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But it soon became apparent each man had very different ideas of how this was supposed to end up.
Jobs reached out for Otellini's hand, but Intel's emotional boss decided this was bear hug time--and in an unscripted moment the two men literally bounced off each other as they managed a fleeting embrace.
It wasn't quite up there with the famous handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, but this very awkward display of forced public camaraderie between sworn enemies says a lot about the confusion felt by many Apple partisans after the company's decision to dump IBM as a chip supplier in favor of Intel.
"This is kind of like if your two best friends decided to get married and you don't know what it means," said Matthew Woolrums, a technologist with the Denver Public Schools attending Apple's developer convention. "You feel sort of conflicted."
The obvious difference is that these two rivals were never friends of any type. To be sure, Intel had some early investment money in Apple, but that was overshadowed by the competition that has raged between them. Since the mid-1980s, the Mac faithful have reveled in their underdog narrative in the battle against the Wintel duopoly formed by Microsoft and Intel.
For many, Apple's decision to embrace Intel comes as too abrupt an about-face. Judged by Apple's own rhetoric, some might even despair that management is going over to the dark side. But let's get past all the sappy stuff about Apple being different. This isn't the first time the company has chosen pragmatism over ideology.
A decade ago I personally saw a Macintosh prototype running an Intel chip. Apple subsequently decided to kill the project, but many insiders were disappointed. They believed that project was just the ticket. More recently, Apple has had teams working on projects to make sure OS X code got compiled to run on Intel machines--"just in case," Jobs said. He didn't need to belabor the obvious: Apple was simply looking out for No. 1.
The same sober world view governed Apple's relationship with the other half of Wintel. In 1997, Apple surprised the industry when it announced a $150 million investment from Microsoft. Earlier that year, Jobs helped orchestrate the ouster of Gil Amelio as CEO. Now he was making a hard-headed business bet: In exchange for Apple's embrace of Internet Explorer as the Macintosh's default browser, Microsoft provided needed funding.
When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' face appeared on the big screen for a live transmission, some in the audience at Macworld Boston gasped. But their shock faded after they learned about Microsoft's cash infusion.
So it was when Jobs confirmed the Intel transition--a murmur went up. Jobs is such a master showman that he soon had the crowd eating out of his hand. He even acknowledged that there will be rocky patches during the two-year transition from PowerPC to Intel (mostly because of software compatibility). But if the outcome is a line of new computers with ever-more powerful chips, you don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to figure out whether the loyalists will buy Intel Inside.


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If you've recently entered into a marriage, naturally, the next thing people tend to ask is when you plan on starting a family. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes such and such pushing a baby carriage, right? A seemingly natural progression for most, but not everyone is on the same timeline. Increasingly so, we 30-somethings are veering away from parenthood altogether.
There are plenty of people like me advocating alternative lifestyles and being true to one self when the topic of family planning arises. More than ever, women are choosing not to have children -- an ever-growing statistic we see published a lot these days. Fortunately some of these women have taken on the brave task of explaining their choices to the public, thus giving a voice to those of us unsure about motherhood. But why should they?
Why is it always women who have to explain their choice not to have children? Are men prodded with the same line of questioning and expected to explain this choice like women are, or is it perfectly natural for men to feel unsure about fatherhood?
As a newlywed (like, really newly wed) I find it odd that most people direct that question at me. As if to say it's solely up to me or my husband has no say in the matter? Going forward, I'm going to suggest that all inquiries involving the utility of my uterus go directly to my husband. I'm tired of crafting clever responses.
In related news, it occurred to me while reading a review for Jessica Valenti's new book Why Have Kids? that it's uncommon for people to ask new parents why they decided to start a family in the first place.
Is this an inappropriate line of questioning? Should it be assumed that people who choose to be parents have always dreamt of having a family? I thought about surveying the small segment of my friends who have children already, but I suspected I wouldn't get the most authentic answers, so I put it out to the Twitterverse. Here's what I got:
"I like the idea of a full dinner table at Christmas."
"I honestly have no answer to this question. It just happened."
"I can't imagine not having grandchildren one day."
"I never really questioned it, I just accepted it."
"I always knew I wanted to be a mother."
I was compelled to write about this, not because I'm sick of people asking me when I intend to launch into motherhood -- although, it is getting old -- but because I'm curious if parents or parents-to-be find it rude or intrusive when people question their choice to start a family. Isn't it the same as asking a childless woman in her 30s why she's decided to skip out on child rearing? Or is it a more sensitive topic?
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Very wordy statement… the key to me is that Lacker voted no, saying that he wanted Treasury buying now. The long bond market tanked on that statement because it's saying that their talk is lip service to date and that they haven't actually been buying the long end.
Here's a chart, TLT on the left, long bond futures on the right… 5 minute bars, those are the largest range bars I've ever seen in bonds on such a short timeframe.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
FOMC Rates Unchanged, Lacker Dissented Wanting Treasury Buying NOW!
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Did you notice how different the two modes sound? (If that sparked interest it may be worth checking out Frank Gambale's DVD, Modes: No More Mystery.) Now let's check out some licks from each mode to hear the moods they create.
Our first lick (Fig. 5) starts by highlighting the b6, and right off the bat I've hit you with the defining note before finishing up with some more traditional minor pentatonic phrasing.
The second lick (Fig. 6) teases the b6 a few times, first in a repeating motif in the first measure, then again in the second measure. What you notice in the second measure is that the b6 pulls very strongly down to the 5. I wouldn't consider it a note you can sit on for long, yet it has a powerful sense of sadness when used properly.
Our final Aeolian lick (Fig. 7) has a bit more range, starting with some standard blues-rock phrasing, then sliding up to the b6, bending to the b7, restating the b6, and coming to rest on the 5. I find this especially expressive in a ballad context.
For the Dorian phrases, the main difference is that the 6 is quite a hip note to sustain over a minor chord because it implies a minor 6 sound. You'll notice that the final note in Fig. 8 has us sitting on that 6.
The next lick (Fig. 9) starts with a more traditional blues sound, but then comes to rest on the 6. You can even experiment with the minor 6 pentatonic scale (a favorite of Robben Ford), which consists of R–b3–4–5–6. You can think of it as a minor pentatonic scale with a 6 replacing the b7.
Our final lick (Fig. 10) offers a bit more range, starting out in the 1st-position minor pentatonic shape before moving to the 4th position. Notice how we target the 6 before resolving on the root.
Jam a bit over the provided backing track below—it has a C minor tonality—and see which sound you find yourself more at home with. With experimentation you'll hear how each mode captures a completely different feeling, yet both provide potent ways to express yourself.
Next time we'll apply these modes to a full minor blues progression to see how we can create something musical out of all this theory.


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Who Will Win at Mobile Payments? Google or Square?
This was one heck of a week for mobile payments.
Google unveiled a mobile wallet and deals program that will allow users to tap their Android phone at the register to pay using near field communication (NFC) technology.
At the press conference today, it also said it has built a deal network, much like Groupon, that offers consumers discounts and loyalty programs for local retailers and merchants.
(It was only a tiny bit deflating later in the day when PayPal sued Google and its top two payment execs).
Rewind to earlier this week when Square, the company founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, also announced its mobile payment plans.
On Monday, Dorsey showed Square's way of replacing wallets without using NFC.
Instead of NFC, users order and pay with an iPhone application, where their credit card information is stored. At checkout, they give their name to the cashier, who will need to use an iPad as a register in order to complete the transaction.
Square also envisions building a local deals network.
Both systems are headed into trials at various locations around the country. Google will be expanding nationwide by summer.
For an industry that seemed so far out in the future just a few days ago, that's a lot of promises being made in just one week.
Both Google's Eric Schmidt and Dorsey will be making appearances next week at our D: All Things Digital conference to make the case.
In the meantime, which player–Google or Square–is the likely winner?
Put bluntly, neither system is good enough right now.
Even though it seems certain that as a society we will increasingly move away from cash as a primary method of payment, it will take plenty of experiments–and future iterations–to get it right.
Both Google and Square are plagued with the same problem: Making bets on technology and partners that limit the addressable market.
In doing so, neither is able to a cast a big enough net to have a truly disruptive service.
For instance, Google's solution works only on NFC-enabled Android smartphones running on the Sprint network (Sprint has only one NFC-enabled phone).
Square is on the opposite end of the hardware spectrum.
Its system requires a consumer to have an iPhone and a merchant to have an iPad. It said Android applications are coming soon.
They've also both made alliances on the processing side of the business. Google has partnered with MasterCard, while Square has received an investment from MasterCard's arch rival, Visa.
Of course, this is the very first inning, and the game is not being played by just two teams, so anything is possible. Many others are jumping in, or planning to, and that will make things even murkier.
Going forward, Google may have the scale and determination to make some of those changes that can bring it to the masses, but it's unclear what its plans are for non-Android devices. It says it is building an open platform, but how open?
In the meantime, Square's approach appears to be winning over the hearts of the small- and medium-size businesses that don't have the capacity to adopt complex point of sales machinery. It also has the ability to be platform agnostic since it does not have a stake in who wins the mobile operating system battle.
Maybe for now, the big winner is the customer, who has plenty of choices to pick from.


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MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain's Catalonia region favored the right to decide on possible independence but split their ballots between fractious parties, making the prospect of secession less likely than ever.
Artur Mas, leader of the northeastern region's ruling center-right coalition, had sought an absolute majority in Sunday's vote to get a mandate for an independence referendum that the central government says would be unconstitutional. But his Convergence and Union party lost seats while another rival, the pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia, made big gains.
Mas is expected to take weeks to try to cobble together a coalition majority. Spain's central government in Madrid predicted Monday that the result will mark the end of a secession vote drive that has distracted authorities who are trying to prevent Spain from being forced into a bailout.
While the two Catalonian parties share the goal of holding the referendum, they are far apart on almost everything else and analysts said it would be very difficult for them to form an alliance.
"They agree on the issue of the right to decide the future of the Catalan people, but on economic issues they have opposite positions," said Carlos Berrera, a communications professor at the University of Navarra.
In power for the past two years, Convergence and Union has introduced painful austerity cuts in Catalonia that have been vigorously opposed by Republican Left.
Catalonia, a region of 7.5 million people that includes Spain's second-largest city of Barcelona, is one of the areas suffering the most in the country's four-year-old economic crisis, which has left unemployment at 25 percent.
Catalonia is responsible for around a fifth of Spain's economic output and many residents complain that the central government in Madrid takes in more tax money from the region than it gives back. But now Catalonia is the most indebted region in Spain and has had to seek a €5.4 billion bailout from Madrid.
The central Spanish government, which fiercely opposes the idea of an independence referendum, was quick to praise the vote.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo called the outcome "a good result for Catalonia, Spain and Europe, though not for Convergence and Union."
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria described the election as "a serious blow for Mas" but one that "put the priorities in order."
"Voters want governments focusing on the crisis and creating jobs," she added.
In all, the ruling party in Catalonia lost 12 seats, going down to 50 seats in the 135-seat regional legislature, with the Republican Left coming in second with 21 seats. Five other parties split the remainder, with most of those seats going to parties opposed to independence.
Mas did not immediately outline Monday how he will try to form a government. Republican Left leader Oriol Junqueras said voters had issued a "mandate to hold a referendum" but he ruled out forming a coalition with Convergence and Union.
Junqueras said his party would continue to demand that Mas' government change its austerity policies, calling for lower taxes for most and for banks and the rich to shoulder more costs. But he didn't rule out working with Mas on specific issues.
Jordi Matas, a political science professor at the University of Barcelona, said Mas might try to seek a limited deal with the Republican Left only on the referendum and other issues that falls short of a coalition.
While pro-referendum parties won a majority in the vote, Matas said the result of a hypothetical referendum is too hard to predict.
Mas' only other options for coalition partners are the center-right Popular Party or the center-left Socialist Party — but he would have to drop his push for a secession referendum because both vigorously oppose such a vote.
The outcome of Sunday's vote produced such a political stalemate that it's impossible to predict whether a renewed drive for a secession referendum would work, said Angel Rivero Rodriguez, a political science professor at Madrid's Autonomous University.
"Right now we are not sure about the state of the Catalan independence process," he said. "We don't know if this new situation is going to accelerate the process or hide it again indefinitely."
Catalonia has had a long history separatist sentiment, especially since its own language and cultural traditions were harshly repressed by Gen. Francisco Franco's military dictatorship from the end of Spain's Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975.
This fall, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy refused to ease Catalonia's tax load, prompting some 1.5 million people to turn out in Barcelona in September for the largest Catalonian nationalist rally since the 1970s.


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Red Cross collects 66 units in Estherville
The Red Cross came to Estherville just in time for Valentine's Day so that our donors could give the gift of life. We were able to collect 66 units of very much needed, life-giving blood.
We had about seven new donors, folks whose names I did not recognize. I thank each and every person who came in to donate.
Because of the horrible weather we have suffered recently, the Red Cross has had to cancel over 700 blood drives, at a loss of about 35,000 units of blood. That loss will never be erased, but it can be softened by people like the donors who came to the blood drive on 2-11-2014. If you hear of a nearby blood drive and are in a position to go to it, please do. The need is constant and only YOU can fill the need.
It has been my honor and privilege to serve the Red Cross and Estherville by coordinating four blood drives a year as a volunteer.
I have reached a time when I must "retire" from doing this. So, in order to keep on helping people in need, we must have another volunteer. It is NOT hard work and does not take that much time, but the reward is a great feeling. If you would be interested in this very important "job" please call me at 712-209-0922.
The last blood drive that I will coordinate will be May 6 at the Duhigg Center from 12:30-5:30 p.m. and is being sponsored by Drs Bruns and Williams.
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The living module is a square-shaped room built inside a cylinder open on both ends. Benches, chairs, storage, tables and lounge chairs are all built in, and as the module rotates, new furniture becomes available for use — but only for a limited time before it rotates to shift functions. Rotating on the hour, this basically gives a user less 15 minutes to take advantage of a specific piece of furniture before they relocate or fall into another person — something bound to happen every 7.5 minutes.
Lai's idea for theanti-gravity module was first inspired by a comic book he wrote about a spaceship that folded up to take people to a new world. Lai's hypothesis is that in anti-gravity, "one can rotate in architecture and treat all surfaces as planes – i.e. walls, ceilings and floors. Without gravity, all surfaces can be occupied." And if every surface can be utilized, then you need less area and can live within a smaller space.
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Five days before One Direction's new album Take Me Home is released, the British-Irish boy band will hit the stage of The X Factor to perform two new tunes, Fox announced Monday.
One Direction — who were finalists on the U.K. version of The X Factor and were signed to Simon Cowell's record label — will perform "Live While We're Young" and "Little Things" during the first live voter-determined results show of the season, airing Thursday at 8/7c.
The X Factor elimination shocker: Who made it to the top 12?
"Having come from the U.K X Factor, we can't wait to perform on the U.S. stage," said group member Zayn Malik. "It's going to be a great night!"
Added Niall Horan: "It's be the first time we've performed in front of 'Uncle Si' since we were on the U.K. X Factor. So, hopefully, we'll make him proud!"
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[shakirfm] sent us this LED persistence of vision (POV) laser projector that can display dot matrix style text. The laser projector contains a rotating mirror assembly and 5 lasers. We've covered other POV projectors,but this one is a bit different. The mirror assembly rotates using two cooling fans. Controlling on/off times of the lasers along with the mirror speed, it is able to project 8×5 dot matrix ASCII text onto a surface.
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Sound Off for Jan. 12
The fact that Connecticut has a huge deficit needs to be front and center for our legislature. Gun control can wait; anyone doubting this should acquaint themselves with the existing laws which are now being discussed as part of increased federal law. Malloy further has appointed a task force to investigate and report with recommendations on increasing security and safety in our schools.
Local municipalities are already, such as in the case of Harwinton, gearing up to deal with the looming budget shortfall. The reality of increased property taxes looms for many of us due to Malloy's financial mismanagement. He needs to deal with his overdrawn piggy bank. As Rome burned, Nero fiddled.
I would like to know how Winsted (officials) failed to know that a person that worked for the same place for 13 years almost was fired because they got sick and could not work anymore. In the process they found out that they were discriminated against because she was a female. The person who is in this business was a very well known and thoughtful person who turns out not to be that kind of person. I just would like to know if we live on a society where it is okay to fire people because they are sick or because your boss gets mad at you for a few split moments. You can't take back what you said, but yet they allow you to go on for six months of your life with a sick husband and have no money and become a very desperate, desperate person. I don't know how they can get up every day and look at themselves. I thank you for having this column so I can get this off my chest. Thank you and have a good day.
Everyone is speaking about teachers being armed in a classroom. Here is a scenario, if a teacher is in her or his classroom and is teaching their students and they hear gunfire out in the hallway, how are they going to know who the perpetrator is? Are they going to shoot the janitor accidentally, or are they going to shoot another teacher? Or are they going to shoot the gunman himself or herself anything can happen. The bottom line is you need to create jobs for people, hire people as security guards. Teachers already have their careers. Leave the security to the security guards.
I am confused; which is more important? Spending billions of dollars of left to cover a war in the Middle East? And then there are the prisoners, the ones that commit mass murderers, etc., they have a free ride. I guess we have to keep them happy again, costing millions of dollars. Or we can take care of our American people who are hungry, homeless, whether due to natural disasters, foreclosures, etc. Most who are taxpayers trying to explain to their children they no longer have a home. If foreclosure happens, why not rent the homes to the families? I guess it is better to let the houses fall apart and families become homeless and devastated. Where are our priorities in this country?
Social services is a joke, you give them what they require, and they give you a deadline to send you paperwork in. So you do, but then they take their sweet time in letting you know whether they have accepted you. Or you get another letter saying they need more information that you already gave to them. Another thing, you can't go and sit with someone to talk about it, they tell you to put it in a box and they will get to it. It should not take so long to make a decision; you have the paperwork, take care of it. Medical issues should be top priority. Sadly, do you have to become a drug addict, or alcoholic who needs help, to get help right away? And don't tell me it doesn't work that way, I know for a fact it does. Get off your duppa's and do your job, in a reasonable time. Social services is a big joke, especially in Torrington.
Your president spent over $7 million on his Christmas vacation, how much will his inauguration festivities cost us? The man who wants to be king, is really a dictator.
Are you going to the inaugural ball? Which area Democrats will put on their party clothes and dance the night away? Ugh!
To the person who spoke so highly about Planned Parenthood, just to let you know, honey, it is my business. I am a taxpayer whose tax money funds Planned Parenthood. And also I am sick and tired of women getting pregnant and then going to this organization for an abortion. This is murder. Would you like it if your mother thought about aborting you? Think about it. And by the way your English is awful.
The earned income (ha, ha) credit will cost approximately $109 million dollars. The state is currently in the red for $40 million dollars. A sort of no-brainer to eliminate Malloy's gift isn't it? We can thank Malloy for the present deficit because of his out of control giveaways, his embarrassing gifts to corporations in the form of "first 5." Shame on those of you who voted this clown into office.


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PITTSBURGH—The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a $7.5 million grant to a collaboration of scientists to lay the groundwork for a new, glass fiber-based wireless telecommunications network that will bring reliable, high-speed Internet access to every home and small business in America within the next few years.
The five-year grant for the "100 Megabits to 100 Million Homes" project" was made under NSF's Information Technology Research (ITR) Program, and is one of eight large grants made from that program this year.
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The creation of a network to serve 100 million households with two-way symmetric data communications service at 100 megabits per second is a tremendous challenge that reaches far beyond the technological issues. Universal availability of such a network would bring fundamental changes to daily life and potentially raise the standard of living substantially. The barriers to its creation are not simply deployment or cost issues. It will require fundamental innovations in the way networks are organized and managed. In addition, the research group must develop communication architectures particularly well suited to very large-scale deployment and which can operate inexpensively at very high speeds.
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I don't know if you guys have seen this. What if Star Wars on TV looked like this.
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That's really fantastic. I can't wait until it's done.
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I'm not sure this is the right area for it since it's not on TV... yet...
I watched the video a little while ago and it's outstanding work. It's very heavily influenced by the TIE Fighter video game (the attention to detail on the cockpit instrumentations are really quite nice, and appreciated! Loved the flight sim games and I like that someone would take the time to put their details into an obvious labor of love like this animation appears to be).
I liked some of his style too, like having the cut-away of the flight suits and helmets to show the TIE Pilots for the people that they actually are instead of the typical "faceless soldier of the Empire".
I dug that he made the bomber pilot a woman as well... Pretty slick. If I had any critique it would just be the bridge commander's seemingly off colors on the uniform. Would've preferred seeing simply navy grey or maybe Thrawn with Pelleon behind him.... unless he was raelly not wanting to touch on anything too specific from SW lore of course.
I would love to see him do something similar with X-Wing... I always preferred the Rebels despite TIE Fighter being a superior gaming engine. X-Wing is, was, and always will be one of the biggest reasons I got back into Star Wars in my teen years. It easily roped me in. I felt it had a more compelling character that you played as, as well.
If this animation, and the basic principle of following a TIE Squad (or Rebel squad) around on a weekly TV show, were to make it through LFL approval, I'd be 100% behind it. It's OT, it's Star Warring, it's avoiding (mostly) main characters and instead developing third or fourth tier characters into something much more (with occasional interaction with the "mains")... I'd love a show like that. Plus the animation is really beautifully done... I like TCW, but I really prefer this I think.
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Oh yeah, this is really awesome and I'd be all over any expansion on this little snippet. It surfaced on the X-Wing miniatures boards a little while ago as it naturally fit in there.
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Imagine the toys you could get to a line like this... Army builders would all need new pants if there was suddenly an announcement of toys to match a series based on this animation snippit.
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The toon is completed and given sound, though no voice acting which it really needs IMO.
The fun part though? This was asked about via Q&A/focus group things by Lucasfilm... Could anyone possibly have rated it negatively? I think not!
Was going through, buttloads of aurabesh eastereggs... Right down to the writing on controls on the fighter like on/off being marked, min/max, etc. The Destroyer in the animation is the Violent (the lead one with the blonde officer in the brown uni). I'm assuming that anyway, as that's the one the probot contacts about the Alliance Fleet.
This simple toon makes me want to even build custom stuff... Like the droid. I'm very tempted to make a light-up 3-eye R5.
The destroyer that lines up to the left is the "Exterminator".
The "briefing room" is actually the briefing room from TIE Fighter too, nice. Also the datapad the briefing officer has, is the datapads that are in the game as well.
TIE Fighter Squadron Sigma is one of the squads. All the other squads are Alpha, Gamma, etc. Always greek designations, just as in the game.
The TIE's shield/hull sensor, to the left (ship silhouette with "rings" outward) is all unlit, just as it should be since a TIE isn't shielded.
The Interdictor Cruiser is the "Inhibitor"... Also, fun note, the tactics in the toon are even logical ones like in the game... The Alliance fighters are blatantly targeting the Interdictor Cruiser and little else, simply so the fleet they're protecting can hyper out.
The TIE Bomber is painfully slow and I loved that they showed that.
The primary target is the Frigate which is designated FRG (just as it should be), with the corvettes secondary targets (CRV designations). The details on the tactical board kind of blow my mind, actually. This guy sure as hell liked TIE Fighter/X-Wing as much as I did!
When the TIE is engaging the Rebel fighters, the brackets and aurabesh light up around all the ships red/green/blue indicating their status as Rebel, Imperial, or neutral... Also it is the holographic heads up display system that X-Wing and TIE games introduced so that the dated graphics of the 70's made sense to a more modern system... IE: basically your helmet's locked into your ship's computer and puts a HUD up for you to monitor sensors and ship targeting things, all of which aren't seen in the movies since they'd be distracting. It was always a neat little "excuse" I enjoyed that made sense.
And the cherry on top, easily, is the alarm going off for the one TIE pilot, as he's being locked on by a Rebel trying to use his warheads on him. I love it!
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That is absolutely fantastic! And this video has been racking up the views in a really big way. When I checked it out the video had nearly 1 million hits. Since then I think they've topped 2 million views. There's something in there for EVERYONE. From the Probe Droid, to the Y-Wings making an attack run on a Star Destroyer, to the Interdictor class Star Destroyer, to the sound effects, this was an amazingly put together video. Major props to the team that put this together...even if the Imperials did win this engagement.
A video like this one really leaves you wondering. Was this just a fan project? Or was this perhaps some sort of sizzle reel where the producers are trying to pitch this sort of project to Lucasfilm/Disney? Despite the fact that it's a really impressive short animation film, it is still incomplete. The dialogue tracks haven't been recorded yet. Which makes me wondering what more we may see from this particular project.
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That's a really great video. I shared it with my 5-year old (who loves all the OT vehicles) and he really got into it. He's a bigger TIE fan than X-Wing, so he was pretty happy to see the Imperials win. And of all the TIEs his favorite is the Bomber, which he was really happy to see blow the "good guys" away. He was sad there were no voices, he wanted to know what everyone was saying.
I loved the "AT AT parking" fan wank. Also couldn't help grinning like a little kid when the Blockade Runner blew up and all its engines started tumbling. Good looking stuff!
The only negative I could chalk up was all the extreme zooms into somebody's eye. Probably a lot of fun to draw, but got old by the third time in such a short video.
I would love to see more like this, it really took me back to Star Wars in the 90's.
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A BioBlitz is part contest, part festival, part educational event, and part scientific endeavor where MPM brings together a group of scientists in a race against time to see how many species they can count in a 24-hour biological survey of a Wisconsin park.
The public is invited to observe the scientists' activities, to interact with them, and to participate in other activities that are presented by the Museum and a host of invited nature-oriented organizations.
The BioBlitz is designed to increase awareness of the variety of life, especially in neighborhood parks and natural areas, and the services these various species provide to improve the quality of our lives. We usually hear the word "biodiversity" in regard to rainforests with their vast number of species. Yet the diversity of life in our own backyards is phenomenal. We take for granted clean water, fertile soil, and air to breathe. Yet these are all the result of working ecosystems filled with species that perform these tasks. From our morning shower to our late night snack, we are supported by biodiversity every minute of the day. What better way to address the topic than to invite people to share in our 24-hours of discovery and to experience the vast array of species that we can find in their neighborhood park over the course of just one day? Added to this, the BioBlitz generates a list of species found in the park, which is an important step in successful park management.


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Romeo Diahn Survives Refugee Camp, Moves On After 'American Idol' Audition
There are 'American Idol' backstories and then there are backstories! We doubt that any of the contestants that have stood on the audition stage through the show's entire history could lay claim to going through what hopeful Romeo Diahn has been through. He is a true survivor with a feel good story if there ever was one.
Diahn lived in Liberia, which is located in West Africa, in a refugee camp. He was there for much of his early life. But despite those incredible trials and tribulations, he never lost his voice or his love of music.
He sang Bob Marley's 'Is this Love and when he did, we realized the kid can sing. When he does, he offers up an infectious island vibe and flavor, which may be limiting in the thick of this particular competition, since it so pop and so mainstream. The general public might not get Diahn. Jennifer Lopez noted that, but she still gave him a "tiny yes" to get through to the next round unanimously.
So Diahn is going to Hollywood and PopCrush is left marveling at the strength and vitality of the human spirit, which he embodies to the fullest.
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In mid-April, a bomb factory "work accident" that Palestinian spokesmen falsely described as an Israeli rocket attack ripped through the Ramallah Force-17 headquarters. As newspeople descended on the scene and got to work, Palestinian Authority security personnel roughly confiscated film from photographers and TV cameramen.
"They made it quite clear," says Mark Lavie of the Associated Press, that anyone who resisted "would not have a happy day."
As a result, photos of the blast did not appear on TV screens. Some news services did not even bother to report the film confiscation. But the false accusation of an Israeli rocket attack lingered in media reports for the next day or two.
In a sea of details, do such omissions and shadings accumulate to resemble systematic media bias against Israel? Do individual media outlets purposely slant the news to favor the Palestinian side? Or is anti-Israel media bias a myth, with reporters, under constant pressure to be first with breaking news, doing their best to explain fast-moving and highly emotional events?
A three-month investigation of the foreign press in Israel reveals that some foreign correspondents do impose their private sympathies on the news they report. More ominous for accurate reporting, however, is the success of the Palestinian Authority, through intimidation of journalists and manipulation of the journalistic process, in making sure that its version of events dominates the West's television screens and newspapers.
Meanwhile, Israel's own efforts to deliver its message ― ineffective, as even Ariel Sharon's media chief acknowledges ― add yet another reason that Israel seems to be losing the media war.
Obstruction And Intimidation
During the October 12 lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah, Palestinian police as well as demonstrators, eager to keep the event from the world media, punched, kicked and even threatened journalists with knives in order to confiscate their film, according to eyewitnesses. A local photographer for a major American daily was kept by PA police from recording the crowd's celebratory dancing after the murders. Ominously, she adds now that it "would jeopardize my security to be quoted by name." Like many journalists interviewed for this article, she asked not to be named.
After the lynching, when an Italian news crew's video was broadcast worldwide, Italian journalist Ricardo Cristiano ― apparently concerned that he would be associated with the crew ― wrote a letter of apology to the official PA newspaper Al Hayat, promising to "respect" the PA's "rules" for journalists.
In March, in an atmosphere hot with suspicion and hostility, Marwan Barghouti, leader of the PA's Tanzim militia, warned outright that any Israeli journalist who entered PA areas would be killed. Since then, most Israeli journalists either stay home or make sure to be accompanied by well-connected Palestinians.
Barghouti also threatened harm to any Palestinian who cooperated with Israeli news people, ratcheting up the danger for Palestinian journalists, who have long been under implied or explicit threat if their coverage displeases a high official or is labeled harmful to the Palestinian "cause."
In short, the Palestinian campaign to control the news by force or threat, while not new, has become pandemic. Since it is largely restricted to local journalists, foreign correspondents generally fail to see it. With the media battle less a war of words than of pictures, foreign print journalists are, in fact, the group least likely to feel the pressure. And if on occasion they do see it, they generally shrug off as insignificant its effect on the news.
That doesn't mean, however, that Palestinian intimidation is merely a local issue. It is not. Because the process of gathering and disseminating news to Western media now depends so much on Palestinian journalists, their allegiances and the pressures on them have a crucial effect on how news from Israel is reported worldwide.
According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), for years the Palestinian Authority has "muzzled local press critics via arbitrary arrests, threats, physical abuse, and the closure of media outlets," thereby frightening most Palestinian journalists into self-censorship.
It's a Mafia situation, says one Palestinian journalist.
"It's a Mafia situation," corroborates a Palestinian journalist, citing journalists being "threatened, beaten and made the targets of death threats, even from high officials such as [West Bank Preventive Security Service commander Jibril] Rajoub and Barghouti. And they do not report it," he adds, either to their employers or to professional organizations, because any complaint would only increase their danger while, if it interfered with their access to officials, putting their jobs at risk.
The 220-member Foreign Press Association has neither investigated nor undertaken action against Palestinian intimidation of journalists. "The FPA doesn't want to piss off the Palestinian Authority," snorts one foreign correspondent.
The New York Times correspondent Bill Orme, the member of the FPA board of directors who monitors problems of press freedom and press access ― "not press bias," he is quick to say ― acknowledges that the FPA has not "gotten into" the subject of intimidation. "We're a member organization, we respond to complaints," he explains. Having received no complaints about intimidation, the FPA ignores it.
Violence against journalists does not only originate from the Palestinian side, however. Nearly two dozen journalists, mostly Palestinians, have been shot by Israeli soldiers, including CNN's Ben Wedeman, wounded in the back by live fire in Gaza. Some have suffered very serious wounds. In only one or two cases has the IDF's investigation resulted in identifying or punishing the perpetrator.
Ranaan Gissin, foreign press and public affairs adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, says the problem is that journalists "want to be where the action is ― they want to see the bullet come out of the barrel." Because they work in the line of fire, it is difficult, he says, for soldiers to distinguish them from demonstrators.
Journalists want to be where the action is ― to see the bullet come out of the barrel.
However, according to the CPJ, Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers have beaten journalists covering the political violence, in some cases with Israeli soldiers looking on. The BBC's Paul Adams recounts that his camera crew was manhandled and had its car tires slashed by Jews in Elon Moreh, a West Bank settlement. (Adams was also roughed up by a Palestinian crowd in Bethlehem and forced to flee with his camera crew. The Elon Moreh event became part of a BBC report; the Bethlehem incident did not.)
While maintaining its silence on Palestinian intimidation of journalists, the FPA has firmly protested Israeli violence against journalists with letters to high government officials. No journalists interviewed believe, however, that shootings by Israeli soldiers represent Israeli government policy or that soldiers are targeting them specifically as journalists, let alone as individuals.
Nor do Israeli officials threaten journalists, take sanctions against those whose reporting displeases them or try to control what journalists write.
But those are exactly the techniques that have helped the Palestinian Authority determine a lot of what Americans and Europeans see and read in the "news from Israel."
Making News
As the Palestinian uprising grinds on, the words and especially the pictures that record it are molded mostly by Palestinians.
How did such an extraordinary situation develop?
Those Israeli journalists who still go into Palestinian areas make certain to be accompanied by Palestinians whose connections with the security services can protect them.
"But if you're accompanied in this way, you're also restricted in what you see and are able to report," points out Khaled Abu Toameh, a Palestinian reporter for Israeli, American and Arab outlets. "It's a little like the way foreign journalists in Syria or Iraq are followed by security people all the time."
Foreign journalists ― many of whom also don't go out into the field ― commonly rely on Palestinian stringers for information.
"The Palestinian stringers feed the foreign press with material that is acceptable to the Palestinian authorities," says Abu Toameh. A journalist, he adds, is "totally in their hands."
Foreign journalists also rely on Palestinian assistants, called "fixers," who know the language, can ensure easy access to officials and events, and will arrange anything a reporter needs, from a driver to a translator. These fixers are not professional journalists and are often affiliated with a political or security group ― part of their job is to impose their point of view.
As for pictures, 80 percent of camera people now working in PA areas are Palestinians, estimates a journalist for a Dutch agency, "so the pictures, with all their pathos and drama, come from the Palestinian side."
95 percent of the pictures are supplied by Palestinian film crews.
Her estimate may be low. Veteran Israeli commentator Ehud Ya'ari judges that "over 95 percent" of the pictures shipped to foreign and Israeli channels are supplied by Palestinian film crews.
In a recent article in the Jerusalem Report, Ya'ari wrote that Palestinians now "have effectively taken control of the reporting on the intifada. The vast majority of information of every type coming out of the area has been filtered through Palestinian eyes, or often, has actually been composed in the first place by Palestinians."
In short, news from Israel is generated by people loyal to and afraid of the Palestinian authorities.
"They simply don't dare film anything that could embarrass the Palestinian Authority," Ya'ari concludes. "So the cameras are angled to show a tainted view of the Israeli army's actions, never focus on the Palestinian gunmen and diligently produce a very specific kind of close-up of the situation on the ground."
Ya'ari himself does not go into Palestinian areas. Abu Toameh, who does, calls Ya'ari's analysis "200 percent correct."
But are the foreign correspondents, journalists who have reached the top of their professions, so lazy or easily fooled as to accept propaganda for truth?
No doubt some are but Fiamma Nirenstein, correspondent for the Italian daily La Stampa, offers a different theory of why news reports are so often unsympathetic to Israel. The journalists, she hypothesizes, are the victims of their own nearly uniform "predilections" to see events within a left-wing, pro-Palestinian and often unrealistically romanticized framework.
That is, many correspondents accept what comes to them from Palestinian sources because they are already predisposed to mold events into a similar form.
The Mind of the Journalist
"A foreign journalist who claims to be 'objective' will be boring or a liar," proclaims Sam Kiley of the London Times. "There are lots of truths in this conflict."
Many would agree that the foreign press is not objective. But if so, why do so many correspondents seem to see the same truth? "They feel they must help the Palestinians," says Nirenstein.
The correspondents don't deny their private judgments.
"My sympathies are for the victim," says one ― he means the Palestinians. "The Jews use their history of persecution to make the Americans and Europeans feel sorry for them," objects another, likewise off the record.
Dutch TV's Conny Mus identifies as central "the fact that a mighty army is using all its might to kill a smaller force." Mus goes on to contend that the press presents "an accurate picture" of events and that pro-Israel readers think the news is skewed only because they "don't know what is happening on the Palestinian side."
To an extent he's right ― Jews often don't like to see Israel in a bad light, even when the facts are reported accurately. Critics of the media sometimes object to what they regard as "pro-Palestinian" stories merely because they don't like their point of view challenged.
But a report can be accurate and still miss the point. For example, an article may emphasize the number of Palestinian casualties, as if body count is an objective measure, without indicating that the Israeli dead have been mostly innocent civilians, not armed rioters and terrorists. Many journalists simply note Israel's "conquest" of the West Bank, never indicating that this conquest came in a defensive war against Jordan, and that the Palestinians were never sovereign there.
As Andrea Levin of CAMERA, the energetic and sometimes shrill media-watchdog group, points out, reporters "may cover a story and get the micro issues correct [while] getting the macro issue completely wrong."
Journalists romanticize Palestinians fighting the Israeli Goliath, as if underdogs are by definition the good guys.
Nirenstein sees her colleagues romanticizing the Palestinians as David fighting the Israeli Goliath, as if the underdogs are by definition the good guys. That, she writes in the January issue of Commentary magazine, places the journalists ― whom she characterizes as "iconoclastic, sporty, ironic, virtually all of one mind" ― on the wrong side of the cultural gap between "Western and Eastern civilizations, between democracy and dictatorship, between the Judeo-Christian world and the world of Islam."
The journalists' mind-set may also come from what an American-Israeli journalist castigates as "massive ignorance."
Many correspondents get little or no preparation time before being dropped into Jerusalem and Ramallah. Once on the ground, they must play catch-up, learning on the job, often from other foreign correspondents.
"We are very superficial," acknowledges the Frankfurter Allgemeiner's Dr. Jorg Bremer disarmingly. "If we cover the news every day, when do we have time to read a book?"
This lack of preparation nearly mandates that correspondents put the template of previous postings onto a situation with a very different history and particulars. CNN's Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna, for example, has been characterized by novelist Naomi Ragen and others as hard-wired by his 20 years as a correspondent in South Africa to see the situation in Israel in terms of "black and white" ― an oppressor and an oppressed.
But issues of journalistic judgment and private sensibility are one thing. Lurking behind them is the larger question of whether reportorial sympathy slips into outright bias ― and if bias then becomes purposeful manipulation of the news.
Troubling incidents of misreporting and underreporting abound. Media watchdog groups have accused The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and London Times, along with the Washington Post, CNN, Sky News, Reuters, the BBC and other outlets, of editing news stories to minimize Palestinian misdemeanors and emphasize Israeli ones, to shift sympathy away from Israel or to make Israel look like the aggressor. The media have also been charged with ignoring stories that supply context crucial to understanding the facts on the ground when such stories show the Palestinians in a less than positive light.
Such largely ignored subjects include accounts of Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances carting rocks and Molotov cocktails to flashpoints, the purposeful use of civilians as cover by Palestinian combatants, Palestinian encouragement and even busing of children to join violent demonstrations and the staging of "spontaneous demonstrations" for optimal media coverage (and the failure of reporters to describe them as staged). There is also the ceaseless incitement of hatred against Jews and Israelis in the Palestinian (and other Arab) media, which many correspondents and their editors view, astonishingly, as irrelevant to the national conflict they are reporting.
Many media outlets, moreover, promulgate as fact their own views on political questions that remain in dispute. The Independent and CNN, for example, routinely call Israeli settlements "illegal under international law," although the issue is not clear. Reuters, its bureau in Jerusalem staffed by a high percentage of Palestinian journalists, now refers to Gilo, a neighborhood incorporated by Israel into municipal Jerusalem, as a "settlement," giving a radical Palestinian take on the issue.
Do such choices reflect political bias? Journalistic negligence? Lack of historical context inherent in a culture of sound bites? A useful glimpse at the unpalatable "other side of the story"? Or even a slanting of coverage by the international networks, such as CNN and BBC, to help them "penetrate" Arab and Muslim media markets?
The worldview of the journalist wafts outward from the evening TV and the morning paper. Consumers of the news may not know that they are getting a partial story ― even if they recognize that any story repeated often enough will, like blanket advertising, finally leave its mark on the public mind.
The Quality of Israeli 'Hasbara'
But it's not just the other guy's fault. If Israel is losing the crucial second war of media coverage, the woeful inadequacy of its hasbara ― its efforts at explaining its policies ― is also to blame, and has been a problem discussed but not dealt with effectively for many years.
Ironically, in their shop talk, even staunchly pro-Israel journalists sing the PA's praises. "A gem in the hands of the media," says David Bedein, whose Israel Media Resources agency is commonly associated with the Israeli right. Bedein praises especially the PA's accessibility and openness.
Matthew Kelman, a correspondent for USA Today, calls the PA "a pleasure to deal with. Their officials offer to help, they're easy to deal with, they give easy access, they're more friendly and warm than the Israelis ― and they have better stories."
Nobody says anything like that about Israel's media apparatus. On the contrary ― and off the record ― reporters who care agree that Israel "couldn't be doing a worse job" of hasbara, as one of them puts it.
"The spokespeople don't know how to talk to the camera," he says with exasperation, "they have poor English, they often appear in uniform, which makes them seem like part of the problem, and they speak in bombastic, self-righteous terms."
Another calls Israeli media officials "prickly" and complains, "They don't call back, they leak information selectively, they sometimes don't release information even when they have it."
A third narrates an emblematic encounter with a ministry press officer who, citing a court's gag order, refused him information for an article he was writing. A few days later he saw the information in a Hebrew weekly. "The press guy didn't even know the gag order had been lifted," he fumes.
Reasons for the ineffectiveness of Israel's hasbara include budget cuts, especially in the Government Press Office; bureaucratic infighting between the Prime Minister's office, the GPO and individual ministries; overwork, arrogance and plain incompetence. "Israel doesn't realize the effect," sighs a reporter.
"Our story is very complex to deliver," protests the prime minister's media chief, Ranaan Gissin, "while their story lends itself to simple treatment." He admits that Israel's hasbara has suffered from "technical problems," including inadequate spokespeople. But now, he promises, "I am sending people who can deliver," and he says he has made other changes to improve Israel's performance in the media war.
It may not be enough. While Israel's Government Press Office simply issues each new journalist a press card and lets him fend for himself, says Steven Rosenberg, editor of the Boston Jewish Advocate, the Palestinians will approach him offering a wide network of help.
"When background information, photos, interviews and briefings are readily abundant," Rosenberg points out, "it makes a reporter's life much easier." Such guidance can also help to shape the reporter's understanding of the events he's writing about in one direction or the other.
Israel's current foreign minister, Shimon Peres, is famously quoted as remarking that a good policy requires no hasbara while a bad policy can't be helped by hasbara.
That may be true in a perfect world. So far as fighting the media war is concerned, Israel doesn't yet seem to realize that it isn't living in a perfect world.
courtesy of thejewishweek.com


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