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SM Pro Audio's M-Patch ($179) is a passive volume control that works as a patch-control device for routing audio signals from two stereo sources to two stereo destinations. The M-Patch is intended to fill the needs of video and computer recordists, especially those who want to avoid using a mixer.
The metal casing is one rack-space high and slightly less than eight inches wide. You can place it on a tabletop or mount it using the supplied rack ears. The package comes with rubber feet and a pair of short female-XLR-to-female-TRS adapter cables.
All inputs and outputs are on the rear panel. The input labeled Stereo is balanced and has two combination XLR and TRS jacks. The input labeled Aux is unbalanced and has a stereo minijack and two RCA jacks. Two pairs of balanced outputs are on XLRs. The front panel has a switch to select the input source and another to mute the inputs. Two additional switches let you select the output and choose from mono or stereo output. Two attenuator knobs, calibrated in decibels, control the Stereo and Aux input levels.
For use as a simple stereo input and monitor switcher, the M-Patch is handy. You can connect two pairs of speakers for comparison purposes; you can also switch between speakers and a stereo line-level device or use the M-Patch purely for routing line-level sources. The two sets of inputs were perfect for listening to mixes from my recording rig (on the balanced XLR inputs) and to music from my home-stereo unit (on the unbalanced inputs). Although I use a hardware mixer for recording, I like having an alternate way to route audio to my monitors; when I just want to listen to a CD, I don't have to turn on the mixer.
As with many SM Pro Audio products, the M-Patch is aimed at the mixerless computer-based recording rig. Theoretically, such a rig lacks a method to reduce volume in the analog domain, and the user therefore has to either turn down faders in the digital domain or run the monitors at full tilt. The M-Patch provides the means to attenuate audio coming from the computer. Because many monitoring systems already have a way to control volume, however, that solution is useful mainly for owners of standalone active monitors.
The M-Patch's two input attenuators let you easily set comfortable listening levels. With no output attenuation, though, you can't adjust the comparative levels of two sets of monitors. Consequently, you might find yourself frequently adjusting the input-level pots as you switch between speaker sets. Although you might be able to set comparable levels between monitor pairs if your monitors or power amps have level-adjustment capabilities, how badly do you need a separate attenuator device if you can do that already?
The best monitor mixers offer the opposite of what the M-Patch provides: rather than input attenuation, they incorporate output-level trim controls for the individual speaker sets as well as a master output-level control. For a stripped-down box, a more logical and useful design might be to have the unit accept a line-level signal as is, and then offer attenuation at the outputs.
The sound of such a device is another crucial issue; the prime directive should be the complete absence of signal degradation. I set up a comparison test with one active monitor connected directly to my mixer and the other monitor connected to the mixer through the M-Patch (both of them balanced connections), and then sent a mono mix of a sustained loop through both channels. The M-Patch matched the direct signal pretty closely, but I did hear minor differences that wouldn't be obvious in anything other than a sustained A/B comparison. The differences, although extremely minor, were a slight reduction in bass and a slight change in high frequencies. I didn't hear any differences when using the unbalanced input.
A useful monitor switcher lets you control input and output levels. There are other products that offer more control than the M-Patch, but they cost considerably more. That makes the M-Patch a viable choice for very specific recording setups, such as a system that has monitors with no level-adjustment capability, a system in which you need to switch between two stereo sources and two speaker pairs, or a system in which you need outboard mono summing. If you own one of those setups, the M-Patch could be right for you.
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A nationwide season of marital bliss has passed Palmerston North and wider Manawatu by, with increasing numbers in the area untying the knot.
Ministry of Justice figures released under the Official Information Act show the number of marriage dissolutions filed in Palmerston North's District Court rose from 2011 to 2013.
While the number of dissolved marriages dropped from 247 in 2011 to 239 in 2012, it bumped up to 253 last year.
The same trend was seen in Feilding and Dannevirke and Levin, with those courthouses also having a drop from 2011 to 2012 before an increase in 2013.
It goes against the nationwide trend, where there were 522 less marriage dissolutions filed last year than in 2012.
Marriage celebrant and Palmerston North City counsellor Tangi Utikere said the news was the last thing a celebrant would want to hear.
"For the people I perform ceremonies for, it's among the happiest days of their lives.
"The difficulty is that no-one knows what the future will bring."
The rise in dissolutions was surely not a blight on Palmerston North, but a possible indicator of society's changing view of marriage, he said.
Some traditional aspects of marriage, such as when you married one person and there was considerable pressure to stay with that person no matter what, no longer applied.
"I've married a lot of people who, for them, it was their second or third marriage.
"Also, a number of people are making the decision to get married much later in life."
Mr Utikere said people always used to get married in a church, which would have involved pre-marriage meetings with church officials to prepare the couple.
But nowadays, couples may not have that guidance, he said.
Palmerston North counsellor Gillian Hunt said when couples often got together, everything was always positive.
However, that soon changed and they could get stuck in a cycle of negativity, she said.
Couples would get into cycles of hurting each other, which led to them giving up on the relationship.
"What happens in counselling, we are able to identify what it is they are doing to the relationship that's destructive and how they can turn it around and feed it back into being positive.
Ms Hunt said if couples were open and honest with each other, and worked on doing loving things for each other, they would have much better relationships.
They also had to accept their relationships would change, and part of having a happy marriage was working through those changes, she said.
Marton looked like the place to be for a good marriage, with dissolutions filed in that courthouse going from 18 in 2012 to seven last year.
However, courthouse services were shifted to Whanganui in the middle of the year, meaning more people travelled there to file their papers.
Auckland was the heartbreak capital, with the most dissolved marriages last year at 965. But there was a silver lining, as that number was far lower than the 1227 filed in 2012.
To apply for a dissolution of marriage certificate, a couple must be separated for at least two years.
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At 11:53pm last night Talking Points Memo released a statement from the Obama campaign condemning Mitt Romney for criticizing something the White House itself disavowed -- an appalling apology issued by the State Department.
Eight hours later, President Obama finally got around to condemning the monsters who attacked us on our own soil and killed our fellow citizens.
Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of September 11, the Obama White House snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accepted an invitation from David Letterman, and apologized to Islamists upset over a film that mocks Islam and Mohammed -- something "artists" in America do to Christianity with my tax dollars on a fairly regular basis.
First off: Why is our Embassy apologizing for a film no one has seen and apologizing for freedom of speech and expression? In a word, that's un-American. And let's remember that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doubled down on the apology. Last night, though, the White House finally disavowed the apology, but now the hypocritical and wildly dishonest Obama campaign is lashing out at Mitt Romney for being critical of the same apology the White House itself disavowed.
Here's the Romney statement:
I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.
So I guess it's okay for President Obama to criticize that disgraceful apology but not Romney. And now the left is claiming the apology in question from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was made before the compound was attacked. But it's just a fact that the on Twitter and elsewhere, even after the attack, that the Embassy defended and stood by the apology.
And let me reiterate that after the attack, Hillary doubled down on it.
Via TPM: Here's the hysterical and dishonest response from the Obama campaign:
"We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack," Obama's campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
Not only is the Obama campaign's "shock" completely manufactured -- damn that Romney for criticizing the same apology Obama just disavowed! -- but the Obama campaign is dishonestly trying to make it sound as though Romney was exploiting a tragic death. Moreover, I'm unaware of any condemnation of the Islamists who attack and killed our embassy personnel made before the campaign condemned Mitt Romney.
So who's really playing politics here?
If only the Obama campaign could find half the outrage they saved for Romney to level at the murderers.
Well, you know, priorities.
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text: A Dragon Riding a Pony Driving a Lawnmower Hi all, some of you may remember me, as I post frequently in the RMT forum, in fact, some of you may have had your team rated by me. Today, you get to return the favor. After trying for a long time to get an idea for a team, I stumbled across the forgotten life orb hydreigon. A monster that gets extremely good coverage, having full neutral coverage and super effective coverage on 10/17 types is also a pokemon that can clean house if a chance for a sweep is exposed. Basically, kill all special walls, paralyze everything that can outspeed or kill it with scarfed pokemon, and I win. Now, I would like to give you a glimpse into my very first RMT, (in OU anyways) A Dragon Riding a Pony Driving a Lawnmower. Here's some music to listen to while you are rating. You know you like Gangnam Style. Teambuilding Story Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide So, I discovered this thing called life orb hydreigon, which... um... it... well, it completely destroys stuff. Then, I figured I would need paralysis support to outspeed most of the fast part of OU. The most obvious choice was jirachi, I mean come on. He's the original parahaxer. Now, every sweeper needs a little stealth rock support, and dreaming back to the 4th gen heatran/latias core, I thought, what better pokemon to set up stealth rock than heatran, and what better pokemon to clean up the holes that hydreigon may punch than latias? At this point, I need some good revenge killers. Genesect? No, too mainstream and boring. Seeing as how I have a free switch-in to fire type attacks cough cough heatran, what better pokemon to lure them in and revenge kill at the same time than scizor? Of course, I still need a scarf pokemon. I could go for a fire/water/grass core. After checking stuff, I find the most suitable pokemon for the job to be keldeo. Now, after finding out that jirachi wasn't pulling its weight, as it just tacked on more fire and ground weakness onto the team and I already had pokemon to kill dragons. Bye bye jirachi. Unfortunately, I had no paralysis now. I needed a creative way to deal with rain teams and get thunder wave support without sacrificing valuable moves on a moveset. After some searching, I stumbled across Rotom-C. The little lawnmower, so overlooked, yet devastating to rain teams due to hitting most of their sweepers super effectively with either grass or electric moves. Even thundurus-t can be taken care of with a hidden power ice and a scizor bullet punch afterwards, and stealth rock strips him of his health. Well, the team was finally finished, and after seeing no common threats big enough to 6-0 the team, I decided that it was an acceptable quality to reveal it to the world. Well, here it is! Houston, the awesomeness has landed! If you don't feel like reading all the mumbo jumbo, there is a "bottom line" below the pokemon, which is basically a tl;dr version of what can be found in the description. HIGHdreigon (Hydreigon) @Life Orb EVs: 252 Sp. Atk, 252 Speed, 4 HP | Modest | Levitate ~Dragon Pulse ~Dark Pulse ~Flamethrower ~Surf Theme Song! Hydreigon was born to be wild! Here he is, the whole reason this team was made, it's the mighty... HYDREIGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot tell you how unbelievably good this guy has been. After paralysis support, he can basically outspeed the entire metagame, and he takes full advantage of this, tearing pokemon apart limb from limb with his mighty coverage and powerful special attack. You really couldn't ask for much more in a sweeper, as long as you give him support, he will pay off. Dragon Pulse is like a wrecking ball to the other team, and the mess it causes can easily be cleaned up by scizor's bullet punch and scarf keldeo. Dark Pulse is used for a second option as STAB, and it hits ghost and psychic types harder than all his other moves. Flamethrower is for coverage on all steel types, specifically forretress, scizor, skarmory, and ferrothorn, 4 menaces to hydreigon. Surf rounds out the movepool with perfect neutral coverage, blasting nasty heatran in the face as well as nabbing the power boost from rain so it is stronger than dragon pulse, assuming the other pokemon has no weakness/resistance to both moves. This thing is no defensive slouch either, and you will be hard-pressed to 1hko it without a super effective move. Bottom line: Fantastic coverage, fantastic wallbreaker, fantastic stallbreaker, fantastic cleaner. Did I mention it was fantastic? Motom (Rotom-C) @Leftovers EVs: 252 HP, 252 Sp. Def, 4 Sp. Atk | IVs: 30 Speed | Calm | Levitate ~Thunderbolt ~Leaf Storm ~Hidden Power Ice ~Thunder Wave Theme Song! He kicks (cuts?) grass like it was spring. Ah, you amazing little lawnmower. While at first glance, rotom-c doesn't look like a very good fit for an OU team, he has certain niches that make him a quite useful fit on mine. The first one is his general ability to destroy rain teams. Between electric, grass, and ice coverage, there is nearly nothing on rain teams that is standing in his way. He can also tank a few hits as well, giving him opportunity to switch in on weak water attacks from rain teams such as tentacruel's scald. The second niche is thunder wave. At first, this doesn't help much, my team has priority and a 108 speed scarfer, but it provides paralysis support for hydreigon. Is Scarf terrakion standing in your way of world domination? Paralyze him and obliterate him with surf from hydreigon! How about that nasty tornadus-t? He might be able to ko rotom with repeated hurricanes, but he easily goes down to a hydreigon dragon pulse once paralyzed. Is volcarona about to set up and sweep? Thunder Wave on the quiver dance and switch to heatran, you now outspeed volcarona with basically everything on the team, and he can die easily to a choice band scizor aerial ace. Bottom Line: Provides valuable support against rain teams and gives paralysis support to hydreigon, which facilitates a successful sweep. The Ground is Lava (Heatran) @Shed Shell EVs: 252 HP, 164 Def, 92 Sp. Atk | Modest | Flash Fire ~Fire Blast ~Earth Power ~Roar ~Stealth Rock Theme Song! Fire in the Sky! The great fiery blob steel tank magma monster thingy has risen! Ok, all lava puns and long nicknames aside, heatran provides valuable support to this team with his ability to tank hits on both the physical and special side while dealing considerable damage back. Being able to set up stealth rock further increases his utility. Don't ask about the ev spread, I made it up long ago. All I remember is that it works. Either way, heatran provides a great way to absorb fire moves aimed at the rest of my team. Setting up stealth rock proves key in bringing key sweepers such as tornadus-t, thundurus-t, and volcarona into ko range of my pokemon. I normally prefer lava plume with heatran, but fire blast was chosen for the 40 extra power, which proves to be deadly with paralysis support. It is also used so lava plume's high burn rate does not clash with thunder wave. There's nothing wrong with burning the terrakion on the switch, but paralysis means it dies so much more easily. Earth Power gives it some way of defending itself against rock types, specifically tyranitar. Hidden Power Ice is great for clipping dragons' wings and obliterating ground types like landorus and garchomp. Heatran provides valuable glue and stealth rock to my team, which it cannot succeed without. Bottom Line: Great ability to tank hits, especially from sun teams, stealth rock, and good offensive coverage ensure heatran is never going away. Fluffy (Latias) @Leftovers EVs: 252 HP, 248 Speed, 8 Sp. Atk | Timid | Levitate ~Dragon Pulse ~Calm Mind ~Substitute ~Recover Theme Song! Don't mean a thing what you do, latias is getting her sweep. The red snowbird comes in once again to devastate her victims and leave nothing but corpses and a fluffy white coat of down in her wake. Latias was originally added to form a stalwart defensive combo with heatran, but she became much more than that. She quickly evolved into the role of cleaning up all the messes hydreigon made, assuming he couldn't sweep the team. Substitute + Calm Mind makes her free from status and nearly untouchable by special attackers while packing a heavy punch. Recover ensures that latias can keep making substitutes, and it also means she just won't die. Dragon Pulse provides reliable STAB, and it hits resistances hard after only two calm minds. Latias can tank many special attacks from sun sweepers and rain sweepers, providing a stalwart check to rain teams and non-volcarona sun teams. She acts as a general special wall capable of dishing out pain if need be. Latias needs time to set up, but can turn the enemy into a pile of pokébones if they weren't prepared for it. Bottom Line: Great at sweeping, great at tanking, what more could you ask? Metaltech (Scizor) @Choice Band EVs: 252 Atk, 248 HP, 8 Speed | Adamant | Technician ~U-Turn ~Bullet Punch ~Superpower ~Quick Attack Theme Song! Scizor switches in, cue this music. Scizor is a marvelous pokemon that brings to the team both priority and a good slow u-turn to get hydreigon in to sweep. U-turn is basically a free switch, assuming scizor or your switch-in can take the heat from the opponent's pokemon. Bullet Punch provides priority, and I really don't need to tell you how useful this is with the power gained from technician, do I? Go die in a hole tornadus-t, you cannot survive scizor's bullet punch. It is great for picking off annoying frail pokemon, or just for revenging the rare pokemon that's faster than scarf keldeo or for when keldeo is dead or can't handle them. For when the opponent reaches the high point in speed, scizor says "I don't care, I will go first." *Bullet Punch to the face* Scizor has so much power behind the bullet punch that it alone can mop up sufficiently weakened teams. Superpower is for steel types, specifically heatran and magnezone, who wish to take advantage of scizor's choice band, only to realize that its master is decent at predicting switches. Aerial Ace is there for volcarona. As volcarona is a threat to this team, the plan of action goes like this: use rotom's thunder wave on the quiver dance, then sac a pokemon of my choice, usually one I keep at low health for this reason. Bring in scizor, then aerial ace. If volcarona hasn't accumulated more than one quiver dance, it can usually be revenged by keldeo. If not, then it becomes a lot more complicated. Overall, a solid pokemon that I really love on this team. Bottom Line: STAB priority, good coverage, and a free switch-in to hydreigon. What more could you want? (No I am not a brony, do not ask.) My Little Kelpie (Keldeo) @Choice Scarf EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Sp. Atk | IVs: 30 Speed, 30 Atk, 30 Sp. Atk | Timid | Justified ~Hydro Pump ~Secret Sword ~Surf ~Hidden Power Ice Theme Song! I personally hate MLP, but this seemed to fit for keldeo. Here he is, the final one. Scarf keldeo serves as an effective revenge killer for my team, being able to outspeed all common scarfers except for latios and terrakion, which are easily handled by scizor's bullet punch. Hydro Pump hits like a truck, obliterating many annoying scarfers and general nuisances, such as landorus. Secret sword is a great fighting STAB that hits on the physical side (poor blissey) but uses the special attack stat to determine damage. This is extremely useful because keldeo can now punch through some of the better special walls due to the fact that their defensive side is total weaksauce when compared to keldeo's offensives and their own special defense. Surf is basically hydro pump's little brother. It is used when the team is very weakened, and the high accuracy ensures it won't miss so you can kill every last one of their pokemon. Hidden Power Fire is a rather odd choice, but it is completely legitimate, as it provides a good answer to choice scarf genesect, a pokemon which this team is weak to. It also hits ferrothorn, scizor, and forretress super effectively. While scizor doesn't like taking hydro pumps, hidden power fire will always hit it, and it is a 1hko. All in all, keldeo is a great revenge killer, obliterating many fast threats and picking off weakened hyper offense teams. Bottom Line: Great revenge killer, works together with scizor's bullet punch to destroy many faster threats. Well, that's the team! Rate, comment, and give me a luvdisc if you're feeling particularly nice. A Final Look Importable Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide HIGHdreigon (Hydreigon) (F) @ Life Orb Trait: Levitate EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Dragon Pulse - Flamethrower - Dark Pulse - Surf Motom (Rotom-C) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Thunderbolt - Leaf Storm - Hidden Power [Ice] - Thunder Wave The Ground is Lava (Heatran) (F) @ Shed Shell Trait: Flash Fire EVs: 252 HP / 164 Def / 92 SAtk Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Fire Blast - Earth Power - Roar - Stealth Rock Fluffy (Latias) (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 HP / 8 SAtk / 248 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Dragon Pulse - Calm Mind - Substitute - Recover Metaltech (Scizor) (F) @ Choice Band Trait: Technician EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - U-turn - Bullet Punch - Superpower - Quick Attack My Little Kelpie (Keldeo) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Justified EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Hydro Pump - Surf - Secret Sword - Hidden Power [Ice] And now, I bid you farewell, good sirs. Changes: Considering changing hydreigon's set to a mixed set with superpower and roost over surf and dark pulse.


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By Andrew Molloy, director of product, Ingenico Mobile Solutions
Six months into the EMV liability shift is a good time to reflect on how the transition to EMV has gone for merchants and consumers using mobile POS (mPOS) solutions.
According to Ingenico Group survey data, most consumers today have at least one chip card in their wallet, so they are ready for EMV. But not all merchants are.
Most Tier One merchants have completed their EMV migrations or are far down the path of upgrading their payment infrastructures – including fixed, wireless, and mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices – to start accepting chip cards. Many smaller merchants seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach on EMV, even though the impact of fraud can be more devastating for them on a relative basis.
Looking across all merchant tiers, the devices that are currently least likely to be upgraded for EMV are mPOS devices. While today this segment is largely made up of SMBs using tablet- or smartphone-based solutions (think, PayPal and Square readers), it also includes large merchants using mPOS for in-store activities such as line-busting and for out-of-store activities such as delivery, home services and pop-up stores.
You might be surprised at the lag in EMV adoption among mPOS users. After all, mPOS devices should be easier to upgrade than fixed terminals. They are smaller, more portable and typically run on cloud-based software, which is easier to update than the embedded payment applications that run on most fixed terminals. So why aren't merchants upgrading? It's not necessarily the merchants who are to blame, as there are several other factors that come into play:
The aforementioned backlog of certification requests is loosening up, meaning that mPOS solutions put on the back burner by acquirers/processors will finally be certified and available to merchants in the second half of 2016. In addition, some mPOS hardware and software providers are now offering new development toolkits and pre-certified solutions that help accelerate time-to-market and merchant upgrades. These solutions are also helping to foster innovation by allowing developers and ISVs to focus on building new mPOS applications with even more advanced capabilities, rather than spin their wheels trying to develop secure EMV payment acceptance for their mobile apps.
Consumers are also becoming accustomed to their new EMV cards and will start to expect to see EMV readers wherever they shop. Thanks to education efforts by card issuers and large merchants, consumers are becoming more aware of the security benefits of EMV. That means merchants who don't provide EMV payment capabilities may suffer from negative consumer perceptions, which play out in the form of lost customer loyalty and damaged brand perceptions. These factors will help expedite merchant mPOS EMV upgrades.
Consumer demand for NFC payment capabilities (such as Apple Pay) can also accelerate mPOS EMV upgrades, since some of the latest EMV-ready mPOS solutions also support NFC transactions.
Finally, we believe security concerns and potential liability from card fraud will ultimately drive merchants to leave magstripe behind. Just as water always finds the lowest point, card fraud will make its way down to the least protected merchants – those without EMV. According to Business Insider's "The US EMV Migration Report" (Nov 2015), "Fraud will move to the weakest channel. In 2014, the US generated almost half of the world's total card fraud despite only comprising one-quarter of transactions. That's because the US had the least secure payment card ecosystem." Thus, it stands to reason that once US merchants implement EMV broadly, card fraud will migrate to the remaining merchants without those protections. Unfortunately some merchants won't make the move until they personally experience the impact of fraud liability – a potentially costly event. Randy Vanderhoof, head of the EMV Migration Forum, has said, "One bad transaction resulting in a charge-back will cost more than the EMV upgrade for most small businesses."
So now that we've made it through the first six months since the EMV liability shift deadline, it's time for Phase 2, which will include a greater focus on mPOS. Phase 1 was getting the first chip cards in the hands of consumers and having the large merchants ready with payment acceptance solutions that would accept chip card payments. It also involved training of cashiers and getting consumers used to dipping their cards instead of swiping. We can now check that box.
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In 2008 an intiative of musicians called zero dB formed as protest against the use of music as sonic torture in Guantanamo Bay. Many musicians were upset about the fact that their music was played blaringly loud at detainees in freezing cold rooms as interrogation tactics. In this video filmed inside Cambridge University's anechoic chamber, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ruhal Ahmed speaks about his experiences being interrogated and subjected to high-volume music. His testimonial is cut against typical sound art icons like vibrating chladni plates and loudspeakers placed horizontally to move fluids while a narrator reflects on the acoustics and physics behind the loudness tolerance of the human ear. Excerpts of Massive Attacks beautiful "Saturday Come Slow" sung by Damon Albarn is interwoven in this remarkable video shot by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. For more advanced reading about sonic torture there is this article written by Suzanna G. Cusick and a book by Steve Goodman (a.k.a. Kode9) called Sonic Warfare (in his blog there are more findings related to the same subject).
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Who doesn't like music? It's me. I'm the guy that doesn't like music.
That was a lie and I apologize.
NMD on Last.fm - Earwicker is here to help get all your last.fm accounts organized. Contribute.
Do people here like The Pixies or do you find them overrated? - All posts in the this thread are being applied to your permanent record and will be used against you in future posts.
Dillinger Escape Plan's new album "Ire Works" - New Dillinger album in two days, A Horse Of Course already has it and is there with a first impression.
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are BACK! - oh fuck
Good public domain (or not) music from the early 20th Century? - I'd like to know this as well.
Radiohead: Rank Your Favorite Radiohead Albums! (again) - The In Rainbows thread has turned into something a little different. Streaming live performances on page 38.
Apparently My Bloody Valentine are getting back together - Well, it's better news than the MMBTs getting back together.
[USA/Canada] Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2007/08 Tour - This is one serious tour. Two dates in most cities and it's supposed to be a really fun experience.
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You may be interested to know that people other than social mutants regularly read books.
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Confessor: Conclusion to Sword of Truth Series
Terry Goodkind's "It's not fantasy, dammit!" fantasy rapefest whines down. Can Richard and Kahlan finally search for true rational self-interest in peace? Will the Dharans rape happily every after in a free market economy unburdened by a government dedicated to a doctrine of socialism? Will Goodkind cop out on ending the series and hint at a darker, more sinister driving force that drove Komrade "the Collective is all that matters" Jagang?
"Sixteen long years and not one domino shall fall!"
The Eye of Argon -- the epitome of heroic fantasy
Written by a 16 year old many many years ago, The Eye Of Aragorn is the epitome of "so bad its good"... you know what, let's let the first paragraph speak for itself:
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The weather beaten trail wound ahead into the dust racked
climes of the baren land which dominates large portions of the
Norgolian empire. Age worn hoof prints smothered by the sifting
sands of time shone dully against the dust splattered crust of
earth. The tireless sun cast its parching rays of incandescense
from overhead, half way through its daily revolution. Small
rodents scampered about, occupying themselves in the daily
accomplishments of their dismal lives. Dust sprayed over three
heaving mounts in blinding clouds, while they bore the burdonsome
cargoes of their struggling overseers.
"Prepare to embrace your creators in the stygian haunts of
hell, barbarian", gasped the first soldier.
"Only after you have kissed the fleeting stead of death,
wretch!" returned Grignr.
[end blockquote]
This story has been going the rounds, passed hand to hand for decades now. Thankfully the magic of Google now allows us to be splattered with the creative feces of a thousand fantasy wordsmiths and would-be cover artists after just a quick search.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Suggestions?
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Yes, it's the perfect form for surviving a car crash. But it's also the perfect form for so much more, like surviving the trauma of reading any news headline in 2016.
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Title of this one pretty much says it all. If it's what you're looking for, then uh, look no further
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Canon PIXMA MP630
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- Extremely slow printing, over-saturated scanning, some poor build quality
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The PIXMA MP630 is little more than a refresh of the MP610 with no changes other than slower print times. While it still has some merit, this unit isn't up to the regular Canon quality level.
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The MP630 makes no notable improvements on the PIXMA MP610 and it has a slower print engine, making it sluggish and more cumbersome overall.
It has the same basic style as most of Canon's PIXMA range. A silver body with black trim dresses a tall but narrow body. The unit's flip-up control panel forms the centre of the design, with a 2.5in LCD panel and a minimalist control scheme that includes a great Easy Scroll Wheel.
The MP630 boasts a card reader with support for MemoryStick Duo, SD, xD and CompactFlash media cards, and a PictBridge-capable USB port. Auto-duplexing is also a feature.
The build quality of Canon's previous multifunctions has mostly been without reproach, but the MP630 unfortunately bucks the trend somewhat. The unit's inner cover is the biggest indicator of this: opening it to replace ink cartridges isn't as smooth as we have found with previous models. The hinge is quite restrictive and the amount of space in which to put the cartridges seems to have decreased significantly since the PIXMA MP610. This may be due to the shift in consumables to Canon's new 520/521 range,
The MP630 is one of the slowest multifunctions we have reviewed. Draft text documents print at an average of 10.3 pages per minute, with the first page out in 12.4sec. It managed to print normal quality text documents at 7.3ppm. Colour documents with graphics printed at 6.6ppm using draft quality and 3.5ppm using normal. Surprisingly, 4x6in photos were quite fast, at 17.8sec per photo, and A4 photos were similarly fast at 49.3sec. Overall, however, these speeds indicate an extremely slow print engine compared both to the PIXMA MP610 and to competing multifunctions.
Thankfully, despite the slower printing and change in consumables, the MP630 retains the same great quality synonymous with the PIXMA range. Text is clear and accurate, with unusually fine detail for an inkjet printer. Colour is vibrant and precise. Photos do not give any indication of banding or gradation problems, and they even escape the problem with ink roller marks that we found on the Photosmart C5380. Yellows are particularly vibrant and the MP630 is able to produce an accurate purple (a colour that other multifunctions often have problems with).
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Education has been on my mind this past week. Amidst the back-to-school conversations in our house emerged the perennial complaint: "I don't enjoy that class because my friends aren't in it". Of course, my response - you go to school to learn, not to socialise - fell on deaf ears.
OPINION: I then bumped into an acquaintance whose daughter is studying at Edinburgh University "because it's cool to study where William and Kate studied". When I then heard of a fluent Chinese speaker taking NCEA Chinese because it will be easy to get an Excellence endorsement, I started thinking about how attitudes towards education have changed over the years.
We all know how important education is for New Zealand's economic fortunes. A well educated and trained labour force will tend to be more productive, and will earn more money than a less skilled workforce. Countries can gain a competitive advantage over others by steering their education system towards certain industries such as science and technology - the "knowledge-based economy" that New Zealand aspires to.
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If students treat school as a social experience, with subject choices dictated by peer pressure, fashion trends or lack of difficulty, we could end up with an educated workforce that contributes little to our country's economic output or competitiveness.
My parents' generation had tough attitudes around education - if you were going to go to university, then by golly, you had to work hard, take "serious" subjects and finish the degree quickly so you could start your career, and start contributing.
It is interesting that as developed nations like New Zealand have become a little complacent, emerging countries are at the opposite end of the spectrum, with the benefits of good education being well understood by parents and governments. In China and India, a good education is regarded as a passport to a better job, opportunities that a rural or factory worker could never dream of, and a much higher standard of living.
In Singapore, pictures of teachers adorn their local currency and most government slogans make reference to learning.
Study is seen as a glorious way to make the nation great, and there is an overriding cultural respect for learning.
In the last 10 years, the number of colleges and universities in China has doubled. There are more than 230 million school-age children in China, which makes for stiff competition. Their education system culminates in a final year "gaokao", a gruelling nationwide exam that determines who is allowed to go to the coveted Chinese universities, which themselves are no picnic.
It is no surprise that international schools here and in other Western societies have proven popular. They offer students an alternative to the pressure cooker aspects of Asian education, along with a relatively carefree lifestyle and relaxed attitudes.
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Chew on this: Ubuntu Core Linux comes to the uCRobotics Bubblegum-96 board
Linux and other open source software have been in the news quite a bit lately. As more and more people are seeing, closed source is not the only way to make money. A company like Red Hat, for instance, is able to be profitable while focusing its business on open source. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux-based operating systems, and it is not hard to see why. Not only is it easy to use and adaptable to much hardware (such as SoC boards), but there is a ton of free support online from the Ubuntu user community too. Today, Canonical announces a special Ubuntu Core image for the uCRobotics Bubblegum-96 board.


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Film & Video Production
Program Overview
Film and video production courses provide students with the necessary training to become camera operators, sound recordists and video editors. Most of the courses are transferrable to the UC and Cal State systems.
The Film and Video program at Allan Hancock Colleges affords students the opportunity to study the discipline with courses in three core areas:
- Film/Video Production
- Screenwriting
- Film Studies
Students write, produce and edit narrative and documentary projects in a series of courses designed to bring students from beginning through intermediate production and post-production techniques.
AHC is proud to offer our students access to the latest in digital production and post-production technology.
Robert Mabry
"It is very exciting to be involved in Career and Technical Education at Allan Hancock College. We receive tremendous support from our students, the administration and the community at large. With access to the most advanced technology and drawing from the experience of our quality staff, Hancock students are truly able to go anywhere in today's global economy."
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Film and Video students Serena and Robert share their experiences using available equipment and software.