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It was a great year for metal. Too much for one person to talk about. So, in addition to my favorite records for the year, I decided to ask a few metal friends and assorted personalities to pass along top 10 lists for this final Show No Mercy of 2007. (I didn't make the request until a couple days ago, so thanks to all of your for your speedy responses.) It's always interesting to me to see what other folks are listening to and I think the playlists of Blake Judd (Nachtmystium), Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver), Neige, Dominick Fernow (Prurient), and members of Skeletonwitch, Portal, Zweizz/Umoral/Fluerety, among others, makes for an fascinating cross-section of extreme metal tastes. Note that some of the albums mentioned actually came out before 2007, but whatever. In one case the respondant preferred to list albums he discovered over the past 12 months, regardless of release date. Caveats aside, nitpickers, my own pillar of 25 first.
01. Watain: Sworn to Dark [Ajna Offensive/Season Of Mist]
From the opening Set Teitan-guesting "Legions Of The Black Light" and the rawly anthemic "Satan's Hunger" through the pummeling, operatic, oddly post-hardcore "Stellarvore" (for real), this Swedish satanic black metal power trio have created a buzzing, burnt masterpiece with their third album, mixing old-school punk, the melodicism of early Maiden/Venom (and, of course, Dissection), with chilling skull and candelabra atmospherics and heavily charred rock 'n' roll (such fucking riffs). Make sure to catch the bloody live show -- though they need the topical crowd-pleasing gore about as much a primo day Slayer.
02. Deathspell Omega: Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum [Ajna Offensive/N.E.D.]
Fas doesn't top 2004's Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice, but that's like disssing Melville for not writing another Moby Dick. Twisted, angular ambience (part Antaeus factory/part church) overlapping deep post-rock, beastial choirs, progressive and avant tendencies, and brutal intensity on a musical, lyrical, and conceptual front, e.g. "Every human being not going to the extreme limit is the servent or the enemy of man and the accomplice of a nameless obscenity."
03. Bergraven: Dödsvisioner [Hydra Head]
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Pär Gustaffssons opens Dödsvisioner with two minutes of barely audible electronics then blasts into a blackened landscape that floats between slippery Keiji Haino pedal-steel-y ambience, buzzing doom and dense chugging anthems, each feeling like a chapter in a larger narrative. Best black metal drum sound of the year. Gustaffssons stopped by SNM in June.
04. Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters [Southern Lord]
Majestic rural, cricket-chirping Pacific Northwest black metal-- guttural vocals peer from beneath long passages of shimmering guitar and slumbering deep-woods sustain on their gorgeous follow up to Diadem Of 12 Stars. It's an Emperor symphony or autumnal Burzum trudge (and additional, frostbitten 4AD female vocals) filtered through Olympia D.I.Y. -- though, the pristine, beneath-the-pines analog production's a step up from WITTR's indie neighbors. The trio stepped out of the forest and stopped by SNM in September.
05. Baroness: Red Album [Relapse]
Expansive Georgia crust crew fronted by guitarist/vocalist John Baizley (who does art for Pig Destroyer, my beloved Skeletonwitch, his own band, and sports a Xasthur t-shirt in the above pic). Proggy, doomy, hugely ambitous (note the Southern-fried acoustic excursions). Think of a more patient, discursive Mastodon. Most importanty, they write great fist-pumping hooks. My favorite driving album of the year and I don't own a car.
06. Alcest: Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde [Profound Lore/Prophecy]
I caught up with French multi-instrumentalist Stéphane Paut, aka Neige, one of the most varied contributors to contemporary black metal, a couple of months ago. The brief, but filling follow-up to his 2005 Le Secret EP isn't black metal, it's an airy boot-gazing blast into spiraling guitars and whispered vocals. Jesu on a partly cloudy day.
07. High on Fire: Death Is This Communion [Relapse]
Matt Pike, Des Kensel and new bassist Jeff Matz do the unthinkable, topping the classic 2002 gem Surrounded By Thieves (and 2005's Preston-y Blessed Black Wings, etc.) The Jack Endino-produced slab rails through eleven counts of perfect no-bullshit Oakland-born hard rock. You can call it stoner or doom or post post-Sleep, but whatever the case, Lemmy must be proud (and maybe a wee bit scared). Full review soon.
08. Wold: Screech Owl [Profound Lore]
Blackened noise from the arcana-scribbling, outsider Saskatchewan crew of Fortress Crookedjaw (vocalist and "devices"), Opex (guitars and "drums"), and Obey ("scourge"). Screech Owl, the jewel in their twisted crown, is a shattered spray of white (house) noise and bedroom shoe/volume-gazing fronted by a cackling, possessed ghoul. Definitely the most extreme use of space and feedback on the list -- it sounds like it was recorded on a boombox (or a compressed 4-track partly buried in that Canadian dirt). They stopped by SNM way back in January.
09. Portal: Outre [Profound Lore]
Masked and witch-capped claustro-atmospheric, heavily percussive Aussie death metal weirdness. Intense, suffocating, scissoring, often imploded -- Gorefest + Ruins Of Beverast on Halloween. The track "Ominpotent Crawling Chaos" sorta nails the overall atmosphere: If Hieronymus Bosch listened to extreme metal, etc. Guitarist Horror Illogium drops a top 10 below.
10. Skeletonwitch: Beyond the Permafrost [Prosthetic]
Anthemic blackened NWOBHM from Ohio. Imagine Iron Maiden mixed with Immortal. My favorite dual guitar riffs of the year. An old-school fist pumper. They stopped by SNM in August and offer a top eight below.
11. Ulver: Shadows of the Sun [Jester/The End]
12. The Ruins of Beverast: Rain Upon the Impure [Van]
13. Blut Aus Nord: Odinist [Candlelight]
14. DHG: Supervillain Outcast [Moonfog/The End]
15. Moonsorrow: V: Hävitetty [Spikefarm]
16. Sear Bliss: The Arcane Odyssey [Candlelight]
17. Rosetta: Wake/Lift [Translation Loss]
18. Machine Head: The Blackening [Roadrunner]
19. The Angelic Process: Weighing Souls With Sand [Profound Lore]
20. Zoroaster: Dog Magic [Battle Kommand/Terminal Doom]
21. Inquisition: Nefarious Dismal Orations [No Colours]
22. Krohm: The Haunting Presence [Moribund Cult/Debemur Morti]
23. Ride for Revenge: The King of Snakes [Northern Heritage]
24. Rwake: Voices of Omen [Relapse]
25. Azrael: Act III: Self + Act IV: Goat [Moribund]
Addendum: I'm still absorbing Dillinger Escape Plan's Ire Works. I like Pig Destroyer's Phantom Limb well enough, but am a tad surprised at the five-star reaction it's received. It's definitely pleasing, though. Am continually obsessed with the depth and complexity of this year's Nile and Behemoth, but still don't dig 'em as records.
Blake Judd, Nachtmystium
01. Nifelheim: Envoy Of Lucifer
02. High On Fire: Death Is This Communion
03. Zoroaster: Dog Magic
04. Drudkh: Estrangement
05. Manes: How The World Came To An End
06. Hacavitz: Katun
07. Alcest:Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
08. Superchrist: Headbanger
09. Watain: Sworn To The Dark
10. Year Of No Light: Nord
Kristoffer Rygg (Garm), Ulver
There are quite likely many gorgeous albums I have not had the pleasure to listen to this year, but those I've heard I'd say:
The Hidden Hand: The Ressurection of Whiskey Foote
Johan Johannsson: Englabörn [reissue]
Ole-Henrick Moe: Ciacocona/3 Persephone Perceptions
Pamelia Kurstin: Thinking Out Loud
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water
Mayhem: Ordo Ad Chao
My Midnight Creeps: Histamin
The Threshold Houseboys Choir: Form Grows Rampant
When: Trippy Happy
Scott Hedrick of Skeletonwitch's Top Eight (no particular order):
Horror Illogium of Portal
01. Negative Plane: Et In Saecula Saeculaorum
02. Cemetery Urn: Urn of blood
03. Martire: Martire (re-release)
04. Necros Christos: Triune Impurity Rites
05. The Angelic Process: Weighing Souls With Sand
06. Diocletian: Decimator MCD
07. Katharsis: World Without End
08. Goat Molestor: Realm of Evoked Doom 7"
09. Funerary Pit: Winds of Hell 7"
10. Teitanblood/Necros Christos Split 7"
Roberto Martinelli, Maelstrom Zine
01. The Ruins of Beverast: Rain Upon the Impure
02. Pagan's Mind: God's Equation
03. Virgin Black: Requiem - mezzo forte
04. Jesu: Conqueror
05. Wrath of the Weak: Wrath of the Weak
06. Circus Maximus: Isolate
07. NeObliviscaris: Demo 2007
08. Akercocke: Antichrist
09. Gorefest: Rise to Ruin
10. Symphony X: Paradise Lost
Neige (Alcest, Peste Noire), Albums he discovered and felt closest to this year (in no order)
The Chameleons: Script Of The Bridge
Virgin Prunes: If I Die I Die
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
Clan Of Xymox: Clan Of Xymox (their first album)
Drudkh: Blood In Our Wells
The Organ: Grab That Gun
Lycia: Cold
Silencer: Death Pierce Me
For Against: December
The Jesus And Mary Chain: Psychocandy
roadside picnic/a room forever - experimental metal, black noise/ambient top ten.
record of the year: ***wold - screech owl***
hands down, record of the year.
(the rest, 1-10, no particular order)
01. neurosis: given to the rising
02. om: pilgrimage
03. amocoma: go to hell (if anyone can tell me anything about these guys - please, please write me)
04. deathspell omega: fas ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum
05. ktl: 2
06. wolves in the throneroom: two hunters
07. ride for revenge: king of snakes
08. monarch: st / dead men tell no tales / die tonight
09. moss: cthonic rites
10. monument of urns: the ancient method
in constant rotation:
sunn o))): oracle
asbestos death: unclean dejection reissue
great american desert/drear split cd
nortt: ligfaerd
stielas storhett: vandrer
velvet cacoon: genevieve
trollman av ildtoppberg: arcane runes adorn the ice-veiled monoliths of the ancient cavern of the stars
nordvargr: for the blood is the life
nordvargr/drakh: the betrayal of light
black boned angel: eternal love/eternal hunger, bliss and void inseperable
bummer of the year - khanate's break up. lame, lame lame.
Dominick Fernow, Prurient and Hospital Productions (in no order)
Lifelover: Pulver LP [Northern Sky]
Circle of Ouroboros/Nuit Noire - split 7" [Insikt/Unjoy]
Inquisition: Nefarious Dismal Orations [No Colours]
Clandestine Blaze: Church Of Atrocity [Northern Heritage]
Pagan Hellfire: A Voice From Centuries Away [Tour De Garde]
Akitsa: La Grande Infamie [Christhunt]
Lascowiec: Gunshots Ring Out Over Vinland Streets [Demo, Funeral Agency]
Satanic Warmaster/Mutiilation/Drowning The Light [pic lp - gotowarex]
Cultus: A Seat in Valhalla [Heidens Hart/Runenzauber]
Ancestors: II [Northern Sky]
Svein Egil Hatlevik of Zweizz, Umoral, and Fluerety.
I've listed five metal albums and five albums from other genres.
Five metal:
Abigor: Fractal Possession: Complex, progressive and beautiful. I've been listening to this album at least once a week since I got it in May, and I'm still getting surprises every time I listen to it.
Bergraven: Dödsvisioner: This album was a sloooow grower. At first I thought it sounded bleak and boring, but after some ten spins the magnificence dawned on me. Black metal has never had a more serious case of the blues.
Joey Hopkins' Midget Factory "Demo 2007": Extremely hostile IDM (Intelligent Digital Metal). Dunno if this would qualify as black metal among the priests of the orthodoxy. But black metal was never about listening to what the priests have to say anyway.
Mayhem: Ordo Ab Chao: Best Mayhem recording since the two tracks that were featured on the "Projections of a Stained Mind" compilation from 1991.
Vrolok: Void: I've tried several times to get into a wide range of USBM bands, but never really succeeded until I got this album. (Apart from Profanatica's "Tormenting Holy Flesh", but that's a different time and place altogether.) Crisp guitar sound that kinda reminds me of "A Blaze in the Northern Sky", a drummer that knows exactly how to play just in a little bit more complicated way than he is capable of and wonderfully discouraging vocals.
Five from other genres:
CocoRosie: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn: I once interviewed Sierra Casady, one half of this duo, and I asked what their music would look like if it were an animal. She told me it would be a mixture of a unicorn, a mermaid and a pony. But to me it will always be a kitten. Or a piglet.
Hild Sofie Tafjord: Kama: Nicely layered ambient noise with a french horn as the primary sound source. Noise music rare gets more delicious.
Helge Hurum: Spectre: This is actually a reissue of old and unreleased recordings from the archives of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). I think it's from the sixties, very smooth jazz music. Me likes.
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible: Disappointed with the new Radiohead album as I am, I find myself playing this album over and over when all I want is the grand new Radiohead album I've wanted for years. What I just wrote sounds silly, and maybe this album is not so good, but I like it nonetheless.
Hans Appelqvist: Sifantin och mörkret: Not quite as good as his albums "Bremort" and "Naima", but still there is no way to deny that Hans Appelqvist makes the best pop music ever. And it's in Swedish!
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Admittedly I'm a bit new to Premiere. And I'm hoping there is some novice aspects to how the sequence is setup and what settings are chosen on export.
The problem I'm having is that even after I've already rendered all the effects in my edit, can watch it at full quality in real time playback, when I export it takes as long as it did to render the sequences in the first place... if not longer. For example a 8 minute video is looking at 1.4 to 2 hours for an export with "Match Sequence Settings" checked. And yes I did try "use previews" as well.
My confusion is that, doing this same task in FCP takes seconds. I've worked in ProRes422 and exported ProRes422 in maybe 10 seconds for a 5 minute edit.
Here... I'm assuming that my sequnce settings aren't quite right somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm not as concerned about working in, or exporting to quicktime. My main goal is to find what settings I need to work in so that when I'm done editing, I can quickly export a single clip that is a Master file that can then, at my leisure be converted to whatever format I need in Media Encoder.
Do you have any suggestions on what settings the scene should be or how to set the preview settings to achieve this? (working on a Mac)
Jim- "That may be the issue. PP can't "use previews" when going from a QuickTime preview to a QuickTime export, so you get the full render each time."
This statement is slightly misleading. If you change the Preview codec to match you export codec AND you have lots of effects on your clips, using Preview IS faster. If you spent the time rendering these clips that have effects, then when you export, PrP just rebuilds the frame to the final file. All your effects therefore are NOT rendered again. But this is really the only time using previews is an time saving process.
The issue was...
I expected the preview files to be used in the same kind of Smart Rendering manner like FCP, where all the preview files are taken as chunks and "stitched" together. I was told by Adobe thats not how PrP work. Each frame is recomputed for output.
If you have Colorista on a clip and you render it. That time is well spent. Since when PrP exports it, it does recomputer the IMAGE of frame, but the effect has already been kind of "baked in" to that clip. So that process is done once uring rendering but NOT when exporting.
I expected the preview files to be used in the same kind of Smart Rendering manner like FCP, where all the preview files are taken as chunks and "stitched" together.
That's pretty much what happens when the preview format and the export format are the same, such as DV to DV.
I was told by Adobe thats not how PrP work.
I believe that comment only referred to using QuickTime formats, because like I said, when going form DV to DV, the export is nothing more than a file copy process. No rendering or transcoding is performed.
Its being employed on a limited bases at this point and ONLY with clips that have no effects on them..
Adobe - Premiere CS 6 - Enabled "smart rendering" and added Enable Smart Rendering Codec setting to the Video tab of the MXF OP1a exporters for XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX to enable or disable smart rendering for these formats. This option defaults to the off/disabled state. We'll have more information about this feature in a post on this blog soon.
Its being employed on a limited bases at this point and ONLY with clips that have no effects on them..
No, it works perfectly fine for clips with effects on them as well, at least so long as you don't use QuickTime. I don't use QuickTime at all, so I can't test that option.
Smart Rendering is a whole different animal related to Long GOP media, and really has nothing to do with using preview files.
This is Wils response to my questions regarding Smart Rendering.
Wil (from Adobe) - " smart rendering is something that we've been asked a lot about, esp. lately by all the broadcasting partners we've been working with. Specifically, their interest lies in smart rendering from XDCAM HD sources, as they're all working with XDCAM 420 / 422 material (either camera captured OP1a MXF sources, or else material captured/ingested via Harmonic MediaDecks, Telestream, etc). Let's just say that we're very actively looking into what we can do here.
Keep in mind though that this isn't magic - the minute you apply any kind of effect (realtime or not) on an MPEG source, you nullify the ability to copy/paste/splice GOPs. Notwithstanding, smart rendering has a broad appeal to people in for instance news workflows, where the bulk of effects involve at best transitions between clips, so most of the edited material is 'naked'.
Jim, If you dont' use quicktime, what format are you using? I've tried XDCAM422 for the sequence, but the preview format gets grayed out to "I-Frame Only MPEG" so that it can't be set to the same settings as the main.
I'm still not sure what Sequence setting has an option that allows you to match the preview setting... just as long as it's 1920x1080 24fps
This is Wils response to my questions regarding Smart Rendering.
I've no quarrel with Wil's comments there, but again, Smart Rendering has to do with using Long GOP media, and is a separate issue to the one in this thread, about using preview files. If you create a preview file and wish to use that for export, then you are no longer accessing the original media and Smart Rendering becomes moot.
Okay, I think I'm getting closer here, but still not getting to the end goal.
hmm... I don't see AVI or UT listed anywhere in the settings list or in the list of options for previews. And... does this setting enable you to export a full edit without a complete re-render every time? If So, what sequence settings are you using? What preview settings are you using? And what Export settings are you using?
Because I've tried about a dozen combinations so far, and every single time Premiere re-renders the entire edit from scratch. It seems like there is some razor-thin combination to use to achive what is essentially native in the workflow in FCP. I'm just trying to find what the settings are to enable that workflow.
Thanks, but it still doesn't work. Just made a sequence using the UT codec. Took a small portion of my edit (49 seconds) and added it to the new UT codec sequence.
Rendered the Colorista effects which took 5 minutes.
Export Media (use sequence settings checked).... it took 5 mintues to export
Export Media (use sequence settings, use previews) ... it took 5 minutes to export.
What do I need to do so that the export uses the already rendered previews and takes seconds. I can't fathom what someone working on a 30 minute edit would do if they had to change a single shot and wait 6 hours for a new master to process out.... ever single time. There has to be a procedure to do this otherwise Premiere is useless in a production environment. And obviously it's not... people are using it, but that means they've figured this one aspect out and it's not clearly documented.
The 3-way color correct pretty much plays in real time to begin with, but I "rendered" the enitre 49 second test edit anyway to be say. It took 65 seconds.
Exporting... took about 65 seconds. So I'm still seeing the same thing. the effect is faster, but Premiere is still completely re-rendering the entire timeline everytime I export
Realistically, it shouldn't be a Colorista issue though... it shouldn't be any plugin issue. Once rendered, Premiere should ( I would hope) treat it as finished ready to go footage that is natively looking like the final effect and essentially ignore the original footage unless you add another effect or change an effect.
But it seems like render your clips are never used beyond temporary playback and never used to improve the workflow process
Am I getting a different result then everyone else... that when you export media it's a quick export... or is it the same as me and it re-render all of your effects and take longer to export the the actual real time playback (minimum) or MUCH longer if you have even basic effects?
What do I need to do so that the export uses the already rendered previews and takes seconds.
Well, for me all I have to do is check the box marked Use Previews.
Don't ever check Match Sequence Settings in the export dialog. It's just looking for trouble. Set them up manually, and when you do, report back what you set them to.
I'm still at a bit of a loss here. I've tried this under every combination of having sequcence settings matched, not matched, use previews checked and unchecked. I've tried ARRI, AVCHD, ProRes, XDCAM, every single combination causes premiere to completely re-render the entire edit when I "Export/Media".
I'm on a mac... is this a mac only thing? And it's just that Mac version of Premiere can't be used proffesionally? As an example if you have a 30 minute edit, and need to change a lower 3rd, and export out the change, it would take hours because the export would be re-rendering every graphic and effect for the entire show.... ever, single time. This is a huge barrier to using premiere in a work environment.
Well on my PC when I export the 30min programs I edit. It generally takes about 30-35 mins to export to 1920x1080i 29.97fps using VBR 2-Pass mpeg-2. My timelines have promos, bumps, voiceovers, Music, Lower-Thirds, Light CC and obviously shot footage. I never use the "use previews option either. My source footage is sometimes AVCHD if we do shoots in the field and but most of the time our footage from the studio is ProRes or BMD's MJPEG using the .avi container. So I'm wondering what specs your system has.
Here is my work edit stations specs. (Which aren't anything amazing at all)
Intel Core i7 2600k
Nvidia GTX 570
OS Drive (SSD Intel 510 elmcrest 120Gb)
RAID array 4x1TB 7200RPM (raid-5)
My source footage is sometimes AVCHD if we do shoots in the field and but most of the time our footage from the studio is ProRes or BMD's MJPEG using the .avi container.
Then I obviously have a export drive as well. But those are the specs from my system that matter. So I'm wondering also why it seems your perfomance is so slow. Although if you're timelines are using Colorista then it's not suprising that plug-in is well known to slow down exports to a crawl. So it does seem strange that even when using use previews your exports are so slow.
CompuNovice... that sounds reasonable to me though. You're actually compressing the footage in a VBR-2pass Mpeg-2. And it's still running at almost reall time.
As for Colorista brining exports to a crawl... not in FCP. Once you've rendered... you've renderd. I can open up my edit and export a "same as edit" formated video in about 2 minutes for a 30 minute edit (without compressing it). So that's not a Colorista thing... it's a premiere thing.
The PC I have available has Dual Quadro cards, but being a PC there are some nice plugins that I like to use that aren't available which is why I usually stay on my 6 month old Mac.
That beings said, you've mentioned what your source material is, but....
- What is the codec and settings you're using for your sequence
- What is the codec and settings that you're using for previews.
- When you export it sounds like you do not check "sequence settings" or "Use previews". If you don't compress to a new format, are you able to get to a fast export? I.E. Faster then real time. If so, what are your export settings?
My source footage is usually 1920x1080i ProRes HQ. Then I usually export to 1920x1080i mpeg-2. My sequence settings are generally always 1920x1080i I always leave my preview codec set to the default since I never use the "use previews" option. Generally I always just use the standard mpeg-2 i-frame only preview option since I don't mind if my preview is lossless or not since I don't ever use the "use preview" option.
Basically what I was trying to point out was that you where saying here that it would take hours to export a 30min program.
As an example if you have a 30 minute edit, and need to change a lower 3rd, and export out the change, it would take hours because the export would be re-rendering every graphic and effect for the entire show.... ever, single time.
So I was wondering what type of specs your system had if it takes it hours to export a 30 minute program. Generally speaking I almost always export to mpeg-2 because that's what our play-server in at our station supports. Unless it's a promo or HQ master copy of something that needs to be archived.
Also to answer your last question I never check the sequence settings option since I prefer to select all my options on my own because I have customized presets anyways.
If you'd like I will test the "use previews option" but quite honestly I don't usually ever need to render my timeline to preview stuff unless I try to do animations inside Premiere. My stuff always just plays in real-time. I do however agree that if you take the time to render your stuff in the timeline it SHOULD export faster so I'm not really sure why you're experincing such long wait times, but I did just want to point out that for me my timelines always export much faster than a few hours.
Also are you talking about using FCP7 or FCP X? Because the few times I used FCP7 on my friends Macbook pro it was terrible I had to render everytime I changed a single key-frame. It kept saying "warning dropped frames" It was a terrible experince. So basically I was stuck having to render something over and over and over. But when using Premiere I don't have to render very often unless I'm trying to animate something or work on something with really heavy CC, scaling, effects etc.
I haven't had a chance to try these setting out yet.
But to answer your other questions, I'm running a QuadCore i7 2.5Ghz with 8 GB of ram.
I think premiere does have better methods of dealing with Ram and calculations and the ability to play things as you work then FCP7. (I.E. having to render everytime you change something in FCP so that it will even play). However... on this machine, I've exported 10 minute edit sequences that have numerous plugins such as colorista in about 20 seconds with FCP7 . Similar sequences in Premiere consistantly take 2 hours (with Colorista and other such plugins).
Now, in FCP7 that's exporting an edit that is the same as the sequence setting. If I chose something else, there is obviously an encoding step that takes a few minutes. Usually at or around the actual length of the video. (9 minutes for a 10 minute edit). But as I said, my issue is that FCP can export a full edit without re-rendering all of the "effects", premiere seems that it can't.
Of course, if I don't have any effects in premiere or use very 'light' effects, it processes so fast that a 10 minute edit exports in 5 to 8 mintues... but that's not what I'm looking to solve.
I almost always try to export a current "Master" of any edit so that if I need to encode multiple formats later, I can just drop that single clip into Sorenson or MediaEncoder to batch multiple formats. And considering the constant re-render of complex video effects in premiere, it's an absolute necessity it seems.
I'm with you on this Cincy Dave, these long exports are just crazy. Don't get me wrong I really love Premiere and like all of the extra stuff it gives me over FCP7, but having to render every export is insanely slow.
Someone from Adobe stated on another thread somewhere that the realtime benefits you get in the timeline from hardly any rendering, save so much time in the edit process that the time gained negates the lost time at export. However when you export over and over again for client review, rendering every little thing time and time again is just a waste. More to the point if I can't roughly predict how long an export will take I'm reluctant to even begin the edit in Premiere in the first place, particularly if I have a client sat in the room with me.
I've also learnt to my cost that dynamic linking between Premiere and After Effects is not necessarily a good thing as for the same reason as above when you export it just adds that much more time. Plus I discovered it is far faster to render that clip in After Effects and then bring it in to Premiere.
My last edit was done in FCPX, something I never thought I would have done but a year on from the launch and it is finally doing the things it should have at the start. It still has its problems but rendering and export is not one of them.
Please get this sorted Adobe as I really want to confidently use your software.
Glad to hear I'm not nuts. I think the thing that was throwing me off (when looking for an answer) was that most premiere users have adapted to leaning more heavily on the real-time effects. And of course, Adobe is highlighting the speed of Cuda... which does little for me on a Macbook pro... not until they come out with a laptop quadro version anyway.
Unfortuanetly, I'm in the boat of needing to regularly do tweaks and export new edits. And nothing is more agravating then going from a FCP workflow where doing a tweak and exporting a new edit can take as little as 3 minutes. But doing it in Premiere will now take 90 minutes each time.
I agree, there are great features in premiere, but I know that I'll always be in a position where I'll get a last minute call to fix a title and quickly get a new edit out... this just won't cut it.
RE: Longer render times -
About the time of the recent Adobe updates I upgraded to RAID 0 and some things are faster... I just completed editing a 3 minute video with very limited titles and effects. Normally a render would take an hour or two for my usual jobs. But today Media Encoder has been at it for 4 hours and says it will take another 16 hours to complete... for a 3 minute video????
Premiere now likes to crash during simple renders and the "updated" Encore has a new problem where it can't record to DVD without ending a "hardware" error so I have to go to ISO first and the DVDs are fine. I found THAT out after wasting more than a day chasing down hardware bios updates and trying in vain to complete the DVD in Encore.
After the month long fiasco during which Adobe "support" accomplished absoutely nothing (I finally found the answer in this forum) I'm not in any mood to subject myself to Adobe's Malaysian Torture experience.
What the $&*@# is going on?
(Win 7/64, Phenom II, rendering to H.264/MP4, YouTube 29.97, 1080)
Very wierd for a 3 minute video, something is obviously up. I export 30 minute timelines in 20-35 minutes (depending on whats inside the timeline). Even though AMD CPU's don't really hold up to well vs Intel CPU's it still shouldn't be taking that long. Clearly something strange is occuring.
It will handle anything x 720 but nothing 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080. Anything above that and about 40 seconds into the render there is some kind fo blip screen flash and it freezes. The roblem does not appear in CS5.5 or CS5.
UPDATE: Searched for updates and found a new update that appears to have solved this particular problem.
So I found another post of someone trying to dig into this. It's older, but it laid out the issue very nicely. I'm really hoping that Adobe is planning on addressing this, because it's a hole big enough for a Semi-truck to drive through.
The other blog was doing something similar to my situation which was using MagicBullet plugins. These seem to be the cause, but none the less, it's how Adobe uses pre-renders... doesn't that is the real problem. The chart of render vs export times tells the story.
(this is from, http://uniquedesigners.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/premiere-pro-cs6-rende r-export-times/)
This is for a 3 minutes sequence. As you can see, once you edit on a non-Premiere package, exports fly. And if you re-edit a small clip (changing a title for example). The re-render is only for that tiny section, and an export will take less then a minute. For Premiere you have to render... every.... single... time. Please Adobe, please fix this.
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I'll be honest; there isn't a lot of buzz going around about the new Fable installment; Fable: The Journey.
All we really know so far is that it will be on the Kinect, use Unreal Engine 3 and have fire-breathing dragons.
So far so good, right?
During E3's 2011 Microsoft Conference, Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, said "The world of Albion has always been a beautiful place, and Lionhead embellishing it using the bells and whistles of Unreal Engine 3 makes it even more magical."
With the little information we have, it still seems like we have an awesome magical journey ahead of us!
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for those of you who follow the church year, Lent begins with Ash Wednesday. what are you plans? will you be participating in some kind of denial (giving up chocolate, sweets, smoking, drinking, swearing, etc.) ? or will you find a way to add something to your life that may be lacking? I haven't yet decided what to do. I prefer adding something, rather than denying myself. I've added bible study, or learning new music for my church job, in the past. I'd like to add something edifying this year, I'm just not sure what to add.
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Hi Keltic: I attend a United Methodist church, and myself and my daughter both plan on observing (my partner attends the services but is not yet sure about the observing). Our daughter is eight, and beginning to really develop her understanding and awareness of God and Jesus Christ, and she is deeply affected by the Passion ( that started without any prompting from us, but I believe it is the intense drama of Christ hanging on the cross that seems to compel her). Anyway, I would like to give up something as well as add something. I will probably do away with late night snacking, which will be a rather big sacrifice, and add reading the Bible daily, and/or attending the weekday/evening services that my church and churches in the area conduct during Lent. My daughter is thinking of giving up chocolate or a favorite tv show. The meaning in observing it for me the last couple of years is different than in years past. I always earlier in life did it out of expected compliance, or because it seemed expected of me. Now, I really want to fully embrace the whole recognition of it as much as I can. I saw "The Passion of the Christ" 2 years ago, after not being sure that I wanted to, and it changed me in many ways. The visual aspects of it brought Christ's death and resurrection into a whole new dimension for me. Anyone else? PS Sorry to be so wordy!!! PEace, Vanessa
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For Lent, my church will be celebrating the Christian Passover to begin the season known as a Sedar meal. It is a beautiful ceremony in mid-March or April that has symbolic foods of being in the wilderness & then hymns/music in the main sanctuary afterwards followed by the lights gradually turned off & ceremonial candles slowly blown out one at a time as the congregation leaves the service. It is quite a mystical and humbling experience & makes the Easter service more powerful with the symbol of light returning to the world. Its truly beautiful.
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"First, they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."-- Mahatma Gandhi Peace & Blessings, Sol Invictus |
I can't bring myself to watch "The Passion"... but that's a different discussion.
I didn't grow up with lent being observed... it was a big "corporate" non-denominational church... so I haven't thought much about the giving up/adding things. I will go to the lent service this wed. Things I could give up: Alcohol Dessert Fast Food Sugar--actually not a good idea since my blood sugar can get messed up Things I could add: daily meditation ... Is the purpose to symbolize the 40 days in the desert? |
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here is a link for the Catholic interpretation & symbolism of Lent (hope this answers your question): http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09152a.htm
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I actually really enjoy Lent. I have been observing it since 1999. It is not something that those in my Pentecostal / Charismatic heritage tend to observe. As a matter of fact it is mocked as being something ritualistic or being empty religion. My grandparents thought I was crazy when I told them I was observing it. Then I told them it was 40 days of prayer and fasting they thought it might not be such a bad thing.
In the past I have had numerous Lenten devotions. One year I gave up church! Since church is one of my favorite things that was quite difficult. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition Lent or the "Great Fast" is taken to the extreme. No meat of any kind except shell fish, no dairy products, no oil as in olive oil to dip ones bread in or margarine, no alcohol, no sex. On Sundays its ok to drink wine and have oil since one should not fast on Sunday. A similar fast is observed during the fast of the Apostles in late summer it lasts about 10 days, also during advent, and EVERY Wednesday and Friday except during the Easter season. Part of the understanding of such a strict fast is that no one ever fully keeps it. It exposes even more of our weakness. I converted to Orthodoxy in 2000, but no longer consider myself Orthodox. I actually enjoyed this tradition as well and I'm sure from time to time I will keep it again. I normally like to both give up something and take something on. This year I'm taking on praying the stations of the cross every Friday. It's a great tool. I have not figured out what I will give up yet, but it will come to me. I would give up sex, but you must be having it to stop having it. lol As far as Passover is concerned my family has been celebrating it since I was 13. My church went through a Messianic Jewish phase about that time and the traditions stuck in my family. My Grandparents will be visiting from Oklahoma this year to help me lead the Passover Seder at my Church. I can't wait! BTW: Hope you all have a decadent Mardi Gras! It is the first of the three gay high holy days you know!
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Ashes and Lent
On Ash Wednesday I will receive the ashes on my forehead per ancient tradition, "T.J. remember that dust you are and to dust you shall return."
I don't have plans to give anything up. My prayer/meditation life has been circling around the whole idea of 'consecration' lately. The notion was ignited when I heard John Shelby Spong say in an interview that he feels the resurrection, rather than being physical, is eucharistic. I thought about how we meet the risen Christ at the communion table. Lately I have been thinking a lot about what was once heresy to me as an Irish Presbyterian for so long, the Mass and transubstantiation. I have been wondering if we as Christ's disciples become the 'body of Christ' when/as we are willing to be consecrated, like the elements of bread & wine, set apart to be broken and given up for the spiritual nourishment of the church. The cost of discipleship for the earliest christians was often death, which explains (for me at least) how the Mass became central. It is still a mystery however you might explain it theologically. And it is the cost of discipleship still, I think... But how so for me? for you? for same-gender loving people? How could we lay our life down for the church to renew the body of Christ and liberate the churches from homophobia?
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Our discipleship is somewhat the same as those long ago
I think that, in a way, the current discipleship for LGBTQ people who are members of a church, pay with our lives in many ways, both figuratively and literally. So many youths, and probably adults as well, actively take their own lives, or treat themselves with such self-hatred that it eventually kills them. Part of that, I believe, is due to the desire to be a disciple of Christ, aspire to his words and teachings, and having others within our congregations that we are sinful, we have no worth, we don't belong there. I feel very fortunate that those statements have never been made to me directly, but I feel pain for those that have heard them. I also feel like a disciple of sorts for the gay community, and I don't mean to misuse the word disciple here. But I know that I would advocate very strongly on my own behalf, on behalf of my family, and on behalf of gay youths and gay persons at large, to be treated fairly, equally and with respect and love. I know that holds its own risks in certain segments of society, at least risk of rejection if not risk of safety or life. Even as a disciple, I feel fear and doubt at times, but know in my heart what my worth is and how I am sure that I am valued by God.
One of my favorite Lenten practices from my time in Eastern Orthodoxy was the prayer of St Ephraim and prostration. It is a great daily mediation to take on during lent.
The Great Lenten Prayer of St Ephraim: O Lord and Master of my life, drive away from me the spirit of despondency, negligence, avarice and idle talk. prostration. But grant me, Thy servant, the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love. prostration. Yea, O Lord and king, grant me to see mine own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou unto the ages. Amen. prostration (The Jesus prayer 12 times, 12 bows) Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me. (And the entire prayer O Lord and Master... is repeated, with one prostration.) (In Orthodoxy to make a prostration we kneel, place our hands on the floor and touch our foreheads down between our hands.)
Deus nobis cerevisiam dedit quia nos felices esse vult -Benjamin Franklin |
Thank you, schoolboi, a beautiful prayer.
"First, they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."-- Mahatma Gandhi Peace & Blessings, Sol Invictus |
I also really like the prayer, schoolboi, and this may be just the prayer I would like to add during my observance of Lent. Thanks!
So many 'bad' things to give up, so little time. I'm completely addicted to Pepsi...and was thinking about that...and then there is the whole shopping addiction
Ok, in all seriousness, I'm not "giving up" anything this year. Actually, I'm taking a journey into finding out more about what I believe/don't believe - which is one of the reasons why I'm here (literally). Actually - I just found this website today and this is my first post (yeah)!! It's kind of funny (or not), because I was browsing through the site and pulled down the Anti-GLBT Watch menu -- and there is my 'denomination' (AG). Please don't hold that against me!! |
Glad you are here! I share your Pepsi addiction. I grew up in the AG. Its interesting that you are questioning the things you believe. I started a process of questioning what I had always believed when I was 14 years old. Having grew up AG I knew nothing but AG doctrine. I believed the 16 Fundamental Truths was the perfect description of correct belief. By the time I was 16 years old I hardly only a few of the points in AG doctrinal statement. My theology has continued to change and I know I am better for it. I would love to talk to you sometime about what you are currently questioning. Feel free to send me a private message if you want to talk. CoreyH
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Remember the epic comedy-drama and Academy Award winning movie Forrest Gump? There was that scene when Tom Hanks started running, all of a sudden, across the U.S from ocean to ocean, wasn't it brilliant? Kuwaiti biker Tallal Al Attar has shared with us a similar thrilling adventure where he hit the road on a solo adventure (road-trip) across the U.S, he rode for over 7,000 KM, and to top it off, he handed us punch of cool shots that he took along his exciting adventure.
What he did is that he shipped his bike from Kuwait to the U.S back in June 2012, he kick-started in Chicago and rode all the way to San Francisco-California passing by several states and many cities inlcuding Milwaukee, Minneapolis, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada.
The road trip extended for 20 days, I just loved how he stopped by many popular places and landmarks like Yellowstone National Park, Mall of America, The Avenue of Giants, Badlands National Park among others. Excitedness-aside, I can only imagine the challenges he must have faced during his long road trip, but guess what? I bet it worth every Kilo Meter.
I've to admit that I'm envious, seeing those breathtaking pictures makes me want to get my bike today and start planning my own solo trip. Well done Tallal for this great achievement, we are really proud of you.
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Pacific Energy Development Corp., a privately held oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition and development of energy projects in the U.S. and Pacific Rim countries, and Blast Energy Services Inc., a U.S. publicly-traded operating oil and gas company engaged in the exploration and production of petroleum resources in the U.S. and the development and commercialization of a patented applied fluid jetting down-hole stimulation technology, today announced that they have signed a definitive Agreement and Plan of Reorganization.
Under the Merger Agreement, PEDCO will merge into a wholly owned subsidiary of Blast and PEDCO will remain as the surviving company and wholly owned subsidiary of Blast, which will change its name to "PEDEVCO Corp." In connection with the Merger, Blast will be required to convert all of its existing preferred stock into common stock and consummate a reverse stock split resulting in no more than 2,400,000 shares of its common stock remaining issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis prior to the Merger effective date, subject to downward adjustment in the event Blast does not reimburse PEDCO for certain of Blast's transaction-related fees and expenses currently being funded by PEDCO. As a result of the Merger, PEDCO stockholders will receive one (1) share of Blast's Common Stock or Series A Preferred Stock for each share of PEDCO's Common Stock or Series A Preferred Stock, respectively, and the stockholders of PEDCO are anticipated to receive up to approximately 95% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Blast. The Merger is expected to close as soon as possible, but no later than June 1, 2012, subject to the satisfaction of a number of conditions precedent and milestones, including the conversion of various outstanding debts of Blast into equity of Blast, and the approval of the Merger by the Blast and PEDCO boards of directors and stockholders, respectively.
PEDCO's CEO and President, Frank C. Ingriselli, commented, "We are excited about the planned merger with Blast which represents a significant step in Pacific Energy Development's accelerated growth plan for 2012. At the operational level, we believe the merger will create strong synergy with a valuable player in the domestic oil and gas industry with extensive technical experience that will complement our team as Pacific Energy Development commences its drilling program on our newly acquired Niobrara shale oil asset in the second quarter of 2012. In addition, at the corporate strategy and stockholder value levels, we anticipate that PEDCO's merger into Blast as a publicly-traded operating company will not only enhance our ongoing and future acquisition efforts in the U.S. and abroad through opening access to the public capital markets, but will also broaden our stockholder base and enhance stockholder value."
Blast's Chairman, CEO & President, Roger P. (Pat) Herbert, stated, "The merger with Pacific Energy Development presents a unique growth and value opportunity for Blast and its stockholders to work with a team that has a wealth of global experience and a proven track record in the industry. Pacific Energy Development's oil and gas assets and established partnerships in the U.S. and overseas will provide Blast an immediate gateway into the highly-prospective Niobrara and other major U.S. shale plays, as well as future access to the international energy market, including China, where we believe early stage shale developments represent a significant market opportunity for Blast."
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I've had lots of non-science friends ask me clarifying questions about what they have been hearing and seeing through the media - too bad for them I wasn't an earth science teacher! I thought I would start a list of those blog posts that have been helpful for me in trying to understand the what, why, and repercussions. Please share additional information and resources that have been helpful to you and your students.
Japan Struggles to Control Quake-Damaged Nuke Plant - from Wired Science
Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Explained - video from CNN
Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis - from NASA
Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments: Animations from IRIS - includes video
The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami - from NSTA - includes lessons and activities
Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan - from New York Times Learning Network
20 Ways to Teach About the Disaster Across the Curriculum - from New York Times Learning Network
You can also do a search in the Middle School Portal 2 Digital Library - you'll get back resources that right on track for middle school science students.
Tags: content, earth, earthquakes, knowledge, lessons, science, tsunamis
Thanks Mary and Kim. I am sure these resources have been most helpful to teachers seeking to make learning relevant to their students.
My one earth science student has been on the unit about earthquakes, plate tectonics, etc. He has certainly gotten a "real" education while watching the events in Japan.
Here's another resource - teachers sharing ideas on how they have integrated learning about the disaster into their English, Science and Health classes among others.
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Owaisi, who has been booked at three police stations, arrived from London this morning at the airport where a large number of his supporters had gathered.
His counsel immediately filed an application at Nirmal police in Adilabad district seeking four days' time to appear before the police citing health grounds.
A few hours later, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA, who is also his party's floor leader in the Andhra Pradesh state assembly, moved a petition through his counsel in the High Court contending that he has been implicated in these cases due to political reasons.
In his petition, Owaisi's counsel claimed that, "He is an MLA and he is available to the investigation at any time and that there is no need to arrest him.
"Despite the police registering suo-motu cases at Nirmal and Nizamabad police stations, more complaints were being lodged at different places and he sought quashing of all the FIRs registered in Andhra Pradesh," he counsel said in his petition.
The High Court posted the matter to January 9.
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu accused the Congress of going soft on Owaisi's MIM as both are still alliance partners in Hyderabad and hit out against the Andhra Pradesh government for allegedly failing to take prompt action over his alleged "hate speech".
"Why this delay in taking action? Why this lenient attitude when there is universal condemnation of his highly objectionable comments? It is the Congress which helped MIM grow? They still share power in Hyderabad corporation. Is this the reason why they are soft," he told reporters here.
MIM had recently withdrawn support to the Congress both at the Centre and state, but both the parties continue to share power in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Earlier, one of Owaisi's counsel appeared before the investigation officer of Nirmal (Rural) Police and submitted the application seeking four days' time for his appearance. The police which issued an acknowledgement, however, has yet to take a decision on Owaisi's request.
A senior police officer told PTI from Adilabad that Owaisi did not turn up before them, though one of his counsel represented the MIM leader. "We are discussing his request," the police officer said.
When asked about Owaisi's "failure" to appear before the police despite being served a notice, the police officer said that "It is the prerogative of the investigating officer (IO) of the Nirmal police, on how the course of investigation will proceed".
The police, who anticipated trouble in view of Owaisi's appearance in Nirmal town, had clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC, even as scores of BJP workers demanding his immediate arrest held demonstrations and tried to lay seige to the police station, while Owaisi's counsel reached there.
The police resorted to mild caning to disperse protesting BJP workers, even as shops and business establishments remained closed in Nirmal town.
Similar protests were held by the BJP and its front organisations in Adilabad, Hyderabad and Nizamabad, as well as other districts demanding his arrest.
The police also took into custody 15 protesters for violating prohibitory orders. Meanwhile, Akbaruddin Owaisi's brother and MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said they are not going to run away from the situation.
Earlier, Akbaruddin Owaisi was accorded a grand reception by his party workers and hundreds of supporters after his arrival at the Shamshabad airport here, early morning. A medical team from Owaisi Hospital also went to his house in Banjara Hills and examined him.
Akbaruddin Owaisi, who represents the Chandrayangutta assembly constituency, has been booked under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, language etc and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs).
He has also been booked under IPC Section 121 (waging or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against the Government of India).
Our leaders don't give hate speech, claim Shiv Sena, MNS
Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray-led MNS today claimed their leaders had never given hate speech and they only highlighted key issues of the day.
"Shiv Sena never indulged in hate and inflammatory speeches. It is a patriotic party," Sena MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut said.
Maintaining that it was Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM)MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi who had delivered inflammatory speeches,Raut rued that no action had been taken against the Andhra Pradesh legislator or his party till now.
"Shiv Sena always spoke and attacked the enemies of this country," said Raut, whose party has been in the past accused of indulging in minority-bashing.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Bala Nandgaonkar said, "We spoke on the real issues confronting the state."
Without naming any person or community, he asked "Who is responsible for the present situation in the country. From where does the criminals and terrorists come?"
"We never gave hate speeches," he claimed.
Two days ago, MNS chief Raj Thackeray courted a fresh controversy by stating that "Bihari" migrants were responsible for the gangrape of the 23-year-old para-medical student in Delhi last month.
Last week, the Supreme Court sought a reply from the Election Commission on a plea seeking derecognition of Shiv Sena and MNS Sena as political parties for the alleged hate speeches delivered by their top leaders recently.
This bummer Owaisi in his speech declared that mumbai terrorist attack was a reaction to Babri mosque demolition. Well Mr hater owaisi, if we use your own logic, then should hindus in India take revenge for every hindu head chopped by barbaric muslim invader rulers? If that starts happening, then where will you be? If hate mongering is your way to power, then you are sadly mistaken. Just look at Pak. Their hate is now burning their very soverignity and their very existance as a country. Pak thrived on hatred and communal card. Now, they are branded terrorist country and their existance itself in danger. So Owaisi dear, STFU and stop your communal, hatred crap. Go hide in some terrorist's tail if that helps you. Stop your hatred.
india is now the house of all dirty politicians..they only know their parties ....India is not going to be changed until we bring change in politics..and this time we must give a chance to a new party called AAM ADMI
Another shameful incident under this spineless government. They don't even have the courage to confront and arrest a person so randomly spreading hatred and negativism. He should have been treated like a hardcore criminal but really what can you expect from the govt. who took years to eliminate a proven terrorist like Kasab. Absolutely weak, disgusting and shameful.
It's obvious that BJP would condemn it.But where are the other so-called secular parties?When will they gain courage to criticize such comments?When will they be able to overcome the fear of loosing muslim votes?
Communalism and hate speeches are always a big hit in the Indian politics. They are short-cut to reach to the corridors of POWER in a shortest possible time. Looking at the BJP in particular, which was having 2 seats in the Parliament at one time, and due to it's communal and hate politics, the party has won number of parliamentary seats and ultimately formed the Government at center many times. No doubt, owaisi's speech was extremely objectionable and should be condemned and he should be punished at all levels. But BJP has no moral right to object to this kind of cheap and communal politics. Mr. Naidu, please keep away from critizing Owaisi, coz you both are two sides of a same coin.


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A couple from the Front Range are counting their blessings after suffering only minor injuries after hitting a deer with their motorcycle Monday night. State troopers say 50-year old Steven Pierick of Berthoud and 46-year old Shelly McCloud of Longmont were riding on Highway 40, between Hayden and Craig, when the accident happened. The deer was killed and the motorcycle was extensively damaged. Neither was wearing a helmet.
A 4th of July crash has landed a Rock Springs woman in a Salt Lake City hospital. Deputies say 31-year old Courtney Williams was likely drunk when she rolled her pick-up near the railroad tracks in Reliance just before midnight Monday. When authorities arrived they found Williams pinned inside the vehicle. After she was freed, she was airlifted to University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. She was last listed in stable condition. The investigation into the crash is ongoing.
The Moffat County Commissioners have made clear their preferred route for a couple of planned power transmission lines. The lines are being installed by Transwest Express and Gateway South. Both start in southern Wyoming. One ends in Utah, while the other stretches to Las Vegas. The consensus comes after a meeting in June between the affected County Commissioners in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The preferred route will take the transmission lines along Seven Mile Ridge in Moffat County, and Old Dad Road in Carbon County. A resolution was passed yesterday to note the commissioners' preference.
The Steamboat City Council is changing its tolerance levels for noise within city limits. The ordinance raises the alowable noise level for commercial operations from 55 to 60 decibals at night, and reduces the number of hours considered "night hours". It also says during the day noise levels are limited to 55 decibals in residential areas, and 65 decibals in commercial areas. Some, such as bar owners who use live entertainment, say the night time restrictions are too strict, while others feel it doesn't go far enough. Last night's vote was a first reading; a final vote is expected at the council's July 19th meeting.
EHV-1 Update: All Hold & Quarantine Orders Released Additional Equine Import Requirements Expire July 9th
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – The Colorado Department of Agriculture's State Veterinarian's office has released all hold and quarantine orders associated with the recent spread of Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1) in the state; the disease is considered contained within Colorado and there have been no new confirmed cases since May 20, 2011.
Horses traveling into the state on and after July 9th, 2011, will no longer need an import permit. Import requirements for horses entering Colorado will revert to those used before the recent spread of EHV-1. Those requirements are a health certificate issued within 30 days of their arrival and a negative Coggins test within the last 12 months.
Colorado had nine confirmed cases of horses with EHV-1; two horses, which tested positive for EHV-1, were euthanized after showing severe neurological signs associated with the disease.
"This outbreak serves as a good reminder that proper disease prevention efforts are important anytime you travel with livestock. I encourage all livestock owners to implement health and disease control processes on their own farms and ranches," said State Veterinarian Dr. Keith Roehr.
Tips for Livestock Owners
- If traveling, practice appropriate biosecurity measures. Biosecurity tips may be found at www.colorado.gov/ag.
- Isolate any new animals and those returning to the home premises for three weeks when possible.
- Use separate water, feed supplies and equipment.
Additional resources can be found at www.colorado.gov/ag.