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Amscreen claims media revolution with face-tracking tech
Amscreen, the outdoor screen company, believes it is set to revolutionise the sector with the introduction of face-tracking technology across its portfolio of digital screens.
Simon Sugar: chief executive of Amscreen
Following a partnership with Quividi, the digital outdoor company run by Simon Sugar will roll out the image recognition technology across its 6,000 screens, which claim a weekly audience of 50 million.
The face-tracking system for screens found predominantly in petrol forecourts, provides more information on shoppers and their buying habits.
Coupled with Amscreen's existing audience data, brands can now pinpoint a target audience by gender, age, date and time.
Early trials of the technology indicate that 94% of shoppers view the on-screen content while in-store, making it the highest average conversion rate in the sector.
An Amscreen statement said the combined new measurement system is "set to revolutionise the out-of-home and digital advertising industries".
Chief executive Sugar said: "It is time for a step-change in the outdoor world and it is great to see that, together with Quividi's technology, we are bringing the industry into the 21st century.
"We are all aware that the media industry as a whole is moving more and more towards real-time planning and audience measurement, and away from traditionally modelled audience metrics, hence we are now placing significant investment and resource on delivering this kind of depth of insight.
"Through access to extensive site and audience data from our network partners and our own detailed research studies, we already have actual audience data by screen, by hour.
"Our investment in this technology will support and enrich this audience data as we continue to raise the bar in terms of accountability, compliance and transparency.
"Ultimately, our aim is to optimise our advertisers' campaigns, reduce wastage and, in turn, help to shed the image that outdoor cannot be ultimately measurable and transparent. We're now single-mindedly focused on helping the industry deliver the type of insight that only online has previously been able to achieve."
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MISSOULA- Missoula County Public Schools trustees are frustrated state lawmakers have not made a decision about school funding.
During a special board meeting Wednesday, one trustee said they now have to "leap before they look" by estimating how much money they'll need from taxpayers in order to meet the deadline for a May 3rd election.
Trustees received new figures from the Office of Public Instruction Wednesday that suggest a bigger deficit than schools projected.
But instead of raising the requested levies to meet the latest projection, the board decided to keep the numbers the same and certify their ballots as planned.
MCPS business and operations manager Pat McHugh calculated new numbers, but urged trustees to go with the original estimates.
"This is the number we talked about with our budget board and levy committee last night; this is then number that I think we oughta stick with," he said. Superintendent Alex Apostle agreed.
"We've kinda made a commitment to the public that we're gonna be asking for and it's unfortunate that we have this additional information and it wasn't calculated in our request, but I find it very difficult, at this point, to change the rules," Apostle said.
The board decided that in addition to running two building reserve levies, it will ask voters to approve two general fund levies during Wednesday night's meeting.
Based on a home assessed at $200,000, the elementary building reserve levy would cost $15.50 annually. The secondary building reserve levy would cost $8.05 a year. Meanwhile the elementary general fund levy would cost $13.49 a year and the high school levy would cost $12.69 annually if approved. Voters who live in both districts would pay both levies.
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Julienne Peeler. Never heard of it. My daughter pointed it out to me. Instead of dragging out the mandolin and then having to clean it, this took about 2 minutes to do this to two zucchinis. Wow. (I know some, if not al,l of you already knew about this tool. But I had no idea!!) |
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- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 22:46
Here's a close up of the tool. And that 2 minutes I estimated, included the washing, cutting off ends, getting out the bowl...the peeling was really much quicker! |
wow. I like that! My Cuisenart "stem" disintegrated a few years ago and I haven't gotten around to replacing it. I used it all the time to grate things. I think I see another... tool ... I need ... to complete my tools. Along with my power tools... |
Ok I just ordered one, thanks for the tip! I love my microplane grater too, much easier than pulling out the grater. |
Oh- I want one! I love it. Thanks for sharing. |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Fri, May 31, 13 at 1:23
Whoa! That's cool! That's a tool I would definitely use. Where did you get yours? Thanks for sharing, Bee! P.S. maybe I haven't been around lately as much, but I don't feel like I've "seen" you around in recent days. Hope all is well! |
I just recently discovered this tool, as well. I had seen it on a cooking show, but now I can't remember which one. Actually, now that I stop and think, I believe it was on a local morning talk show that I rarely watch. They, too, used it for the zucchini to use instead of pasta. |
Never heard of it and now I need to have one. Bee, can you tell us which brand you bought? Amazon has about a dozen brands, and I can't tell whether one is better than any other. Thanks. |
Thank you, Beekeepers. For reminding me. I just went and looked--yup! Bought one of those, put it away in the back of a full-extension drawer and forgot all about it. I'm planning to transform my life today too. :) |
I have one of those! Love it, and just wanted to throw out there to be extra careful- maybe it's just me but I've managed to cut myself one or two times. Maybe I get a little over-enthusiastic about my julienning :-) |
And the best plain peelers are the same sort of design. I've always called them "D" peelers, because that's what they look like. |
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- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Fri, May 31, 13 at 10:07
Typing On phone, so being brief... Mine was from Marshall's. or TJ Maxx. I just went with a comfortable grip. They had several there. Breezy, yep I've been busy. My business is starting to bloom, I find when I pop on GW I head straight to kitchens to read, but have been sharing some projects on Home Decorating. You should email if you want, beekeeperswife at gmail dot com Bee |
- Posted by justmakeit (My Page) on Fri, May 31, 13 at 12:33
I had no idea how badly I needed this. A few days ago, I spent about 45 minutes cutting carrots into julienne for a salad! I was nosing around on Amazon for a better solution, was thinking about a mandolin, and now have happily ordered one of these instead. Thanks for the tip! |
- Posted by michoumonster (My Page) on Fri, May 31, 13 at 14:39
thanks for sharing! my mom had picked up one of these from an asian market stall on vacation for less than $1. she has been babying this thing for a few years but it is all rusty. i didn't know they had them here too! think i will have to get her a replacement in stainless steel! |
Beekeeperswife your photos are beautiful. I take a lot of pics of my food. I coworker was emailing me pics of his ribs from his patio this afternoon. |
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- I went to, like, five different magazine/book stores this weekend in search of Vanity Fair's October issue, after seeing that their cover story is about the audition process Scientology used to eventually find Katie Holmes for Tom Cruise. I had alwaysknown that such a process occurred (being that I am an amateur Scientology expert), but did not know that a woman named Nazanin Boniadi (right) was selected prior to Holmes and that she actually dated Cruise for a few months before failing to pass muster. The issue isn't on stands yet, but Vanity Fair's website has a preview and I'll be writing more about it ASAP! [Vanity Fair]
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Inspired by Reinheirt Wild Ale, I decided to brew a light-to-moderately soured saison. I used a Wyeast Belgian yeast, and threw in Brettanomyces Bruxellensis just as the krausen began to fall. All figured it's had about 3 weeks and it seems ready to bottle. First concern: when to bottle? I know the brett b will devour pretty much any sugars. Do I wait and let this attenuate down to 1.000 before bottling? I checked it a week ago and it was at 1.010. If I don't wait and bottle now, do I just use less priming sugar? Second concern: contaminated equipment? What all equipment do I need to replace or convert to dedicated sour beer duty? I single stage fermented in a 6-gal better bottle carboy. I'm planning to use an auto-siphon, plastic bottling bucket, hose, and bottling wand. Will all of that need to be replaced? If not all, what is okay, presuming that I clean it immediately?
not sure the brett-b alone will sour a beer. it will funk it up for sure (yay!) but not turn it sour...
It won't sour it, but will give a nice funky flavor. Others' may have better information, but I think the over time (a year) the Brett will take it down about .003 (or 3 volumes of CO2). That's standard-high carbonation. If you don't prime, the beer will be flat for several months, or more. If you prime, you risk bottle bombs if not consumed quickly, but then you will not get the Brett character. I know it takes space, but best thing is to add the Brett and leave it for at least 6 months before bottling. More predictable, less risk.
I just got accepted to VLB in Berlin. In 6months, I'm going to be in Germany. I'm not planning to leave my beer closet sitting in storage while I'm away. Maybe I'll do a couple bottles without priming sugar to sit for the year while I'm gone. And no, "sour" is not the word or goal I was going for. I was going for funky/wild, which the Brett B will provide.


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"Only love is matter," some besotted loverboy has scrawled along one of St. Petersburg's ethereally romantic canals. Whether this is merely bad English or some newfangled law of physics we will never know, but one thing is certain: it's summertime in Russia's loveliest city, and everyone seems to be tying the knot. They couldn't have picked a better place. Petersburg's over-the-top czarist architecture obliges even the humblest newlywed with pomp and drama. Wedding parties composed of tall, gangly men in short sleeves and pretty girls aglow in makeup crowd beneath the hooves of the famously airborne Statue of the Bronze Horseman, a.k.a. Peter the Great. Grooms sweep brides off their feet and smooch them on cue beneath the 15-foot-tall granite Atlases stoically holding up the roof of the New Hermitage's portico. The streets are crowded with flower-bedecked Hummer limos and, on at least one occasion, a motorcycle wedding escort whose yuppie members have misguidedly christened themselves "The Busy Riders." Everywhere mothers are weeping with joy and terror, and papas are panning the pale summer beauty of their children and their native city with video cameras, while "witnesses," the Russian equivalents of best men and bridesmaids, uncap bottles of cheap but effective "Soviet" champagne and fill the air with cloying sweetness.
I come to St. Petersburg on a chilly week in early August for the wedding of my good friend K. and his betrothed, Yana. They are two progressive smarties with their share of diplomas from the prestigious St. Petersburg State University, not to mention an unusually diverse couple: he has Russian and Ukrainian blood, and she is one of the fewer than a half million Yakut, an Asiatic people many time zones away from Petersburg and Moscow, whose frozen landscape is rife with diamonds, reindeer, and throaty shamanistic arias. Baby-making seems to be at an all-time low in Russia—even President Putin has spoken out about a "demographic crisis"—but while they are loath to multiply, Russians still marry young. "Whfen I came here I was 26," a Dutch expatriate tells me, "and they thought I was old. Now I'm 33 and they've lost all hope for me. There's not even a word for 'boyfriend' in this language."
Having just crossed the Rubicon of 30, K. is ripe for a band of gold. He certainly is taking the traditions and rituals of matrimony seriously. Whenever I return to Petersburg, K. and I usually go on a rampage, consuming vodka by the bottle and eating skewers of lamb and hunks of lard. This time he takes me to a vegetarian Indian restaurant and orders some puri bread. He explains to me that tomorrow he will be in church taking confession with Yana, and so, according to custom, he cannot consume meat, milk products, or alcohol. It's touching to hear this brazen carnivore say to a young waitress in some faux-Indian getup, "May I have the soy-based substitute, please?"
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mazda6s Posts: 1,901Well, I drove the A3 yesterday. It was a base model, no options. We took it on a windy road in the foothills, a perfect place to test drive this car. The sales guy really liked to push it, thought I'm sure we were never near it's limits. I never thought I would say this, but I like the 2.0T engine. This is the first turbo engine that I have ever been able to say that about. It's very responsive and whatever turbo lag is there is not an issue with me (a first for me). Handling is impressive, with a very tight feel to the car overall. The 6-speed manual seems geared just right for the engine, much like I observed with the last generation Jetta with VR6 and 6-speed manual. I like the interior (mostly), controls, and base stereo. Now, the downside. The center console armrest must be folded up when driving the manual. The sliding armrest in the new Jetta is a much better design and I don't know why they didn't just use it in the A3 too. There's a big blank rectangular area in the center of the instrument cluster where the computer info would be (base model doesn't have it). The base model has a cheap plastic gearshift knob and plastic steering wheel with no radio controls, just like the new Jetta VE. You have to get the Sports Package or Premium Package to upgrade this. The Convenience Package (with trip computer) is only available if you order a car. You can't get the Sports Package without leather. I could go on but you get the idea.
So, the bottom line for me is that I wouldn't buy this car due to the equipment and options packaging. If it was just for the power train, I'd go for it. Now, if the new Jetta GLI is equipped like the last gen Jetta GLI, I'd be interested in that. -
ccd1 Posts: 140Test drove the A3s, both the 2.0T and the 3.2. I MUCH preferred the 3.2. The 2.0T in sport mode was fine, but the 3.2 in sport mode was an entirely different animal. The car just wanted to fly. I also preferred that the 3.2 comes pretty much loaded, while you have a myriad number of options with the 2.0T. The other thing I liked about the 3.2 is that it isn't a turbo. The 2.0 has a high boost turbo and I wonder how long it will last. I tend to keep my cars a long time.
Compared to the Volvo V50, the Audi is more of driver's car while the Volvo struck me as a better all weather car and had a little more space. It also had some nice touches (in terms of convenience) that were missing from the Audi, like the flap to hold groceries.
While I prefer the Audi, the issue gets back to price. The Volvo dealer would deal on price (to the tune of $3k) which makes the car around $5k cheaper than the A3 3.2. Not sure the Audi is worth that kind of difference. -
joemale Posts: 28I honestly thought the 2.0 was equally fun to drive.
THe 3.2's added weight didn't give it any noticeable
boost in power, almost the opposite.
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shipo Posts: 9,152"The 2.0 has a high boost turbo and I wonder how long it will last. I tend to keep my cars a long time."
Ummm, no. The 2.0T is a high compression low boost turbo, not the other way around (i.e. mid 1980s vintage Chrysler turbos). As for longevity, just use good fully synthetic oil (Mobil-1 0W-40 or German Castrol Syntec), and longevity shouldn't ever be an issue.
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ccd1 Posts: 140I probably should have added that I was looking for AWD, which is not available in the 2.0. I'm looking for an all weather car, with decent cargo room which is also fun to drive. That is why my top 2 choices are the A3 3.2 and the V50T AWD.
We presently own a Toyota 4Runner and like most people, never take the truck off road. Basically, I'm looking for a car I can use like my 4Runner, but on a smaller scale AND which is more fun to drive. Some better gas mileage wouldn't hurt either. -
andres3 CAPosts: 5,403Wow, I have to admit, the Audi A3 was as fun and exciting as everyone's made it out to be with DSG transmission. It was crazy seeing the RPM's move around and the shift happening so fast an instantaneous that you don't even feel it.
My initial impression is that I love a sporty car, but if the Premium or base model's suspension is a bit more forgiving, but still firm, it might be the better option.
Also, I noticed highway speed road/wind noise as quite noticeable (performance tires maybe)?
I hate that they didn't include paddle shifters on the base cloth model DSG's!!! Damn Audi for that, and using an ugly steering wheel on base models too. The interior with premium or sport is impecccable, and downright perfection (almost). -
kurtamaxxxguy Posts: 1,759fourrings, was your test Audi equipped with performance tires? Just a change in tires could change how the car rides...some mags have commented the A3 gets really loud with performance rubber.
European Car seems to be echoing Car and Driver, which said pretty much the same.
I wonder if the 3.2, which Audi told me uses the R32 engine and drive train, with Audi mods, more QC, and interior, was Audis' quick way to offer drivers an A3 Quattro without extensive re-engineering?
Incidently, The VW R32 sold out very fast here and apparently remains in high demand with little depreciation.
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shipo Posts: 9,152I think it highly unlikely that the car fourrings drove had performance tires on it. Why? Because the Premium Package only comes with All-Season tires. I do find it odd though that he (or she) claimed that the car was firm riding and noisy. I found the non-Sport Package car that I drove to be too soft in its ride, and none of the three A3s that I've driven were at all what I would call noisy.
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walkerhound1 Posts: 14If you're considering a DSG/premium, you're considering a 2.0T, I guess. I've been in a car equipped this way for 11 months.
The throttle response is not as immediate in the 2.0T as in the 3.2 (drive one of those recently)-- it's partly the transmission, and there is a little turbo lag. If you launch harder, the lag is less noticable, and you can spin the tires through 2nd gear if you want. For a brisk launch, squeeeze the gas, and I think you'll get a smooth, virtually lag-free start. Handling: depends on what you're accustomed to. IMO, it's pretty good; I have the Pirelli P6 all-seasons (still), and while they have their virtues (wet stability being one), all-out grip is not one of them. Even though the tires complain a little, you can corner this setup pretty hard as long as your approach/braking/gear selection are right. There's a little more body roll than I'd like, too. The steering boost is higher on the premium package cars than on the sport packs, but it firms up at speed & is very accurate.
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absoludely Posts: 2from the reviews i've been reading, it seems that the reason for the increased road noise was due to the all season tires, and the performance tires would actually work better.
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tslbmw Posts: 166Yes, Opensky does reduce headroom. If you're 6' or taller, your head will touch the sunshade.
No, I drove both (one with and one w/out) and didn't notice any change in wind noise.
I bought an 06 A3 2.0T DSG w/Opensky & Sport package back in March and honestly the biggest problem with Opensky is the stupid latch/clip for the sunshade that is poorly made and has broken three times already. Other than that, 7500 miles and the car has been flawless.
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tncarbuff Posts: 10Well, I drove a 2007 this weekend, and unfortunately, it did have noticeable hesitation from launch. I loved the DSG transmission once the car was moving, but from a standing position, was annoying even scary. Made me very uncomfortable to pull out in front of someone, and with a care of this power, I shouldn't have that problem.
The hesitation was there whether in totally AUTO mode, or when shifting via the paddle shifters or via the gear shift.
Lots to love, but... (The car was loaded - over $41,000! Yikes!) -
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"It's always good to win on the road and to get a sweep is exactly what we needed," state Cougar coach Mike Policastro. "We got three good pitching performances, from Bobby (Towne) on Saturday and Jake (Wright) and Josh (Morgan) on Sunday. All three did a good job and we got some hits when we needed them. The sweep puts us right back in the conference race and with three weekends left, anything can happen."
Two Saluqi errors and a single loaded the bases for the visitors in the top of the first while a third miscue pushed a run across. Dalton Rogers then doubled in a pair of runs and Evan Speicher finished the inning by lifting a fly ball to right field to push a run home for a 4-0 lead.
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That would be all the run support that Cougar starter Josh Morgan (5-3) would require as he tossed seven strong innings, allowing only three hits and fanning seven along the way to pick up the win. Justin Skinner took the loss for the Saluqis.
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What is it about Canadian women that makes them seem so down-to-earth and accessible? Like you could chat them up in a pub and it'd be relaxing and fun? Ms. Gough here just barely missed getting a medal in a tough match.
Ulla Zirne, Latvia, Luge
This Latvian cutie is only 18 years old and already representing her country at Sochi. The Luge is brutal – she placed 18th in women's singles – and total, she only had a 4.9 second time differential off from Natalie Geisenberger, the gold medalist!
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Sochi is this beautiful Canadian's Olympic debut! We love that she's a hard working college student at the University of Calgary who also loves biking and the great outdoors. Watch the video below after the gallery to hear her speak – we can definitely hear the Canadian accent and Canada pride!
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Sochi games: the sounds of women's curling [video]
We have to say: we certainly found this video very entertaining. If you watch closely, you'll see some of our favorite curlers, including Kaitlyn Lawes, Jennifer Jones and fan favorite Anna Sidorova screaming their hearts out. Who would have thought curling was such an intense sport? If you're at work, you probably want to put some headphones on when you listen to this … and you probably want to watch somewhere alone to contain your laughing.
Now, if you don't mind, we'll be busy trying to figure out how to set this as our ringtones.
Hot snowboarder Valeriya Tsoy will have you rooting for Kazakhstan in the Sochi games
Valeriya, or Valerie as she sometimes refers to herself, will be making history as the first athlete from Kazakhstan to compete in snowboarding events at the Sochi winter games in 2014! She's a total underdog, with her coach being her father, who taught her to snowboard at a young age. When she first started, she used her father's equipment, which was four sizes too large for her. I don't know about you guys, but when I hear this story, I can't help but cheer for her.
We expect her to compete in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom. Qualifications don't start until February 19th, which is probably why you haven't heard of her before. We love underdogs, and we wish this beautiful lady all the luck in her upcoming events!
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You guys loved our recent coverage of the most beautiful Norweigan women. If you thought we weren't going to cover Russia, you were wrong. Russia came to Sochi with a mission: make sure people leave knowing that Russia has some of the most beautiful women in the world. They came to the games with something to prove, and brought their A-game, having many of their athletes participate in incredibly sexy lingerie shoots. So – without further adieu, we present to you our list of the 10 most beautiful women competing in Russia.
10. Elena Nikitina, Skeleton
If you don't know what the skeleton is, watch this video. It's freakin' crazy!
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9. Olga Zyablikova, Curling
Olga won't be the last curling team member you see on our list, but she's certainly not forgettable.
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8. Angelina Goncharenko, Ice Hockey
I would never have associated "hockey" with "beautiful girls" before Sochi. I do now.
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7. Ekaterina Stoliarova, Freestyle Skiing
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6. Alena Zavarzina, Snowboarding
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INF's lag seems to be linked to the person on the team with the worst ping. I have noticed tremendous lag when I am showing pings of 80 or so - but one other teamate has a ping of 400. If I am on a team and everyone has ping rates below 175 however the game will rock (especially if the other team has a few 400 pingers :D ) I think it has to due with the need to keep track of all the other players locations 'cause when you die you can look through any team-mate's view. Maybe if they disabled this switching through "team-mate" view and just use normal ghost view the ping rate would have less impact, (Chances are not likely as this would be an engine hack rather than a mod hack <DANGIT!>) :stick:


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Movie Reviews By Dan Schindel on February 18, 2014 | Be the First To CommentEvery documentary leaves good material in the cutting room. Crafting a contained narrative from reality entails exacting editing of reams of footage gathered by the filmmakers. For the acclaimed Shoah, director Claude Lanzmann and his crew shot over 350 hours' worth of interviews with Holocaust survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders that they winnowed down to a nine and a half hour final cut. Lanzmann was gripped by the subject, and even after eleven years of production on his epic, he couldn't let it go. In the decades since Shoah's release, he's used "outtakes" from his interviews to make more documentaries about the Holocaust. The Last of the Unjust is the fourth of these films. In 1975, Lanzmann sat down with Benjamin Murmelstein, the only Judenälteste to survive the war. These were the Nazi-appointed heads of the councils of elders who would oversee each of the various Jewish ghettos and concentration camps. Acting as intermediaries between the Nazis and their communities, the main job of these councils was to make incarceration and extermination run as smoothly as possible. Murmelstein served as the third Judenälteste of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, after the executions of his two predecessors.
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Features By FSR Staff on October 29, 2013 | Comments (1)Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they'll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven't seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you've seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they revel in the evil banality of the Holocaust, its survivors and its perpetrators. In the #29 (tied) movie on the list, Claude Lanzmann whittles 350 hours of footage into a 9-hour experience of peaceful fields and conversations about death camps. But why is it one of the best movies of all time?
Culture Warrior: Enduring the Clarity and Questions Raised By 'Shoah'
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on October 4, 2011 | Be the First To CommentOf all the things associated with its reputation, probably the most immediately apparent aspect of Claude Lanzmann's incredible Holocaust documentary Shoah (1985) is its daunting, mammoth running time of nine and a half hours. While Shoah has, then and now, been lauded as an incredible achievement in cinema, its running time has contributed to an understanding of the film as primarily a project of historical documentation. In using no archival footage and only capturing the contemporary lives of Holocaust survivors, historians, scholars, and the occasional aging Nazi functionary complicit in evil's banality, all juxtaposed with extensive footage of the ruins and landscapes of the Polish grounds where these crimes against humanity took place, Shoah is typically understood to be an important means of making permanent the words of those involved long after their lifetime. Shoah is certainly a service to the preservation of history, and watching it twenty-six years after its original release (add a decade or less to the time when many of its subjects were originally filmed), I couldn't help but wonder how many of these individuals have since passed on, which makes me thankful that Lanzmann made these efforts in the first place. Shoah's contribution to history is an essential one that should never be underestimated, but this shouldn't prevent us from examining and appreciating Shoah as an incredible cinematic achievement as well.
Criterion Files #197: 'Night and Fog' Makes the Atrocities of the Past Devastatingly Present
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on September 29, 2011 | Be the First To CommentOne major aspect of the Nazi propaganda machine that gained their support from the German people was their promotion of nostalgia. And like any form of nostalgia (and especially in nostalgia's frequent political function), this was a selective nostalgia, decidedly exploiting certain tropes and icons of German history and heritage. A major component of this nostalgia was the promotion of nature as the means of returning to pure German identity. Nature provided a convenient contrast to the values that the Nazi party wanted to work against, and it's opposite – the urban center – was the focal point of all they problems they perceived Germany as having been misguided by, most explicitly centralized in the supposed decadence of 1920s Berlin. The political, aesthetic, and sexual aspirations (not to mention the diversity) of the Weimar period posed a threat to the ideals of tradition, uniformity, and the assumed hierarchy of specific social roles. This nostalgic and romantic preoccupation with nature is readily available in German cultural products of the 1920s and 30s. Anybody who has seen Inglourious Basterds (2009) is familiar with the "mountain film," or "bergfilme" genre that had peaked by this point. This genre was popular years before the Third Reich took power, and its prevalence speaks volumes to the German peoples' preoccupation with nature leading up to the Hitler's rise to power. Leni Riefenstahl, perhaps the most famous of Nazi-era filmmakers, starred in mountain films and went onto make Olympia (1938) and Triumph of the Will (1935), a […]
'Shoah' Trailer Dares You To Watch a Nine Hour Holocaust Documentary
Movie News By Scott Beggs on December 16, 2010 | Comments (1)Celebrating its 25th anniversary (which makes it a great double-feature with Back to the Future), the epic documentary Shoah is getting a re-release in select theaters and will be coming to a round disc for home enjoyment soon as well. The film is just over nine hours and has been called a masterpiece by many who have seen it. Thankfully, the trailer is not nine hours long. Also thankfully, it displays just a bit of the haunting beauty without delving too deeply into the depressingly murderous reality. Would you watch it? It's basically like watching 4 movies in a row. You can totally handle that. Seriously. The runtime is 550 minutes. That's incredible. Who's with me? [Apple]
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Paul Smith From Maximo Park Latest Instamatic For The People Participant
I am delighted that Paul Smith agreed to participate in my Instamatic For The People project.
Last week I caught up with him at his in store gig at RPM records.
I am hoping to stage an exhibition of these images in 2011 – in the meantime you can see the images in the Instamatic for the People gallery.
Frankie And The Heartstrings At RPM Record Store Newcastle
On Saturday I photographed a stripped down Frankie and the Heartstrings (Frankie and Michael) playing at one of my favourite local independent record stores R.P.M.
You could not have failed to be impressed by their acoustic set Frankie did not even use a mic – a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. I bought their new single Ungrateful.
I have put some images from the day in my Frankie And The Heartstrings RPM gallery.
I was pleased that both Michael and Frankie agreed to take part in my Instamatic for the People project.
It is always good to support live music especially at a local record store
Killing Floor, Kele, Adam Green, Instamatic For The People, RPM, And Other News
Killing Floor, Kele, Adam Green, Instamatic For The People, RPM, And Other News
It has been a busy time for me lately.
It gives me a real buzz when bands use my images – the Killing Floor are using my images here:
I am looking forward to when they return to the UK later in the year.
On 4 July a local independent record store R.P.M. celebrated Independence Day by putting on a gig in the square outside their record shop. It sis so good to support local stores so we all can have more choice not just one or two large chains that just stock whatever is popular. Some of my photographs from the gig are in the gallery . Check out R.P. M. here:
This also gave me the opportunity to photograph some more musicians for my Instamatic For The People project including members of Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle, and Cult Image. The images can be found in the gallery: Instamatic For The People
On 8 July I shot the gig by Kele at Newcastle Digital I only had first three songs from the crowd to shoot the gig and shot it with my 50mm prime lens. It made it more challenging as it was difficult to move around the audience and obviously could not zoom in or out to change the composition. Some of the images are in the gallery
This week on Monday ( 12 July 2010) I shot the Adam Green his gig at Sheffield Academy. It was my first visit to this venue – it was a good vibe there in the Academy 2. Unfortunately there was no photo pit so I shot the gig from the crowd and from the side of the stage. It is always a pleasure to shoot any of Adam's gigs he is always entertaining and most importantly he has some outstanding tunes. I also bought his instrumental soundtrack album Musik For A Play – I need to have my turntable repaired so I can hear it. Some pictures from the gig are in my Adam Green Gallery.
Last week I had some of my work published by Glorious Noise:
Evan Dando at Newcastle Cluny here:
Peter Doherty Barnsley here:
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After finding himself in a wrecked taxi, Evan tries to figure out the pieces of the puzzle, while dealing with a dangerous threat, in a seemingly deserted city.
Leo, a Hi-Tech 'pet' robot, wanders alone in Paris following the mysterious disappearance of nearly all living species.
A tiny and mysterious cat-like creature awakes in the remains of his smouldering spaceship and finds himself on a journey through a beautiful and dangerous world, in a quest for answers.
After a devastating breakup, a young girl goes on a quest to find her spirit animal.
A giant blue man wanders an alien planet, his actions controlled by the chickens in his mind
In an alien world, a creature is granted the chance to alter the future.
Not many people know this but every night at 3:33AM time is frozen for a moment. During what is a fraction of second to mortal eyes there is a second night, a secret one where the spirits of the city come out to play.
Edmond is a small man whose life transforms when his co-workers crown him with paper donkey ears.
A fisherman returns to the dock to share the tale of his most epic fishing expedition with the boy waiting for him.
Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. However it never goes as planned…
After his plane crashes on a small uninhabited island, a young man and his dog must find a way home.
Anton may be done with life, but life ain't done with Anton. In his convincing decision to change his measly existence he discovers the real greatness of life.
I won't be going back to Quetico Park anytime soon. Not after what happened to a girl named Francis Brandywine.
Private eye Vincent Black is hired by an old man hoping to recover his lost ideas.
During a 'Let's Play' review of his favorite '90's computer game, a man tells the story of losing the love of his life and why, yesterday, he got punched in the throat.
An animated journey into the future of a young couple moving in together for the first time.
The Argentinian house 3DAR puts together an astounding passion project. Faced with the destruction of his habitat from encroaching development, a monkey decides to change the system from the inside.
A boy makes an unusual new friend on a hunting trip with his father. Animator Jeremy Clapin's followup to his 2009 SotW Best Short of the Year.
A young girl abandons her medication and the bleak city in which she lives, to explore a mystical oceanic cove.
A vengeful Easter bunny plots to steal Santa's sack, and in the process, learns something about himself that will change Christmas forever.
Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated in their "natures", they never met each other. But, their encounter will soon become more complicated than they could imagine. Both of them will have to learn compromise to protect the other…
An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place.
A set of strange creatures whose instincts, rather than focus on survival, seem to doom them to an absurd and comic extinction.
Instructor Jaime Maestro and students from Spain's PrimerFrame Academy produce this Goya-winning short translated as "The Smoke Seller".
Threatened by the invading German Army in WWI, a group of misfits must band together in order to save Britain and the world.


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so like...i've noticed...i seem to be attracted to girls shorter than me...not asian and older than me.... i'm about 5'3" so...yeah...or maybe i'm taller? i've probably grown some...
like...there is this senior...this girl in my grade but born in '93...another girl who is about 5 months older than me...now there's a junior...interesting? sure...and all of them are NOT asian...they're all caucasian 'cept for the one who's about 5 months older than me...she's...really mixed...ok she has some asian blood...lol
i know i'm a bit racists...everyone's racist...but yeah...i mean...i'm attracted to only non asians but i'm asian myself...it's kinda logical because you see so much of your own kind that it gets kinda tiring...
how about the rest of you?
But I think James Franco is attractive. Or at least I wouldn't call him ugly. He's an okay looking guy especially in Milk. But, hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Fine, he has his far-and-in-between moments of beauty, but I'm sorry, compared to Randy Harrison, he's UGLY AS HELL.
.... i have a thing for teeny transboys. (you know, those ones that look like they're eight years younger then they actually are, are about 5ft1, and weigh barely 100lbs)
(: ... and little canadians.... *cough*quin sisters and ellen page and avril lavigne...*cough*
uhm. i'm a sucker for green eyes. although... i don't see much of those, so i'm a sucker for blue eyes, too. and those weird combinations of, like, seven different eye colors ... but big, sad, brown eyes always get me. even though i hate brown eyes (because i have them)...
i really like girls w/ short hair, but all of my crushes have had insanely beautiful long hair. usually curly, usually brunette. i hate my curly hair... but i absoloutely adore other girls's. and i completely love red hair. red hair is beautiful.
uhm, i hate tall people. i hate kissing tall people. therefore, i like short girls. about the same height as me.
uhm, as for what ethnicity or whatever... i love them all! :P
well- americans are ugly. and not all americans. i mean the white hair, orange skin, fake nails/boobs/ass/stomache americans. the ones that look like Brooke Hogan & co. are the ones i really don't like...
i'm italian, but i looove italian girls (olive skin, black hair, etc)... who look a little like hispanic/latina girls. Girls from countries like Ireland (&neighboring countries) have to be my favorite, though.. i dunno why. just the combination of the blue/green eyes and the red/brunette hair... :D
...i think i put a little too much thought into this.
No fake girls. Completely agree with you on that one. Ugh, I really don't see the attraction to girls with the really fake tans, hair colour, nails, ect. Icky icky icky.
AGREE AGREE AGREE on the fake girls. =S
[[Love means you can never be apart... <3]]
they make me want to slap them...
can't stand those fakies...X(
That's so straight. No, seriously.
Italian girls are HOOOOT! I agree!
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
real italian girls are (:
not staten island, NY italian girls.
blech. :P
I agree very strongly on the fake girls with silicon boobs the size of Texas. DX
I generally tend to go for blondes, with pretty eyes. They don't have to be a specific color, just expressive. Height doesn't really matter, but they can't make me feel too short (although it is pretty easy to do that, being only 5'2"). Freckles are cute too.... Though, if someone has a good enough personality, all the above gets thrown out the window.
They also have to be smart enough to hold a mildly intelligent and interesting conversation with. I can't STAND dumb girls.
I also like girls that are comfortable enough in their own skin to not want to change it (not like dying hair, but like plastic surgery).
"When you can't walk you crawl, and when you can't do that you find someone to carry you" ~Firefly
I tend to go for girls on the small side, usually white, either awesomely androgynous/tomboyish or a little bit femmy. Generally, really nice hair. Tall girls once in a while too, depends on the girl... mostly, the clincher is confidence. I like 'em smart and quirky and generally awesome.
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
Um....Does anyone on here actually prefer tall girls? I also like girls shorter than me...but I'm 5'9", so I don't meet many taller than me lol.
I tend to like girls my height or taller, but I'm 5'4 so they're easier to find. I think it's just that I was really, really short until a few years ago when I just reached average, so I feel awkward when I'm taller than other people.
But there was this one girl who was 4'10 for whom I would have made an exception...
I guess I don't really have any major restrictions on preference.
I'm 5'4 but I'm obsessed of being tall... Tooootally jealous of lacking_ now! But taller girls can look a bit intimidating sometimes, just a bit.
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
lol at least you have lots of girls near your height. I don't think I'm very intimidating, probably because I'm skinny, but I'm not offended by that statement lol :)
I'm glad you are not =) The skinny part actually helps to ease the intimidation, and I'm sure you are not intimidating, no one on Oasis is! XD
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
i'd have to look up if i were to ever meet you! lol
That's so straight. No, seriously.
I don't mind crouching down ;) lol
bahahahaha! then you'd crouch down to my height? really? and stay on your hunches for more than 10 mins? really? for me? :D haha
That's so straight. No, seriously.
I have no preferences.
Generally I like girls who are taller... Or shorter.
Brunettes are cool but blondes are beautiful too.
Not a lot of diversity because I live in Ohio. Not too much diversity.
Not too old but not too young either...
Really its about timing.
I'm asian, attracted to Caucasians who are taller than me (I'm 165) and also slightly older- these types of women who usually wouldn't pay a speck of attention to me.
There's a lot of hot asian lesbians though. I wouldn't mind at all. But that's just in general.
I have a weakness for nerds. Its bad. I guess thats not really physical though. But mmmmmhmm Ellen Paige! She's my future wifey. :)
As for looks..
I like boobs.
And well I'll never date a girl with red hair, we'll look like sisters. Blondes are alright as long as its natural. I love love brunettes though. Glasses are soo cute.
I doubt I'll ever be that into someone more femme than me. I'm not super femme myself but I just can't stand girly girls for that long. I'm sure I'll make an exception for a butch one day but she has to have the best personality in the world for that one lol.
Nice arms are amazing though. About the same height as me if not taller.
Faux hawks are a weakness of mine too ><
faux hawks...hm..how tall are you? and...how about androgenous girls?
That's so straight. No, seriously.
I'm like 5ft 5in. Androgenous girls can be good. I liked Shane from the L word lol
to my friend...:D lol idk what her preference is though...:/ oh well...
That's so straight. No, seriously.
being that i live in so cal, my preferences are pretty much the average girl from here lol. i tend to be attracted to Hispanic girls that are white washed and don't speak Spanish XD, or white girls . brunettes are ok, red heads are kinda cute lol, i seem to have a thing for blondes lol. when i was a kid i remember thinking about what i wanted my partner to look like (this was back when i was trying to make myself think i liked boys, but i thought it would look so much better if it was on on a girl XD :P) she would be blonde (naturally) and have either green or blue eyes ( or some other trippy color :D) and she'd be about as tall as i am or maybe even a bit taller, and she'd be white :). i laughed when i remembered this not too long ago, cause its basically a description of my girl XD. oh and i dont like butch girls either, i tend to be attracted to the slightly girly girls. but not too much cause then it really does just get a bit annoying :D.
"why, does she have a penis?" -Datarock
(cause im geeky like that XD)


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Double Jeopardy
48 Hours in Color-Management Hell
By Mike Johnston
The punchline first: Everything's okay. And: "whew."
However, I just got out of about 48 hours in color-management hell. Ever been there? It's not pleasant.
The printer I was using is new to me. It's a B9180 that HP sent to me as a review sample a few days ago. The first prints I made were...well, not prints at all, but embarrassments. Something was very seriously wrong.
Wisconsin #7
But what? For a day or two, I'll be darned if I knew.
The printer was a repack, which is a bit dumb of HP from the start – the setup wasn't what was described in the Startup Guide, because the machine had already been initialized and had its language set, and so forth, and what the printer said it wanted from its little readout and what the Startup Guide was telling me to do were different things. But once I got everything put together, the built-in test sheets printed well and all the inks and printheads got a clean bill of health from the internal status monitors. So the printer hardware was confirmed to be working fine. That was the first thing I checked.
The trouble is that there are so many variables it's impossible to test them all. With only 5 sheets each of several types of very expensive media provided by HP, I had room for trials (but just barely) if everything went right.
Everything was emphatically not going just right. But what, exactly, was wrong? I was up till two in the morning two nights running trying to figure it out. No clue, and it was very frustrating and stressful. Two days, and I had yet to make an even marginally successful print from one of my own files.
Globally described, the problem was double-color-management, most probably. That's when you are applying color management twice, through two different software protocols or devices. The one fights the other, and the results are...alarming. The most obvious example of this is when you've got your software handling the color and your printer also handling the color. You've got to let one or the other do this, and make sure the other one is standing down.
I tried to profile the printer using the ColorVision PrintFIX PRO Suite. This is a two-part semi-pro calibration routine using the Spyder2PRO 2.2 for monitor calibration (works fine, looks nice) and the PrintFIX PRO colorimeter for building a device profile.
The HP printer driver gives very few controls, and for a while it wasn't exactly obvious to me which of them I needed to use when a) building the profile and b) printing. The ColorVision instructions are very emphatic about the need to turn off color management in Photoshop before printing the sheet with all the test patches on it, but then claims elsewhere that if you print the test patches from within the dialog box (DB) of PrintFIX PRO, the app will make sure no color management is being applied. So which is it? Plus, when you print the test patches from within the app, it still brings up the printer DB when you go to print...but of course the regular "Print" DB, not the "Print with Preview" DB. And then, at that point, it's unclear just what driver controls are needed. And this brings up a pervasive difficulty in digital imaging: there's no instruction book, because no single person or manufacturer can possibly try all the variables on every possible combination of equipment and write down for you exactly how it's supposed to work. The options for "Color" under "Paper Type/Quality" in the HP print driver are "ColorSmart/sRGB," "ColorSync," "Grayscale," "Application Managed Color," and "Adobe RGB." I was on my own as to which of those to use when printing the test patch sheet, which will then require half an hour to dry down and another fifteen minutes to laboriously read with the colorimeter. I picked "Application Managed Color," the app being the PrintFIX PRO software. Was that right? Who knows?
Then I was faced the prospect of a whole slew of new difficulties when it came to actual printing from within Photoshop. Because if the print still didn't look right, what do I do to troubleshoot, and what option do I try next? Do I rebuild the test patch sheet with a different print DB setting? Do I try different things within Photoshop color management? Or do I just screw with the settings in the printer DB? I decided to just jettison the custom profiles and work on getting a decent print with the standard controls. There were thousands of different possible combinations, and I had 44 sheets of paper and one set of inks then about 90% full...it wasn't looking too good for a while there.
Gavin – Snow Day
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The good news is that everything's now fine. The problem went away – completely. The prints are now rolling off the B9180 looking just the way they're supposed to, as close to the monitor image as light-emitting and light-reflecting media can be to each other, responding well to subtle changes in both the files and the settings. The two custom profiles I've now built using the ColorVision PrintFIX PRO work fine, as do the standard, bundled-in profiles for the respective HP papers. This is (naturally) a very tentative conclusion, but I don't think I'd hesitate just to use the standard profiles unless I were experiencing some specific problem. Of course PrintFIX PRO would come in very handy for making profiles for non-HP papers. I'll know soon, as I've just ordered some Moab Entrada Natural that I'll probably have to profile myself—the printer is so new that Moab doesn't offer any profiles for it yet.
The bad news is...I still don't know what was wrong before, and I don't exactly know what I did to fix it. The problem, whatever it was, just sort of evaporated. Somehow, I was double-dipping, applying two layers of color management that were fighting each other, to the very alarming detriment of the prints, which were so woeful-looking that it seems – now, anyway – almost funny.
And now I'm not.
What changed? I can't really tell you. I know I was making multiple changes to all sorts of settings, and then setting them back again, and in one of those many changes I just eliminated the double-loop, whatever and wherever it was occurring. I think this particular problem was entirely within Photoshop. I suspect, though I'm not sure, that it was in the Photoshop > Color Settings DB. But I don't really know, because I didn't note all of the individual settings before I turned color management off and then turned it back on again during the profiling process.
An ultimate mystery, one that goes away without revealing itself....
The lesson here, if there is one, is just that when you experience problems, you just have to keep hunting them down until they go away. What are the action steps? I asked my friend Carl Weese for help, and he had a number of good suggestions. I kept reading away at the various help menus and instruction books (the number of these isn't trivial – it included, in this case, HP's printer manual and online help, the help buttons within the ColorVision product, and Adobe's online tutorials for Photoshop, plus color management resources and printing resources from other sources). Most of all, keep trying things. Write everything down, if you can, and change settings, and experiment.
I used to do the same thing in the darkroom. A problem would occur, and I'd have to chase it down, remoreslessly vectoring in on every potential cause until I either located the culprit or the problem went away.
I wish I could tell you what I was doing wrong, but the plain fact is that it wouldn't help you, or anybody, even if I could. We all use different combinations of devices and software, and in any multi-variable process there are going to be highly individualized problems cropping up that need to be solved. You just have to keep after it, be patient, keep learning. Trust yourself, too – you'll get it worked out eventually. I'm supposed to be an expert, yet there I was feeling as humiliated and helpless as any fledgling beginner. I suspect it happens to us all.
It's nice to be free again, however. Color management hell is just not a nice place to be.
–Mike Johnston
Mike Johnston's "Daily kibble for photo dawgs" is The Online Photographer