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Naftali was the youngest of nine children born to devout Hasidic Jewish parents living in Kolbuszowa. In the Hasidic tradition, he wore a long black coat and shoulder-length earlocks. He first faced antisemitism in the second grade when his teacher cut one earlock off each Jewish boy. Naftali escaped the teacher's shears, and his father, a respected merchant, had the teacher suspended.
1933-39: On September 9, 1939, the German army invaded our town and decisively defeated a small contingent of poorly equipped Polish cavalry soldiers. The Jews were rounded up; we watched as the Germans burned and looted our homes. Over the next two weeks, I helped to bury dead horses and clean up the debris and unspent shells from town. The Germans hung two Jews in the town square as a reminder to us all not to resist their demands.
1940-44: Two shots rang and I heard my father scream, "Revenge, take revenge!" Five more shots, then silence. Families of the 22 men the Gestapo killed that day came to the Jewish cemetery outside the ghetto and wrapped the bodies in shrouds and prayer shawls, according to Jewish custom. My brother Liebush and I buried my father next to his father, who died 23 years before nearly to the day. At home, I took the candle Father had made from scraps of wax to light to commemorate his father's death, and lit it for both.
Naftali lived in the woods as a partisan before liberation by Soviet troops in mid-1944. He joined the Polish army, helping to liberate Cracow. He immigrated to the United States in 1947.

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The BBQ Capital Cook-off has been good for Cherryville's Bob Roberts.
The BBQ Capital Cook-off has been good for Cherryville's Bob Roberts.
Roberts' team, Two Old Men and a Grill, came out on top out of 73 teams to be named the Grand Champion of the Third Annual BBQ Capital Cook-off. The two-day event, held in uptown Lexington and sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society, drew an estimated 45,000 people, said Chad Hodges, the event's chairman.
At the end, Roberts' team, the inaugural cook-off champions in 2011, was crowned the winner. His team finished second in the 2012 BBQ Capital Cook-off. Finishing second in this year's cook-off was 3 Eyz, the 2012 KCBS Team of the Year.
Roberts' team was comprised of himself and Cathy Lewis, who was filling in for his wife, Belinda (she missed the cook-off because of an ankle injury). Roberts got the name from establishing the team with another man, but they parted ways.
Saturday, Roberts' team, which was the 24th-ranked KCBS team in the nation this past year, received a plaque and a $3,500 check. He also was the grand champion in King's Mountain this past week.
"I'm thrilled beyond belief," Roberts said. "I knew I had some pretty good (food) cooked (Saturday), but with the competition that was here, I just wasn't totally sure because the big boys were here."
Hodges was pleased with the cook-off and said there were more people who attended the event than this previous year.
"What we try to do is a quality event, something people want to come across the country for or travel to," he said. "It definitely hit the mark."
The two-day festival was packed with live entertainment, a wine festival, samplings from the teams (when they were not competing) and a children's area.
Wallace Yokley, his wife, Deandrala, and their 12-year-old son, R.J., were passing through the area and decided to stop at the cook-off. The Midway residents were attending their first BBQ Capital Cook-off.
"So far, I think it's great," Wallace Yokley said. "The smell is what is bringing everybody in. It's got me already wanting some ribs."
"And it's early in the morning," his wife said as she laughed.
The event, which was sponsored by the Bank of the Carolinas, is hosted by Uptown Lexington Inc. Uptown Lexington is an N.C. Main Street program and a nonprofit whose goals are to revitalize and promote the uptown business district.
"I'd just like to thank everybody for being here on behalf of the employees of the Bank of the Carolinas," Ed Jordan, executive vice president of the Bank of the Carolinas, said during Saturday's opening ceremonies. "This is the third event, and it's getting better every year. I walked around (Friday) night and talked to a lot of the teams, and their commitment, we appreciate all of them being here. … We think the rain is going to hold off, and we are excited about that."
In addition to Roberts' team being announced as the grand champion, the winners of six categories — sauce, dessert, chicken, ribs, pork and brisket — were recognized during an awards ceremony. First-place finishers were Holy Smoke BBQ of Ayden (sauce); Mighty Fine Swine of Greensboro (dessert); Smoke This of Hickory (chicken); Bayou Poker Smokers of Denver, N.C. (ribs); Wolf's Revenge BBQ of Henrico, Va. (pork); and Pickin' Porkers of Clemmons (brisket).
The teams, some of the best in the nation, were busy Saturday morning as they prepared food to be judged.
Justin Stiles, Jeff Adams, Gil McNeil and David Honeycutt make up The Piedmont Bullets team. Stiles is from Dallas, N.C., and the other members of his team are from Lexington. They were competing in their third BBQ Capital Cook-off.
Stiles said his team stayed up late Friday night working on their food.
"It will get real hectic here pretty soon," he said Saturday morning. "We kind of made a little barricade so we could get in here and do our work."
Another Lexington group to compete in the cook-off was the team called Outrageous Barbecue Cooking. The team is comprised of Lowell Hedrick, his three sons, Todd, Lenny and Tom, as well as Keith Koonts and Jon Hill. They established their team in 2012 and competed in this past year's cook-off.
"(Friday night) was really of an up-close experience if you will (for the public), whereas the people who come to the cook-off get a chance (to be) up close (to teams) and to ask questions about the cook-off and the meats we will cook," Todd Hedrick said. "… There are lots of flavor questions."
The OBC team started setting up Wednesday night and worked Friday night through Saturday morning cooking. Todd Hedrick said the first turn-in of meat to judges around 11 a.m. Saturday was "exhilarating."
"You are excited, uptight, and when it's done, the last turn-in, you get to relax, very hectic," he said.
Hedrick said people came from all across North Carolina to cook, as well as from out of the state.
Mark Klass (Davidson County Superior Court judge) is a member of the Fog-tot-dae (it stands for Four old grillers, too old to do anything else) team of Lexington. He and three others, Frank Bell (a Lexington attorney), Vance Walser and Larry Linder, competed in their second BBQ Capital Cook-off. The four have been longtime friends.
"It's been good," Klass said. "For us, it's just a great thing for Lexington. That's why we started doing it. … It's just a wonderful thing, and I'm glad to see it growing."
Klass said the cook-off is a big compliment to the Barbecue Festival that occurs in the fall in Lexington.
"For a lot of these teams, this is what they do for a living, and it's serious," he said. "For us, it's just a great event. … For me, if we do well, that's fabulous. We want to, but it's not the end of the world. If we do bad, we will come again next year."
Klass' team finished ninth in the chicken category.
Over 90 judges from across the country participated in this year's event.
One of the judges was Tom Leydic of Charleston, S.C. He was walking through the festivities Saturday morning. Judges tasted the entries about noon.
Leydic said he sometimes enjoys the barbecue and sometimes he doesn't.
"It depends on the quality of the barbecue you get," said Leydic, who has been a judge for four years.
Jim Baten of Richmond, Va., was another judge. He's been a KCBS judge for a couple of years.
"This is a great showing," he said, adding that 73 teams turned in food to be judged.
Baten said he judged the four different categories — chicken, ribs, pork and brisket — of six teams.
"You end up with 24 portions, and you literally just take one bite of each," he said. "If you have judged before, you know not to eat breakfast."
Baten has judged about 25 competitions. He called Lexington's cook-off a "pretty big" event.
"They have grown very well," Baten said. "A lot of it has to do with Chad (Hodges) … It seems like the town, Lexington, embraces it."
The opening day of the event brought "outstanding" crowds, said Lexington Mayor Newell Clark.
"Every year it continues to grow," Clark said.
Clark explained almost everything the festival has to offer had doubled, with additional wineries, barbecue cooking teams and the children's area.
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In a series of columns that will rotate with Jade Jagger and Kelly Hoppen each month, seminal designer Philippe Starck discusses creativity.
Creativity is almost a mortal sickness. It's not easy to be happy and creative because with creativity comes great anxiety, effort and desire for love. To be creative, you have to be curious, generous and want to try to understand. People often ask me: "How do you remain creative?" The secret is still to be loved and to want to be loved.
The other important ingredient is to want to serve. The only way to deserve to exist is to serve. For me, every job is to serve my community, my society, my civilization. The more service I give, the more I shall be proud of myself and, perhaps, when I die, I'll think I was not so useless.
What makes people creative? For me, it helps to live a sort of modern monk's life. I go early to bed and wake up a little earlier than others because the peak - the hormonal peak of creativity - is around seven o'clock in the morning. To be creative, you can't be intoxicated by drugs or alcohol. You cannot be intoxicated by poison coming from industrial food. You have to go to the gym and have a lot of sex (although not necessarily in that order).
You also need to live outside mainstream thinking. If you go out every night for dinner or to a cocktail party, where you speak with everybody, you cannot create because you end up just repeating what people tell you. You get very comfortable and very unoriginal. The only way to create, the recipe for creativity, is to be alone. In front of a blank sheet of paper or your computer in the middle of nowhere. It's the best way to find only your ideas, your intuition.
People often ask what inspires me. The answer is nothing. Nothing inspires me directly. I live outside of everything. That means I have no direct information. My inspiration comes from the existence of my life. I try to understand my mistakes. I try to understand how I can avoid making them in future.
What motivates me? Some think it must be money. But no. I hate money. I hate being obliged to work a lot, to make a lot of money. I avoid thinking about money. That is why I earn a lot in order not to have to count it. Intellectual satisfaction motivates me more. I feel truly good when I have finished a project or model, and done my job well.
Sex motivates me, too. It is clearly part of the game. It's not that you are creative because you have good sex. Nor is the contrary true. Perhaps some people want to be creatively successful in order to have more sex. But not in my case because I am stupidly faithful to my wife, Jasmine.
If you are truly creative, it's not possible to stop creating, even for a moment. Even though sometimes I wish I could. It's a continuous process. You are born with it. For me, it began by being horribly bored when I was young. There was nothing more boring than my youth. That was a very good starter for imagination. Since then, my imagination has never stopped.
Not stopping is not fun because it gets in the way of you living your life. I have only the projects I am working on. Subconsciously, I work on many projects at the same time in my head. There is no escape. Even when bad things happen around me, like death, I carry on creating. In bad times, I feel ashamed that I can get up and start creating, almost like a machine.
I never relax. I am tense. I had a massage the other day and the guy said: "It is not possible. This guy is made of concrete and steel. His body is so hard inside, it's like steel cord." But I love to drive my boat. I love to drive my motorcycle. I love to cook. Definitely sex is part of my life. And now I have a six-month old daughter, called Justice. She helps me to relax.
- Philippe Starck is creative director of yoo (yoo.com).


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Prices for arabica coffee surged 38 percent in 2014 as production losses in the nation's top growing state may be as much as 30 percent, the biggest farmers group estimates. Forecasters including AgRural, Agroconsult and Celeres have cut their outlook for the soybean harvest. Hedge funds are betting on more price gains for both crops. "Brazil is such as a powerhouse in these markets, and any sort of adverse-weather event will affect these commodities in a significant way," Michael Smith, the president of T&K Futures & Options in Port St. Lucie, Florida, said in a telephone interview. "Speculators have jumped on board with this Brazilian drought.' Arabica coffee for May delivery rose 7.3 percent to $1.5275 a pound at 1 p.m. in New York on ICE Futures U.S., after surging as much as 10 percent, the biggest intraday gain since November 2004. Prices reached $1.5665, the highest for a most-active contract since January 2013. Extreme Weather Extreme global weather also is threatening other crops with too much rain hampering Indonesia's cocoa harvest and freezing temperatures may have damaged U.S. wheat. The GSCI Agriculture Index rebounded 5.1 percent this year, after a 22 percent plunge in 2013 that was the biggest since 1981. This year's rally may boost expenses for Seattle-based Starbucks Corp., the world's largest coffee-shop chain, and sugar costs for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. In the past 30 days, precipitation was as little as 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) across most of Brazil's growing regions, or 88 percent below normal, according to Commodity Weather's Streit. Damage to coffee crops in Minas Gerais state was ''more severe than imagined," Carlos Alberto Paulino da Costa, head of Cooperativa Regional de Cafeicultores em Guaxupe Ltda, known as Cooxupe, said on Feb. 13. The company is the world's largest coffee cooperative. Hedge-Fund Bets A measure of speculative positions across 11 agricultural products jumped 30 percent to the highest since late October as of Feb. 11, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. The net-long position in coffee surged 97 percent to 15,728 contracts, the highest since September 2011. Hedge funds are holding the first net-bullish position in corn since June and increased their outlook for a soybean rally. Parts of Mato Grosso and Parana, Brazil's biggest producers of corn and soybeans, received less than 60 percent of normal rainfall in the past 90 days, data from World Ag Weather show. AgRural this week cut its Brazil soybean-crop forecast to 87 million metric tons from 88.8 million. Soybean futures for May delivery gained 1.5 percent to $13.45 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. Prices climbed 2.5 percent this year through Feb. 14. Also on the CBOT, corn futures gained 0.5 percent to $4.53 a bushel, after touching $4.54, the highest since Sept. 30. Orange-juice futures slid 1.4 percent to $1.423 a pound on ICE in New York. Prices are up 9.6 percent in the past 12 months. Brazil in the world's biggest citrus producer. 'Weather Game' "It's all a weather game," Jerry Gidel, the chief feed analyst at Rice Dairy LLC in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. In Minas Gerais and "Sao Paulo is where you have the citrus and the coffee and the sugar, so it has been impacted by less-than-ideal weather in the last month or six weeks. It's starting to creep into the areas of soybeans." Raw-sugar futures for May delivery gained 3.2 percent to 16.5 cents a pound on ICE. Also in New York, cocoa futures for May delivery fell 0.7 percent to $2,946 a ton on ICE, after reaching $2,985, the highest since September 2011. Heavy rains are threatening crops in Indonesia, the third-largest grower. World demand will outpace supplies this season and next, according to Macquarie Group Ltd. "These are weather markets, which can be pretty dynamic in both directions," said Ashmead Pringle, the president of Atlanta-based GreenHaven Commodity Services, which oversees about $320 million. "Overall, we're seeing more interest and inflows into the agricultural space." --With assistance from Isis Almeida in London. Editors: Millie Munshi, Patrick McKiernan To contact the reporters on this story: Marvin G. Perez in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com; Megan Durisin in New York at email@example.com; Liyan Chen in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Millie Munshi at firstname.lastname@example.com Back to news


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Toddler Toni Gwynn was restrained in a car seat and gagged with a blanket the afternoon she died, according to the arrest warrants issued for her parents.
Her parents, Antonio and Heather Gwynn, were in Rockingham District court Wednesday afternoon to face charges in the death of Toni Gwynn.
The court appointed attorneys for the couple. Their bonds remain the same as what was set by the magistrate Tuesday.
Meanwhile, arrest warrants released by law enforcement officials gave some details about the little girl's last day alive, July 11.
The warrant for Antonio Gwynn said that he restrained the toddler in a car seat for more than 15 hours without food or water.
After 12 hours, he pushed a blanket into the mouth of Toni Gwynn "in order to stop child from crying and thus restricted the airway causing the child's death," according to the arrest warrant.
Heather Gwynn caused "serious bodily injury" to the child, according to the warrant.
The parents of the toddler appeared in court for the first time today at 2 p.m. Judge James Grogan presiding.
Courtroom D was silent as Heather Gwynn walked in for her first appearance charged with a Class E Felony and child abuse. She was in an orange jumpsuit and her face was pale as Grogan told her that she had the right to remain silent and anything she said could be used against her in the court.
After hearing her rights, Heather Gwynn that the judge appoint an attorney for her. Grogan assigned Elliot Cardwell to represent her on her next court date of Aug. 6.
Heather Gwynn left the court room and a few moments later her husband, Antonio Gwynn stepped in escorted by the bailiff. He was wearing a tan jumpsuit and walked in with a slight limp on his right side.
Antonio Gwynn stood still and silent with his hands crossed in front of him as the judge read him his rights as well.
He was charged with child abuse and second degree murder. The judge explained that if convicted, Antonio Gwynn could receive up to 88 months in prison for the child abuse charge and up to 484 months in prison for second-degree murder charges.
The judge appointed Richard Panosh to be Antonio Gwynn�s attorney.


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1. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Harm Millaard Apr 16, 2012 3:28 AM (in response to Timoteo Doh)1 person found this helpful
Plain and simple: Capture cards have been useless for ages. The last one worth its money was the DV Storm in combination with Premiere 6.5, anything after that was a complete waste of money.
2. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?TradeWind Apr 16, 2012 4:18 AM (in response to Timoteo Doh)1 person found this helpful
Some of the Blackmagic cards can be useful if you want/need to capture from an HDMI device. Also if you need to capture analog video/audio. They're not terribly pricey and can be useful for those purposes (and monitoring, of course).
But since most media is captured via solid state media in camcorders nowadays, you'd have little use if that were a primary part of your workflow.
3. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?TradeWind Apr 16, 2012 4:20 AM (in response to Timoteo Doh)1 person found this helpful
Also, consider that you can use either an internal or external capture card in conjunction with a web streaming presentation to capture output of a typical HD camcorder using the HDMI output.
4. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?lasvideo Apr 16, 2012 4:27 AM (in response to TradeWind)1 person found this helpful
If you are an editor that is generating video professionally for use in broadcast or just need a reliable way to monitor color and levels, hardware like the Kona 3 card is crucial equipment for your edit bay. It also allows clients to see an accurate representation of the product you are making for them on an external monitor. It allows you to accurately evaluate and correct color and video levels. The SDI signal that it exports can also be sent to tape machines if you are doing long format projects (tv shows and movies) for mastering on digital tape machines. It really depends what kind of work you do and what your needs are.
5. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Harm Millaard Apr 16, 2012 4:29 AM (in response to TradeWind)
Let me reiterate the need for clear and presice terminology:
CAPTURE is limited to ingesting material from tape based cameras over firewire and is only to DV, HDV or DVC-Pro sources.
IMPORT is the copying of digital data from a memory card or camera based hard disk or DVD to a local hard disk.
INGEST is the acquisition of video data by other means not covered by capturing or importing, such as HD-SDI or HDMI.
If we all use the same terminology it makes communication a lot easier and avoids misunderstandings. Since the OP was very clear by using the word CAPTURE card, and using the above distinctions, the answer is clear. However, if someone mistakenly uses CAPTURE when actually meaning INGEST, things can get really confusing. Sorry to be such a nit-picker about these terms, but I think we can avoid a lot of confusion when we are accurate in describing what we mean, be it questions or answers.
6. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Timoteo Doh Apr 16, 2012 5:00 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Thanks, Harm ,Christian and lasvideo, for your explanation.
I have an Intensity Pro card for monitoring AVCHD and HDSLR video files as my workflow does not involve capturing from and exporting to tape.
7. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Dave Merchant Apr 16, 2012 5:02 AM (in response to Timoteo Doh)
Agree with Christian - for people working with DSLR video or 'live only' cameras (bullet cams, etc.) an external capture device is extremely important (hence the anger that DSLR manufacturers face whenever they release a model that doesn't give a clean HDMI output!). Not only does an external recorder get you past the 4GB limit on writing to cards, but you can usually pull the uncompressed signal direct from the sensor. It's why the new hybrid systems (C300, Cinema1D, etc) made such a play at NAB about their HDMI output features, and why Atmos and co. are feverishly updating firmware to support them. Even mid-range DSLRs can be hacked to create data far too quickly for the write speeds of in-camera storage cards, and data rates are getting faster every month. This time last year, who'd have thought that Thunderbolt was necessary when we had USB3?
At the prosumer level, the ability to send a program feed from PP is probably less enticing as few people in that category will be writing to tape or sitting in front of a CRT reference display, but (to the surprise of many people outside the industry) tape remains the supply format for many broadcasters. There's nothing wrong with an all-file distribution system and some channels use it, but the hardware investments in tape mean that major players are very reluctant to abandon all those nice gray boxes and the teams of bike messengers needed to cart them around
8. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?TradeWind Apr 16, 2012 5:07 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
As a fellow proud owner of an actual paper dictionary (and not the digital kind that is constanly altered by members of the Internet), I appreciate your desire to prevent a muddying of terms Harm, but the DV Storm card that you mentioned was itself not primarily intended for the ingesting of material from DV, HDV or DVC-Pro sources, as the IEEE 1394 input was only a small part of the selling point (obviously a straight IEEE 1394 PCI card was much cheaper than the analog breakout device that Canopus was selling). So while technically correct by the definition you provided, at least for a portion of the DV Storm feature set, it is not a proper description of the totality of what that product does, which is to digitize and ingest analog signals.
Thus the ingesting of analog signals from the composite video input would not have fit your definition of "capture" as you suggested in your first post describing the product.
I can say that AJA and Blackmagic both use the term "capture" with their HD-SDI and HDMI devices even when there is not a IEEE 1394 port onboard, so if there is a muddying of terms then it may well be from the industry's top down, rather than the other way.
As my wife is fond of frequently correcting my grammar (which I actually tend to regard as quite proper anyway), I never fail to lay it on pretty thick when she drops a grammar bomb of her own. I of course do the same with her driving, on the rare occasion I'm bold enough to let her drive me on any major roads. You're free to pick the nits but if your goal was/is to be precise and clear then you might consider a revision of the terms or a revision of your description of the DV Storm. "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
This is all much like the conversations I have with my friends who produce wedding videos and call themselves "filmmakers" even though many of them have never seen any film themselves, let alone produced any content on it, or call themselves "cinematographers" even though they are highly unlikely to ever have their content screened at a cinema of any sort. I call myself a video producer and they look at me like I've been branded with a second class title even though I'm just trying to be clear about what it is that I do. I'm sure you could share your own opinions on the "filmmaker" or "cinematographer" terminology.
9. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Stephen_Spider Sep 17, 2012 11:44 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
My Storm card is gathering dust in a PC's carcass two rooms away. I haven't used it in two years but can't bare to bin it. Really a wonderful card, The RaptorRT as well. The RT Chroma Key was way more than Premeire could do alone, and could be run synchronously with the RT color correction and RT blur capabilities, as well as several other useful RT fx.
For work I bought Premiere Pro 1.5, Audition, and Photoshop with a Canopus RaptorRT all for $599 from VideoGuys in 2004ish. That P4 system built for $900 I was proud of setting up a RT DV NLE system that had A\D ability, Pristine DV output and RT performance that was on par with system that cost 10 times as much.
I'm equally enamored with the Mercury Playback Engine Hardware Acceleration. However the essential GTX or Quadro cards sort of serve in the same capacity as the oldschool proprietary Capture\RT cards. While not used for capture, it does accelerate the RT capabilities of a properly configured system. Unlike a fixed RT I\O card, MPE performance can scale with your systems cpus, ram, and choice of Nvidia card.
On Topic....Modern capture cards... Very useful for Studio Capture. Analog, SDI switchers.or HDMI from cameras. Usually a fixed box integrated into control-room. Aja, Bluefish, BlackMagic are some better names. Also, you mentioned the playback\monitoring abilities these cards offer in your post. This fine monitoring ability is crucial to some peoples workflow. CS6 is supposed to help these 3rd party cards integrate better than some earlier versions.
More from 2005.... I also chose a Matrox system..... different experience. The deal again was incredible, a premiere pro 1.5 combo suite with an upgrade to Premiere Pro 2.0 editing suite with After Affects and Audition. Plus a Matrox Card, which was a pain to get running and was never stable and offer little advantage over a vanilla kit. When the Matrox card worked, the RT color correction was a benefit, and the RT scaling & 3d perspective tools were useful. A little known benefit of a matrox card that made the purchase worthwhile for us was the ability output composite or S-video NTSC from any clip or stream that would play in the windows media player. So we could always get odd materials to dv easy that way. Like a 3 hour landuse meeting that a tech forgot to roll tape on, but the web streaming box got it, at 360x240. The Matrox card scaled it to NTSC.
... Then it Blew up. The end.
10. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Timoteo Doh Apr 16, 2012 6:38 AM (in response to TradeWind)
I'm a bit confused about this HDMI issue. I have a Sony Camcorder with an HDMI port. Also the camcorder records on the internal memory. I only have to import/copy the files onto my computer hard drive. How useful is the HDMI port and my Intensity Pro card to this process?
11. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?TradeWind Apr 16, 2012 7:21 AM (in response to Timoteo Doh)
Not sure about your camcorder specifically, but some professional and "prosumer" camcorders allow you to send a video signal out of the HDMI port that bypasses the camera's internal compression, which means you could get a better quality video into your edit. This also means larger file sizes, but it's a relatively common workflow nowadays.
Check your particular needs and your specific camera to determine if it's possible for you and necessary (green screen work, heavy compositing or color grading, etc).
12. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Timoteo Doh Apr 16, 2012 8:02 AM (in response to TradeWind)
Thanks , Christian but my confusion is this. Do you get better quality 4:2:2 video by ingesting already shot footage from camcorder's internal memory via camcorder HDMI to Intensity Pro? What I know is that you can get 4:2:2 quality video by recording VIA HDMI to an external recorder like the Atomos Ninja etc. live during filming and not after filming. Is this right?
13. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?SAFEHARBOR11 Apr 16, 2012 8:29 AM (in response to TradeWind)
As Christian said, you can get a much higher quality capturing from the HDMI output of the camera, but this is only during a LIVE shoot - once the video hits the memory card in the camera, it has already been highly compressed (typically 4:2:0 color, Long-GOP, at 25Mbps or less) and you can't get that missing data back again.
I have a dance recital weekend coming up that involves recording 6 shows over two days - about 15 hours of 1080i HD footage. I shoot with HDV, and last year brought my PC onsite and took the HDMI output from the camera into my Matrox MXO2 Mini. This allowed me to ingest directly to the computer hard drive, using the Matrox codec which is MPEG-2 I-Frame using 4:2:2 color at 100Mbps. Definitely a MUCH better image that native HDV, plus it saved me the 15+ hours of time to capture from the HDV tapes! Will be repeating that workflow this year as well.
Of course, the MXO2 hardware also provides full HD monitoring to my LED display via HDMI from Premiere CS5.5, so external hardware is still an important part of my workflow that way besides capturing.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor
14. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Jim_Simon Apr 16, 2012 8:48 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
Not only does an external recorder get you past the 4GB limit on writing to cards
I'm curious about which external recording devices you're referring to here. All the models I'm aware of are hamstrung to keep Mac compatibility (formatted in FAT32), and hence still suffer from the 4GB file limitation.
If you know of a device that can be formatted as NTFS, I'd be interested in knowing about it.
15. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Dave Merchant Apr 16, 2012 9:20 AM (in response to Jim_Simon)
I was actually talking about devices that act as a capture card (in a PCI slot or a shuttle, like the Intensity) - so you're writing direct to your computer disk drive. There are a select few self-contained recorders that can truly bypass the 4GB limit by formatting their internal drives as HFS+, such as the Ki Pro; and some which 'cheat' the 4GB limit by writing spanned MXF files to a FAT32 drive with Op-Atom tags so they can be reconstructed afterwards (Cinedeck etc)
As far as I know, nobody's selling a self-contained recorder with NTFS-formatted storage.
Jim Simon wrote:
I'm curious about which external recording devices you're referring to here. All the models I'm aware of are hamstrung to keep Mac compatibility (formatted in FAT32), and hence still suffer from the 4GB file limitation.
If you know of a device that can be formatted as NTFS, I'd be interested in knowing about it.
16. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Jim_Simon Apr 16, 2012 10:09 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
OK, that makes more sense.
17. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?TradeWind Apr 16, 2012 12:04 PM (in response to Timoteo Doh)
Timoteo Doh wrote:
I'm a bit confused about this HDMI issue. I have a Sony Camcorder with an HDMI port. Also the camcorder records on the internal memory. I only have to import/copy the files onto my computer hard drive. How useful is the HDMI port and my Intensity Pro card to this process?
Just to confirm what Jeff said, it is only during live recording. Once the content is recorded to the media (SDHC, P2, etc) you really cannot increase the quality by transcoding or running the footage out through HDMI. Some still do a transcode (either from the file/asset or via HDMI) to convert highly compressed footage such as AVCHD in order to prep for editing but that's becoming less and less necessary in most cases anyway.
Check for your particular camera however...many camcorders will output the HDMI stream after it's processed, which isn't going to do any good. A few forum searches around the web will help you clarify how your device outputs HDMI signals.
18. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?Timoteo Doh Apr 16, 2012 1:19 PM (in response to TradeWind)
Thank you all for this indepth discussion on the topic.
19. Re: Why Expensive Video Capture Cards?DoctorBongo Apr 16, 2012 3:23 PM (in response to Timoteo Doh)
We need to input from composite, s-video, component, SDI and HDMI sources. We do not always need to capture uncompressed so a variety of CODEC options is especially useful. We also need to monitor the output of work in progress (in either SD or HD) on good quality video displays in the correct aspect ratio and see any interlacing issues. An I/O device is the only way we can achieve this and remains an essential part of every edit system we operate. Any whistles and bells that accompany the card are secondary to the requirement for good quality I/O.


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William A. Urban, 85, of Walnutport, died Monday, April 22, 2013, in Blue Mountain Health System, Palmerton Campus.
He was the husband of D. Jane (Bossert) Urban; they celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary last October.
Born in Middleport, he was the son of the late William and Florence (Argall) Urban.
Bill grew up in New Boston and, as a teen, moved to Pottsville, where he attended Pottsville High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a First Class Seaman, and was stationed at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Bill worked for the former Sprague & Henwood Inc. of Scranton, and obtained the position of Philadelphia branch manager at the age of 26. He later drove a bus for First Student and maintained a clean driving record of more than 100,000 miles.
He was a member of Slatington Baptist Church, and was the church videographer. Bill enjoyed traveling the United States with his wife.
Survivors include his wife, D. Jane; his children: Ann Marie and her husband, Michael Monastero; William Urban and his wife, Donna; Thomas Toth and his wife, Linda; Deborah Toth; Timothy Toth and his wife, Jean; and Tod Toth and his wife, Cheryl; his nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his cousin, Jack Argall, and his wife, Miriam.
He was predeceased by his sisters, Dorothy Rossley and Ruth Stoneback.
Calling hours will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, April 29, at Slatington Baptist Church, 509 Main St., Slatington. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the church.
Contributions may be made in Bill's memory to the Slatington Baptist Church Steeple Fund.
Harding Funeral Home
25-27 N. Second St., Slatington
William A. Urban
William A. Urban, 85, of Walnutport, died Monday, April 22, 2013, in Blue Mountain Health System, Palmerton Campus.


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Director Brett Ratner, who was replaced at the last minute as the 2012 Oscars producer following comments he made about his sex life and uttering a homophobic slur, has made a $1-million gift for the planned Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum.
The academy said Wednesday that its capital campaign, launched in 2012 to build a museum in partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has secured more than half of its $300-million goal in commitments.
"I feel blessed to be part of such a magnificent museum," Ratner, the director of the "Rush Hour" movies, said in a statement. "I was blown away by the recent Kubrick exhibit at LACMA, which the academy co-sponsored. I couldn't be more excited that our academy will finally have its own museum that will preserve and exhibit cinema's greatest work."
GRAPHIC: Best & worst Oscar moments since 2008
Ratner, who was to have joined with veteran producer Don Mischer to helm the Oscars, had been an unusual pick as producer of the annual awards show, and soon after he was named to the job he became a lightning rod for criticism.
Following a screening of his "Tower Heist," Ratner said during a question-and-answer session that "rehearsal is for fags." He then went on Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show and talked explicitly about his sex life.
Ratner apologized, but the drumbeat of criticism continued, culminating in Ratner's resignation. His Oscar host and "Tower Heist" star Eddie Murphy soon followed him out the door.
TIMELINE: Academy Awards through the years
"Brett has a sincere love of movies and film history, and we are excited to welcome him to our group of supporters," Bill Kramer, the museum's managing director of development, said in a statement.
The planned museum is designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali. The architectural centerpiece of the 290,000-square-foot complex, just west of the campus of LACMA, would be a giant glass-enclosed dome, which Piano refers to as the "sphere" and the "soap bubble."
It would hold a 1,000-seat theater and be attached to the northern side of architect Albert C. Martin's 1939 May Co. building, which would be restored as part of the museum plan and hold exhibits on Hollywood history and the craft of filmmaking. A rear addition to the May Co. built in 1946 would be demolished to make way for the dome.
Academy raises $100 million for movie museum
Academy aligns with LACMA to create a movie museum
Academy has long sought to build prominent film museum in L.A.


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Microsoft's new Windows XP Media Center 2005 operating system has new features that help a PC compete with consumer electronics devices in the living room, and that turn a PC into a home server capable of feeding audio and video to multiple devices on a wireless network. We tried out a preproduction PC with the new operating system.
Entertainment Tonight
As did the previous version released in 2003, Media Center 2005 plays DVD movies, tunes in and records television programming, and manages your digital music library. It behaves like an application: Set it to start with Windows, or shut it down to make the desktop look--and work--like any other Windows XP box.
All Media Center 2005 PCs have TV-tuner cards carrying one or two discrete tuners. With two tuners, you can simultaneously watch one show and record another (or simultaneously record two shows). Even with a single-tuner card, though, the operating system lets you pause live television.
Analog TV should look better on new Media Center PCs than on the first-generation machines. The tuner cards in 2005 models compress live TV signals at a variable bit rate of up to 9 MBps, surpassing the fixed 6-MBps rate of last year's media PCs. Comb filters are used to improve the look of standard-definition signals.
In addition, you can burn DVDs from within Windows Media Center 2005--which you couldn't do with the first release. Just right-click your mouse or click a button on the Media Center remote to bring up the Create CD/DVD command. DVD and CD burning worked perfectly on our test system, except when we tried to burn an HD clip. In that case, the OS wouldn't allow burning to a video DVD, only to a Windows Media file.
TV Anywhere
You can take advantage of Media Center features with other computers throughout the house, as well as with Media Center Extender devices. Extenders pull digital audio and standard-definition video (HDTV may be added in the future) over either an 802.11a or an 802.11g wireless network and play them through a stereo or TV. Dell, HP, Linksys, and Tatung, among others, will sell Extender devices. Dell's version will reportedly cost $275; an Extender kit for Microsoft's Xbox will cost $80.
Most media PCs use Pentium processors, but Alienware says it will outfit at least some boxes with AMD Athlon 64 CPUs. To see whether the new OS hurts performance, we ran WorldBench 5 on a Media Center 2005 system, and then reran the benchmark on the same PC but with Windows XP Home (and the latest component drivers) installed. We found virtually no difference: With Media Center, the PC had a WorldBench 5 score of 81, while with Windows XP Home its score was 82, close enough for us to call it a wash.


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(UPDATED) Police raided Spa Misty, 4600 W. U.S. 223 in Adrian, Monday night and arrested two women on prostitution charges.
Police raided a massage parlor on Adrian's west side Monday night and arrested two women on prostitution charges.
The raid at Spa Misty, 4600 W. U.S. 223, was conducted following a two-month investigation by the OMNI Team 3 drug enforcement unit, according to a news release posted to the Adrian Police Department's Facebook page. Officers executed a search warrant at the business at 8 p.m. and seized evidence consistent with suspected illegal prostitution.
Police lodged the two suspects at the Lenawee County Jail pending authorization of prostitution-related charges by the Lenawee County Prosecutor's Office, police said. Additional charges may be filed.
"There hasn't been anything more than misdemeanors at this point," said Prosecutor Burke Castleberry. "There's more investigating going on."
Decisions on authorizing more serious charges will be made as evidence is gathered and analyzed, Castleberry said. Investigators have to look at all the information turned up since a search warrant was executed at the business.
Only two women who were in the building at the time of the search, he said.
Lenawee County Jail records identified the suspects as Tuk Tan Christner, 48, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Myong Suk Chong, 57. Chong's address was listed as the business's address. They remained in jail after bonds of $100,000 each were set Tuesday in Lenawee County District Court.
Castleberry said it has not yet been determined if any other women were working at the business or if anyone else was involved in prostitution.
"We do not believe that these two people own the business," he said.
Castleberry said there was significant traffic at the business.
"We've had the place under surveillance," he said.
Castleberry would not comment on whether records were found that identify customers.
"I can't divulge that yet," he said.
An Internet search yielded reviews of Spa Misty going back more than a year that describe in general terms sexual favors being performed in exchange for money.
Online ads describe the business as an Asian massage parlor. Its website, istellar.wix.com/spamisty, describes its philosophy as being "all about bringing you rejuvenation, relaxation and joy. We are here to help you relieve stress and body aches that have accumulate (sic) throughout your tough work week. Our beautiful and friendly staff is here to address your needs."
OMNI Team 3 was assisted by the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department, the Madison Township Police Department, the Adrian Police Department, the Raisin Township Police Department and the federal Department of Homeland Security.
OMNI Team 3 is a multi-jurisdictional taskforce for Lenawee and Hillsdale counties. The team is comprised of officers from the Adrian Police
Department, the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department, the Raisin Township Police Department and the Michigan State Police.


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Terence Newman has developed a scary trend for what is now the third season in a row. Last year we were told that he had a mild groin strain and then things lingered and worsened to the point that he eventually required surgery due to a sports hernia. I have a hard time taking Wade Phillips at his word on injury comments because he has a tendency to downplay every injury that happens. All we can do is keep our fingers crossed that this really is minor for Newman because these groin strains have a way of lingering for long periods of time.
Mike Jenkins is another story. Some guys bounce back from ankle sprains very quickly but others take months to get back to 100%. The severity of the sprain is part of the equation but some guys are just fast healers. Jenkins didn't seem to be a fast healer after his hamstring pull last season but he did come back and look very strong after his rehab stint. I'm going to hope this sprain is minor enough that Jenkins has plenty of time to get himself back to 100% a couple of weeks before the regular season so he can get his confidence back.
I'm not going to go jump off of a bridge and call the season a bust after these two injuries but I am definitely concerned. There are some young guys who will benefit from the extra practice reps. How quickly Newman and Jenkins get back to full time practice will tell us everything we need to know about the severity of the injuries. If at least one of them can get back to practice within the next week then I won't be worried. If both guys are back I'll be elated. But if Jenkins and Newman are both still out in two weeks then I am going to start sounding the alarm.


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Once all the machines are out there and operating, they'll produce.
The good news about charitable gaming in Minnesota is this: It remains enormously successful in meeting its core purposes of strengthening communities and serving the missions of numerous organizations that make our state a better place in which to live and work.
In fact, paper pulltabs are as popular as they have been in years. Sales increased 7.6 percent last year and are on pace to do even better this year. In the past five years, paper pulltabs have rung up about $5 billion in sales.
Charitable gaming has been an important asset for communities and the missions of the organizations that receive grants from the gaming proceeds. Last year, charities gave $43 million to their missions and paid $41 million in taxes to the state. That's hardly an enterprise that is failing.
Those realities should be kept in mind when reading articles like the March 12 editorial, "Want more stadium revenue from electronic pull tabs? Good luck with that."
Remember, charitable gaming never sought to be part of the stadium funding bill. While Allied Charities of Minnesota was consulted on some technical aspects of e-games last year, we were never asked to provide formal economic projections. The economic projections were based on an approval process that would have the new games in 2,500 sites by last fall. So far, they are in about 170 sites. The slow roll-out isn't a reflection on the potential of the marketplace, it's the regulatory process. Only two of the five electronic manufacturers that want to do business in Minnesota are approved and only three of the 10 electronic distributors that will eventually do business in the state are currently able to do so.
All that is old news, though. We are looking to the future and we continue to believe that the new electronic games will be successful for charities, the communities they serve and for Vikings fans looking forward to a new stadium.
Once the roll-out of the new games catches up to what was forecast, we are confident that the new games, including the e-pulltabs, will be successful. In particular, bingo linked electronically to venues across the state will generate jackpots that will create excitement, attract new players and new customers for the sites offering the games. E-bingo provides the social aspect of paper pulltabs – a big screen TV allows all customers to join the fun and excitement whether or not they are playing – and jackpots that will be $25,000 or more every day.
There is no need to rush to judgment, particularly until the new games actually are in the marketplace. We believe that with time and an improved regulatory process, charitable gaming will deliver for Minnesota.


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Inventory Management Systems
All in one inventory manager
This is a comprehensive network documentation system enabling a convenient and efficient operation of telecommunication network infrastructure.
Based on its complete and reliable database, it provides integrated end-to-end network views: of physical, logical and service layers, and on different hierarchy levels, also geographically correct GIS views.
In addition to classic inventory management, it offers essential support for service configuration, troubleshooting and network planning as well as for resource and capacity management. This speeds up processes for circuit design, network rollout and service delivery.
It provides the basis for a core data structure holding all information on the network, for all network technologies and with interfaces to a number of NMS, EMS as well as OSS and BSS systems.
To guarantee an integrated view of all physical and logical network information, the solution uses a multidimensional network resources model. The data model supports all network technologies, while allowing the company to expand the system to support new technologies at any time.
Customized easily for new device types, service types and network technologies. In addition to traditional technical information, the application manages all types of operator-relevant information such as information about vendors, orders, contracts, locations, topologies, contacts and organizations.
Scalable and contains flexible interfaces for fast and cost-efficient integration in all kinds of system environments.


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Kitchen Tour: Steve's San Francisco Color Inspiration
Interior designer Steve Justrich is inspired by color. When he renovated his tiny San Francisco kitchen, he drew his primary inspiration from the colorful art that lines his walls and makes his kitchen such an interesting place to cook. He says, "I wanted a kitchen that would be colorful and delightful to be in but still be a professional, working kitchen." Well, in our opinion he more than succeeded. The result is a dramatic transformation and one of the most pleasant small kitchens we've seen in a long time.
Here's a tour from Steve through his kitchen, his cooking style, and the resources he used to transform his space.
1. What's your cooking style?
Inspired by Michael Pollan and Alice Waters I try to be a fresh, organic, local and seasonal whole food cook – not so hard to do in California.
2. What inspires your kitchen?
Colors. The kitchen was inspired by the colors in two pieces of art and the Heath Ceramics colors French Grey (walls), Linen (countertop and splash), Aqua (Venetian plaster ceiling), and Avocado (door). Yellow (cabinets) and magenta (outside bench) colors are used from the oil painting given to me by a friend in New Mexico, and a piece by local artist Alex Garcia that combines stained wood, metal and resin. An Alex Garcia piece in the photo with the mixer has stainless steel, recycled grey barn wood, and pale aqua paint on wood. The open shelving displays the Heathware. I wanted a kitchen that would be colorful and delightful to be in but still be a professional, working kitchen — with major appliances out to be used — yet still retain a styled and orderly look.
3. Favorite tool or element?
Favorite element: angled sink counter towards the new big window and the exterior aluminum framed display planter — photo shows native grasses on the shelf — I change the plants out according to what's cool looking and in season.
4. Best cooking advice or tip you ever received:
Hmmm — keep your stock heated before you add it to the risotto.
5. Biggest challenge in your kitchen:
Space! Making a small kitchen seem BIG — I built-in the refrigerator into a second doorway into the kitchen, with lots of windows and no upper cabinets, and made the sink work as counter space with integrated cutting board and strainer. My philosophy is not to have to walk more than three steps between counters and appliances, and have everything within a fully extended arms reach — I can have my left hand on a pot handle on the stove and my right hand on the sink faucet at the same time.
6. Biggest indulgence:
The Leibherr refrigerator and the Venetian plaster ceiling.
7. Dream tool or splurge:
Vita-Mix blender.
8. What are you cooking this week?
Meatloaf with a cherry tomato, fennel, red wine and balsamic dressing, and Dijon mustard mashed potatoes, curried eggs with sweet potatoes, avocado, and goat cheese, and kale slaw with peanut dressing
9. Desert island cookbook?
I saw it on your website and will have to check it out.
10. Favorite meal cooked here:
Pork pozole stew inspired from memories of my life in New Mexico with roasted green tomatillos, and Serrano and Poblano chili.
I tried to be eco-friendly and maintenance conscious in my selection of materials. My appliance selections are mostly European because they tend to be space and energy savers.
1. No grout! Floor is Forbo Marmoleum sheet goods, counter splash is Fireclay ceramic tile, Claymonde Series, large format, super thin crackle glaze tile.
2. Countertop is Caesarstone "Blizzard White"- keeps the kitchen bright and clean looking and merges with the color of the splash.
3. Ceiling is aqua-colored Venetian plaster – not something that you normally see in a kitchen that adds color and an unexpected touch.
4. Cabinets are Finnish (Finply) yellow plywood – I wanted to see wood grain but with color – finply is a pre-finished industrial grade plywood with exposed edges – and a material that would be durable and not have to be re-finished or painted. Fine steel wool will not even harm the finish.
5. Cabinet pulls are from Omnia, in stainless steel – I liked the retro look.
1. Liebherr refrigerator – at 30″ x 80″, it was built into a second doorway into the kitchen.
2. American Range 30″ range – commercial grade look for half the price, with cast iron grates and the largest gas oven for a 30″ range. The stainless shelf keeps pots at hand and not taking up room in the cabinets.
3. Faber exhaust hood
4. Miele 18″ Slimline dishwasher with concealed controls – it will do 9 full place settings in a half load (just the top shelf)
5. GE spacesaver microwave
6. Julien 30″ sink with cutting board and strainer – the bigger the sink the better, and never two compartments – use tubs and strainers if you want to compartmentalize the sink. The sink should be able to fit the oven racks, exhaust hood filters and refrigerator shelves for cleaning.
7. THG faucet and spray
1. Up-down lights are Leucos, Yellow dome fixture is CB2
Thank you for sharing your lovely kitchen, Steve! And another big thank you to James Hall for the photos.
Justrich Design
We're always looking for real kitchens from real cooks.
Submit your kitchen here.
(Images: Before photos: Steve Justrich; After photos: James Hall Photography)


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Although it's not been celebrated with much verve here in the US, 2012 represents the 40th anniversary of BMW M GmbH, formerly known as BMW Motorsport.
BMW Classic decided to celebrate this important milestone at Germany's largest classic car race at the Nürburgring, the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix, which itself was also celebrating its 40th birthday.
Topping the bill were demonstration drives by some of the famous cars and drivers associated with BMW M since 1972.
Special races were open to all BMW cars developed by BMW Motorsport GmbH since 1972, and the cars were split into relevant classes.
In addition, BMW Classic lined up five BMW racecars piloted by familiar figures. These included two BMW M1 Group 4 racers, a BMW 320 Group 5 car, a 1987 BMW M3 Group A and the 1995 BMW 320i STW. Four successful BMW touring car drivers took to the track, including Dieter Quester, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Marc Surer and Marc Hessel all getting behind the wheel. Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice-President BMW Group Design, rounded off the roll call.


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|2011 Faculty and Staff Retiree Recognition Album Two
Professor of Chemistry Bob Olsen arrived at Wabash in 1979.
"Bob is a masterful teacher, combining beautifully organized lectures with recitation activities and a dry sense of humor," said Associate Professor of Chemistry Ann Taylor. "Bob's diversity of interests can be seen in his course offerings [outside of chemistry], ranging from Introduction to Astronomy to the History of Science to Presidental Politics and Civil War.
"Bob loves the symphony, and he has played musical chairs with important leadership roles on campus, including chairing the Chemistry Department (four different times), Division One, the Science Building Planning Committee, the Quantitative Studies Committee, and the Indiana Academy of Science Auditing Committee."


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The wind was measured by a windmeter at beach level and later also compared to the wind measurement by the local bureau of metheorology.Tom183 wrote:How was the windspeed measured?
And just how flat is this kite?
And what does it weigh?
Sounds like a close match for the Speed 17m (or at least, closer), but I'd have to try both in the same conditions.
From looking at the kite in the air, the kite seems flatter than the Switchblade. Not sure how it compares to the Crossbow as I didn't see one to compare.
The weight of the 17 is 9.5lbs or 4.3kg.
It would be cool to compare it with a Speed 17. Anyone????
It would be great to compare it along key dimensions (weight, turning speed, lift, hangtime, dewpower/wind range, relauncheability, up wind performance, etc.).


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Choosing furniture for your home is a weighty decision. When exploring dining room sets it's important to find the one that fits your needs while matching the other decor in your house. Many people also want to ensure that the pieces they purchase will remain strong and beautiful for many years.
Here are a few tips on dining room design including furniture and decor suitable for the more conventional home and family unit that needs to inspire welcomed guests.
There are several kinds of dining room tables one of which is the accent table. These tables are more or less like the basic dining furniture only that they are more ornately made and designed. Most of these tables are more prized for their design than their actual function. These tables often go well with other classic pieces like classic fancy chairs or a wine cabinet. Breakfast bars are one of the unconventional designs of dining tables. These tables are a lot smaller than conventional dining tables and are designed for the first meal of the day because they provide more mobility and ease of movement to accommodate the morning rush. These tables have more room for movement and more cabinets and racks like the racks of a wine cabinet which are perfect for storing cereals bowls and mugs. Coffee tables are one of the smaller furniture pieces in our list. These tables are designed to be in the presence of sofas and lounge chairs as they are made to hold drinks pastries and snacks. Sometimes these tables are used to for dinner and other meals when one wants to eat whilst watching television.
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Dining Room Accent Pieces and Accessories. If your dining room has the space for them different household items for example curio cabinets cocktail cabinets credenzas and sideboards include that additional touch of pizzazz to your stylistic layout and furniture. By selecting the correct size and style of dining room stylistic theme and furniture your dinner parties can be the talk of the area - and that is before we even start to talk about the food!Just utilize an expansive dining table in the event that you have a requirement for central space for such things as a candles and centerpiece. In the event that you have just a little space for the table a circular table is superior to anything a rectangular one and a pedestal base can seat more than a base with three or four legs.
Here are a few tips on dining room design including furniture and decor suitable for the more conventional home and family unit that needs to inspire welcomed guests.
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There are several kinds of dining room tables one of which is the accent table. These tables are more or less like the basic dining furniture only that they are more ornately made and designed. Most of these tables are more prized for their design than their actual function. These tables often go well with other classic pieces like classic fancy chairs or a wine cabinet. Breakfast bars are one of the unconventional designs of dining tables. These tables are a lot smaller than conventional dining tables and are designed for the first meal of the day because they provide more mobility and ease of movement to accommodate the morning rush. These tables have more room for movement and more cabinets and racks like the racks of a wine cabinet which are perfect for storing cereals bowls and mugs. Coffee tables are one of the smaller furniture pieces in our list. These tables are designed to be in the presence of sofas and lounge chairs as they are made to hold drinks pastries and snacks. Sometimes these tables are used to for dinner and other meals when one wants to eat whilst watching television.Modern. While wood may be the most common material for tables and chairs there are other options for the non-traditionalist. A metal table can lend a modern and minimalist style to any setting especially when coupled with a more casual seating arrangement such as benches and stools. If you prefer a modern look but without the metal a glass tabletop can be found to fit any sized area. To complete the look clear plastic chairs are available in a number of styles. Along with the sleek style glass and plastic also make cleaning up a breeze.Second-Hand. If buying new dining room sets does not appeal to your taste there are many wonderful options available in the classifieds or at vintage stores. A bruised and battered table and chair collection can be revived with some sandpaper and a few coats of lacquer. Or if you prefer the more rustic look you can leave the scratches and nicks on the piece.The dining room table is the most noticed and most used dining furniture. It is the focal point of the room. Other furniture found in the dining room like a wine cabinet must in a way flank the dining room table. They all must agree to the design and function of the dining table to create a more harmonious overall design and feel in the dining room.Softly Modern. If you want to spice up your dining area with modern style furniture but want a softer look than some styles provide there are several ways to satisfy your desire. You could choose an oval glass tabletop for a softer focal point. Modern chairs with a curved design would also help you achieve the design you are striving for. You could place a beautiful rug in a cinnamon nutmeg or paprika color under the glass table to add visual warmth to the room.The room you utilize fundamentally to eat in might not in truth be your dining room since many eat in the kitchen as a family and utilize the principle dining area for dinner parties and guests.Windows can appear to be bigger in the event that they have contract frames and encompassing woodwork and curtailing the drapes likewise tends to help open out a room. Dining rooms have a tendency to be the source of a considerable measure of conversation so wallpaper is superior to anything painted walls for retaining sound waves. A rug or carpet likewise ingests sound superior to anything wood flooring.Size Choices. The size of dining room furniture is one of the most important details to consider. Two factors will affect the size you choose: the size of the room and the number of people you wish to accommodate at the table. The first consideration will be the dimensions of the room because this will determine the size of the furniture. The shape of the room is another consideration because narrow dimensions may present a challenge for some sets. Select furniture that allows at least 36 inches between the outer edges and the walls. For even more comfort allow between 42 and 28 inches between the furniture and walls. Every person sitting around the surface should have at least 24 inches of space for comfort. If you really want everyone to feel at ease give everyone 30 inches of dining space. People will appreciate an extra 12 inches at the corners of rectangular tables.Style Features. Styles vary depending on the manufacturer. For example you might choose a trestle table when creating a country look in your home. These dining room sets are often constructed out of reclaimed wood to give them a rustic and primitive appearance. Benches may line this type of furniture for informal seating. More traditional options include wood with a rich and glossy finish and ornate carvings on the legs. For dining room sets with modern appeal consider metals and glass for both legs and tops.Accessories. You can breathe new life into a dull boring dining area by adding modern dining room furniture to the room. The openness of the furniture and the simplicity of its design mandates that the room be free of clutter. A modern style dining area is a place of elegance where you your family and guests gather to enjoy delicious meals and engage in lively conversation. Many dining rooms tend to send a person into sensory overload with all of the decorative items placed around the room and with the over abundance of items hanging on the wall. Once you decide that modern furniture is to be the focal point of your dining area you don't need to add a lot of accessories to the room or to the wall. One or two large and simplistically impressive pieces of art on the wall is sufficient for a modern style dining room. If you have a few collectibles that you wish to include in the dining area decor a modern style curio would be the most appropriate way to display them.The place where everybody in the house gathers for good food and conversation is the dining area. Everyone convenes and enjoys pleasantries exchanged over food and beverage. The function of the room is of course obviously in line with the functions of the furniture in it. As the dining room is used for eating its flagship furniture that garners the most attention and usage is the dining room table. Other dining room furniture work in coordination with the dining room table and together they create the functionality and good atmosphere of the dining room.Since the dining table is the most used and most seen among the dining room furniture it must be well chosen and designed to ensure its aesthetic value and of course functionality and strength. Whether it be a simple family dinner or a party involving many guests a good dining table is indeed a necessity.In every home there are generally three major communal rooms in which people spend the majority of their time. The room where the cooking is done the room where reading and entertainment is common and the room where meals are eaten all see their fair share of use. Just as kitchen and dining room furniture has evolved to meet the needs of modern families so too have dining room sets.Traditionally dining room sets were composed of a large rectangular table surrounded by chairs. The two chairs at either head had arms while the chairs along the sides were armless. The furniture is almost always made of wood and prior to the 19th century unique to each home. While custom pieces are still available today they can be prohibitively expensive. Here is a look at some of the more common styles of tables and chairs that are available today.Find Sellers that are Trustworthy. There are much furniture sold in the internet or in shops that fit your need and are made of the best materials and are crafted to perfection. But always exercise caution and keep your eyes open for scams and fake offers. Do research. Read up on your potential dining room furniture suppliers. There are many websites and forums that provide information about the sellers and advice regarding the furniture.Whichever your practice is as per home interior designer it is by the by vital that the room is airy and bright and comfortable to eat in. The decorative accents must be centered on growing the size of room and light colors and mirrors can make a room show up altogether bigger than it is. This is especially valid in the event that you have mirrors adjusted to mirror each other and furthermore mirror the windows in the event that you have them.Another core aspect of making your dining room look sizeable is the color palette. If you always believed that you were supposed to keep your spacially challenged rooms white then here is some wonderful news for you. If you don't want drab paint that is boring think about having a monochromatic interior design in a muted color or combine different colors which all produce the same intensity. For a scheme that is more colorful consider blues and greens that all have an equal intensity or if you prefer a soothing ambiance think about a monochromatic color scheme of pale blues. To add drama and depth work on painting one wall a deep intense tone - this gives it the impression of being further away along with adding an unusual charm. Pale colors will recede therefore making the room seem larger and blueish gray is a great decorative paint color for a small room. But then if that sounds too colorless don't despair cool colors like blues greens and purples also recede so you can use your beautiful shades without making the room appear small sized.Choosing furniture for your home is a weighty decision. When exploring dining room sets it's important to find the one that fits your needs while matching the other decor in your house. Many people also want to ensure that the pieces they purchase will remain strong and beautiful for many years.Elevate the Elegance. When you think of a modern style dining room think of it in terms of a woman's favorite little black dress. A simple black dress can be elevated in elegance with the addition of some shimmering silver or sparkling diamonds. You can create an atmosphere of grandeur in a modern designed dining room with the addition of some shimmering lights and sparkling accessories. Pendant lights work well in a dining room. They can be placed throughout the room to highlight areas of interest. They can also provide the perfect amount of light above the dining room table. The reflection of the light on the glass table top makes the surface sparkle like diamonds. A large silver mirror placed on an accent wall will add a shimmering affect to the entire room.Re-Purposed. If you are a skilled craftsman or you simply have a lot of time on your hands you can try to create your own table out of older materials. Some common materials used are flooring planks particularly in rarer woods such as redwood old wooden doors and even wood salvaged from wrecked ships. If done properly these materials can make for truly unique dining room sets that not only look fantastic but also offer a story that you can tell to any guests sitting at them.Dining Room Tables. Most modern dining area tables are made of glass. They may have some wood incorporated into their design or possibly be a combination of glass and chrome. Tables designs vary from the traditional four legs as support to an artistically designed pedestal base. The glass tabletop plays a large role in helping the room appear more visually spacious regardless of its actual size. These tables are grand in design. They provide a superbly impressive place for you to seat your guest.Given that there are many kinds of dining tables which one do you get? There are several guidelines that can be extremely useful when shopping for kitchen furniture. These guidelines allow you to consider the things that are most important in choosing the furniture to get for your dining room.Thinking about where you place the furniture in the room is an additional tip for decorating a small dining room. Even your dining room might add to your well being when designed with Feng Shui in mind. Easy access into a room will make it seem more spacious so place your furniture away from the doors. If you can steer the eye from the open door to a bigger piece like a server or mirror can help divert the eye and give the illusion of space.One thing you might want to do is be sure to decide on a room design that makes the most out of small spaces. One principle feature to avoid with small dining rooms is clutter due to the fact that it tends to make the room seem a great deal smaller.Consider Design. Design would determine the material and make of the dining table. Other dining furniture like a wine cabinet also follows this rule. Under this consideration you would need to think about what material would constitute your furniture. Will it be made of hardwood plastic glass or metal? What would be its make? Would it follow a minimalist or a Victorian classic style? These questions can be answered if you consider your personal taste and theme of your house of dining room. For example a minimalist dining room table would best fit dining areas with clean solid colors. Victorian dining room furniture add a touch of classic flair to an otherwise boring room. Consult designers or design books for this one.Modern Designed Chairs. You can seat yourself and your guests in some absolutely astonishing chairs. Modern dining room furniture includes some of the most uniquely designed chairs you could possibly wish for. The back height of modern chairs varies so that you can find a style that looks best around your table. You can select chairs with or without arms depending on your personal preference. Leather is a popular upholstery material for modern furniture. While many modern designed rooms limit the main color scheme to two colors which are usually black and white the chairs are a great way to add a more brilliant third color to the room.Provided you decorate with some industry known suggestions decorating a small dining room is a breeze. Practicing a bit of elbow grease combined with imagination can help make even the tiniest room appear like a designer showplace.Functional Considerations. The way you use this furniture will determine what you need. For example if you like to have large family gatherings but your immediate family is small you will need to have a table that will expand with extra leaves to accommodate guests. An additional option could be a circular drop-leaf table that expands out for more people and folds down for smaller groups. If you like the intimacy of a round surface for small gatherings around a meal choose a circular design.The Furniture Dimensions. The furniture must fit the room. Many people commit the error of packing however much furniture in as could reasonably be expected yet this accomplishes is a cluttered appearance and your room looking littler that it truly is. The lighter the wood the less space it appears to take up albeit clearly this is just an illusion. Try not to attempt to escape with less space or your guests will feel uncomfortable and squashed.By applying a particular decorating style you can insert furniture and accessories which will make good use of the space in your dining room. Keep in mind design themes which allow for a variety of baskets and shelving since these can be used as extra storage. Deciding on a design you really can live with however is imperative as this is where you will be eating lots of meals.A Dining Area Not a Room. Not everyone has a separate space in their home to use as a dining room. If your eating area consists of a bar or kitchen island you can still spice up this space with some modern style bar stools. Designs include slightly sophisticated stools whimsical style stools and extremely unique stools. You can select from white black or red. Mixing the colors will liven up your dining area.Intimate. Although the traditional table for meals is long and rectangular more and more families are moving away from this trend. In some cases it is due to the restraints that a smaller living area places on the size of the furniture. More often than not however families simply prefer sitting closer to each other. This has led to the rise in popularity of small round or square dining room sets. These accommodations usually seat four to six people at most and they allow for easy interaction and conversation.When it comes to loading the room with furniture keep to small-to-medium sized fittings. One means to maximize space is to use a table with leaves in lieu of a huge dining table which will free up some room while allowing additional seating when necessary. You can also fix any monotony in the decorating approach of your dining room by mixing large with small so though you might decide to try the small table add into your design a large mirror or server which not only gives some style but also gives you the feeling that the room is more spacious than it really is.Find the Balance Between Need Design and Quality. Does one need to choose only one or two of the three? Always remember that quality furniture for the dining area will not sacrifice one for the other. There are many dining furniture sold in the market that offer an answer to your need good design and high quality for a reasonable price. Getting a quality kitchen table and other dining room furniture would assure that you would get your money's worth. Imagine a wine cabinet with good design and high quality that would last a lifetime could be the next family heirloom.Dining Room Decor. Light colored or White colored walls will make the room look bigger while in the event that you have an especially substantial room darker colors can make it seem closer. Attempt to decrease bright primary colors: it is fine to have one brightly colored wall if the others coordinate with a more quieted pastel shade yet an excess of color is not for the most part suggested for a dining room.Consider Shape. You have several shapes from which to choose. The two most common shapes are rectangular and circular. Some people prefer a circle shape believing that this shape facilitates better conversation. It's easier to fit more people around the table with a rectangular shape. If you add leaves to a circular table it will become an oval. An octagonal table is another option.It is quite easy for your dining room to become an artistic masterpiece. The abundant selection of modern dining room furniture will allow your creativity to soar once you decide to spice up your dining decor. Modern furniture is designed to look sleek and sophisticated. If your dining area currently has any other style of furniture the room may very well appear over crowded or possibly congested. Often the only furniture pieces you need in a dining room is a table and chairs. If storage space is limited in your home you might consider placing an additional piece of modern designed furniture such as a glass curio or lacquered buffet in the room.Consider Your Needs. Ask yourself what do you need in furniture for the dining area? The need determines the size and function of the furniture you'll get. A wine cabinet for example could be purchased by because one needs a large storage for wines in the house. The size of table you'll get is determined by the number of people who would use it. Big families would need a larger table to accommodate many people while smaller ones and maybe bachelors would need smaller ones. Function is also a consideration. Bachelors and smaller families may consider getting a dining table that have foldable extensions that may be put away if not in use just in case there might be surprise visitors.Your dining room is a space for family meals therefore you are looking for it to have a great interior design. But how can you make a small dining room look big on style? But if you practice these suggestions you will realize that there are numerous methods for decorating a small dining room.


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The Don Mattingly media inquisition erupted almost immediately.
Once it became public that the Dodgers manager decided to swap out Ricky Nolasco for Clayton Kershaw about eight hours before Monday night's Game 4 of the NL Division Series against Atlanta, it became open season to opine.
Even by those who had already started questioning Mattingly on Sunday afternoon for sticking by an announced decision to start Nolasco and not Kershaw while the series was still tied 1-1, a while before the Dodgers' Game 3 victory.
"I expect Kershaw to be on his game if he did what he had to do (between starts)," said three-time Cy Young Award winner and one-time Dodger phenom Pedro Martinez, on the TBS MLB studio set in Atlanta, a segment live about three hours before the first pitch. "If it was short notice, this could come back and backfire on Mattingly."
Dirk Hayhurst, the former fringe major league pitcher-turned-best-selling author with his hit memoir "The Bullpen Gospels" who was hand-picked to join the set by anchor Keith Olbermann, said: "It wreaks of panic. This is going to be dangerous for this guy to potentially injury himself. You don't need to do it."
Said Sports Illustrated writer and part-time Fox game analyst Tom Verducci: "I'm not sure if it's panic, but it sure smells like it. (This is) a very unusual move. Maybe you do that in a World Series. I don't know about first round of the playoffs."
Martinez circled back: "It's Mattingly rushing his team into a win. With all due respect to him, I think he should take it easy."
Easy for them to say. But there was no time to rest between shows. Or wait for more information to become available.
ESPN's "Pardon The Interruption" often has completed taping the day's show, but when it aired at 2:30 p.m., Kershaw was the No. 1 topic.
Tony Kornheiser: "I can defend this intellectually, and I understand going for the throat, and Nolasco's last three starts are 12 innings and 17 earned runs, but I think it's nuts."
Mike Wilbon: "I'm not risking the franchise pitcher, and for my money the best pitcher in all of baseball … this isn't the 1950s or '60s when guys routinely threw 180 pitches. You don't do this anymore."
Kornheriser: "You know the owner (Magic Johnson). Call him right now."
The TBS telecast began with Kershaw as the storyline on the front, back and side burners. Eventually, the Mattingly pre-game interview session with the rest of the media became circulated.
Analyst Cal Ripken said that if the Dodgers lost Game 3 to go down 2-1 he would have endorsed Kershaw coming back, "but the more I think about (this situation), I really like it, aligning your two best pitchers to work the next two games. You can't take anything for granted in the playoffs."
Analyst Ron Darling explained that the Dodgers weeks ago had considered this strategy, but it took time for the staff and front office to broach Kershaw about the idea, afraid it might throw him off his routine.
"You always need a committee to make a decision for a king," said Darling.
"But it is a big decision," added Ripken.
On the KLAC-AM (570) radio call, Vin Scully began comparing Kershaw's feats to those of Sandy Koufax during the post seasons of 1963 and '65 — leaving out, of course, that arm trouble eventually ended Koufax's career after the 1966 World Series.
At one point, in fact, Scully meant to say "Kershaw" and instead said "Koufax" but caught himself in time to finish the sentence "memory is lingering here in the ballpark."
Scully was most aware of all the broadcasters of Kershaw's pitch count, knowing that could come into play on how far he lasts. Scully also noted that the third and fourth inning were the trouble spots for Kershaw in Game 1, when he had 26 pitches in each of those innings.
After Kershaw finished four innings, however, neither the TV nor radio broadcasters (now Charley Steiner and Rick Monday) gave out his pitch total (it was 59), even though they continued to note that the Dodgers' defense probably forced Kershaw to make a few extra pitches each inning.
By the time the fifth inning came around, a new tone set in. Kershaw's arm hadn't fallen off. In fact, he looked pretty good.
"To tell you the truth, I think he's been sharper (tonight) than he was in his first start," said Darling. "And that's on three days' rest."
Yes, at this point, the rest of us are well aware of how many days it's been. Give it a rest.
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I'm working with Byron and MarkV on a new project bike. It's still in-flight due to availability issues from the frame supplier, but I'm slowly amassing all the parts in my garage so it should be good to go once the frame arrives.
I get downright nuts about a new bike – I waste time shopping for the best looking cranks, the perfect wheel builder, and all the other minute details needed to make it all come together. What are you guys all building these days? Any new toys coming for the fall rainy season?
(In your best Dwight Schrute voice)
QUESTION: How good will that baby-blue frame look with the Hugger Green kit?
ANSWER: Freaking awesome!