bruce Hutchison, Roswell's base commander Colonel Blanchard ranked Jesse Marcel Sr. last or second-to-last compared to other officers in 509th.
Marcel Opened the Floodgates
When they realized the money they could make from a great hoax, other Roswell ufologists started concocting their own versions of 'the truth'. Gerry Anderson's 'truth' involved forging documents and a diary, and creating his phony 'archaeologist'. Jim Ragsdale changed the location of his official flying saucer crash site at least once. Barney Barnett's wife proved he was nowhere near the Plains of San Agustin during the second week of July 1947.
Glenn Dennis (one of the biggest Roswell B.S.ers) couldn't remember the name of a mysterious nurse who told him 'the truth' about dead aliens at Roswell Army Air Field. In fact, his memory was so bad, he didn't remember anything about the dead aliens or his nurse friend until Jesse Marcel Sr. got his 'truth' published in a 1978 edition of everyone's favorite you-can-take-that-to-the-bank publication, the National Inquirer. What luck for ol' Glenny—somehow the thought of fame and fortune jogged his memory.
NOTE: The fact Dennis co-owned a UFO museum is a conflict of interest—his Roswell claims are tainted.
Stan 'the Buffoon' Friedman's truth included a forged MJ-12 document. Don 'the Dope' Schmitt kinda sorta omitted the truth about his credentialsto his now ex-partner Kevin Randle.
Speaking of 2 of the most negligent Roswell researchers (and it's no small trick to rise above other ufologists when it comes to negligence), Randle and Schmitt's superstar witness Frank Kaufmann turned out to be a lot less than truthful. I wonder if Randle and Schmitt (neither of whom probably know how to spell the word 'truth') expect us to think they learned from their mistakes. I wonder if they now verify everything before reporting it. I wonder if we can trust them.
NOTE: Kaufmann's fraudulent 'truth' resulted in a profitable book, but I doubt authors Randle and Schmitt gave refunds.
Not to be outdone by any of these other ufologists, Marcel started telling bigger 'truths' about his close encounter. He described the sticks from a demolished radar wind (rawin) target as wooden members from a sophisticated flying saucer. But wouldn't you know it—skeptics (those darned noisy negativists) scoffed. They asked ridiculous questions like why wooden components would be present in, or part of, a sophisticated flying saucer.
Good thing his son Jesse Marcel Jr. set the record straight. Despite waking from a dead sleep at 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. to look at the load of crap his father brought home for all of 15 or 20 minutes in 1947, Jesse Jr. says the sticks were actually metallic I-beams. He remains the only first-hand witness who claimed to know 'the truth' about those beams.
Jesse Marcel Sr. also said the alien spacecraft must have exploded in midair because he walked the area in broad daylight and observed no sign of impact on the ground. However, we know the saucer made a gigantic gouge when it crashed because the all-knowing ufologists (although they weren't there at the time and can't even agree where the saucer crashed) claim they interviewed a guy who died 20 years ago but signed an affidavit stating he'd overheard an MP saying he and his friend were getting bombed at the officers mess when the friend or a drunk at another table mentioned something about a slight turf rupture at some ranch where there might have been a few sheep.
And Marcel never mentioned any high security effort to recover what he left behind at the sheep ranch, nor did he mention the airplane loads of flying saucer debris flown out of Roswell. However, we know what really happened because our esteemed ufologists have told us conflicting stories about what a big deal the saucer was that day. Or was it several saucers over several days?
Marcel must have also forgotten about all the dead (or maybe alive) aliens he found at the crash site (or maybe observed at the base during the autopsies). Again, thank heaven the ufologists corrected that oversight.
'Truth' Will Set You Free – Especially if it's Profitable
And it doesn't matter than none of these ufologists even heard of Roswell until 1978, 31 years later. All that matters is they're setting us straight on 'the truth'.
As a side note, Jesse Marcel Sr. was telling 'the truth' when he disclosed the results of the sledgehammer test—that the metal debris from his crashed saucer couldn't be dented by a 16 pound sledgehammer. Of course he didn't witness the test or say who performed the test or even explain why it proved he recovered a flying saucer. Nevertheless, I'm certain our honest friends the ufologists can dream up a suitable 'truth'.
Source: UFOs Are Real (1979) Full Documentary, 37:00 minute mark on YouTube
In fact, they straightened out Jesse Marcel Sr. on another little point. According to ufologists who make money from the Roswell Hoax, err, I mean the Roswell Incident, Marcel Sr. did not tell the truth about the flying saucer debris at Ramey's press conference. Marcel said the junk Ramey called 'weather balloon debris' and displayed at his press conference in Texas on July 8, was the same debris he (Marcel) retrieved a day earlier from the sheep ranch.
"The newsmen saw very little of the real material, very small portion of it. And none of the really important things like these members that had these hieroglyphics on them. They (the newsmen) wanted me to tell them about it and I couldn't say anything. And when the General came in, he told me not to, to say anything—that he would handle it."
Partial transcription of Jesse Marcel Sr.'s video interview. Source: UFOs Are Real (1979) Full Documentary, 39:30 minute mark on YouTube
Yep! Jesse Marcel Sr. said it was the same stuff but luckily ufologists like Dennis Balthaser, Jesse Marcel Jr., Stan 'the Buffoon' Friedman, Don 'the Dope' Schmitt, Rich Dolan, and Kevin Randle, all say the debris was switched as part of the cover-up conspiracy.
Thank heaven all these upstanding ufologists are willing to share 'their various truths' because if the debris wasn't switched, that would prove Jesse Marcel Sr. didn't recover a flying saucer.
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Pokémon Black and White had one goal: to recreate the feeling of wonder and awe many of us felt over a decade ago when first setting out to be the very best on our Game Boy bricks.
So, the setting was new: Unova, a locale based on the urban metropolis of New York. Naturally, the enemy was also new: Team Plasma, a surprisingly nuanced villain who sought to liberate Pokémon from humans. And most importantly, all 150 of the Pokémon featured in the game were fresh.
The knowledge we had accumulated over the years could only take us so far in the new instalment — it was as if Nintendo was responding to the constant criticism that the Pokémon games were too samey.
So here was a game that shook things up a little, without changing the core formula that made the Pokémon games so wildly popular.
Now, less than two years later, Nintendo is following it up with the DS games Pokémon Black Version 2 and White Version 2 — the first title in the main Pokemon franchise to be a direct sequel. Why a sequel instead of a third color? Who knows. What's more clear is that Nintendo is less keen on reinventing the wheel and more interested in refining, if not adding to what worked in Black and White.
Last week I sat down with some folk from Nintendo in San Francisco, who showed me where Pokémon is headed next.
Turns out, we're still in Unova, only some things have changed. There's new locations and new gyms, since Black and White 2 takes place some time after the first game. Enough time for Unova to become populated with older Pokémon, like Evee.
Old characters find themselves in new situations, all of which will be revealed to the player through vignettes. N, the old leader of Team Plasma for instance, has let go of their old Pokémon — and the player can capture them. Awesome.
The game takes save data from Black and White to determine which of these vignettes to show, granting the game a sense of development.
Oh, and Team Plasma is now pirate-themed instead of templar-esque. Yeah.
One of the new locations is Pokéstar Studios, which takes inspiration from Burbank, California: otherwise known as the media capital of the world. Fame awaits in Pokéstar Studios, where players can create their own Pokémon movies — with green screens and everything.
It seems like the logical progression of earlier Pokémon offerings, where players could enter Pokémon into beauty pageants. That sort of thing is too small town for a place like Unova though, right? Upgrading to movie stardom makes complete sense.
Players are given scripts which they can follow (or not!), through something that resembles a choose your own adventure book. In one particular scene, my character was asked to respond to a villain's monologue about world-takeover. Feeling silly, I told my character to say "I'm scared!" The judgmental audience wasn't very amused — I was supposed to be a hero!
Different movie genres can be unlocked as the player advances, and the movies can be watched after they're recorded, too. I was also told that an old gym leader gave up his profession to become a director — so players will be welcomed to a familiar face.
Everything else I was shown seemed similar to Pokéstar Studios in that they are neat little distractions from the main game.
There's Pokémon World Tournament, which seems similar to earlier games' Battle Zone. It's a special location where we can battle other trainers to earn "Battle Points" (or BP). These BP can be redeemed for special items if not Pokemon.
What's new about the World Tournament is that it includes all previous leaders from older games — like Brock and Misty. Also noteworthy is the fact that real-life Pokémon champions will be uploaded to the game for players to battle against. Sounds hardcore, and great for those that want to see what their own Pokémon are really made of.
And like all Pokémon games, there has to be a crazy shopping centre — enter Join Avenue. Join Avenue is a social market where players can connect with friends and strangers alike over Wi-Fi. These folk will occupy the storefronts, which is neat. The stores themselves can level up, granting the player discounts.
Gamified shopping and the pursuit of stardom? This is a modern Pokémon, alright.
One of the new features I most look forward to is, surprisingly, the Pokédex. Normally Pokémon is the type of game where I refer to a FAQ often — what Pokémon can I find on this route and when? Which Pokémon am I missing? Now the Pokédex indexes the different Pokémon habitats, allowing you to see all the Pokémon living in any given route. You'll know exactly when you're done capturing all the Pokémon in an area without leaving the game. That's useful.
And the most bizarre thing I was shown had to be a 3DS-only AR game called Dream Radar that is acquired through the eShop. Get this: you use the camera to capture Pokémon 'floating around' in the air. Uh, well, I guess this is one way of making my childhood dream of having Pokémon bleed out into the real world become true…
Initially, most of these seemed like pointless additions to the game. Thinking about it more though, I realised that most of my time in Pokémon games was spent with 'frivolous' inclusions, like gardening. I wouldn't be surprised if I was sucked into making my Pikachu into the star he was destined to be, or in making sure my best friends commanded their own stores. It'll be a welcome breather from the main quest, at least.
Though not branded under a colour, Black and White 2 seems to promise what the third title in each Pokémon release offers: refinement and expansion. That might make Black and White 2 the title worth owning out of all three. We'll be able to properly access that on October 7, 2012 — when the game drops on the DS.


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At least 15 patrols from a dozen different countries sang "Happy Birthday" to me on Monday. One problem, though. My birthday's in June.
In fact, the patrols were participating in the Viking world's "Forgetful Musician" task at the World Scout Jamboree.
For variety's sake, I was moved from A-Frames to the singing event. I'd be happy with any job out here, but it was nice to see a different Viking-themed activity and work with other International Service Team (IST) members.
Here's the challenge: Patrols are shown six pictures of different objects, and they must sing songs that incorporate those pictures. There's a birthday cake (hence "Happy Birthday"), a sun, a campsite, a fire, a flower, and a globe.
They can write their own song, change lyrics to an existing song, or just sing one that already uses the pictured words. They're also allowed to sing in their own language, meaning that even if I heard the same song from multiple patrols, I heard it a new way each time.
Hearing 10 Scouts from Thailand sing to me in their native language is another one of those "only at the World Scout Jamboree" experiences. I'll also never forget the Belgian Scouts who, not knowing exactly what they were saying in English, chose a tune with lyrics too explicit to post here. Oops!
On the town: Yesterday, during a rare off day for the clan from Viking world, we took a jamboree-sponsored bus into the nearest large town, Kristianstad.
It's a charming, walkable town with tree-lined streets, pedestrian-only passageways, tons of bicyclists, and lots of bookstores, shops, and restaurants.
Oh, and there's laser tag. Yep, 12 of my newest friends and I spent an hour at a local laser tag arena, shooting each other in the shoulder, back, and stomach and amassing as many points as possible until we were drenched.
But you know, after a week of sweat-inducing sawing, drilling, and lashing, it was nice to move the perspiring indoors—at least for an hour. Tomorrow, it's back to the Viking world to entertain and challenge several thousand more Scouts.


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Dancing tango since: Jose started taking tango lessons about 10 years ago. Although he left it for salsa, tango was still in his soul. In 2009 he reconnected with his inner tanguero.
Why tango: During his salsa days, Jose met Cari who later became his wife. They decided to take tango lessons together and enjoyed a beautiful wedding dance.
Favorite part: "I get a lot of satisfaction when I encounter someone I don't know on the dance floor and we can have a 'conversation' " he says.
About Debbie & John: Jose appreciates that they teach very difficult material "gently." He describes their technique as simple and clean … "I'm really happy to be in their hands." Jose recalls when he first met Debbie and John and noticed their rapport. "I fell in love," he says. "They're not only good dancers and teachers, they're good together."
Anything else: Jose will have a leading role in the upcoming student production, Close Embrace: A Tango Love Story. He hopes to give the audience something that will inspire them to explore tango. "I want them to walk out thinking they saw something special."
Last word: While he is a little envious that the Argentines invented tango, he says his native Chile has better empanadas.


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As recently as earlier this month, we speculated that Nokia may not make it to 2014. And that wasn't just a random prediction—it's no secret Nokia's revenues have been tanking for some time now. The company's rating was downgraded in April 2012, which prompted the Finnish giant to sell its corporate headquarters (only to lease them back again) as a way to get some much-needed cash in early December 2012.
But investors were happily surprised on Thursday morning, when Nokia announced its fourth-quarter 2012 results were much better than expected—with its quarterly sales reaching 86.3 million devices, including 6.6 million smartphones. Two-thirds of those were Windows-based Lumia phones.
Combined with other services, quarterly sales reached €3.9 billion ($5.09 billion), which sent shares soaring by 16 percent, reaching nearly €3.50 per share by mid-afternoon in Europe. Overall however, Nokia's stock lost 22 percent on the year in 2012, its fifth consecutive annual decline.
"This is clearly very positive news from Nokia as it both shows that the company's new Lumia product launches are performing well and that the [Nokia Siemens Networks] business has gained good momentum," Louis Landeman, an analyst at Danske Bank A/S in Stockholm, told Bloomberg. "The company's restructuring programs are reducing costs faster than expected."
The news agency also noted that the cost of insuring Nokia's bonds using credit-default swaps—a type of quasi-financial insurance—has been cut in half since July, reaching 610 basis points by the end of Thursday in London.


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The Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants
Virtual assistants are being called on to unsnarl people's lives. WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger has the pros and cons of a virtual assistant, and Profitably.com CEO Adam Neary shares how a virtual assistant helped him get his life back. Photo: Getty Images.
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A new report will be presented to the United Nations General Assembly in September which provides governments with a sound basis for deciding this fall whether and how to establish an assessment process for better understanding ocean processes through an integrated framework.
The findings of the first phase of the Regular Global Marine Assessment Process were presented by a team of experts at a meeting earlier this week organized by IUCN and hosted by WWF. The aim of this process would be to provide a global overview of regional, sectoral and thematic marine assessments which will give marine scientists and policy makers a more complete picture of what's happening to the world's oceans and help to pave the way towards more in-depth, multi-sectoral, ecosystem-based assessments that not only address environmental risks and consequences but also the impacts of environmental changes on human society.
The report, which outlines options and recommendations for the UN General Assembly, explains how a Regular Process could inform decision-makers at all levels, alerting them to new and emerging issues or common problems found in different regions, and highlighting how to create more cost-effective, collaborative international programs to meet research, data collection and capacity-building needs for marine assessment. From one cycle to the next of the Regular Process, methods and approaches can be improved to enhance the comparability, compatibility and integration across the world's oceans.
"Examining several hundred existing marine assessment processes gives an idea of the building blocks available for the Regular Process and the best practices it should follow," explains Lee Kimball, former Senior Ocean Governance Advisor for IUCN and co-author of the report. "It became clear that if we want assessment products to be influential with decision-makers, we need to get the process right. That means a process that enhances policy relevance and is perceived as credible and legitimate by governments and other stakeholders around the world," Kimball continues.
Although the report found robust data on living marine resources and water quality worldwide with strong international networks, social and economic assessments for marine activities and coastal communities were clearly lacking in many areas, an analysis that is clearly of interest for policy-makers.
The start-up phase of the Regular Process consisted of an ad hoc Steering Group to oversee the process (governments and international bodies), an international Group of Experts to produce the report including Lee Kimball and Dr. Andrew A. Rosenberg, from the University of New Hampshire, plus two international bodies -- the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO -- to co-lead the start-up phase and provide support.
"After eight years of hard work by dozens of experts, it is gratifying to see the completion of this product. Now the challenge is to find the resources and political will to implement these excellent ideas," says Thomas Laughlin, Deputy Head of IUCN's Global Marine Programme who has been involved in the process since 2001 as part of his capacity at NOAA.
Mary Beth West, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries chaired the meeting and was accompanied by a panel of experts including her successor, David Balton and Acting Deputy Director of NOAA's office of International Affairs, Elizabeth McLanahan. Helen Fox, Senior Marine Scientist at WWF-US also commented on the presentations.
The establishment of a Regular Process was approved in principle by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002, following endorsement by the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. At the end of 2005 after further international discussions and consultations, the UN General Assembly agreed on the start-up phase, which would lay the groundwork for the establishment of the Regular Process.
The summary for decision-makers and the full report are available in pre-release form at www.unga-regular-process.org.


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A Kansas gymnastics team was docked one point at the state championship meet—enough to drop them from first to third in the final standings—because their coach made an "illegal inquiry." She asked was the score was.
Shawnee Mission Northwest High School actually posted the best score at the Girls State Gymnastics Championships (103.950) which should have given them a victory of less one half point over rivals Lawrence Free State and Newton (who were tied at 103.525). However, their head coach "inquired about her team's scores on the balance beam after the 5-minute window in which coaches are allowed to do so from the time scores reach the judge's table after a rotation." The coach says "she gave verbal intent to inquire within the 5-minute window," which makes even less sense than the rule that she allegedly broke. Shouldn't the window really be 3 minutes and 14 seconds? That's just common sense, people!
This whole thing probably makes sense to some gymnastics expert out there, but will sound pretty pointless and arbitrary to dummies like me who don't get why teams with the highest score don't always win. Losing—and winning—on a rule violation that has nothing to do with the actual competition cheapens the game and drives reasonable people bonkers. But it does give old people (me again) something to gripe about so keep them coming.
Railer gymnasts tie for title [Pic via The Newton Kansan]
SM Northwest gymnasts lose state title amid controversy [Varsity Sports]
Surprise! Firebirds share state gymnastics crown [Lawrence Journal World]
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ALL Settings require Panasonic firmware v1.11 & ptools 3.64D '200212' OR 3.65d required). Settings for GH2 & GFx Lumix cameras.
01-07-2012 NEW Driftwood 'DREWnet' Cluster v6 GOP 12/15 Released - With adapted Sedna and Orion matrix on different rec modes with superior reliability on 24p, HBR, 1080i and 720p modes over most other settings - A truly exceptional setting!
23-06-2012 Driftwood 'Globular' Cluster v5.1 released - variation uses the Sedna matrix on the I frames of the GOP (see below) - Cluster 5.1 12/15 GOP settings.
21-06-2012 Driftwood 'Globular' Cluster v5 released (see below) - Cluster 12/15 GOP settings.
14-06-2012 NEW Crossfire variations released (see below) - GOP1 mixed with Cluster settings and adapted Canis/Sedna matrices
12-06-2012 Cluster v4 pack released - A variety of different GOPs for you to try.
06-06-2012 NEW Quantum 9b Updated released - Updated & adjusted with Sedna adapted Matrix.
05-06-2012 Cluster v3 released - Improvements all round with Sedna adapted Matrix.
These settings are dedicated to VK @Vitaliy_Kiselev (master in control) and Chris Brandin @cbrandin (thee font of information).
Driftwood Sedna 'Settings' - Release 15th March 2012, 01:30am
Stats: 24p Intra, 1080i/HBR Intra, 720 GOP3/GOP6 all settings as Orion with Sedna Matrices:-
A = High Detail matrix Good for Wide full detail shots.
B = Good allround detail matrix Great all round wide / mid shots.
C = Softer detail matrix Softer skin tonal detail.
Two packs, one at Quantisation 20 (default), the other AQ1 (pushed the Quantisation and bitrate further still). Note: AQ2 to 4 is unnecessary. Q20 is REALLY pushing the Quantisation to best levels without having to use AQ. Q20 Bitrate is measured to detail and will achieve in places AQ3 or AQ4 size bitrates without distorting Q so much as before.
Driftwood Mysteron. - Released 29th March 2012
'Mysterious' Top notch 24pH Intra setting with deblocking. 720p50/60 (GOP3/6) Working and spanning. HBR / 1080i INTRA. Plus special burst mode setting of Mysteron giving 170M+ recordings and 900k Intra frame sizes at 5 secs hi detail, longer at less detail.
CLUSTER v6 'Nebular' - Sedna/Orion Optimised GOP 6 on PAL & NTSC Superb reliability setting on all REC MODES with great IQ. Cluster v6 6 GOP Variation 'Nebular'. Again, primed for a target Qp of 16. After another week's research and beta testing by my test team (with special kudos to @evanflys, @luxis, @Zaven13, @konjow, @onionbrain and @conscius please find attached Cluster v6 - the 6 GOP variation of the previously released 'DREWnet' setting at 12/15 GOP.
The two settings (DREWnet info below this one) share striking similarities in the matrix and the only real difference is the GOP, the 'GOP Related' weighting of bitrate to i, p and b frames, and bitrate to produce a rate control that increases overall bitrate by around 25%. HBR/1080i certainly looks even better. But let YOU be the judge.
Achieves 80+ M bitrate at 24p resolving beautiful pictures and motion,
Avg 40M+ on highest detail for HBR/1080i with reliability on all modes inc. iDynamic, iA, Etc...
Avg 50M+ on highest detail for 720p resolving great looking IQ and motion. Again tested on iA and iDynamic High settings.
Hi quality MJPEG 2k
Superior audio from thepalalias at 'pasadenapulse.net'.
CLUSTER v6 'DREWnet' - Sedna/Orion Optimised classic GOP 12/15 PAL/NTSC Superb reliability setting on all REC MODES with great IQ. Best of the 12/15 GOP Clusters to date - by far. A lot of effort has gone into testing these settings many thanks goes out to the following personal view beta testers;- disastronaut, evanflys, feha, thepalalias, MatsWedin, luxis, konjow, onionbrain, Frame, conscius, pichidominguez, brant_moore, fil2, and jellybaby. Well done!
Achieves 70+ M bitrate at 24p resolving beautiful pictures and motion,
Avg 30M on highest detail for HBR/1080i with reliability on all modes inc. iDynamic, iA, Etc...
Avg 40M+ on highest detail for 720p resolving great looking IQ and motion. Again tested on iA and iDynamic High settings.
Hi quality MJPEG 2k
Superior audio from thepalalias at 'pasadenapulse.net'.
CLUSTER v5.1 'Globular' - Sedna Optimised classic GOP 12/15 PAL/NTSC As below with improvements and Sedna Matrix on the I frames of each REC Mode.
CLUSTER v5 'Globular' - Top notch classic GOP 12/15 PAL/NTSC - Wonderful quality at an affordable bitrate! This is THEE BEST setting out there at the moment apart from GOP1. Don't doubt it.
Achieves 90+ M bitrate at 24p on the highest of detail or running water...!
Needs only near 40M on highest detail for HBR/1080i.
Requires only near 60M on highest detail for 720p.
MJPEG 2k
Its just....nice! Great for documentary and event filming. Very good on running water and trees!
Great smooth matrix.
No shitslides on the buffers.
Bollox to putting up charts and videos - just see for yourself. Trust me.
You may wonder why Ive set bitrate upto 30% higher? If death charts come in at late 90Ms then I want to be sure this is not going to collapse if it goes slightly over that - highly detailed stress pictures like running water over submerged detail.
CLUSTER v4 PACK! - Well here is the cluster of GOPS you can now pick and choose between:-
1/ Cluster v4 - 3 GOP variation Q20. Good results at lower bitrate. All settings are 3 GOP. 24p 100M 1080i/HBR 40M (this can be pushed further to AQ2 if required.) 720 modes nearly 80M
2/ Cluster v4 - 6 GOP variation AQ on 1080 modes plus Q20 on 720p Aggressive 6 GOP bringing 116M 24p files. 68M 720 modes 50-60M 1080i/HBR modes
3/ Cluster v4 12/15GOP variation The classic GOP setting. Featuring longer recordings and durable spanning & which should work on most decent type 10 cards. 'Cluster12/15 GOP' For long duration recordings and failsafe operation using standard PAL 12 GOP and NTSC 15. GOP sizes. 90M 24p H Mode Long GOP 15/12(NTSC/PAL), 50M 24p L Mode Long GOP 15/12(NTSC/PAL), 60M FH/SH 720 Long GOP 15/12 (NTSC/PAL), 40M+ 1080i/HBR Long GOP 15/12 (NTSC/PAL), 36M F/H 1080i/HBR/720 Long GOP 15/12 (NTSC/PAL), Should work ok on 30MB/s cards or lower.
Cluster v4 (3 GOP variation setting)- Released 12th June 2012
24p 100M 1080i/HBR 40M (this can be pushed further to AQ2 if required.) 720 modes nearly 80M
Cluster v4 (12/15 GOP variation setting)- Released 12th June 2012
Longer Recordings & spanning Averages 80M 24p Avg 60M 720p Avg 40M 1080i/HBR Bitrate saving version of Cluster v4 using a longer GOP.
Cluster v4 (The ALL 6 GOP setting)- Released 8th June 2012 V4 now Cluster Matrix V High i frames on 24p (you cant get any higher on death charts) 116mbps avg, 80% mode works, Great HBR & Best quality 720p60/50, Good buffers. 2K HD resolution 2048 x 1152 pixels - Highest quality MJPEG, Highest qual mjpeg SD. Great Audio from Per Lichtmann once again. Don't expect In-camera playback - you'll get a few seconds at most to checkback but rest assured the files come across fine on the computer and play/NLE import fine too. These are highest quality/ highest bitrate for a long GOP especially in 24p. Trust me, the recordings are fine. However, here's the REAL deal. FCPX and Clipwrap WILL NOT correctly bring in over 1 hours of footage of 24p Cluster. The only one so far I have tested which correctly transcodes an 1 hour 10 minute 24p of continuous filming on a 64Gig card is Premiere Pro in AVCHD sequence setting. This proggie will correctly transcode to any format WITHOUT errors (though it could take upto a few hours) over any other. Though I havent been able to test Sony Vegas and anything else. This is the bane of Long GOPs.
Cluster v3 (The ALL 6 GOP setting)- Released 5th June 2012 V3 now using my Sedna adapted matrices (slightly changed here and there). V High i frames on 24p (you cant get any higher on death charts) 120+mbps, 80% mode works, V High HBR (800+ on death charts), v High quality 720p, 2K HD resolution 2048 x 1152 pixels - Highest quality MJPEG, Highest qual mjpeg SD. Great Audio from Per Lichtmann once again. NOW with in camera playback
Cluster v2a (12 GOP, 3 GOP & 6 GOP)- Released 31 May 2012
FOR LONG RECORDINGS. VBR Long GOP (12 GOP) edition of Driftwood matrix driving 24pH with deblocking and high i frames (1,180,000 sized i frames in 80% mode). HBR/1080i Modes pushing 24p modes. 720p (GOP6) Working and spanning. mjpeg mode- simply the best around. Inc. Per Lichtmann's (thepalalias) top quality all singing-all dancing and quite brilliant 'Pasadena Pulse' audio settings.
The original plain old Quantum v9b with AQ4 and AQ3! Ah, memories!!!
An updated version of Driftwood Quantum 9b (the old fav) for ptools v3.65d is added. The updated setting includes a Sedna adapted matrix and a few changes to the GOP Related structure but no big changes.
Note: The original does work under 3.65d.
Variation 1: VY Canis Majoris 'Skintone matrix' + Cluster Setting24p/HBR25p GOP1 Canis's 'Skin Tone matrix' meets Cluster v4 GOP3 720p/HBR modes.
Variation 2: VY Canis Majoris 'Green Screen matrix setting' + Cluster 24p/HBR 30p/25p GOP1 meets Cluster v4 GOP3 720p modes with adjusted I scaliing tables. Perfect looking buffers. Great setting. Recommend to use Standard profile and 320/160 ISO on flat lit Chroma Green screens or material.
Variation 3: VY Canis Majoris 'Night matrix setting' + Cluster 24p/HBR 30p/25p GOP1 meets Cluster v4 GOP12/15 720p modes with adjusted I scaliing tables. Perfect looking buffers. Another great crossbreed setting. Recommend to use Standard, Smooth or Vibrant picture profile.
More to be announced...
Driftwood Orion (v4d) 'Dark Matter' Matrix Pack + HBR FIX - CBR 'Settings' - Released 18:30pm 06/03/2012
Details: Featuring the new 'Dark Matter' matrix set (three version variations) based on current Orion Matrix with hi/lo freq adjustments. Plus 720p on 9/6 GOP. AQ is NOT required. This is a constant Q (Q8) CBR setting which performs measurably better than with AQ4 on. All other settings as before. INFO: Orion 4d with Dark Matter matrix pack. Three adjusted matrices to try out, all scaled from perceived HVS Great Quality (v1) to middle of these (v2) and perceived HVS Highest quality (v3). HVS = Human Visual System. This is sharper than the Orion matrix of yore which is still great but many of you wanted to pull out a few extra stops. Let's see if this helps YOU. Only other changes from Orion 4b are GOP Releated, 720p is 9/6 for NTSC/PAL.
Driftwood (v4b Orion) CBR 'Settings'- Released 00:15am 28/02/2012
INFO: Settings include;- Quantum v9b style constant bitrate patch with full AVC-INTRA Matrix ; Requires firmware v1.1 and ptools 3.64d '200212 dated' (*Not compatible with 180212 dated ptools); CBR style 154M INTRA 108024p; CBR style HBR & 1080i INTRA 100M+ Max; CBR Style GOP12(PAL)/GOP15(NTSC) 720p 50/60 - 80+ Max; AVC Intra Matrix all round; GOP related Adjustments for B frames; EX Tele and 80% mode support. SD_Card=V good Class 10; SanDisk Extreme HD Video recommended
Driftwood Quantum X v5b and v5c 'β Pictoris' (baby Quantum X) VBR & CBR versions 'Settings' - Released 10:30am, 01/03/2012
INFO: Two versions - 1) CBR constant Bitrate at 75M, 2) VBR Adaptive Bitrate 35-75M
There are actually four versions (two in each pack CBR/VBR versions) for you to try out of Pictoris, two different matrices - v5b is the new hybrid matrix, v5c is the Orion included matrix. with NEW Driftwood scaled Panasonic GH2 Matrix meets AVC-INTRA Matrix hybrid (somewhere in the middle of Orion matrix meets GH2 Stock matrix) inc;- Settings primed for 50/75M Standard Rec Modes plus additional 25M for Etc Mode, 1080p24 on INTRA 50/75M Standard/75M Etc Mode, 1080i50/60 INTRA 50M /75M Etc Mode, 720p50/60 GOP6/9 40/75M, Standard/75M Etc, MJPEG Highest Quality 1920&720 Mjpeg modes. Good standard SD card recommended
Two Zip files below contain the settings: Download all packs and try them out:
Driftwood Quantum X (v3b Rocket) RC VBR 'Settings' - RC Released 00:15am 28/02/2012
INFO: Settings include;- Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA on 1080p24 upto 154M; Adaptive Hi Bitrate 25p(50i PsF) upto 100M; Adaptive Hi Bitrate 30p (60i PsF) upto 100M+; Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA 1080i modes upto 100M+; Hi bitrate 720p modes on GOP 12/15 with B frames upto 50M safest; Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1920x1080 (720 compression mode); Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1280x720 (480 compression mode); EX Tele Mode support (will increase bitrate usage by around 20M); 80% on 1080p modes (will increase bitrate usage by around 25M)
Driftwood Quantum X 'SpanMyBitchUp' v2b - Released 10:15am 25/02/2012
INFO: Updated version of SpanMyBitchUp.
Settings include;- Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA on 1080p24 - upto 100M. (* Only for GH2); Adaptive Hi Bitrate 25p(50i PsF) INTRA - upto 100M; Adaptive Hi Bitrate 30p (60i PsF) INTRA - upto 100M; Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA 1080i modes - upto 100M; 720p modes on GOP 6 with B frames - upto 98M; Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1920x1080 (720 compression mode); Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1280x720 (480 compression mode); EX Tele Mode support; 80% on 1080p modes; 24L, 720/1080i FH/H settings on Trick mode (encoder calcs bitrate)
Driftwood Quantum X (v2 Rocket) 'Settings' - Released 22/02/2012
INFO: Adaptive bitrate settings. (See attached settings zip file below). Settings include;- Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA on 1080p24 - upto 154M. (* Only for GH2); Adaptive Hi Bitrate 25p(50i PsF) INTRA - upto 100M+; Adaptive Hi Bitrate 30p (60i PsF) INTRA - upto 120+; Adaptive Hi Bitrate INTRA 1080i modes - upto 120+; 720p modes on GOP 6 with B frames - upto 98M; Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1920x1080 (720 compression mode); Highest Quality tested MJPEG on 1280x720 (480 compression mode); EX Tele Mode support; 80% on 1080p modes; AVC INTRA Matrix on I Frame coding with Flat 16 Matrix on P/B frames
Q. Where do I get firmware v1.11 and ptools 3.65d?
A. All the neccessary links are available here at top of page 1:
Q. How do I load Quantum settings & firmware v1.11 into ptools 3.65d?
A. See below - its simple.
simply make a new folder on a pc call it 'Quantum'.
Depending on which camera you own do the following;-
GH2 Users: Copy Panasonics official GH2 firmware v1.11 (GH2__V11.bin) into that folder. (You can download this firmware from Panasonics offical site at http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/dl/gh2.html)
GF2 Users: Copy Panasonics official GF2 firmware v1.11 (GF2__V11.bin) into that folder. (You can download this firmware from Panasonics offical site at http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/dl/gf2.html)
Download latest ptools v3.65d from the 'ptools 3.65d' thread link (http://www.gh1-hack.info/ptool3d.zip) and copy that into the folder too.
Download the Quantum patches (white looking documents found at the bottom of the above sections) and unzip them to a 'Quantum' named folder.
NOW run ptools, then load the firmware v1.11 (GH2__V11.bin for GH2 users or GF2__V11.bin for GF2 users) when it asks, now you'll see Quantum settings highlighted in Green (hover mouse over B and G buttons) click on either, whichever you wanna try.
One youve selected your fav' Quantum setting then click on SAVE FIRMWARE button and save the patched firmware to your sdcard naming it higher than the original GH2__V11.bin (GF2__V11.bin for GF2) firmware (makes sense yeah!) for example 'GH2__V12.bin' (GF2__V12.bin for GF2) when asked.
Load the new firmware from the sdcard to your camera by inserting sdcard, switch on camera, press the green-marked triangular ► 'Play' button once, Answer yes, to update your firmware. Note: Make sure youve got a fully charged battery before doing this update.
Done! Film away! *Please note you WILL NOT see any cosmetic changes in the menu system of the camera - but rest assured, the Quantum settings are all loaded & working hidden, under the bonnet of the camera ;-)
HOW TO PUT IT BACK TO STOCK SETTINGS AGAIN? You can always go back to stock settings by simply UNCHECKING all the boxes in ptools (or by clicking any unused red button, A to J) and saving the edited firmware back to your sdcard and reupdating. oR, RENAMING the original firmware from GH2__V11.bin to GH2__V12.bin and flashing it to your camera. Easy.
All basic and beginners questions about the hack can be found here http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/
Cluster V2e looks great. With some more testing I could see this quickly becoming my new go-to setting for 30p, for subtle slow motion effects. Looks especially great down-rez'd from 2K to 1080p. I think it'll cut nicely with Sedna, as well. Thanks @Driftwood, you've done it again!
So what exactly happens when you shoot in HBR with CM Day/night/soft or Sedna...is the hack still applied or is it just shooting stock? I didn't quite understand "testing against HBR" in previous comment.
Also is the hack still applied in variable movie mode (80% or others)? Or is the hack only working in 24p cinema?
@driftwood What can we expect from the crossfire settings?
@driftwood: Regarding your statement "if you want the best, stick to GOP 1 on 24p": Is there any GOP1 setting that will not abort recordings or crash the camera while still delivering quality better than the best current GOP3 settings?
I wonder because the only thing I do is documentary stuff, and unlike at a feature film set, I cannot ask the "actors" to do a re-take when something goes wrong. Also, when shooting underwater, unpowering the camera is simply not possible.
Therefore, a GOP1 setting would be useful for me only if it was known not to abort or even crash.
@karl Try SpanMyBitchUp v2b. I's Gop 1 and spans and the quality is great.
@karl On a lot of the newer GOP1 settings the only way you're going to get crashes is if the sd card is either not good enough or fragmented. Seriously, youre missing out. :-)
PS How did you get on with Cluster v2? That will understress most decent type 10 cards and still retain good quality at 24p, 30p and 60p... etc...
Maybe that is a beginner´s question, but can GOPs be allocated to bitrate settings? Let´s say, 24H is Intra, whereas 24L switches to longer GOPs? But I guess the GH2 will not allow this. Made a short test beween Canis Night an Clusterv2a. With cluster, I see some mosquito-like noise (hope mosquito-like is correct, looks a bit like haloing or ghosting) on the edges of highly detailed opjects. But very, very subtle
I took Cluster 2Va to the water today. I also switched to a 32 gig 45mb card (I'm not buying anymore 95mb'ers). Nearly everything was in 720-60 and it did fine....until I got to the killer. Wake crashing on rocks. In 720 it locked up tight giving a card speed error and requiring me to pull the battery. After a couple of times doing that, I switched to 24P and no other errors.
In last nights test, I got a lot more noise than I expected so tonight I'm taking the same lens to the same place I tested flow motion v2.1, and see how it stacks up.
@Driftwood Thanks for organizing your settings/patches so neatly. That's a lot of patches and work! Thanks, very much!
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"Apache Railway Holiday," Santa Fe Special. June 26-July 2, 1948. Railway Club of Southern California. Open observation car, steam engine on logging railway, detector car, Santa Fe steam and diesel engines. Wreck of Santa Fe Super Chief, at Winslow, Arizona, June 29, 1948. Lumber mill, McNary, Arizona. Canyon Diablo, Wickenburg, and Parker, Arizona. 1948
"Railroad Boosters SP-Ojai Excursion," August 15, 1948. Cab-forward Mallet engine, tunnel at Hassan, California, camera car. 1948
"Feather River Holiday," September 4-6, 1948. Santa Fe and Western Pacific. Double-header, diesel engine, vista dome car, wrecker car & crane (maintains steam up at all times), rotary snow plow, closed observation car. 1948
"Sierra Railroad Holiday," May 28-30, 1949. Steam engine, camera car, Shay logging engine, West Side Lumber Company, Tuolumne, California. Jamestown, California. Round house, Columbia, California. Shaw's Flat and Sonora, California. 1949
"1949 Holiday." Small New England stations, various cars. Trolley plow, postal car, Chicago Railroad Fair (1949). Unique engines: Spain's Talgo diesel engine and observation car, and Pennsylvania Railroad's electric-powered train. 1949
"Vagabond Holiday," Railway Club of Southern California, Excursion No. 24, March 5, 1950. Winslow, Arizona. Round house, Alamosa, Colorado. Ticket envelope, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (parlor car ticket), "only narrow gauge luxury train in United States." New York Central Railroad advertisement with notice on back of discontinuance of Rio Grande Railroad narrow gauge passenger service in New Mexico, on January 31, 1951. 1950
"Virgina & Truckee Railway Excursion," March 18-19, 1950. Ticket, Carson City, Nevada. Station, round house, water tower, motor car, switching yard, G. A. Sampson, Vice President and General Manager. Minden, Nevada, caboose, early steam engine, Lake Tahoe, California. Post-card of Virginia and Truckee engine, "Old 24." 1950
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge ( part of Carson and Colorado Railroad). Tracks, stations, yards, engines, cars. [1950?]
Miscellaneous steam engines.1948-1950
"Southern Pacific Holiday of 1950," Excursion No. 25, April 16, 1950. Railroad shops and round house, Los Angeles, California. Steam engines. 1950
"Clover Valley Express," California Nevada Railroad Historical Society, May 12-14, 1950.
Stock Certificate, Lehigh Valley Railraod Company (fifty shares, in the name of Edward Henderson), June 1901.
Santa Maria Valley Railroad [California]. Round house, caboose, steam engine Mikado. n.d.
"Railfan Excursion to Fort Bragg, California," Pacific Coast Chapter, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., August 20, 1950. California Western Railroad, "Skunk." 1950
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge, Keeler Yards and caboose. n.d
Santa Fe Corona-Elsinore mixed train. Last trip under steam power,May 26, 1951. Engine Mikado at Elsinore. Loading industrial cargo.1951
Trip to Alaska. July 1951. Shasta Daylight (Southern Pacific) at Dunsmuir, California. Pacific Great Eastern Train No.1 at Squamish, British Columbia. Assorted engines and cars, White Pass and Yukon Railroad general offices and passenger station, Skagway, Alaska. Railroad shops, parlor and baggage cars, Sumpter Valley coach No. 26. Steamer Tutshi. The Duchess (Baldwin 0-6-0) steam engine (1878). Royal Mail stage coach, White Horse to Dawson City (1902) at Carcross.1951
La Canada Valley Railroad. Flintridge, California. n.d.
Excursion, Bay Area Electric Rail-Road Association, Pacific Electric Railway, August 25, 1951. Parlor car (electrified). USA stamp 3 cts, commemorating 125 years of rail transport, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 1951
Excursion, Bay Area Electric Railroad Association Pacific Electric Railway, December 1, 1951. Narrow gauge cars from Denver & Rio Grande San Juan. Parlor car Chama, parlor car Durango, coach Lockwood (interior and exterior), Day car Edna. 1951
"Owens Valley [California] Holiday," Railway Club of Southern California. Excursion 43, May 31, 1951. Assorted steam engines, some narrow gauge. 1951
Santa Maria Valley [California] Railroad. Switch and long-haul engines.n.d.
Santa Fe San Diegan, San Diego station (Santa Fe). n.d.
The San Juan at Knott's Berry Farm, 1953. Rio Grande Southern cars Edna and Royal Gorge, assorted engines. 1953
Southern Pacific. Taylor Hump Yard, 1954. Wrecker and icing machine cars, street railway funeral car, miscellaneous engines. 1954
Union Pacific City of St. Louis at Hermosa Beach, California, October 10, 1953. Santa Fe El Capitan at Summit, California. 1953
Travel Town, miscellaneous cars and steam engines [Arizona]. n.d
Flagstaff Yards [Arizona]. Miscellaneous cars and steam engines. n.d.
Los Angeles County Fair. Steam engines. "Galloping Goose." Rio Grande Southern Railroad. n.d.
Last steam run on Southern Pacific narrow gauge. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., October 16, 1954. Engine "Little Giant" at Travel Town. 1954
Engines at Travel Town. Carl W. Headrick. n.d.
"Gold Spike Special," trip ticket. Southern Pacific Company and McLoud River Railroad, July 2-4, 1955. Ticket to Burney, California, rodeo and horse show. 1955
Nevada Northern Railroad. Steam engines and cars, April 1957.
Eight trip tickets: "Rail Fan Excursion," Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., May 4, 1958. Pacific Railroad Society, November 25, 1958. "Shasta Wonderland Tour," California Nevada Railroad Historical Society, May 22-24, 1959. "Steam Excursion," Glendale to Oxnard, California Railway and Historical Society, Inc., November 22, 1959. "Mexicali-Riito Trip," Railway Historical Society of San Diego, Inc., March 20, 1960. "Relive the Golden Ferry Boat Days," Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., October 1, 1960. "Sacramento River Cruise," (boat & rail trip), Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., May 11-12, 1963. 1958-1963


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Imagine you're a NASCAR exec who has just learned that the 24 Hours Of LeMons is the fastest-growing race series in the world… then you turn on the television and you get this!
Yes, ABC sent Becky Worley and a camera crew to the Goin' For Broken 24 Hours of LeMons at Reno-Fernley Raceway last weekend, and they aired the segment earlier today. The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys are there (by the way, their Peugeot beat 5 out of 9 BMW E30s, so I'll be figuring out who won the 505-vs-E30 contest soon), Huey Newis and the Lose are there, and the LeMons Supreme Court is there.
Oh, by the way, Mr. NASCAR exec: the crew of one of your big-name racers nearly won the LeMons South race last month… in a Volkswagen! Stay tuned for more details.
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Last call for Lyman Orchards' Corn Maze in Middlefield
MIDDLEFIELD -- Only one weekend left to challenge your navigational skills at Lyman Orchards' famed Corn Maze, which this season was devoted to the greatest rivalry in baseball, the Red Sox-Yankees.
Though both teams' seasons ended ignominiously, and the green stalks have browned, everyone can still enjoy the 4-acre field into which agricultural designer Brett Herbst cut the team logos that form the twisting paths, and the trivia contest that tests your knowledge of your teams and gives hints on finding the exit.
The maze is open 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays through Nov. 4. Admission is $10, $5 for ages 4-12. One dollar of each admission goes to the American Cancer Society.
The orchards are located at 32 Reeds Gap Road. Info at 860-349-1793.


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With the election behind us, it is time for your clients to turn their attention to the looming tax reforms that should take shape over the next two months, and how these reforms can affect their retirement planning. Both arms of Congress will be working to reach a compromise on tax code provisions as basic as income tax rates before Jan. 1, after which the Bush-era tax cuts will expire, and rates could revert to pre-2001 levels.
Though President Obama spent little time discussing his views on tax-favored retirement accounts during his campaign, the plans he did set forth are indicative of the consequences for retirement savings. While this impact may not be immediately apparent to your clients, it is something that they need to consider as they plan for retirement this year and beyond.
See also: Post-election: What's in store for the insurance industry?
Income tax rates
Under President Obama's plan, income tax rates will not change for clients earning less than $250,000 per year, but clients earning more than this should expect a tax hike. The current proposals would increase the tax rate for clients in today's 35% bracket to 39.6%. While this has an obvious impact on your clients' take-home income, it also affects the value of their retirement savings accounts.
To illustrate with a simplified example, let's assume a client in today's 35% bracket contributes the maximum $17,000 in tax-free contribution to his 401(k) in 2012. Assuming a conservative 3% growth rate, the client's $17,000 will have grown to $22,847 in ten years. If he would have invested the after-tax funds ($11,050 after 35% is withheld for taxes in 2012) over ten years, the balance would have grown only to $14,850 at a 3% growth rate.
If Obama's plan is enacted, this client could pay ordinary income taxes at a 39.6% rate when he withdraws the funds. Assuming a lump-sum withdrawal after ten years, this will leave the client with $13,799. If the tax rate would have remained at 35%, the client would have been left with over $1,000 more—$14,850.
In this scenario, the client would be better off investing his 2012 funds outside of the plan so that the funds are taxed at 2012 income tax rates. Unfortunately, increased taxes on investments proposed for 2013 will also likely impact the higher-income client's savings plans, so it is important to prepare clients for this reality if they are unable to invest in an account that provides for future tax-free withdrawals, such as a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k).
It should be noted that this scenario makes many assumptions: a 3% growth rate may be conservative, but if the markets have taught us anything in the past decade, the potential for variance is wide. Further, it assumes that the client will remain in the higher tax brackets after he has retired, which is not always the case.
Contribution limits
It is also possible that we will see reductions in the maximum tax-deferred contribution limits for retirement savings plans in the coming years. While President Obama's proposals do not spell out this possibility, his plan is to impose the larger tax hikes on higher earning clients in an effort to maintain today's tax rates for lower- and middle-class families. Logically, high-income families are able to contribute the most to tax-deferred retirement accounts, putting the higher limits at risk.
Today, total employee and employer-matching contributions must be below $50,000 per year (the employee contribution limit is $17,000 in 2012). Proposals have sought to limit this amount to the lesser of $20,000 or 20% of the employee's compensation, which could further reduce the value of your clients' 401(k) accounts.
In closing
Though the parameters of the upcoming tax reforms are by no means set in stone, President Obama's reelection gives advisors a slightly clearer picture of what to expect. Many of your clients have been preparing for this during the past year, but it is important that they be made aware of some of the less obvious effects that we could see.
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New Hampshire's die-hard surfers get out on the water even in the dead of winter. "The hardest part is just putting on a cold wetsuit in February," Casey Lockwood explains; "it feels like it takes years off your life." This short clip, Salmon Theory, is from a longer documentary in progress by Dylan Ladds and Ryan Scura. "Salmon theory," Lockwood says, refers to the way salmon return to where they spawn. The feature film will be calledThe Granite Stoke, referencing the state's nickname. The video captures the bleak beauty of the snowy coast and one can imagine the appeal; if you can handle the cold, you'll have the waves to yourself. Ladds and Scura talk about the making of the film in a brief interview below.
The Atlantic: What was the genesis of this project?
Dylan Ladds and Ryan Scura: Salmon Theory is one of the many short films we have made in the past year, while working on our feature documentary The Granite Stoke. The Granite Stoke is a documentary about the surfing community in our home state of New Hampshire. We discovered this community in the summer of 2007, after our senior year of high school. Throughout college, we talked about making a documentary about this group of people. Ryan proposed the project for a small grant from Middlebury College (where he studied), and it was accepted. This allowed us to buy a few necessary pieces of equipment and get started!
What are you working on now?
We are now in the process of editing the feature film. Aside from that, Dylan recently moved to Boston and is a teaching assistant for animation classes at Harvard and Brown. Ryan is moving to Boston soon and starting a job as a videographer for Brandeis. We also have a few smaller freelance video and photography projects in the works.
When is the feature film coming out?
We have no set deadline, so we are trying not to rush and make this as good as it can be. We expect to finish sometime in winter or spring. Keep up with our adventures on Facebook our blog and Vimeo. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram @thegranitestoke.
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Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Bob's Red Mill Extra-Thick Rolled Oats (Oatmeal)
Shown in the photo above is the 32 oz. size of these extra-thick rolled oats, which is the size I started buying when I realized how much I liked it. It also comes in a 16 oz. size if you'd like a smaller size to try. In Utah I can find this product at Smiths Marketplace or Whole Foods, and you can buy Bob's Red Mill Extra Thick Rolled Oats at Amazon.com if you can't find it where you live. (Full disclaimer: If you follow that link and buy it at Amazon, Kalyn's Kitchen does earn a few cents on the dollar from your purchase. Thanks!)
More About Oatmeal:
Are You Eating Enough Oatmeal (with lots of recipe links) at BlogHer
Get Some Oatmeal on the Table (with recipe links) at BlogHer
More Than a Bowl of Oatmeal (with recipe links) at BlogHer
A Celebration of Oatmeal at BlogHer
Oatmeal: How and Why to Cook It Every Day from Kitchen Parade
Some Oatmeal Ideas You May Not Have Tried
Sugar-Free and Flourless Chocolate Oatmeal Cluster Cookies from Kalyn's Kitchen
Low Sugar and Flourless Apple Cranberry Crumble from Kalyn's Kitchen
Mark Bittman's Oatmeal with Scallions and Soy Sauce from Serious Eats
Baked Oatmeal with Apples from Everybody Loves Sandwiches
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Double Spot: Corner dining choices multiply
Don't be deceived by the seeming lack of traffic on University Avenue during these (blissfully) quiet summer months. Significant changes are brewing inside several Corner eateries. Could it be that the just-opened, always-buzzing Bodo's is having some sort of cataclysmic effect on the Corner's gastronomic microclimate?
First off, University's Ave's most famous food-related landmark, The White Spot, will soon be doubling in size. And that's welcome news, considering how tiny the original, railcar-sized diner is!
Shortly after popping up from a hatch in the floor, owner and local personality Dmitris Tavampis confirmed that he now holds the keys to the space next door, formerly occupied by Coyote gift shop.
Dancing around my battery of questions, he was teasingly vague about specific plans for the oddly shaped adjacent space, making me think he's still trying to figure things out himself. He'll surely keep the shop's sky-painted ceiling (reminds him of his native Greek isle), take out the red walls, restore the original floors, and put in tables and chairs.
Beyond that, his lips are sealed until September, the target opening date. What the new spot won't be is an exact replica of the current White Spot.
"Two hundred people ask me every day for something different," Tavampis says, "so next door I'm going to have something different." What he would say is that the space will function as an extra dining room with a potential retail element and that it will not involve alcohol ("I don't want trouble!"). The only alteration to the White Spot will be a new doorway linking the two rooms.
Just around the corner, on 14th Street, Frank's Pizza, which closed suddenly at the end of June, is being transformed into Basil, a new Mediterranean bistro owned and operated by Raif Antar.
Antar says he was looking for someone to buy his friend Frank Benincasa's popular business as a favor when suddenly a light went on, and he decided to buy it himself. "I've been planning Basil's menu and design for years," he explains, "and this seemed like the perfect opportunity."
A former sales rep for Ferraro Foods with over 18 years in the restaurant biz, Antar, a native of Lebanon, is in the process of completely remodeling the former no-nonsense pizzeria into what will likely be one of the Corner's most artful, exotic eateries (along with the Ethiopian food coming soon to the University Diner/Maharaja space on Wertland).
When I stopped by last week, the walls were being painted bright yellow. Doors were already a contrasting deep blue. Moroccan lanterns, Matisse posters, and stacks of colorful, mismatched ceramic plates had just arrived and wine consultant Christine Iezzi was perusing Basil's international wine and beer list with Antar.
The bistro's menu combines traditional Lebanese, Greek, Turkish, and Israeli dishes chicken shawarma, falafel, hummus, house-made lamb gyro, Israeli couscous– with more familiar (or less "adventurous") Italian and American eats– burgers, pizza, pasta, subs, sandwiches. Prices are sure to appeal to students and staff alike. Antar's aiming for an August 1 opening.
Vacant for almost a year, the Cheseapeake Bagel spot on University Ave has a new tenant. Managers at the Red Roof Inn confirm that owners of a Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches franchise are planning an October opening following significant renovations to the former bagelria that closed its two locations (Corner and Barracks Road) last summer. Joining Blacksburg and Alexandria, Charlottesville will mark the third Virginia location for this franchise, which has its corporate headquarters in the university town of Champaign, Illinois.
Though it's not located on the Corner, Sloan's was certainly popular with university students. The restaurant and sports bar, which has been around in one form or another since 1983, closed its doors on June 30.
Kevin Haag, who purchased Sloan's in 2001, cites the economy and the overall world political situation as reasons for the slow, post-9/11 decline of his business. He's currently looking for a buyer and says the landlord is willing to lease the Millmont Avenue space.
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This is The Ward-O-Matic
This is The Ward-O-Matic, an account of art, animation, music, movies, books, design, illustration, and the aesthetics of modern culture as viewed by me, Ward Jenkins, an animation director here in Atlanta, Georgia. I'll focus on what interests me, what influences me. I also plan on focusing on the animation community here in this town, as I feel that there's not enough exposure in that regards. Like most cities I've found, the local animation establishment is a very close-knit group, not quite unlike a "family" of sorts. Even in a smaller animation city like Atlanta, however, this family often preys victim to weak communications, so with this blog, I hope to alleviate that problem.
Another arena I plan on focusing on is my family. I know that most blogs are either one of two things: personal or news/informative. I don't see the two mixing that much, (at least the ones that I read) so I want to try something different here by incorporating these two together. Because the way I see it, my family plays a big factor in what influences me and plus, they are aesthetically pleasing to my eye. Biased, yes, but afterall, this is my blog.
Things that interest and influence me. What interests and influences you? I'd like to know, and I'd like to showcase it here. Please feel free to contact me here at the Ward-O-Matic and let me know what you dig.
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I wanted to be the first to post a comment - and here I am! Since I'm the first person you saw when you entered the world, I felt it my duty to be number one on your blog. What a creative child you were - and SO inquisitive - like the time you used plyers to open doors on matchbox cars that had no doors to open. Just wanted to see what it looked like! And then your creative genius at 4 when you drew lifesized people on the inside of the sliding closet doors, which I didn't find until you were about 9. Amazing child. And yourmama is proud.ReplyDelete
Whew---what a bunch of hoops to jump thru to get here. It had me on my way to setting up a blog account before i knew what's what. Fortunately i was able to back track before that time-consuming horriblility occured....:-)ReplyDelete
Anyhow--congrats Ward on entering the info fray. If in the name of balanced reporting you occassionally post stuff (even vaguely) related to the art of caricature this reader would be imminently pleased.....
Yers in countenances, Zach
There should be a choice for you to post as "Anonymous," without getting a blog started. Sorry about the confusion! And thanks for the kudos. I'm excited about this. Hope it doesn't get too boring for you all. That'd be a great sin for me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 04, 2004 9:25 AM
ALRIGHT!! Another blog to read each day! Cant wait to hear the nitty gritty on the Jenkins' household!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 04, 2004 9:50 AM
James Palmer here... This is a GREEAAAT idea. I look forward to seeing what "erupts" from this bastion of creative expression! Cheers mate...ReplyDelete
Sorry Ward, I hit the wrong button...I was trying to download the Paris Hilton sex video, and somehow I ended up here...ReplyDelete
Seriously, though...how do I get out of here?
smoke 'em if ya got 'em,
- AnonymousNovember 04, 2004 1:47 PM
Hi Ward... this is claire from loobylu. Yey! I have been hoping you'd get a blog going.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 04, 2004 4:30 PM
as mrs. ward-o-matic, I feel cheated out of being (at the very least) the second one to post here on the historic debut of this lovely bloggedy-blogger...! especially since I have endured the 2am previews and endless conversations regarding the 'birth' of the 'ward-o-matic'...! anyhoo. I'm all up in it and about it... behind you all the way... can't wait to add it to my bookmarks section. it'll be the first one I check each day! promise! looking forward to seeing where you go with it, love.ReplyDelete
thought your loyal viewers might like this link to a great Peter Bagge cartoon essay on "modern" art...
Sorry, Robert, but we only deal with REAL ART, not silly comics.ReplyDelete
Ha ha, I can't keep a straight face with that-- that's great, thanks for the link, buddy-boy.
- AnonymousNovember 05, 2004 1:05 PM
A METEOR THAT ENTERED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND THAT WOULD POSSIBLY WREAK HAVOC ON EARTH WAS BROKEN INTO PIECES AND RENDERED INEFFECTIVE BY A U F O BEFORE IT HIT. THE INCIDENT WHICH COULD BE CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT EVENTS IN HISTORY OF MANKIND, WAS WITNESSED BY A TOTAL OF 6 DIFFERENT AIRLINER CREWS (4 IN THE AIR, 2 FROM THE GROUND) AND SEVERAL PEOPLE FROM THE GROUND AND WAS FILMED BY A NAVY SEAL CAMERA. THIS HISTORICAL EVENT WHICH DISCLOSES THE REALITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS BY THE UFO RESEARCH CENTER FOR 35 YEARS. DRAWINGS. ANIMATIONS, VIDEO FOOTAGE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST. THE DETAILS ABOUT THE INCIDENT, WRITTEN TESTIMONIES BY PILOTS AND THE OTHER WITNESSES INVOLVED, AND THE ANALYSIS OF THIS INCIDENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:ReplyDelete
We spotted a mass of light moving from West due East. Originally, we couldn't understand what it was. As we were watching its movements we thought that it might be an asteroid. But then, taking our previous observation into account, we thought that a shooting asteroid would dissolve in atmosphere in 1-2 seconds. As time passed, we noticed that the movement of this mass of light was quite slower and the mass was too enormous to be an asteroid. It flew away in a straight direction of West-East in a minute.
When it got closer to 12 o'clock, we realized that it's quite unlikely for this thing to be an asteroid. From the reddish colour emerging from it, we thought that it might be an airplane in some state of emergency or even about to crash . When it came to the position 12 o'clock, we saw a mass of red light in front of it, small light formations stretching back behind it and one more blinking light on its rear edge as if it were the beacon of an airplane. This thing was definitely not an airplane or an asteroid. It was something like glowing light formations moving together in a bigger mass of light. When it came to 1-2 o'clock position, the mass of light disappeared and the small bright formations moved away. Then they dissolved casting lights. In 5 minutes we saw the capsule the object left behind and were able to follow it down until it landed on the beach below. We notified the Navy SEAL team in the Gupta Bay and they surrounded the capsule. The door on the slid slowly aside and a carbon unit stepped out onto the sand and said, "Hi, I'm a Widgetathingy Adaptive Realtime Drawer. Just call me WARD. Take me to the Jenkins' residence, please." That was 35 years ago. Until this day we have not been able to get rid of it.
-jjenk (Ward's dad)
- AnonymousNovember 05, 2004 6:37 PM
Dude...you have some seriously freaky people commenting in your blog. The sad part? You're related to them all.ReplyDelete
Heh. Might as well bring it full circle.
Me? I'm the Wardman's sister, who has begged to remain anonymous...hehehe. No really, the official name is Amy. I have my own little piece of the online realm, but my mastery is not art...its fanfiction. Alias fanfiction to be specific. Thereabouts, my handle is hijinx.
Now, back to fluffing up the bro's ego...like it NEEDS it! Obviously, sarcasm runs rampant in the family, as well as freakiness.
Love you, bro. Can't wait to tap into that trippin' the light fantastico noggin of yours. And ooooo!! You've already reviewed "The Incredibles" -- you are SO my hero now. Me and the Yankee fam will be hitting the cineplex this weekend, hopefully *crosses fingers*
Peace out...
Amy (the Sis-O-Matic aka hijinx)
- AnonymousNovember 07, 2004 8:07 AM
charles from boston, here... wow! I love the layout and look of your blog... also the drawing (self-portrait, I'm assuming?) is a great piece. keep the entries coming, I'm definitely going to be checking it out...ReplyDelete
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(Oops, goofed there.) Thanks, Charles - I do plan on keeping this blog very active. I also plan on putting up more of my doodles and such. (Yes, that is a fairly accurate self-portrait, although I'm not so green. Thanks for noticing.) The layout is one of several templates they give you here at Blogger.com, but I did tweak some of the code so that the type will always be Helvetica. Just looks better. Thank you again for checking in and hope I don't disappoint.ReplyDelete
Hey Junior;ReplyDelete
45 shopping days 'till Christmas, and it just occurred to me that your little juniorettes won't ever know the unending joy of spending the better part of two months pouring over a Sears Christmas Wishbook, page by page. Internet shopping, my big butt!
Yeah, I sound like a bitter old man, so what?
(of course, most of the "unending joy" was nullified by the harsh reality that you weren't gonna get half the toys ya wanted, but that's another story for another time...)
how long have you been doing your publications? .i am interested to know because i also have thing's to say about life as a person.i have a view of the way things are in life,rights, wrongs,and life in general. i have a story to tell as a person about the way i view life from inside the "gibster"[me].ReplyDelete
i live in scotland uk,and i am just about to turn 40 years old i am interested in the things you have to say.please email me with answer to above question at: email@example.com or answer the question on your blogger .look forward to reply , my regards [the gibster]
- AnonymousFebruary 04, 2005 11:42 AM
wow i love the wards! yall are asum... reminds me of my family.. i love it.ReplyDelete


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Alpha Phi Alpha, the world's oldest intercollegiate fraternity founded by African-American men, announced today that it was providing sub-award grants to forty of its chapters (representing twenty-eight geographic regions), as a part of the expansion of its 93-year-old mentoring program, Go-To-High-School, Go-To-College. Strengthened by a $1 million grant from the United States Department of Justice that it received in October of this year, the fraternity will directly serve more than 1,000 young black and Latino youths, while indirectly serving an additional 45,000 young people, ages 6–17 years old, in urban areas across the country. As a key component of this national program, currently implemented in each of the organization's 700 chapters throughout the country and around the globe, members of the fraternity will connect these at-risk and high-risk students with a caring adult mentor, while providing them with resources and one-to-one and group mentoring opportunities aimed at reducing truancy and increasing graduation rates among the program participants.
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$5,000 for a college basketball court? Amateur hour. This holiday season you want the real deal and you're willing to pay top dollar. Or at least several thousand dollars more than you would for some crummy college one, right? Bummer is, the only such court available, as far as I can tell, is the old practice court for the Memphis—formerly Vancouver—Grizzlies. And, unlike the team, it remained in Vancouver.
It's on Craigslist, so you can probably haggle over the price or make outlandish requests in passive aggressive emails only to never follow up on anything and forget about it forever while the seller remains ever hopeful.
Our company has moved into a new building which used to house the training court for the Vancouver Grizzlies and we are looking for anyone interested in taking the floor off of our hands!
Asking $13, 000. Pictures attached. Perfect for any fan of the Grizzlies when they were around or even an NBA collector!
Please reply to this ad!
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Christie: Obama, 'henchmen' fear Mitt
ORLANDO, Fla.— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie believes the onslaught of Democratic National Committee attacks on Mitt Romney is "the greatest thing in the world" for the former Massachusetts governor's campaign.
"Let's let the president and his henchmen keep doing it," Christie said Wednesday at the Republican Governors Association meeting here. "That shows he's the person they're most afraid of. And that's good news for us from a political perspective."
The first-term governor, who endorsed Romney after deciding not to run himself, predicted Newt Gingrich would eventually fade as a 2012 rival.
"Past is prologue," he said after a press conference. "Maybe he'll be different, but every person who has come up and either come near Gov. Romney or risen above him turns out to then have fallen back down."
"We'll all have to wait and see," he added. "Any of us would have lost a lot of money predicting some of the causes of some people's downfalls in this race."
Due to the fluidity of the race, Christie said he doesn't think it makes sense for Romney to directly attack Gingrich, who has surged into first place in some polls.
"If Gov. Romney engaged every person who had a temporary rise in the polls, that's all he'd be doing," he said. "Gov. Romney's job is to lay out his hopeful, optimistic vision for the future of our country and to lay out his critique of the last four years. That's his job, not to engage [someone] who has a temporary rise in the polls. Under that theory, he would have been engaging Bachmann. He would have been engaging Cain."
"You guys were wondering whether he should have been engaging those people back then," he added.
Christie continued to intensify his attacks on Obama as the election year approaches.
"Real leadership is not what you see in the White House right now," he said. "I think it's a sad day in our country's history to have a bystander in the Oval Office, and that's we have."
The New Jersey governor, whose talkative and confrontational style contrasts with the cool and buttoned-up Romney, disputed the notion that there's little enthusiasm on the right for Romney's campaign.
"If you define enthusiasm as being at 30 percent one day and then eight percent two weeks later, I call that schizophrenia, not enthusiasm," he said. "The other folks seem to be riding a roller coaster that they don't know where it's going to land. I know where it's going to land for Mitt Romney. It's going to land with the Republican nomination."


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"Focus on kids, fix the tests," says NEA President
Current blueprint does not go far enough to help all students succeed
WASHINGTON— Today Education Secretary Arne Duncan presented the Administration's priorities for changing our nation's leading education policy for elementary and secondary education. NEA does not support the Administration's blueprint because it is based on the same flawed logic of No Child Left Behind—determining winners and losers based on test scores. The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"If we're serious about creating a stronger foundation for America's public schools, it's important to get the blueprint right before it becomes policy.
"The 3.2 million members of the National Education Association would like nothing more than to see No Child Left Behind (NCLB) left behind. For nearly a decade this legislation has punished students and entire communities with do-or-die, high-stakes testing.
"Achieving a world-class education that prepares children for college and career, and allows them to compete in our ever-changing global economy means that we're going to have to radically change the way we think about public education—our kids have got to be more than a test score. This is exactly why we cannot support the blueprint as it's currently being presented to Congress. It simply does not go far enough to help all students succeed. It's still based on high-stakes, low quality standardized tests where some kids win and some kids lose. President Obama promised we would fix this—and fix it for all students, not just some.
"Educators know what works for students. They've been sharing their views for years and no one is more eager to fix the problems of NCLB than NEA's members. If the Administration and Congress want our support, they'll have to put a draft in front of us that really allows teachers to help their students succeed, that doesn't rely on high-stakes standardized tests. Our children are counting on the adults to get it right."
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