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All those wonderful dogs. Great capture and treatment. Beautiful.
haha yeah , Diana has five dogs usually when l go over we spend an hour wandering around her property taking pics of the dogs playing , glad you like it Bunny , thanks as always for your great comment, sending you a smile :-)
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The German marque took top honors in their rookie season.
Great honour, grand celebration: World Championship trophies presented to Volkswagen
For the first time in 10 years, the FIA World Rally Championship trophy has two new names engraved on it.
The coveted trophy was presented by Red Bull Formula 1 team boss, Christian Horner.
The WRC season finale has just one day remaining to determine the final points. Ogier earned his crown early; however he wants the final victory of 2013!
The Citroen factory team had a rough day in Wales Rally GB as both Kubica and Hirvonen crashed out.
"It didn't take me long to find my rhythm after qualifying"
The first 25 kilometres of special stage are scheduled for tonight.
Sebastien Ogier elects to start second after setting fastest qualifying time. His Volkswagen teammate Jari-Matti Latvala will start first on the road.
On board as official partners are Michelin, Philips, Rolex, and Volkswagen.
All the WRC titles for 2013 will go to the car maker from Wolfsburg.
2013 World Rally Champion Ogier came from behind to snag his eighth win of the season; handing Volkswagen the Manufacturers' title in their debut season.
Latvala holds a slender lead ahead of Sordo after today's runs on asphalt; however Sordo wanted the Finn to be first on the gravel roads for the final day of action.
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Jari-Matti Latvala holds the best finish for the Volkswagen team after first two days of action in Rally France
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Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia named the new World Rally Champions with Volkswagen on the opening day of Rallye de France Alsace
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Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia put in the performance of their lives and celebrated their sixth win this season in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC).
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SU 2012 Planning
This is the Soar Utah 2012 Planning thread. We will be using this thread to organize the final details of the event.
Ted has our initial schedule up the website www.soarutah.org We were hoping to have a form on the website for guys to use to register but the cost is looking pretty high. Unless someone can donate their time to build us the form we will go ahead and have people email the information then paypal their registration fee. We will continue posting information, questions, schedules etc... so please Subscribe to this thread now. |
Jul 17, 2012, 11:00 PM | |
The soarutah.org site updated with a schedule, payment and registration information. Ted has the hotel information posted.
Does anyone have some maps and driving directions to be posted? I cannot find what we printed and gave to pilots last year. Attached is the current version of the internal schedule for the event. We need everyone to start signing up for responsibilities. So far I have Wid down as our rock star. Well he is! Of course we will need to know every club member who will be at the event so we can have the name tags ready to go. If you know you will be there please email me(email@example.com) or call me at 801-381-1684 so I can add you to the list. You can also just fill out the Soar Utah Registration form and send it the the firstname.lastname@example.com address. Club members who are volunteering to help will of course not be expected to pay the registration fee. However if you can financially afford it please donate to our club and support our hobby. I will also pay for some extra dinner tickets for good measure. One thing we will need to do before the even to pull out the MOM lights and Timers and flags and do some testing. |
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Alan Mckay and Mike Gibson
Could you please provide some judging information for us to post on the thread and on the SoarUtah.org? Even if we just say what trophies will be given that should work. If you have a copy of the judging sheets on how the scoring will work that would be even better. |
Aug 16, 2012, 07:55 PM | ||
Thank you Scott and Wid for those |
Aug 20, 2012, 07:41 PM | |
Clean up at the point Tuesday 08/20
Just a reminder to everyone that we are meeting at the point any time after 5pm to do cleanup. Bring your mowers and edgers because most of the work is weed mowing. We do have access to a ride mower and a big Brush hog mower stored in the shed on the mountain.
And if you feeling you better bring a plane along just in case. I know I will. I will bring some cold drinks and we will have some pizza to keep everyone full of energy. See you all tomorrow! |
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A geometric interpretation of the covariance matrix
In this article, we provide an intuitive, geometric interpretation of the covariance matrix, by exploring the relation between linear transformations and the resulting data covariance. Most textbooks explain the shape of data based on the concept of covariance matrices. Instead, we take a backwards approach and explain the concept of covariance matrices based on the shape of data.
In a previous article, we discussed the concept of variance, and provided a derivation and proof of the well known formula to estimate the sample variance. Figure 1 was used in this article to show that the standard deviation, as the square root of the variance, provides a measure of how much the data is spread across the feature space.
We showed that an unbiased estimator of the sample variance can be obtained by:
However, variance can only be used to explain the spread of the data in the directions parallel to the axes of the feature space. Consider the 2D feature space shown by figure 2:
For this data, we could calculate the variance in the x-direction and the variance in the y-direction. However, the horizontal spread and the vertical spread of the data does not explain the clear diagonal correlation. Figure 2 clearly shows that on average, if the x-value of a data point increases, then also the y-value increases, resulting in a positive correlation. This correlation can be captured by extending the notion of variance to what is called the 'covariance' of the data:
For 2D data, we thus obtain , , and . These four values can be summarized in a matrix, called the covariance matrix:
If x is positively correlated with y, y is also positively correlated with x. In other words, we can state that . Therefore, the covariance matrix is always a symmetric matrix with the variances on its diagonal and the covariances off-diagonal. Two-dimensional normally distributed data is explained completely by its mean and its covariance matrix. Similarly, a covariance matrix is used to capture the spread of three-dimensional data, and a covariance matrix captures the spread of N-dimensional data.
Figure 3 illustrates how the overall shape of the data defines the covariance matrix:
Now let's forget about covariance matrices for a moment. Each of the examples in figure 3 can simply be considered to be a linearly transformed instance of figure 4:
Let the data shown by figure 4 be , then each of the examples shown by figure 3 can be obtained by linearly transforming :
where is a transformation matrix consisting of a rotation matrix and a scaling matrix :
These matrices are defined as:
where is the rotation angle, and:
where and are the scaling factors in the x direction and the y direction respectively.
In the following section, we will discuss the relation between the covariance matrix , and the linear transformation matrix .
Covariance matrix as a linear transformation
Let's start with unscaled (scale equals 1) and unrotated data. In statistics this is often refered to as 'white data' because its samples are drawn from a standard normal distribution and therefore correspond to white (uncorrelated) noise:
The covariance matrix of this 'white' data equals the identity matrix, such that the variances and standard deviations equal 1 and the covariance equals zero:
Now let's scale the data in the x-direction with a factor 4:
The data now looks as follows:
The covariance matrix of is now:
Thus, the covariance matrix of the resulting data is related to the linear transformation that is applied to the original data as follows: , where
However, although equation (11) holds when the data is scaled in the x and y direction, the question rises if it also holds when a rotation is applied. To investigate the relation between the linear transformation matrix and the covariance matrix in the general case, we will therefore try to decompose the covariance matrix into the product of rotation and scaling matrices.
In an earlier article we saw that a linear transformation matrix is completely defined by its eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Applied to the covariance matrix, this means that:
where is an eigenvector of , and is the corresponding eigenvalue.
Since the eigenvalues are scalars, when thinking about them as linear transformations they can only represent a scaling of . Therefore, a first important conclusion is that the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix represent the spread of the data in the direction of its largest variance. In other words; the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix always point in the direction of the largest variance of the data. This observation forms the base of Principal Component Analysis and is illustrated by figure 7.
The largest eigenvector of the covariance matrix, shown in green, points in the direction of the largest variance of the original data. The second eigenvector, shown in magenta, is always orthogonal to the first. The eigenvalues represent the size of the arrows and thus correspond to the magnitude of the spread in these directions. The covariance matrix represents the horizontal and vertical spread of the data by its (diagonal) variance components, and the rotation angle by its (off-diagonal) covariance components. If the data would not have been rotated, then the eigenvectors would be axis-aligned, the covariance would be zero, and the variances would directly relate to the eigenvalues.
A second important conclusion that can be drawn from equation (12), is the fact that the covariance matrix can be seen as a linear transformation matrix that maps its eigenvectors upon a scaled version of itself, where the scale corresponds to the eigenvalues. In the following paragraphs, we will show why these two conclusions are true, and how we can relate arbitrary linear transformations on our original data to the covariance matrix of the resulting data.
Equation (12) holds for each eigenvector-eigenvalue pair of matrix . In the 2D case, we obtain two eigenvectors and two eigenvalues. The system of two equations defined by equation (12) can be represented efficiently using matrix notation:
where is the matrix whose columns are the eigenvectors of and is the diagonal matrix whose non-zero elements are the corresponding eigenvalues.
This means that we can represent the covariance matrix as a function of its eigenvectors and eigenvalues:
Equation (14) is called the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix and can be obtained using a Singular Value Decomposition algorithm. Whereas the eigenvectors represent the directions of the largest variance of the data, the eigenvalues represent the magnitude of this variance in those directions. In other words, represents a rotation matrix, while represents a scaling matrix. The covariance matrix can thus be decomposed further as:
where is a rotation matrix and is a scaling matrix.
In equation (5) we defined a linear transformation . Since is a diagonal scaling matrix, . Furthermore, since is an orthogonal matrix, . Therefore, . The covariance matrix can thus be written as:
In other words, if we apply the linear transformation defined by to the original white data shown by figure 5, we obtain the rotated and scaled data with covariance matrix . This is illustrated by figure 8:
The colored arrows in figure 8 represent the eigenvectors. The largest eigenvector, i.e. the eigenvector with the largest corresponding eigenvalue, always points in the direction of the largest variance of the data and thereby defines its orientation. Subsequent eigenvectors are always orthogonal to the largest eigenvector due to the orthogonality of rotation matrices.
In this article we showed that the covariance matrix of observed data is directly related to a linear transformation of white, uncorrelated data. This linear transformation is completely defined by the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the data. While the eigenvectors represent the rotation matrix, the eigenvalues correspond to the square of the scaling factor in each dimension.
Great article thank you
The covariance matrix is symmetric. Hence we can find a basis of orthonormal eigenvectors and then $\Sigma=VL V^T$.
From computational point of view it is much simpler to find $V^T$ than $V^{-1}$.Great post! I had a couple questions:
1) The data D doesn't need to be Gaussian does it?
2) Is [9] reversed (should D be on the left)?Thank you for this great post! But let me please correct one fundamental mistake that you made. The square root of covariance matrix M is not equal to R * S. The square root of M equals R * S * R', where R' is transposed R. Proof: (R * S * R') * (R * S * R') = R * S * R' * R * S * R' = R * S * S * R' = T * T' = M. And, of course, T is not a symmetric matrix (in your post T = T', which is wrong).
Very Useful Article What I feel needs to be included is the interpretation of the action of the covariance matrix as a linear operator. For example, the eigen vectors of the covariance matrix form the principal components in PCA. So, basically , the covariance matrix takes an input data point ( vector ) and if it resembles the data points from which the operator was obtained, it keeps it invariant ( upto scaling ). Is there a better way to interpret the eigenvectors of covariance matrix ?


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The Aurora Orchestra seems to be going from strength to strength. Now in their fifth year, they recenly debuted at Kings Place where they have a new home, and have just announced a major three year residency with LSO St Lukes which will feature a series of cross-arts collaborations, the first of which I'm attending this Friday (full disclosure: I was offered a freebie) featuring Berio's Laborintus II and John Adams's Son of Chamber Symphony.
Since I first heard about them a few years ago, I sensed a freshness in their approach and programming; and the quality of their playing was confirmed when I saw their production (together with Mahogany Opera who also feature on Friday) of the wonderful but rarely performed (let alone staged) Renard by Stravinsky.
New ensembles come and go, but these guys have an air of permanence to them.
Details of Friday's performance here: http://auroraorchestra.com/performances1.php
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It seems to have fallen to Radio 4 (rather than 3) to have informative and engaging programmes about classical music. The last one I heard was about the enduring power of 'When I am laid in earth,' by Purcell. Various bods were wheeled out to deliver their epiphanies and insights, and I have to say that I really enjoyed Alison Moyet's gorgeous rendition, a fifth down – how much easier to do that tricky word 'remember' -normally on a top G! Everyone had their point of view, including the muso who declared it 'the best melody of the 17th century!' Does it irritate you as much as me when people create league tables and play off one unique work of genius against another? I shouted 'shut up!' at the radio.
What was absent from a composer's point of view was just that – the composer's point of view. To me, whatever a piece of music becomes, whatever peg the composer hangs it on, it always starts with the composer. Amongst all their sense of personal ownership, nobody seemed to wonder about Henry Purcell, the human being, and what his personal input had been into those 40 bars of exquisite pain. Could anyone doubt that he identified with Dido rather than the colourless Aeneas? This is not an idle point, for Aeneas is on a mission to create a new country, surely something a creative person might identify with, and yet it is Dido's fragility and easy decline into early death that is drawn with such pain. I wondered why nobody mentioned the surely pertinent fact that Purcell was a child of 6 or so when the Great Plague hit London, and then the following Fire. And/or wondered whether Purcell, still a young man, had just experienced something similar by way of a rejection.
It is the vagueness of music and it being a non-verbal language that makes people take ownership of it, and elbow the person that was the composer out of the picture. This doesn't seem to happen so powerfully in the visual arts and it certainly doesn't happen with books or poetry. It is a wonderful thing to become totally engrossed in a piece of music. I like to binge on a particular piece, playing nothing else for days, - the music becomes subsumed into your existence like the first days of being in love. The downside of this is the ludicrous and depressing mythologizing of dead composers that goes on. If you believe that some God-given gift is at work then that rules out any influence from dreadful upbringings, or hot-housing parents. Let's face it, living composers are nothing like the Jill and John picture of dead ones. You can have a pizza and a laugh with them, get irritated by them, owe them money, talk about mobile phone tariffs with them. They can sleep with your wife or have to go to AA.
Recently I read a brilliant book about Schumann by Peter Ostwald called Music and Madness, - a psychological study based on letters and diaries. I nearly laughed out loud to read that Schumann, as a young man, may have had a sexual relationship with William Sterndale Bennett. Immediately, the two young men seemed totally recognisable as people I know now, and I felt a tremendous rush of sympathy for them. It made me want to listen to some Sterndale Bennett as well.
How different to the repulsion I feel (and I seem to be alone in feeling)towards the latest biogs of composers on BBC4, by Christopher Nupen, in which a profoundly reverential tone is taken and the things which influence other people – 'normal' people – are ignored – stuff like alcoholism, or child abuse. Psychologically, they are 100 years out of date. Near the end of the Schubert episode, which seemed to be made up of one long close up of the pianist's right hand (modern piano of course – nothing too real!), Nupen mentioned in a hushed voice that Schubert had contracted syphilis. Now I am shouting at the TV! – When, where, why?? But already he has moved on.
It is this ghastly attitude to dead composers that bedevils the lives of living ones. The lack of compassion towards their everyday existence, the lack of interest from the press as compared to the truly extraordinary interest there is in books and writers, the impoverishment that accompanies the lives of 90% of composers, is only enhanced by this romanticising of the dead. Living composers can only ever be a disappointment.
Last year I spent a couple of days at the Leeds Conductor's Competition: Britain's leading competition of this type, which happens every 2-3 years. I was there because an orchestral work of mine was being used as the modern test piece at a stage in the event in which there were only six contestants left. Each competitor had a slot to rehearse some Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, and my own piece. It was a fascinating experience on so many levels, not least in that it gave me the opportunity to hear my own music interpreted by six different conductors! Since then I've spent some time musing over the nature of competitions, and come to the conclusion that there are basically three main types; 1) The Dead Certain. This is the sort of competition you get in sport; clear winners, and losers. Whoever runs faster than everyone else/jumps higher/scores more points or goals. Click here to read the full post
An amazing crop of new music concerts coming up next month in London:
Ensemble 10/10 at Wigmore (5 March) http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/ensemble-10-10-24679 The acclaimed contemporary ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Atsuhiko Gondai portrait - Philharmonia Music of Today (9 March) http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/09mar10mot/ Barbican Total Immersion: Wolfgang Rihm (12/13 March) http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=9272 Barry and Ayres - London Sinfonietta (17 March) http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/sound-music Two love stories - Gerald Barry's 'Beethoven' and Richard Ayres quirky 'In The Alps' (below)
Celebrating Birtwistle's 75th at Wigmore (24 March) http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/nash-ensemble-24685 Including Five Distances for Five Instruments and a new oboe quartet
Kagel and Casken, spoken text and silent film - Counterpoise at Kings Place (29 March) http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/out-hear/counterpoise-%E2%80%93-loved-to-death
Also each Tuesday in March: http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/news/spnmsolospotlights.htm Solo Spotlights is a series of concerts of cutting edge music each Tuesday in March in the atmospheric setting of London's Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.
I'm becoming more and more painfully aware that I promised David quasi-regular blog postings for CT, but I now feel a little as if I have writer's block – I feel like I should have something to say about something, but any ideas I have had recently seem to be a little self-serving or just plain dull. This is not, thankfully, an affliction (the writer's block) that carries over to my composing, where the time available for writing still seems a little shy of the time I actually need and consequently I'm always ready and able to compose when those hours do free up. This, despite the fact that I am ostensibly a full-time composer. Where do the hours go? I do one day's teaching a week as part of my post-Doctoral Research post requirements, but that should surely leave 4, 5 or even 6 days for writing depending on the level of workaholicicism I wish to engage with. And yet there always seems to be some rehearsal to attend, some promotion to be seen to, perhaps a little interview here or guest lecture there and there are always emails to write and reply to. Perhaps I need a secretary – or can one still get an amanuensis these days? And what about tea breaks? Perhaps if I had less of those I might write more, but then again the Reward system works very well for me. Click here to read the full post
Picking up on some of the themes from Judith Bingham's fascinating post I recently did an interview for the American Music Centre's NewMusicBox site and I was somewhat surprised to hear the interviewer Frank J Oteri tell me that despite my never having returned to the US until 3 years ago (having been born there and left at the grand age of 6 weeks old), that there was something distinctly American in my sound-world - the article is titled "Accidental American".
I acknowledged to Frank that, like a lot of the US scene, I am happy to be open to a wide range of other cultures and musics from around the world; but on reflection, whilst I have loved klezmer, gypsy music and Eastern European folk music since childhood, British folk traditions have never held such an intense interest. I wonder if I am like my good friend who, as a Spanish composer based in London incorporated Spanish folk idioms into his writing, but then when he moved back to Spain these suddenly vanished completely from his music. In other words, if I didn't live in the UK perhaps I would take a deeper interest in its traditions. Perhaps, as Judith implies, it's to do with craving things that are not - for whatever reason - part of our daily lives?
Friday night I went to a concert at the Bishopsgate Institute, that odd little tucked away venue in the heart of the City. The concert was Czech piano music played by William Howard and included some preludes and fugues by Pavel Zemek Novak, part of a huge piano work over an hour and a half long that William Howard has championed here. There was a pre concert talk with David Matthews, an old pal of mine, and it was remembering his enthusiasm for Novak's music that attracted me to the concert. Novak is very interesting, despite his very sober and rather shy appearance: he has a preoccupation with unison writing, and an interest in trying to erase dissonance both horizontally and vertically – he tried not to have the 'melodic' line travel in seconds or sevenths even. The music is not without tension though, but has an unusual freshness and energy all of its own. Intriguing was the word that came into my mind. In the pre-concert talk I asked Novak what the music world in Czechoslovakia had been like after the war, given that so many musicians had died in Terezin or had fled the country. Did the composers that were left look back, or did they try and create something entirely new? Novak spoke very sympathetically (and with a lot of emotion) about two composers, Miloslav Ištvan, and Miloslav Kabelác who were subject to virtual house arrest by the Communists after the war, and not allowed to travel, nor have many performances. I think I wasn't alone in feeling a bit shame-faced that I hadn't heard of them, or heard their music. He spoke with passion also about the different sorts of folk music in Czechoslovakia, and about national feeling. Afterwards I thought how different it is to live in a country that was not invaded, and how it has allowed us to be incredibly complacent about our own cultural identity. Can you imagine anyone ever asking me in a pre-concert talk about national identity? - I always feel that if I have used British folk music I have to be a bit apologetic, or risk looking either very conventional or worse, fascistic. I wonder how we would feel about 20th century composers like say Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Britten, Tippett, or Malcolm Arnold, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy et al if they had been carted off to death camps, or forced to leave everything behind and flee? The last time British composers came under any real threat was the Reformation, and their music has come to represent a kind of essential Englishness, and along with choral evensong it encodes an extraordinary national identity. The other day some dimwit in a major newspaper talked about how few great composers Britain has produced, and was the usually disparaging idiot about contemporary music. When I was a student it was absolutely forbidden to like the sort of music known as 'cow pat music,' (a term coined by Liz Lutyens!) as if national identity was something to be utterly despised. Then as now to some extent, professors in music colleges prefer a European model to a native one. We have no experience of what it would be like to lose our cultural exponents in the way most European countries have, and have become unbelievably careless with our own culture. Maybe one day it will all be taken away from us, and then we will talk, with tears in our eyes, like Novak, of the treasures we had and lost.
New music enthusiast Bob Schneider draws my attention to the soundSCAPE New Music Festival 2010. This composers and performers exchange takes place between 14-25 July 2010 at Lake Maggiore in the beautiful Italain Alps. It is an opportunity for composers to get their works premiered. Special features this year include a composer-in-residence fellowship and creating violin and guitar duets, to be performed by Duo46. Application deadline is March 31,2010. For details, visit http://www.soundscapefestival.org
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Apparently a major DC superhero will be coming out of the closet within a few weeks. But which one? Here's how I see it: Superman - No way. The guy is head over heels in love with Lois Lane, almost bordering on stalkerish behavior. Plus I believe in certain iterations, he and Lois are married. And in the most recent movie, he had a kid. Batman - Oh, he's definitely gay. No steady girlfriend, dresses in all black leather, spends a suspicious amount of time in an all male household with an English butler and a teen age boy. BUT I do not believe for a single second he will be the superhero that is outed. He's just too important of a character to mess around with, not to mention they wouldn't do this with the movie just around the corner. Wonder Woman - Also definitely gay, but the article says this outed superhero will be a guy. Green Lantern - He is too much of a ladies-man wannabe, with varying degrees of success. I suppose it could all just be a beard, but I don't think so. The Martian Manhunter - uh, whuh? So that leaves us with: FLASH. The fastest man alive. Wicked fast. I tell ya, the guy can move. So that's my guess. Although I give Aquaman an ouside shot, but I'm not sure I consider him a "major" character. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ay-Major-DC-Comics-character-come-closet.html
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I think this is something people will have an issue with. Do children need to be introduced to homosexuality through cartoon charactors? I think it's a fair question to discuss.
Gentlemen, gentlemen..... I agree that Batman is gay, but there's just no way whatsoever they can make Batman their big "reveal" next month. The guy has something like 4 of his own comic books published monthly (and another half dozen where he's a main supporting character) not to mention a huge movie franchise with the next installment coming out in about 5 weeks. You just wouldn't tinker with your most popular character. When the movie comes out, you don't want everyone talking about how the bad-ass protaganist is actually playing for the other team. BUT there is one character that I forgot to include in my above list, so I am reconsidering my prediction. Staying with our Batman theme, I suppose they could decide that Dick Grayson/Nightwing (i.e. the-superhero-formerly-known-as-Robin) is gay. AFAIK he has only one monthly series and I have no idea who his "Lois Lane" is (or if he even has one). Or they could just select one of the other half dozen or so guys who have been "Robin" at one time or another.
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Nov 18, 2012, 11:58 AM | #26 |
YES it is enough. How do I know this? I have been using a machine with 2GB for 6 months and I do more than your wife. I don't have any issues with spinning balls or crashes, and I run the latest version of Mountain Lion as smooth as butter. Mine is a 2011 1.6 GHz i5, 2GB RAM, 11-inch Air, refurbed from Apple. It seems you've already made up your mind, and that's a shame, because for your wife's uses, you could get away with something as simple as an iPad (without the Flash games of course), which has much less RAM. Either way, good luck- I wouldn't imagine you'd need it because anything you buy will be sufficient for her needs, and then some.
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Nov 18, 2012, 01:06 PM | #27 | |
Are there ever times that you wished you had more ram?
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Nov 18, 2012, 03:05 PM | #28 |
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Nov 18, 2012, 04:37 PM | #29 |
You're very welcome. No -- but then again, I don't use iMovie at all or iPhoto that often, or for any big projects. I would think if anything, those two applications would be the ones where the spinning ball would rear its ugly head due to lack of RAM. If you think she'd be heavily into either of those two applications -- it doesn't sound like it through your OP, but if she would-- I'd go with the 4GB to be safe. As for browsing and games, absolutely no problems here. I often browse with dozens of tabs open in Safari and I play games like Red Crucible 2 from the Mac App Store with no issues. To say 2GB would be detrimental to web browsing is a gross exaggeration.
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Nov 18, 2012, 05:01 PM | #30 |
There is a reason why apple has a 4GB minimum nowadays, get the 4GB version. Especially since it's not user upgradable.
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Nov 18, 2012, 05:10 PM | #31 |
Have a 11 mba with 2gb of ram and the same amount of storage space as my 4s works with no issue and i run parallels without lag among other things.
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Nov 18, 2012, 05:18 PM | #32 |
No, 2GB is not enough. Nowhere near enough today and certainly more problematic in another year. You will not be able to add more later on an Air.
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Nov 18, 2012, 05:23 PM | #33 |
For those use is more than enough.
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Nov 18, 2012, 09:19 PM | #34 |
This is what I don't understand. Those of us who actually have 2GB are pleased, and those who don't take it upon themselves to refute our testimony? Also, how could anyone claim 2GB isn't sufficient for the wife in the OP who simply uses the web browser - an iPod touch would be sufficient for that!
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Nov 18, 2012, 09:26 PM | #35 |
It seems more and more apps, processes, and the like are using up more RAM. Even with just web browsing, music, and occassional video, my notebook uses 2GB RAM (assuming my iStat Nano process overviewer is correct).
I'm no professional, but I feel like 4GB RAM is the standard and minimum. More and more things are definitely taking advantage of the availability of RAM at least in the coming decade, even if they are basic tasks. Like I said, I'm no professional. I'm just offering my personal thoughts as an average consumer.
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Nov 18, 2012, 09:30 PM | #36 |
Will it work? Yes.
Is it a bad idea going for 2gb of RAM in 2012? Yes. Can it be upgraded, ever? No. Will your machine's usable life be significantly extended by doubling the RAM? Yes. Go for as much ram as you can afford. Given the cost of RAM these days, it makes zero sense to cripple your machine by cheaping out on RAM. Most new machines these days will be selling with 8gb and 16gb (or more) is a cheap upgrade. As a result of this, expect software to start taking advantage of/requiring more ram in future.
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Nov 18, 2012, 09:34 PM | #37 | |
If you go for the basic air is really cheap and good value for the money in these case. |
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Nov 18, 2012, 09:51 PM | #38 | |
If you buy your machine with the intention of keeping it for 3-5 years, you need to take into account how much RAM applications will require leading up to that point, if you wish your machine to remain viable. With older machines, you could upgrade by replacing the ram in the slots. With the air, you can't. All I'm saying is that RAM is so cheap now that you can bet your house that developers will have new freedom to include features that were previously not possible, or change the optimization of their application (more caching vs less RAM use) due to RAM constraints. If you've cheaped out on RAM, you'll be left behind.
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Nov 18, 2012, 11:01 PM | #40 |
You did read the bit about 3-5 years time, yes?
Safari will quite happily chew 1gb of RAM doing things today. Facebook, as it grows and new social apps get bolted onto it, will start to consume more and more resources. Increasing use of sandboxing will blow out RAM usage. Perhaps it will be some next-gen UI that will require the RAM in OS X 10.10? Who knows. The point is, if you give developers a huge amount of RAM, they will consume it. Web apps are extremely bloated for what they do, due to the use of just-in-time compilation, heavy caching of data, etc. But hey, if you want to save 50-100 bucks today and need to replace your machine 2 years earlier, go for it.
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Nov 19, 2012, 01:00 AM | #41 |
2 GB is not enough!
the base 2GB of RAM would not be enough because people seem to forget that the OS needs RAM(obviously). Well maybe not everybody, but certainly a few in here. I have a 2009, 20" iMac 2.66GHz C2D, 3TB HDD running OS X 10.7.5.
I am currently running the following apps: 1. Mail 2. iTunes(open and idle) 3. Safari(4 tabs: Netflix[not streaming], MacRumors, CNET, College website) 4. Activity Monitor Activity Monitor is saying that I have 6.06 GB of RAM free while 1 GB is active and the other 840MB of RAM being used are wired. That means that if I was running these very few apps on a MBA, then only having 2GB of RAM would not be sufficient. Go with the 4GB or do what you were thinking and get a MBP that's upgradeable to 8GB.
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Nov 19, 2012, 01:03 AM | #42 |
Ive run that same setup and also with parallels running yet the basic mba keeps going with no problem.
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Nov 19, 2012, 01:17 AM | #43 |
Why would you handicap a laptop that expensive with 2gb of ram? The OS alone uses up that much at times. Just don't do it.
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Nov 19, 2012, 01:31 AM | #44 |
I just don't understand why you would not spend the extra $80 to get 4 GB and a 128 GB SSD. How can $80 be a deal breaker on a $750 item? If it is you probably should be looking at something cheaper
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Nov 20, 2012, 04:41 PM | #45 |
I just don't understand why people have this obsession with RAM...I bet half of the people who've posted in this thread couldn't even tell me what it [RAM] actually does (without Googling it).
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Nov 20, 2012, 06:04 PM | #46 |
Even for just web browsing I would recommend 4gb as a minimum, especially in machines with no user replaceable ram. I would say 4GB for the MBA and 2GB (to start with) on a user upgradeable machine
It will run the OS well and (if supported) future OS upgrades better .
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Nov 20, 2012, 10:45 PM | #47 | |
I am currently listening to music, have 3 tabs open in safari, and when I open the Mac App store it shows that I'm using 2.72 GB of RAM. Sure, 2Gb is enough, if you only check your e-mail or watch SD videos in Youtube. |
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Nov 20, 2012, 11:46 PM | #48 |
I have been using a 2010 macbook air 2gb ram for the last 2yrs and while yes it doesn't choke on normal tasks I wish every day I had more! Comparing my mba to my friends mbp 2009 with 4gb I was surprised to see how much more fluid transitions and mission control were on his compared to mine. My advice is 4gb minimum!
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Nov 21, 2012, 01:50 AM | #49 |
Problem is you can't upgrade RAM. So go for 4GB at least for future proof.
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Nov 21, 2012, 04:09 AM | #50 |
I wouldn't risk the likelihood of upsetting your wife with only 2GB of RAM or anything less than a 2012 machine. The payback could be infinitely worse than extra expense.
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The teen shows off a very leggy look for the mag, and inside she fights back against claims that she's too thin, admitting that the accusations are hurtful.
17-year-old Kendall Jenner landed on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Arabia and she looks so gorgeous! The cover of Bazaar is a huge feat for a mere teen, but the Jenner sis looks like she was born to model. Inside the mag, however, she reveals that looking like a natural supermodel isn't always easy.
Kendall is featured on the cover giving the camera a mature, sultry look while donning a black and white striped Marc Jacobs maxi dress. Smoky eyes and tousled hair make the young reality star look years beyond her age, but she still gave off a flawless appearance.
Along with a white miniskirt, a black Gucci gown, and a variety of other top-notch ensembles, photographer, Russell James, 52, dressed Kendall in a skin-toned leotard covered by only an animal print Roberto Cavalli blazer. The bodysuit revealed the teen's long, very slender legs and fragile physique. While most girls dream of being tall and thin with endless legs, Kendall reveals that she doesn't feel so fortunate. "I'm constantly criticised for being too skinny," she explains. "I'm trying to gain weight but my body won't let it happen. What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it's not a nice feeling."
Despite her self-consciousness, Kendall looks as confident as ever showing off her tiny frame and accentuating her height in very tall stilettos. If nothing else, her cover shoot definitely brought her up to speed in terms of making her more than just 'the Kardashian's little sister.' "I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modeling. I think I'm on my own career path and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing," she says.
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She is all of 17 and has no clue what maturity will do to her body. She is growing in all directions. One direction she should go is away from this saturated has been of a reality family. The three older sisters are disgusting fame whores and whack jobs. The brother is an angry fat mess with no direction and couldn't make his way out of a paper bag alone if he tried. This girl should stop where she is in her tracks, realize what life can offer and go away to Europe or college somewhere and have a few years away from the microscope of stupidity. She has enough money she will ever need, trust etc. She should make her own way in life and not become some monster the family is already creating. She has birthday parties most 50 year olds don't come close to having, and shows over indulgence and shallowness. She is not thin looking as a model, she has looks and should embrace her beauty now while young, rather than ending up as Kim, botoxed, plumped, vain and her beauty is gone. Hope she sees examples of intelligent child stars like Jodie Foster and Helen Hunt..life can be anything with endless possibilities rather than the fishbowl she's in now.
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She is so ridiculous while Kim is dealing with her pregnant body, she is complainig about her body, she needs to understand that she is model! If she gains weight people are not going to hire her and also she doesnt have an ugly body, right she is thin but is a proporcionate thin body, she would have an ugly body if she had too much belly and no booty or boobies, she IS proporcionate for being a skinny girl… It looks so ugly when a girl has a small frame and a fake boobs and booty. Look the positive side, embrace your body and love yourself… You will never be like Kim!
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Funny how this news/article is all over the internet not just here but almost all websites – why? to cover up for the ugliness of her sister Kim Kardashian's weight problem and pregnancy and weight insecurities. It looks like this is publicity by instruction.
Another tabloid website mentioned that the kardashian's tv rating is going down-down-and down even if they have been trying everything possible such as sniffing and comparing who's got the smelliest private parts(YUCK!!!), killing allegators, weight bullying and more weight issues and insecurities…. but t's not working – more people are rejecting this family but producers and media push it – take this article as an example – Kendall Jenner is made as a victim – when no one would think of her as skinny – she seems like a normal teenager and most of all has the model looks and most of all they dont need the kardashians to be famous – they just can be themselves.
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OH gosh, who cares? If you don't like the pictures then tell the editor to stop the photoshop app. Are you really going the same route that your sisters are? Shamelessly trying way too hard to get your name into the public eye. And why isn't your FATHER insisting that you do a better job using your brain. Look, Sweetie, you are average looking and without your sister's despicable behavior, you wouldn't be the twinkle of anyone's eye.
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Considering the fact that she's 17 and has already gone through puberty quite some time ago, she doesn't really have a long way before her body fully matures. For girls, unless they experience some sort of weight gain or loss, their body is fully matured after puberty has been hit. And with her metabolism, she is most likely never going to experience that until she has kids.
I love that she spoke about being criticized for being "too skinny" because as someone who is also thin it always bothers me when people point it out or tell me that I'm "so skinny" and "need to eat a burger". I eat a ton of food all day long but I have a fast metabolism so I don't gain weight. And pointing it out is rude and uncalled for. That's the same thing as telling someone they need to eat a salad because they're so fat.


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SPRING SESSHIN: The Wisdom of Not Knowing
Instructors: Sensei Beate Genko Stolte |
Sesshin, meaning to gather the heart/mind, is an intensive meditation retreat done with others that deepens our relationship to our mind and to the world. In sesshin, the mind/body calms and settles, and the mind becomes clear and open. In this way, we experience our own true nature. Days are silent, doing sitting and walking meditation together, eating formally as a community, and working together. Sesshin provides a powerful container supporting the unification of body and mind, and our individuality with the community and the world. |
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Tuition (Members): $420.00 |
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