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Ronald Cotton
A decade behind bars for a rape he didn't commit
In the winter of 1984, a jury convicted Ronald Cotton, a 22-year-old African American, of raping Jennifer Thompson, a 22-year-old white college student, the previous summer in Burlington, North Carolina. The conviction was overturned on appeal in 1987, but Cotton was retried and convicted not only of raping Thompson but also of raping a second young white woman, Elizabeth Watson—a crime with which he had not originally been charged.
In July 1984, at approximately 2:30 A.M., the rapist broke into Thompson's apartment through a rear door. Thompson had been asleep, but the noise awakened her. The man came into her bedroom, held a knife to her throat, and forced her to submit to sexual intercourse. Eventually Thompson managed to escape, fleeing to a neighbor's home and the police were called.
The assailant left Thompson's apartment and went to Watson's apartment. He approached the rear door, disconnected the porch light, pried open the door, located the phone, and severed its wires. Inside he grabbed Watson, held a knife to her throat, and forced her to submit to sexual intercourse.
Thompson remembered her assailant's face and she worked with police to create a composite sketch of the rapist. Watson did not remember a face but she said her assailant was African American, probably in his twenties, and he carried a flashlight along with the knife.
In Thompson's apartment, police found a small piece of foam rubber that they suspected came from the insole of an athletic shoe and that did not match any of Thompson's shoes. At Watson's apartment, police found a spot of blood on the rear door. Detectives put together a spread of mug shots of men who resembled the man depicted in the composite sketch. Police had Cotton's mug shot from a juvenile conviction years earlier. From the spread, Thompson identified Ronald Cotton as the rapist. Watson looked at the same photos but identified no one.
Detectives went to arrest Cotton, but he was not home. In a search of the premises, they found a pair of athletic shoes that contained foam rubber later described as "consistent" with the piece found in Thompson's apartment.
When Cotton learned that the police were looking for him, he voluntarily turned himself in. He admitted the shoes were his but denied raping anyone. He said he had been with friends at the time of the crimes. A blood sample, which he voluntarily provided, did not match the blood from Watson's door.
When detectives checked Cotton's alibi, they found it to be false—his friends said he had been with them on a different night. Cotton said he had simply made a mistake, but the police did not believe that. He was arrested and put into a lineup, from which Thompson identified him. Watson viewed the same lineup and identified one of the fillers as the man who raped her. Cotton, thus, was charged with raping Thompson but not Watson.
At Cotton's jury trial in the Alamance County Superior Court, Thompson identified Cotton in open court as the man who raped her. Defense attorney Philip Moseley attempted to introduce evidence of a second rape—in which Watson had identified another man as the rapist and in which Cotton had been excluded as the source of blood found on the door through which her assailant entered. Judge Anthony H. Brannon, however, would not allow the jury to hear that evidence. The only physical evidence in the case was the small piece of rubber found in Thompson's apartment and the battered tennis shoes found in Cotton's apartment.
The jury found Cotton guilty, and Judge Brannon sentenced him to life in prison, but in 1987 the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction and remanded the case for retrial on the ground that Brannon should have admitted the exculpatory evidence regarding the second rape.
While Cotton was awaiting retrial, Watson somehow concluded that Cotton was the man who raped her, even though in 1984 she had erroneously identified a lineup filler as her rapist. The prosecution then belatedly charged Cotton with raping Watson in addition to raping Thompson.
Before Cotton's trial for the two rapes, a prisoner came forward contending that an imprisoned serial rapist named Bobby Poole, an African American in his twenties, had boasted that he had committed the rapes with which Cotton was now charged. Poole's blood type matched the blood spot found in Watson's case, but Poole was called as a witness and denied both rapes. In a dramatic moment, Thompson told the jury, "Bobby Poole didn't rape me. Ronald Cotton did."
The jury found Cotton guilty of both rapes, and Judge Marsh McLelland sentenced him to two life terms plus 54 years. The conviction was affirmed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 1990 and by the North Carolina Supreme Court the following year.
Richard Rosen, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, agreed to represent Cotton and filed a motion for DNA testing. Luckily, Burlington Police Detective Gauldin had preserved the biological material in the case, although there was no legal requirement for it to be maintained. Semen had been recovered from both victims. The sample from Thompson was too degraded to test, but testing of the sample recovered from Watson positively excluded Cotton as Watson's rapist and identified Poole as the perpetrator of that crime. Then, under questionind by Gauldin, Poole confessed to both rapes. In May 1995, the prosecution joined Rosen in a motion to drop all charges, and Judge McLelland granted the motion. Cotton received a gubernatorial pardon based on innocence the following month.
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To amend section 3313.666 of the Revised Code to
require that school anti-bullying policies
prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying
that is based on any actual or perceived trait or
characteristic of a student.
Section 1. That section 3313.666 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3313.666. (A) As used in this section, "harassment:
(1) "Harassment, intimidation, or bullying" means either of
the following:
(1)(a) Any intentional written, verbal, or physical act that
a student has exhibited toward another particular student more
than once that is based on any actual or perceived trait or
characteristic of a student, and the behavior both:
(a)(i) Causes mental or physical harm to the other student;
(b)(ii) Is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that
it creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational
environment for the other student.
(2)(b) Violence within a dating relationship.
(2) "Trait or characteristic of a student" includes but is
not limited to age, color, creed, national origin, race, religion,
marital status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity,
physical attributes, physical or mental ability or disability,
ancestry, political party preference, political belief,
socioeconomic status, or familial status.
(B) The board of education of each city, local, exempted
village, and joint vocational school district shall establish a
policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying. The
policy shall be developed in consultation with parents, school
employees, school volunteers, students, and community members. The
policy shall include the following:
(1) A statement prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or
bullying of any student on school property or at school-sponsored
(2) A definition of harassment, intimidation, or bullying
that shall include the definition in division (A) of this section;
(3) A procedure for reporting prohibited incidents;
(4) A requirement that school personnel report prohibited
incidents of which they are aware to the school principal or other
administrator designated by the principal;
(5) A requirement that parents or guardians of any student
involved in a prohibited incident be notified and, to the extent
permitted by section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20
U.S.C. 1232q 1232g, as amended, have access to any written reports
pertaining to the prohibited incident;
(6) A procedure for documenting any prohibited incident that
is reported;
(7) A procedure for responding to and investigating any
reported incident;
(8) A strategy for protecting a victim from additional
harassment, intimidation, or bullying, and from retaliation
following a report;
(9) A disciplinary procedure for any student guilty of
harassment, intimidation, or bullying, which shall not infringe on
any student's rights under the first amendment to the Constitution
of the United States;
(10) A requirement that the district administration
semiannually provide the president of the district board a written
summary of all reported incidents and post the summary on its web
site, if the district has a web site, to the extent permitted by
section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q
1232g, as amended.
(C) Each board's policy shall appear in any student
handbooks, and in any of the publications that set forth the
comprehensive rules, procedures, and standards of conduct for
schools and students in the district. Information regarding the
policy shall be incorporated into employee training materials.
(D) A school district employee, student, or volunteer shall
be individually immune from liability in a civil action for
damages arising from reporting an incident in accordance with a
policy adopted pursuant to this section if that person reports an
incident of harassment, intimidation, or bullying promptly in good
faith and in compliance with the procedures as specified in the
(E) Except as provided in division (D) of this section,
nothing in this section prohibits a victim from seeking redress
under any other provision of the Revised Code or common law that
may apply.
(F) This section does not create a new cause of action or a
substantive legal right for any person.
(G) Not later than six months after the effective date of
this amendment September 29, 2010, each board shall update the
policy adopted under this section to include violence within a
dating relationship.
Section 2. That existing section 3313.666 of the Revised
Code is hereby repealed.

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Sweet Sundays: Shirley Braden ~ Since I eat gluten free, I love making and enjoying recipes that are naturally gluten free. That's the backbone of my gluten free easily—gfe—approach. When eating dairy free, I like to do the same. So I cook and bake dairy free easily … dfe, if you will.
When I was growing up, pound cake was a family favorite. Bake a good pound cake and you were loved by all! Seriously. There was no gift I could give my grandmother (my dad's mom) that she would have preferred over my pound cake. Grandma loved pound cake, and she said mine were the best.
You see … before going gluten free, I made all kinds of pound cakes. There were classic pound cakes, orange pound cakes, lemon pound cakes, cream cheese pound cakes, chocolate pound cakes, and marble pound cakes … to name a few. Some were baked in tube pans. Some were prettiest if cooked in Bundt pans. Some were 8-inches square. Others were baked in loaf pans. Some were served plain. Some required a dusting of powdered sugar. Some needed a thin drizzle of icing. But, one thing they all had in common was how good they were. Everyone in my family and circle of friends had their own personal favorite of my pound cakes …
I had been gluten free for well over 6 years and had not found a really good gluten-free pound cake before I adapted this recipe from the Filippo Berio site (which, incidentally, was also the source of my gluten-free, dairy-free Mediterranean Chocolate Cake). Coming from a 150-year old olive oil company, olive oil was an obvious choice for the shortening. The other step to making this cake dairy free was equally obvious to me and actually ensured the success of this pound cake—using full-fat coconut milk instead of dairy milk.
The first time I made this pound cake was for my dad's birthday a few years ago. Good thing the recipe made two loaves …
My son was home for the weekend and ended up eating almost one entire loaf by himself, and then even more later. He told me I should sell this cake in individual slices for $4 or $5 … "Mom, I'm serious. You could make a fortune." Before he headed home, he asked me to slice the remaining part of the loaf into individual pieces as a "to-go package" for easy eating while on the road. Then, he offered to deliver the remaining pound cake loaf to Dad when he stopped by to say hello on his way out of town. Do I need to tell you what happened? He ate all of his to-go package before he arrived and then ate some more of Dad's pound cake when it was offered. In case you need any more endorsement than that, please know that this cake is very easy to make and both delightfully moist and dense. In a word—perfect!
Perfect Pound Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Combine flour, xanthan gum, sea salt, and baking powder in an extra large measuring cup or separate bowl. Set aside.
Pour olive oil into large bowl, and slowly mix in sugar, orange juice, and vanilla extract.
Add eggs one at a time, stirring after each addition.
Add milk. Mix 2 minutes. Gradually add dry ingredients into wet ingredients, mixing well.
Pour batter into two greased loaf pans.
Bake for 50 – 55 minutes. (Test for doneness using toothpick method.)
*I can't tolerate many of the healthier, gluten-free flours; e.g., sorghum, buckwheat. Therefore, my gluten-free flour mix is 3 parts Asian white rice flour and 2 parts cornstarch. I gently mix three one-lb bags of the Asian white rice flour and two one-lb boxes of cornstarch in a very large bowl and then store the mix in several airtight containers (like large glass jars). No refrigeration is needed. But feel free to use whichever flour mix you use most often for baking. If you're not gluten free, you may use all-purpose flour and omit the xanthan gum.
Shirley's Notes: I imagine that coconut oil would work fine in this recipe. Pans can be greased with whichever oil you use or sprayed with a non-stick spray. Two loaf pans are what the original recipe calls for and what I used. Don't worry too much over the size of the pans, although you may have to adjust cooking times. The original recipe called for 6 3/4" x 3 1/2" x 2" loaf pans. I used 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 5/8" pans. I don't taste either the coconut milk or orange juice in this recipe; perhaps they balance each other, but all I taste is "good." I just love the crunchy edges of this pound cake recipe. The end pieces are my absolute favorite. Finally, per one reader's feedback, if baking at a higher altitude, you may need to adjust oven temperature to 375 degrees.
If you are a not a fan of pound cake as a dessert by itself, feel free to top a slice with some fresh fruit (e.g., strawberries for a strawberry shortcake-type dish). Or drizzle with your favorite chocolate or fruit syrup. Another option would be to make an elegant pot of chocolate fondue. It's easy to cut pound cake into squares, skewer with a toothpick, and dip into thick chocolate fondue. Easy, gluten-free chocolate fondue recipes abound. Here's one from Kim Maes (Cook IT Allergy Free). (I am definitely craving fondue after looking at the photo!) I even found a chocolate fondue recipe that was free of most allergens right here at Go Dairy Free; you can check it out here.
Whichever way you decide to eat your pound cake—enjoy!
Article, photos, and recipe by Shirley Braden of Gluten Free Easily. Shirley has been gluten free since June 2003, allowing her plenty of time to perfect countless delicious recipes. Her passion is educating folks on gluten issues and showing how eating gluten free can be easy if you focus on "real" foods versus processed and specialty foods, which is why she also leads a celiac/gluten intolerance group in Virginia.
This looks like an interesting recipe, but I can't use xanthan gum. I've used agar-agar as a substitute in other baking recipes before–would it work in this too? Thanks.
this looks great! how do you think this might turn out if I substituted flax-egg for the eggs?
If I wanted to split the recipe in half to make just one loaf would I use one egg or two?
[…] adapted from GoDairyFree.com […]
I made this yesterday with all purpose flour. It is SO AMAZING. My friends and I just could not believe it was dairy free. The texture and taste mimics the real thing so perfectly! Thank you!
Hi my nephew has an egg white allergey how can I substitute the egg ingredient


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Busy Holiday Season Expected
Warrnambool October 2014
Local accommodation businesses are predicting one of the busiest seasons in years, with both of Warrnambool's beachfront camping grounds now almost fully booked over Christmas and many local motel and apartment owners also reporting good advance booking over the summer break.
Although tourist numbers in the last year or so have been down, recent international uncertainty and the drop in the Australian dollar are helping boost local tourism and for many of Melbourne's 4 million residents the south west coast is the ideal holiday location.
Warrnambool in particular is one of the most popular destinations, with the largest range of accommodation options and the best tourist facilities the city is the most preferred destinations on the coast.
The photo above shows the Warrnambool foreshore with the cities main camping ground - now empty ( Surfside One) on the upper left of the picture and the neat rows of vacant camping sites at Shipwreck Coast caravan park at the upper right of the picture. These two camping grounds will swell Warrnambool's population by over 7000 this summer.
Part of Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village is seen at the lower left of the picture and Warrnambool's best know tourist attraction, Lake Pertobe Adventure Park is in the centre part of the picture ( the strange sqaure object near the middle of the picture is the Maze )
The eastern end of Surfside One camping ground is where the unpowered camping sites are located, these site are fully grassed and have full toilet and laundry facilities.
Encore Performance From Whales
October 2014
Despite a stange start to this years whale watching season, the past three weeks have been very disappointing with the sudden disappearance of the mother and calf from Logans beach on the 3rd of August, however the mother and calf have returned in the last few days and local whale watcher are hopeful that the season is back on track.
Currently the mother and calf are back in the bay at Logans beach and with the pair being sighted for the last three days it does mean there is a fair chance they will remain in the bay for the next week or so.
This year has been a very lean whale watching season right along the coast with a number of localities experiencing a drop off in the number of sightings and for a while Warrnambool whale watchers thought they had been spared from the demise of whale sightings. Unfortunately it wasn't to be and Warrnambool along with Port Fairy, Portland, and Victor Harbour have all seen reductions in whale numbers in the last three weeks . There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason, however as the majority of whales that come in close to the coast are females with calves, combined with the fact that whales breeding seasons are subject to a great number of factors there is inevitably some variation from year to year in the number of whales seen along the coast, and this year is just one of those years where numbers are down.
Photo above- Mother and calf (not visible) sighted again today at Logan's beach and with this the third sighting in consecutive days, local whale watcher are confident they might stick around for the next week or so
Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic
11th October 2014
Following the significant changes to last years Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Course, this year will see another change, with the township of Terang being incorporated back into the route.
Despite being the world's second oldest one day bike race and the longest one day cycling event in Australia, the event has struggled to survive in the last decade, continually coming under pressure from road authorities who find it increasingly difficult to close off a major roads especially one as important as the Princes Highway ( Highway 1).
Major changes introduced in 2013 have helped considerably and the success of last years event seems to have secured the races future. The course now travels through the picturesque south-west region of Victoria taking in the spectacular views of the You Yangs, the stunning Lake Corangamite, and the towns of Bannockburn, Teesdale, Shelford, Cressy, Terang and Cobden.
The changes made in 2013 also created a more technical course, with riders being challenged by a range of head and tail winds while navigating the winding course. The changes also assisted that the TV broadcast pictures and captures the picturesque countryside . In changed route it also eased traffic congestion on one of Victoria's biggest arterial roads and allowed fans to 'leap frog' the race to catch the action all the way along before moving to Warrnambool to watch the finale in the city.
The Melbourne to Warrnambool was first run in 1895 and the first winner took 11 hours and 44 minutes to complete the course and last years winner Samuel Horgan took 6 hours 32 minutes
This years Melbourne to Warrnambool course will be run over a 260 kilometre course and expected to attract over 200 entries and will be held on 11 October 2014
Warrnambool Rail Trail
1st June
The Warrnambool to Port Fairy Rail Trail, was opened about 2 years ago and largely follows the old railway line from Warrnambool to Port Fairy. The trail is about 37 kilometres in total distance and goes from Warrnambool to Koroit (17 kms) and then on to Port Fairy (20Kms), it takes in a variety of outlooks including rugged coastline around Thunder Point, swamp and marshland through Kelly's swamp, the rural farmland around Koroit and Port Fairy, plus the track skirts past the game reserve at Tower Hill. The trail quite popular with local walkers and bike riders, however the trail is well suited for an easy two day hike with the Warrnambool to Koroit section and the Koroit to Port Fairy walk being broken into two days, giving plenty of opportunity to explore each township plus the trip back to Warrnambool is quite simply a 30 minute bus trip costing about $4 per person.
Photo above- The Warrnambool section of the Rail Trail between the Breakwater and Thunder Point
Grampian Treks
1st June 2014
The Grampians has a large network of walking and hiking trails which range from simple walking tracks of just a few kilometres in distance, through to trails extending up to 80 kilometres, in fact the Grampians is possibly the states most popular walking destination with over 50 designated walking tracks covering all levels and abilities.
The Grampians National Park and its walking tracks are maintained by Parks Victoria, and they do an excellent job of maintaining the walking tracks and the general safety of those who use them, and it is generally considered that the walking facilities in the Grampians are among the best in the state for those who enjoy walking in the bush
Photo above-one of the many walking tracks in the Grampians
Davinci Comes To Mt Gambier
28th May
The Riddoch Gallery has scored something of a coup with its latest exhibition of faithfully created models from the manuscripts (codex) and drawings of Leonardo DaVinci. These working models have been painstaking reproduced by by the acclaimed The Artisans of Florence in collaboration with The Niccolai Group. Not only are they works of art in themselve but they give a fascinating insight into one of the great geniuses of the world.
The models are fully interactive and the working machines are brought to life as Leonardo intended.
The exhibition consists of over 75 models exploring his studies in nature, anatomy, mechanics, flight and robotics.
The Exhibition demonstrates how Leonardo's work is more relevant in today's scientific world than 500 years ago when he first conceived his amazing ideas.
The exhibition will run until 22nd of June
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Warrnambool's whale season is just a few weeks and at present, there has been sightings of Southern Right whales from Portland and beginning their migration northwards and should be off our coast within the next 8 week.
Last year saw near record numbers of whales at Logan's beach and everyone is hoping that this year will be just as spectacular
Portland Joins Great Ocean Road
2nd June
Local tourism bodies are now reconsidering the status of towns ( and cities) along the coastal route from Melbourne to Adelaide and although the official "Great Ocean Road only runs between Torquay and Apollo Bay, there is a growing realisation by many local tourism bodies that just promoting one small section of the coastal road at the expense other tourist destinations is counter productive.
The inclusion of Portland into the Great Ocean Road marketing will add a number of unique tourist attractions, including the annual visit of Blue Whales to the Portland coastline between November and April each year
The added promotion will hopefully boost tourism to nearby Portland district bays, Glenelg River and coastline to the South Australian border.
It will also tap into the existing popular tourist route between Melbourne and Adelaide which already attracts visitors to the wine regions of Penola and Coonawarra, plus the coastal resorts of Robe and Beachport.
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DaVinci in Mt Gambier
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Whales On Their Way
Each year thousands of visitors come to Warrnambool to see a number of Southern Right whale mothers and calves who occupy a small bay close to the city - More....
The Grape Escape
This year, organisers of the Grampians wine and food festival are pinning their hopes on a panel of local talent to entice visitors to the Grampians Grape Escape - will it work? More.....
The Melbourne Cup of the bush
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Fun4Kids Festival
29th June - 6th July 2014
Warrnambool's favourite kids festival is back for its 16th year of fun and entertainment for kids of all ages. The organisers of this years festival have booked a fabulous entertainment line up so please visit our Fun4Kids web page for more information on the festival and great accommodation deals
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Blue Haze - 3 Bedroom Luxury Accommodation
Blue Haze is located in the small township of "Ovens" in the middle of Victoria's "High Country" and just 4km from Myrtleford.
It sits at the junction of the Mount Beauty road to "Falls Creek" and the Great Alpine Road to "Mount Hotham" Alpine resorts, and ideally located to access both of these popular resort areas .
Blue Haze offers self-contained accommodation for up to 10 guests with large kitchen and two open plan entertaining areas plus its own pool and heated spa.
Rail Trail - Blue Haze is adjacent to the popular Bright to Beechworth, rail trail and during spring and autumn, walking or cycling excursions along the trail are a great getaway option.
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3 Night Midweek Special - $285
Package includes 3 nights accommodation at Pinnacle Holiday Lodge in the heart of the Grampians for 2 adults in a self contained unit with kitchenette (queen bed),
Bottle of Seppelt wine on arrival,
$20 breakfast voucher for Livefast Cafe,
Free Wi-Fi (limits apply)
Free DVD player & 2 DVDs,
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full-size tennis court. This package is available from 17th April to 27th June and 21st July to 29th August 2013 subject to availability (Sunday to Thursday inclusive).
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Each contact entry in a PIM Contact database is represented by Contact. This post is all about retrieving contact fields from PIM.
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Methods called on the asynchronous proxy will be executed asynchronously, and the results can be obtained later on.
To execute methods asynchronously in EJB 3.0, one can use asynchronous proxy. This allows calling methods at an instance, and collecting the results later. Good thing is that there exist a JBoss extension to EJB 3.0, which allows obtaining asynchronous proxy from the remote or local interface of a stateful session bean, stateless session bean or service bean.
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Portable error handling codes are written by its help.
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Downloading files is a very popular task on the World Wide Web. Users click on a download link and the file gets downloaded into their computer. Technically, a download can be achieved by either of the two forms as following: Direct link: the link points directly to a file on a server, for example: http://www.server.com/download/report.xls. This kind of link requires no additional effort on the server side, since the web server automatically hands the file over to users as
In my previous tip, I showed you how to autowire a JAX-WS endpoint. Although this is very useful, but recognize that the objects whose properties are being injected doesnt have its lifecycle managed by Spring. There are circumstances though, where its possible to export a Spring-managed bean as a JAX-WS endpoint. In this tip, I will show you how.
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In this article I plan to create a quick, easy to locate post about good books that I have encountered. Feel free to comment and add your book recommendations. I plan to include more than just Java books in this post. I will start with Java, moving onto c++, and other languages. The end of the post with books I have on my short list. These books will be finished shortly and I will put them here, and update my thoughts as the books are finished. Starting out - Which book to get?
the previous blog article talked a bit about the Visitor design pattern. This article talks a bit about additional functionality that is sometimes wanted, i.e. the functionality is optional. Assume there is a lot of optional functionality that people want.
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WindowBuilder is a great Eclipse plug-in that allows developers to visually design graphical user interface (GUI) for Java applications. It supports developing both Swing and SWT applications. In addition, it also supports Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XML Windowing Toolkit (XWT). This article introduces this plug-in to Java developers about installation and working within Eclipse IDE environment. Install WindowBuilder plug-in
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he Java platform provides powerful API to work with the most popular compressed file format zip format. This article will show you how to write code to compress and decompress zip files using Java. And beyond the basics, the code that works with multiple files in a directory recursively is also provided. The Zip API
The package java.util.zip provides classes for working with zip file format. Although the documentation states that the package also provides classes
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If you think that you cannot access private data members of a class from some other class, then think again. With Reflection, this is possible.
Using reflection, we can see / view / access a private member, private variable, private method. Some people will not like this with argument that this actually means messing up the laws of encapsulation. I use it for unit testing private methods.
Example follows: Java Code: import java.lang.reflect.Field;
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jmap is one of the lesser known jdk provided utilities, which are worth mentioning. Very oftenly we feel the need to peek into the jvm and see which thread is taking how much of heap space - jmap is jdks answer to this.
This utility was introduced in jdk1.5 and is as an experimental utility (oracle may discontinue to ship this utility with future releases)
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Sometimes you are required to fetch and store data from web pages. If there are too many pages to parse, then obviously this cannot be done manually. Java provides support for web text extraction.
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When you are developing an user interaction for an application, one of the most challenging aspects is to define a proper narrative for the behavior of the application so that the user can get into a flow while using the application. Sometimes it is necessary to step a user through a process, such as ordering a plane ticket. This is called a flowed application. Now is a possible to use any web framework, such as Struts or Java Server Faces, in order to do this. Unfortunately none of them properly
Swing contains a rich set of components as compared to AWT. They are purely build in Java and has following benefits as compared to AWT.
Swing contains extra components like JTree, JTable etc.
They can change skin based on current look and feel.
They follow the MVC design pattern and are more flexible.
Swing provided light weight components.
Swing provides double buffering.
Swing provides paint debugging.
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Dear Reggie,
I'm writing you a letter because this should be a one-on-one discussion and nothing else matters. I congratulate you on your article, IT WAS thought provoking (at 8:30 am by the way) and daring. I agree with many of the things you say in your article. I agree with the fact that some theaters in town DON'T do good quality shows and that they use the easy way out by doing the classics to please the majority audience members. I agree that in most times theaters will misinterpret color blind casting and continue excluding the asians, african americans, natives, and latino actors. I speak frankly because I have experienced this may times, and at this point is when I work harder to convince the director otherwise. Again, I say this because I've done it and just experience this not so long ago. I thought your article made sense and you have good point but what wasn't so helpful was using so many critical words to pin point a race for blame. You are a very passionate person Reggie, and it definitely comes across in your article I applaud you for your directness but many people will not be able to look past the "white as snow, vanilla, dizzyingly flat and cold, pointless and trivial, bleached and freeze dried of any heat" line (As you can see in some of these comments). They will miss the whole point in your article but only read into these critical adjectives. I don't agree that ALL white as snow, vanilla people don't have passion I am married to one of those people. He is the reason that I have re-found my passion for politics and religion. But that's not the point the point is that when speaking out of passion not all is to blame. But in saying that your right that there is a lack of adventure in this community. What you are doing with EWOC is the right path. I saw your Fringe Show and I enjoyed some of it. I didn't think that is was used for it's benefit. I didn't walk out wanting to riot or yell out "I'm Latina, here me roar" but I think your on the right path. I would love to get a chance to meet up for coffee and discuss this issues where we throw napkins in the air maybe get into a heated argument and say "moving to NYC is this better and will feel at least more appreciated" or say "Let's stick it out and shake the rafters" but whatever it is I'd love to talk.
Love Nora Montanez (why can't I figure out how to use the tilde in my name it's so annoying)
I'm not going to apologize for what I said.
I meant every word of it. The theatre that is being done in this town is safe, and more often than not lacks fire. It's not a comment on race. I could have gone on this article and said that American Theatre is inherently as racist as this country itself, that it rests upon false sense of traditionalism, fear, and even an automatic reflex that can clearly be seen as conscious racism. But that's not the argument that I was making. I'll save that for another article.
I'm not scared of burning bridges, cause fact of the matter is that before I came along many of you were probably happy in your own little complacency, and bliss in your silent artistic segregation. If you deem me saying that the work I see feels "white as snow, vanilla, dizzyingly flat and cold, pointless and trivial, bleached and freeze dried of any heat, any passion, and any spiritual fire that could possibly wake up somebody's soul." as a racist comment, perhaps you need to look at your self and question your own racial heritage and your self esteem about it. Instead of pointing at the person who comes from 400 some odd years of oppression as the racist.
I am simply saying that in this community and in theatre communities all across this nation, a true change needs to come about. That the theatre work, we do in an era of the Tea Party and reality television, needs to have an urgency to it. It needs to take a stand and it can do that through comedy or a well played drama, but we as theatre artists in this country are the last line of defense against elements that want us to be quiet and grow fat, and be mindless machines that follow and ask no questions and conform to the masses.
From the numerous attacks that I've received maybe that's the way some of you want people in this world to be, and maybe I'm correct in saying that the art you do is voiceless. Or perhaps the fact that I am an artist of color and I'm the person that voiced these truths the reason that it disturbs you.
So let me clarify for those who seem to simply have skimmed the article and didn't read:
At no point in time did I say "Risk taking is only present in theater pieces about race."
*Wrong!!! Maybe you didn't notice but I mention numerous works that had absolutely nothing to do with race. Jungle Theatre's 'Seafarer', and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'; Workhaus Collective's 'Music Lovers', have absolutely nothing to do about race. It was theatre that did something daring and was powerful.
Someone else made the statement,"Have you considered that perhaps part of the problem is the limited pool of racially diverse actors that small theatres have to work with in a place like Minnesota?"
* That is a racist statement in and of itself. In the first month that I moved to the state of Minnesota, I along with nine other emerging playwrights of color ranging from Black, Hmong, Latino, and everything in between established an organization called the Unit Collective. The amount of racially diverse actors, directors, and playwrights that we've made lasting relationships with is immense. If me and a few others who are relatively new to the Minneapolis theatre scene can find, cultivate, build lasting relationships with ethnically diverse talent, I have to question have you actually ever tried.
Guess what?!! Actors and audiences of color aren't going to come through your theatre door if they don't feel like they are welcome in the first place. We aren't stupid, we're not going to go somewhere that we aren't wanted at in the first place.
Now that these issues have been addressed I ask that you please feel free to read the article again, remove your prejudice, calm down, and look at what I'm trying to relay to you, and that is simply we as theatre artists are the last guards to securing us from a life of conformity and meaninglessness, we come from a wealthy background that carries with it a depth of skillsets: We are storytellers, we are preachers, we are politicians, we are even prophets and we need to recognize that fact and put more fire, more passion, and more soul in our theatre and take a stand for something, cause if we are the ones that are silent then no one else will stand.
Reginald Edmund
Playwrights' Center '09-'10, '10-'11 Many Voices Fellow
Co-Founder of the Unit Collective
If folks are not already cross-pollinated on this discussion, there's more fodder at this link.
I'm glad we have the opportunity to discuss these topics on MN Playlist and in our community. Thanks to Reginald for getting the discussion started and to the community for keeping it churning along.
I think we all share the desire to produce great things, and conversations like this should push us to continue to be better at reaching every person that comes in the door, knowing ahead of time that you probably won't. Be bold, be aggressive, risk to fail and risk again.
Eloquently put - and Yeah. This is TOTALLY a great opportunity.
Before a 'reverse racism' discussion gets to heated up and going. I just want to throw out the idea that Racism is not just a social -ism, it's a systemic one. So, technically speaking, someone whose on the bottom end of a lop-sided power structure cannot be racist. There are other words you may choose to criticize Re: Reggie's 'whiteness' comments. But black people, for example, can't be racist. You could perhaps use the word 'prejudice,' perhaps. A friend of mine commented on the article saying that it's not so much the 'whiteness,' being an issue, but rather - or I'd say additionally - that timidity plays a role in the non-passionate theater we see. PERHAPS.
Though Reggie's use of the word 'white' as a not-so-good descriptor for the theater he sees, I need to remind myself that he was speaking from HIMSELF, from HIS passion as a black man - and after all, how can I argue with him Re: those points? I'm a pale white guy who can walk down any street he damn pleases without issue or prejudice.
-Ben McGinley
I was just coming here to say something similar. There are several conversations underway about this article. In at least 2, here and on the Callboard, people are throwing out the idea that Reggie's assertions are racist. They are incendiary, sure. But the fact that the majority of the people making those assertions are of the dominant class, dominant color and dominant gender in the state of Minnesota and certainly of the theater community in the Twin Cities is telling. Noone likes their position to be questioned.
I'd also like to point out, that Reggie applauds many fine productions that took place this past year. And not all of them had to do with race. One example: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was a fabulous production of a tough piece of theater where every actor on the stage and the director were white. Reggie doesn't say that 'in spite of' that fact it was good theater. He simply lumps it in with all the other good theater that he saw.
The other notion which seems to be mucking up this conversation is that theater doesn't need to start a revolution, sometimes it can just entertain. To me these are completely different questions. No one ever said that entertaining theater shouldn't be passionate and powerful. Tepid theater is tepid, regardless of style. I will fall back on my favorite David Mamet quote: "Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake though the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts." Actors. Not 'dramatic actors'. Not 'comedic actors'. Not 'musical theater actors'. Just actors. We should move the audience, or at least strive to with all our might. Reggie may want theater to start a revolution in the streets, I don't know, but a passionately performed production of Oklahoma can begin a revolution of the mind, can birth an artist out of a skeptics soul and can cause the voiceless to sing. At least I believe it could. I've never seen that production of Oklahoma, but I'd like to.
Yours in Theater,
Heidi Berg
I don't think I was accusing you or anyone of beginning a reverse-racism discussion - I just see there being great opportunity re: your use of Racism vs. Racism. That being said, your point is fair. And I don't think that ANYBODY's comfortable with any of these issues. Including Reggie, perhaps.
I honestly think - and Reggie can correct me if I'm wrong - that he's got a lot of passion about what kind of theater he wants to see produced - and he IS (some times better than others) speaking in 'I' statements from the perspective of a black man in a very white community. Does that make his throwing of the word 'whiteness' around like it's a negative thing okay? Not necessarily, no. But I do like to give him the benny of the doubt - and to try and see it from his perspective before being so sharply reactionary (and by saying that, I don't mean to imply that you, KLROGNESS, are necessarily).
Tell me that that wouldn't be a bit intense? NOT seeing enough of yourself reflected in lots of the work that produced around you? Might that stir up some passion in you? Don't we see theatre to see ourselves reflected?
I will say, additionally, just to fairly point out that he commended the Jungle's VIRGINIA WOLF and Workhaus' MUSIC LOVERS - two plays which mostly white - minus Randy Reyes - but even in Randy's case, there was little mention or time spent on his Filipino decent.
For whatever it's worth,
- Ben
That's all.
Sweet - let's meet the challenge or bury our heads in the snow.
I didn't see all of the shows he called out, so I won't support or refute his view on them, But I can say that "Risk" definitely means different things to different artists.
So, instead of feeling any need to be defensive, I will take it as a gauntlet thrown. As a producer of small theater in Minnesota, I go on record saying "let us be bold." I am always willing to fail spectacularly in the face of risk.
I wholeheartedly am there with you. If I am going to pay and sit in a dark theater for a few hours, I expect artists with some balls/ovaries to rock my world, make me feel something. I want a show that feel like more than a yawny intellectual reach-around.
I just had a conversation with Charles Campbell about this - not about reach arounds - but about how there is so much more room for new work to be produced from that fire-y, inarticulate NEED to perform/write/dance something.
Do you see much dance in the TC?
Did you SEE Mad King Thomas' and Judith Howard's show this past summer? Or TU Dance?
Ben McGinley
...and if I am going to pay to sit in a dark theatre for a few hours, I expect to be ENTERTAINED. If I feel anything, I want it to be enjoyment. I don't need my world rocked. It's rocked enough BEFORE I enter the theatre. I want an ESCAPE, not more of the same.
I do not begrudge those who want their world to be rocked. I do, however, begrudge those who begrudge others feeling differently.
I believe that theatre is what you WANT it to be...and your mileage may vary. That's okay--as long as you don't tell me that MY mileage is not valid.
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About Museum
Annual Report 1999
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
The Jewish Museum in Prague (JMP), which was re-established on 1 October 1994 following the dissolution of the State Jewish Museum, went ahead in 1999 with the implementation of its long-term objectives.
After the completion of their terms in Autumn 1999, certain changes were made to the composition of the JMP Board of Directors and Supervisory Board. The organizations which are represented in these bodies - the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, the Jewish Community in Prague and the Czech Ministry of Culture - worked closely with JMP management and had a positive impact on its activities. In 1999, unlike in previous years, the JMP was not involved in any major projects to refurbish or reconstruct the historic buildings which it uses for exhibition purposes, as these had been completed during the last four years. Instead, the JMP focused on the refurbishment and reconstruction of its future office and research centre, which is situated in a former Jewish hospital adjacent to the Spanish Synagogue. At the same time, the JMP extended a number of its previous activities, namely maintenance work in buildings in which it operates; upgrading of storage facilities for its collections; safeguarding of collections and exhibitions by a modern security system; computer cataloguing and digitization of its holdings; publishing, consultancy, scientific, educational and cultural activities in the field of Jewish studies and Jewish history and culture.
The JMP can be said to have been successful in all its activities in 1999. The care it devotes to the Jewish cultural heritage of Bohemia and Moravia reflects the high degree of professionalism of its staff and its special relationship to the artefacts it looks after - serving to commemorate the Genocide of Bohemian and Moravian Jews during the Second World War. There was only one instance of failing, which was all the more regrettable in view of the fact that this concerned the loss of two collection items from a permanent exhibition. The theft, which was committed in November 1999 by two people who remain as yet unknown, took place despite the JMP's high standard of security measures in place. The police and relevant local and foreign institutions were furnished with a detailed description of the stolen items in the hope of their subsequent recovery and return to the JMP.
During 1999 the JMP had a full-time staff of 91 and used the services of 160 external workers on a short-term contractual basis.
2. Profile of the Jewish Museum in Prague
a) Property managed by the JMP
b) JMP features:
3. 1999 attendance statistics
4. New exhibitions
a) Temporary exhibitions
b) JMP exhibitions outside Prague, participation in exhibitions organized by other institutions (loans and consultation)
II. Abroad
5. Contacts and collaboration in the Czech Republic and abroad
The JMP collaborated with 43 foreign and 47 local political, administrative, cultural, academic and educational institutions:
6. Specialist and research work
a) Preparation of new exhibitions
II. Abroad
b) Material for local and foreign institutions
c) Research activities
Research topics:
II. The Collection Department
III. Library
7. Educational activities
a) The Cultural and Educational Centre
I. Educational programmes for Czech schools (primary and secondary schools, universities, teacher training)
II. Educational programmes for foreign visitors (students, teachers, tourists)
III. Courses for tour guides
IV. Seminars
V. Projects
VI. Activities of the ORT centre
b) Department of Jewish Studies and the History of the Jews
I. Conference participation, lectures and discussions
II. Media and publication projects
III. Publications
c) Collection Department
I. Participation in conferences and lectures
II. Media and publication activities
8. Cultural activities
a) Cultural events at the JMP's Cultural and Educational Centre
The JMP's Cultural and Educational Centre organized a total of 120 cultural programmes and events. Over a half (53) consisted of lectures, both as part of a series and on separate topics. Programmatic series included "The Jewish Year", "Jewish painters and sculptors in Czech art", "Prominent Rabbis" and "Czech Jewish authors in 20th century literature. The Centre was also the venue for 14 film screenings, 19 concerts, 4 theatre presentations, 1 book presentation, 5 exhibition openings, 3 press conferences, and 6 evening concerts of Israeli songs organized by "Bejt Praha".
Worthy of a special mention is the commemorative evening in memory of Holocaust victims that took place in September 1999 in the Pinkas Synagogue (in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Prague and Czech Radio Vltava). The event also included two panel discussions in the Educational and Cultural Centre, entitled "Why didn't they defend themselves?" and "Art in extreme circumstances".
b) JMP participation in trade fairs
c) Music in the Spanish Synagogue
On 20 March 1999 a concert was given in the Spanish Synagogue by the world renowned cantor Joseph Malovany, who was accompanied by the Czech organist Jaroslav Tůma. This performance marked the launch of a regular series of "Music in the Spanish Synagogue", organized by the Dana Drtinová Agency. This series included concerts by distinguished classical music performers (soloists and chamber ensembles) from both the Czech Republic and abroad. The series ended on 31 August 1999. From 1 September 1999 the Spanish Synagogue was either hired out for individual concerts (on 8 September, for example, a performance was given by the Kocián Quartet quality as part of the String Quartet Festival, and on 20 October there was a performance by László Fekete as part of the 1999 Musica Ludaica Festival) or used as a venue for concerts organized by the Cultural and Educational Centre (on 8 December 1999, for example, there was Jana Lewitowá's "Sephardic Inspiration").
9. Publications and retail activities
a) JMP publications and souvenirs
b) Contributions in other publications
c) JMP retail areas
10. Archives and documentation
a) Archives and documentation of Jewish Communities
b) Catalogue of Jewish Communities (computer database)
c) History of the Holocaust
I. Documentation on the persecution of the Jews
II. Computer database of Holocaust victims
11. Collections
a) Collection Department
I. Terezín Collection
II. Art collection
III. Textile collection
IV. Textile restoration workshop
V. Metal collection
VI. Metal restoration workshop
VII. Collection Department documentation
VIII. Photographic archive
IX. Photography and scanning
Photographic studio
Opening in January of a separate digital photography workplace and in September of a scanning workplace; training of all JMP staff at the photographic studio. Both these units provide services for other JMP departments in the production of digital image data for CD-ROMS for the purposes of researchers, exhibitions and press releases (including the provision of external press). The digital workplace operates its own digital archive and collaborates with the photographic archive when selecting archive images.
Approximately 300 photographic copies were taken for the catalogue to accompany the exhibition in the Spanish Synagogue (including pre-print preparation) and stored on CD-ROMS.
Photographic copies were taken for the brochure and invitation card for the exhibition "Genizot, Findings in Bohemian and Moravian Synagogues" (including pre-print preparation).
Approximately 300 collection items were documented on separately prepared CD-ROMS.
Work started on the complete documentation of the collection of Torah pointers. 150 pointers were digitally photographed (300 shots). The images were prepared for the JMP database and press releases.
Loaned archive material from various institutions in the Czech Republic were digitally photographed for the new exhibition in the Maisel Synagogue and stored on a CD-ROM.
Work started on the scanning of the war-time German Catalogue. 5 volumes (250 cards) were scanned and stored on a CD-ROM.
450 drawings by Karel Fleischmann were scanned and stored on a CD-ROM.
90 images from the diary of Helga Pollaková were scanned and stored on a CD-ROM.
X. Supervision of repair and reconstruction work
b) Department of Jewish Studies and the History of the Jews
I. Collection of manuscripts and early prints
II. Collection of written material from genizot
12. Library
a) Statistics
b) Routine agenda
c) Participation in events
d) New organisation membership
e) Specialist visits and consultation in the JMP Library
I. Czech Republic
"Ztichlá klika" antiquarian bookshop and gallery, Prague
II. Abroad
f) Automation of library processes
g) Work with the library collection
13. Computer network
a) General hardware and software backup for PC users
b) Local network extension
c) Electronic mail and the Internet
d) Museum digital archive system
e) Aleph library system
f) Computer anti-virus checks
g) Millennium Bug
14. Technical and construction projects
a) Refurbishment
I. The new office building
II. The Maisel Synagogue
III. The Jewish Cemetery in Fibichova Street
IV. The Synagogue in Brandýs nad Labem
V. The Ceremonial Hall
VI. The Spanish Synagogue
VII. Maiselova 15, Prague 1
VIII. The Klausen Synagogue
IX. The Old Jewish Cemetery
X. The Synagogue in Prague - Smíchov
XI. Maintenance
b) Integrated security system
15. Prominent visits
16. Sponsors' donations
a) From abroad
b) From the Czech Republic
17. Donations provided by the JMP
Leo Pavlát
Attachments: information about economy JMP
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WASHINGTON - Two men were killed early Saturday morning when the taxi they were riding in was struck head-on by another car on Fairfax County Parkway.
The men who died at the scene were ages 29 and 24, and lived together in Sterling. The Fairfax County Police have not yet released their names; they say their families live outside the United States.
Manuel Alejandro Jimenez Benitez, 24, of Herndon, was driving south on Fairfax County Parkway, police said, when he veered into the northbound lanes and struck the oncoming taxi about 1:45 a.m. near Sugarland Valley Drive.
The police say the taxi driver is a 47-year-old man who lives in Herndon. He and Benitez were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital. The taxi driver is in "serious, life-threatening condition," according to the police. Benitez's injuries are not life-threatening, the police say, and he will be taken to the Adult Dentention Center after he's released from the hospital.
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[Plugin] Smoothstep Animation
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Thanks Jackson, I wish I can learn to do those scripts too
uploaded another test...
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Best plugin ever!!
Solved all my problems.
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Great plug in . . . one thing. I am wandering what the best program is to stitch together the images for a mac. Imovie is driving me crazy and keeps zooming in and out of each individual frame. Any tips?
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Quicktime all the way. It works fast and does a very good job.
Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
All my Plugins I've written
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Whaat, many many thanks for this and the person who replied to my post solving my little artifact problem that the programmers appeared not to be interested in fixing. Great script!
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same as any .rb files & theres lots of info on this forum.
download from the first post in this thread, move to 'plugins' folder
if it's hidden you can paste this into 'Ruby Console' under 'Window' menu in Sketchup
drag the ruby in and restart SU.
learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...
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thanks for the brilliant plugin!!
using Proper Animation, Smoothstep & Adobe Lightroom and getting an excellent video
is there any chance of adding support for exporting TIFF files?
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dear sir ,
i m pritish from india , trying to render animation with vray can you make tutorial or may be some image/video format to explain your thoughts,it will be helpful .
waiting for your replay.
thanks in advance.
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I have been using this plugin for a while but have been running into a few problems, particularly on my PC (Mac to lesser extent). When generating frames, sometimes the frame generation can hang for a considerable amount of time. Standard frames will take a minute or two and then there will be a rogue frame that takes 20mins! Sometimes even as much as an hour! This ain't good. Seems to happen more at HD resolutions. It makes video generating times completely unpredictable.
Some sort of feature to universally number frames so that the animation can be stopped/started or "farmed" to other computers without messing up the frame sequence would also be fantastic.
I know this plugin was written a while ago but I am just hoping Whaat that you will relook at it again because it is a very useful script for my line of work...
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I see that the flow of additions to this post has slowed down. However, I've just read everything from the very beginning and curious if there is any further development on allowing this to work with rendering soft and plugins.
I have searched SketchUcation, Google and spent too much time looking for an answer to the question that too many are asking. How to make smooth animation from SU scene camera positions. I have seen Rendering programs make smooth camera position transitions but cannot find the plugin that makes this an automatic feature for animation exports from SU. Here is an example of non smooth camera positions and I'm looking for the trick that avoids these choppy positions between camera points. Could this plugin one day help?
I'd like to render animations with Thea and think this is really close to what we are looking for.
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Hi Chris, do you mean Quicktime pro? And can you add still photos in between video clips or would you need to import the quicktime edited video into iMovie and do that in there? Thanks, best regards, Sally
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Can it be that exporting animations via write_image is slower than using regular export?
Currently I am writing the connection to RenderPal, our renderfarm manager, and it seems that using this method for exporting is taking much more time.
I observed that when using the the regular export, the 3d ui is completely paused. Maybe this might speed things up? But I was not able to pause it myself. Did not find a ruby function for that.
Hope somebody can enlighten me a bit.
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What file format are you using? What anti-aliasing and compression options are you using? Both of these can slow the export.
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For both tests I used the same options. PNG and 1.0 compression. Anti aliasing also turned on.
Perhaps the problem is, for write_image() Sketchup has to create the frame twice. Once for the ui to make the geometry visible including all shadows and stuff and another time when exporting the image. If that is the case then it would be good the have the possibility to shut off the ui during animation export.


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Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan By Howard Shapiro, DORodale Books (2002)Reviewed by Tara Gidus, MS, RD, LDN, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson
"The visual program for permanent weight loss. Picture Perfect Weight Loss doesn't give orders about what you should or should not eat. Instead, it provides you with a way of eating a range of foods, including the foods you love - a way of eating, not a diet."
The book focuses on bringing about an awareness of calorie density of certain foods. The diet encourages that all foods can fit. There are three main principles:
The book does not really spell out a diet. Instead, it goes through each meal and makes comparisons of some high-calorie choices and lower-calorie options. He divides the 30 days into four weeks. The first week is devoted to making over breakfast, then lunch and snacks the second week, dinner the third week and eating out the fourth week.
The entire book has visual comparisons. For example, a bowl of granola is pictured for 480 calories compared to three bowls of lower-calorie cereals with fresh fruit for the same amount of calories. An entire chapter is devoted early in the book to children, focusing on reasons why we have an epidemic of childhood obesity and some comparisons of foods children eat.
This is not a specific "diet" which is strict and confining. It encourages logging food, trying new foods, incorporating vegetarian and low-calorie foods into your daily routine. Fruit is highlighted often as a good option for a sweet tooth in place of desserts. The visual aspect of this book is very appealing for people to remember. The book goes into great detail about how to handle eating out and holidays. The book also makes comparisons throughout with exercise. If you eat that cookie it is equivalent to 65 minutes of swimming laps.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- eMarketer is out with updated mobile advertising-revenue projections.
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eMarketer September 2012 Mobile Ad Revenue ProjectionseMarketer March 2013 Mobile Ad Revenue Projections It doesn't take a scientist who deals in rockets to see that Google (GOOG) continues to take over the world. But just look at the bump up in the Facebook, Pandora, Twitter and Apple (AAPL) numbers. The takeaways here debunk two myths. One, that Facebook does not provide an effective advertising platform. It absolutely does. If it doesn't work for your favorite company's brand, hire new social media people, because the current crop isn't doing it right.
Two, that Pandora is not for real. Do any other Internet radio players show up on eMarketer's list? Have they ever? Where's Pandora-crusher Spotify? Not there because, at day's end, it doesn't have a business. At least not one built out to the scale that Pandora's is. Without scale and a sales infrastructure -- both could take years to build -- it's difficult, if not impossible, to compete. Follow @rocco_thestreet -- Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.
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