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Appeals court hears arguments on gay troop ban
"You hear a lot about judicial activism, particularly here in the 9th Circuit, so I wonder if there is not a public interest in letting this case run its course," Silverman said.
Log Cabin Republicans successfully won an injunction from Phillips in a Riverside, Calif., Court last year that halted enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell" briefly as Congress was debating doing away with the policy. Nearly 14,000 military members have been discharged under the statute.
The 9th Circuit allowed the government to keep the policy in place while it considered the government's appeal, but in July told the government it was no longer allowed to investigate, penalize or discharge anyone who was openly gay.
O'Scannlain asked Whitaker if the government would continue to defend the gay ban, as it has throughout the Log Cabin litigation, if the 9th Circuit panel declined to dismiss the case. Whitaker said it would, since the U.S. Constitution clearly gives Congress authority "to raise and support its armies."
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Richard Socarides, an adviser on gay rights to former President Bill Clinton, under whose administration "don't ask, don't tell" was enacted, said the government's position was surprising since President Barack Obama has backed the policy's repeal.
"Anyone focused on ending this policy for good should want (Phillips') ruling to stand on appeal," Socarides said Thursday. "It's an important statement about who we are as a country and our values - values that say discrimination is unconstitutional. It's not enough to say we repealed it. We need to declare it wrong, unconstitutional and illegal."
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|Aug 6, 2012, 09:04 AM
|Aug 7, 2012, 08:15 AM
Has anyone figured out what Amazon's service does with ID3 tags, album cover art, and explicit content?
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|Aug 7, 2012, 08:43 AM
Would have made no sense, as both companies produce the later, but only apple sells PCs.
|Aug 7, 2012, 09:43 AM
My point is just because a company makes the bulk of its profits in one category should not preclude them from recouping development costs of other products. I don't see Microsoft selling any of its products at or near cost like Apple is selling 10.8. So when people grouse that 10.8 is a whole sawbuck it's really rather empty and argumentative.
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|Aug 7, 2012, 09:47 AM
For the heck of it, I tried a few albums that had so-so success on iTM on Amazon Match. I haven't purchased the extended service, but I get 250 songs, so I figured I could even upload, match, and then delete them to free up the space
Anyway, they were about the same. No major improvements, but not any major changes either. I think the matching logic isn't much different.
I have purchased quite a bit of new recently from Amazon (some incredible deals for $1.99-$2.99), and the download system is pretty nice, basically you download a directive file that runs in a local app and fetches all the songs and autoloads them into iTunes (which then upload them to iTM).
It's a big circular cloud-o-rama!
|Aug 7, 2012, 10:56 AM
Retina iMac, 15" MacBook Pro, Mac mini with Yosemite Server, 7 other Macs and 5 iOS devices in the household. Yes, it's too many.
|Aug 7, 2012, 11:14 AM
|Aug 7, 2012, 12:19 PM
Retina iMac, 15" MacBook Pro, Mac mini with Yosemite Server, 7 other Macs and 5 iOS devices in the household. Yes, it's too many.
|Aug 7, 2012, 12:56 PM
|Aug 7, 2012, 08:28 PM
However I didn't test explicit content so I can't say how Amazon matches it.
|Aug 8, 2012, 09:09 AM
I'm unsure about album art. I'm pretty sure they use your own art and substitute when there is nothing provided by you (I've found a couple of funny results this way). One album I have was signed by the artist and there was no good artwork available when I got it, so I scanned that, and that is indeed the artwork that shows in the songs on Cloud Player.
I've barely gotten it to match anything (440 out of 38,000 songs) so I really can't say. I'm fine with that, though. Most of my music is 256/320, so matching is the one feature I really don't care about - it's why I'm using Amazon and not iTunes Match. IM matched far too many things incorrectly and offered no way to correct those mistakes, so they've lost my business unless Apple changes something in the next iOS and iTunes updates. Mismatches in Cloud Player are easy to take care of - click the arrow to the right of a song and "fix mismatch" or "remove". What I'm annoyed about is NEITHER iTunes Match nor Cloud Player have matched and upgraded the small bunch of low-quality files that I have. But overall, Cloud Player kicks iTunes Match's butt, and unless there's a massive overhaul of IM, I can't see how that's going to change much this year.
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|Aug 8, 2012, 09:24 AM
You have to understand something. People like me don't have this much music so we can listen to it every single day from start to finish. It's because we're haunted by music. I literally cannot be without all this music because it's in my head and then I have to hear it. And enough of what I have is not and probably never will be on Spotify/Mog/etc. that the services just aggravate me. "Out of print" means "completely unavailable" in the digital world, while dirt-cheap copies of these albums sit in used record stores all over the world. But believe me, I've tried to minimize my collection and live on "the essentials." I found out that drives me crazy after a while. It's the same for others like me. I need variety. I listen to different music all day long, every day. My mood changes like the wind. I know that most people are content to listen to a handful of albums over and over and over. My wife is like this. I can't understand it. And that's why I need to have all this music around me. I've been buying music for the better part of 30 years now. At times multiple albums a week - very frequently when I was younger. If I still had ALL of that and hadn't sold lots of it off over time, I can easily see having many times more than I have now. Maybe it doesn't sound so insane to you now?
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|Aug 8, 2012, 07:13 PM
Unlike you, I'm content with Spotify. I don't need specific songs most of the time (and when I do, I have them,) most of the time I'm just looking for a particular mood and am content with telling Spotify (the Moodify app to be more specific) and letting it show me new music.
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|Aug 9, 2012, 07:37 AM
Your wife's "rotate limited albums" methodology would annoy me. But then one must ask if it's that her taste is limited or if she's just being pragmatic. Perhaps she really does enjoy 2,000 different albums but not enough to listen to them beyond the first cut.
My music library is roughly 5,000 songs deep which spans about 15 years. I do add to it every year, but the fact is I don't listen to hardly any of it. The bulk of what I do listen to is stuff that I bought from Amazon MP3. My reasoning is simple; my taste changed as I got older, but also I might buy an album to support an artist. I might buy collections from certain artists who have inspired me. And in some cases, back before these new fangled auto-ma-whatsits we call MP3s, we had CD singles which let you buy the best songs without buying the full CD. A lot of what I have consist of singles that I've bought or acquired over the years before they stopped selling singles in the US. My library spans genres; the only things I don't have are death metal and techno which I find to be garbage.
I keep them all for now because it gives me a variety of music that someone I meet might be interested in. It's a topic of conversation but also a way to introduce others to different artists and styles of music.
To your point about not being able to listen to the same music over and over, to me that's the reason for things like SKY.FM and others where they can play music of a genre you're in the mood for. Then you can hear new music that's at least similar to music you do enjoy. I can't just shuffle what I have in the library because I don't want to go from Sam Cooke to Motorhead during a commute to work, but at the same time I don't want to limit myself to a playlist of songs either. My preference is to have something or someone else play a genre I enjoy of random songs where I don't know what will come up, but I know I'll enjoy it because I have an itch for that genre. If I like the song enough, SoundHound it and add it to my collection.
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|Aug 9, 2012, 11:26 AM
Also, tiny request everyone. This post is about Amazon and it's service. All these tangential discussions about how much music you have or MP3 vs AAC and all that, they just kind of drown out the relevant information.
Just a thought...
|Aug 10, 2012, 05:16 AM
However for your own uploads I believe it does keep your tags, but I'm not positive. Again I did this testing the first night it was out and only matched about 10-12 albums.
|Aug 10, 2012, 07:47 AM
*one annoying caveat is that there is a subset of songs I purchased from iTunes as 128AAC-DRM that are no longer in the store for various reasons, but are being counted as Uploads rather than Purchases.
|Aug 10, 2012, 08:07 AM
getting old
look, this is getting old. If I didn't state previously (I thought I did), then I will state again: I used LAME in the late 90s to convert most of my favorite tunes to mp3 (192, 256 and 320vbr). Tagging is probably minimal due to tagging always being somewhat hit or miss. If iTunes is matching based on tagging, then I will later try to fiddle with my tags to see if that helps.
Finally, I'm not sure why people are so concerned what my library set up is. You know, if Itunes and iPhoto actually even allowed you to move files between different libraries, I might have a better setup. As it is, I have a mac mini with an external usb where I have (multiple) itunes and iphoto libraries -- but mostly 1 large library for each. So, what do I have in iTunes on my 1/2 a dozen other macs? NOTHING. So, you start up itunes, import a few test songs and test match. It's really not rocket science.
I forget which key it is -- holding option while launching? whatever -- you get to choose the library to use (and the app seems to remember for the next time). Finally, I found some software by some company (sleepy cat?) that seems to allow me to move music between libraries. $20 well spent for a feature that apple should be providing inherently.
Someone else said the failure is mine. Is it? it's my failure because the software works poorly for me? I guess that makes you feel better about yourself, whatever. Finally, I really just don't have a lot of time to (constantly be) upgrading and converting my music "library" ... I have old mp3s (again, that didn't come from napster or other places -- hell, they might even have worked better IF that had come from there since they would probably be tagged better... but they didn't) with probably questionable tagging. I know I have almost 0 cover art -- and that's probably based off tagging as well.
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(Science: zoology) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See garfish.
The gar pike. See alligator gar (under alligator), and gar pike.
(Science: zoology) gar pike, or garpike, a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.
Origin: Prob. As. Gar dart, spear, lance. The name is applied to the fish on account of its long and slender body and pointed head. Cf. Goad, gore.
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September 26, Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) Introduction: Prehomogeneous Spaces
October 3, Wei Ho (Columbia) Coregular Spaces and Genus One Curves.
October 10, Jack Thorne (Harvard) Coregular Spaces and Vinberg Theory. Review Notes
October 17, Benedict Gross (Harvard) Some Arithmetically Interesting Orbits
October 24, Alison Miller (Princeton) Arithmetic aspect of Knot Invariants.
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November 7 - Jack Thorne (Harvard) Arithmetic of Simple Singularities
November 14 - Arul Shankar (Princeton) Counting Techniques for the Average Rank of Elliptic Curves (Bjorn Poonen has a wonderful exposition of the contents of this talk here )
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Jeff Green led the Celtics, scoring 27 points in 43 minutes, while Kris Humphries chipped in with 18 points and 10 boards after getting the start at center.
Playing a season-high 38 minutes, Rajon Rondo dished out 11 assists, but went just 4-of-11 from the floor. Jared Sullinger returned from a three-game hiatus due to a concussion, playing 24 minutes and scoring 10 points.
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I think Drago is going to come out on top. He's a better fighter than their first at meet.
According to the Junkie, The fight between Nate Quarry and Pete Sell will be upgraded to the televised portion of the Ultimate Fight Night (UFN) 11 card after Mike Swick was forced to pull out of his fight with Jonathan Goulet due to a rib injury. Pete Sell and Nate Quarry are no strangers, in their first meeting Pete Sell lost by TKO to Nate Quarry in 42 seconds at Ultimate Fight Night 1.
Date: Sept. 19, 2007
Venue: The Palms Las Vegas
Broadcast: Spike TV
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I think Drago is going to come out on top. He's a better fighter than their first at meet.
Has nate even had a fight since he lost to Franklin? If he hasnt he'll be rusty and I would pic Drago too.
No he hasn't. (at least not with the UFC) It's been nearly two years since Franklin knocked him on his ass. I don't know the reason behind his absence.
Yeah, thats what I thought. I know he is one of the most posterized knockouts but 2 years is forever in MMA. In that case I'll take Pete Sell, Henderson, and I already know Fedor will be attending the PPV so I expect Dana to introduce him to the UFC on SAturday.
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Hundreds of activists under the leadership of federation president and BJP legislator D.S. Veeraiah marched from Basaveshwara Circle to Mr. Yediyurappa's residence. They submitted a letter of support to Mr. Yediyurappa stating that they wanted him to take over as the Chief Minister and continue various programmes taken up by coalition Government for the welfare of Dalits.


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ANAHEIM - Like a comedian overworking a popular catchphrase, the Angels' act is getting tired.
In this case, though, the punch line is a lack of punch.
The Angels' 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night featured the usual elements – a listless offense that put little pressure on the opposing pitcher, poor at-bats with runners in scoring position when it did and another solid effort by their own starting pitcher that was wasted.
It was the 22nd time in 63 games this season that the Angels have been held to two runs or less, the 17th time that number has been one or none. They have scored a total of seven runs while losing their past four games, a total of 13 (no more than three in any game) while losing six of their past seven games.
"This dry spell rests squarely on the shoulders of our offensive side," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We need to pick it up and have the kind of at-bats that are going to lead to (scoring) situations and then take advantage of them.
"We understand what this is about. ... We'll make some moves as there are better options to look at."
Scioscia seems to be running out of ideas on that front. He gave the team a pregame pep talk Monday – and got one run from it. He reworked the lineup Tuesday, adding Vernon Wells (back from the DL) and giving two of his slumping hitters (Maicer Izturis and Peter Bourjos) the night off – and got one run from it.
Wednesday, he is giving them the afternoon off. The team will not take batting practice on the field as usual and players don't have to be dressed until 90 minutes before game time.
"When you're grinding so hard as all these guys have been – out for extra BP, doing cage drills, looking at video – when you've done that enough and you're not seeing results, sometimes showing up, getting loose and just playing a game ... maybe a day like that will reboot guys," Scioscia said.
It hasn't seemed to matter who the opposing pitcher is. The Angels were shut out into the eighth inning Monday night by Rays ace David Price, the runner-up for the AL Cy Young Award last season.
But Tuesday, they faced rookie right-hander Alex Cobb. Cobb made his major-league debut against the Angels last month and the Rays were convinced he was tipping his pitches. He was sent back to the minors where he was directed to work on that.
If the Angels knew what was coming Tuesday night, it didn't help. They went down meekly against Cobb most of the night, managing just five hits in the first six innings (two that never left the infield). But the Angels certainly swung as if they knew what was coming – they made Cobb throw more than 12 pitches in an inning just once after the first.
As has become routine this season, the Angels were at their worst with runners in scoring position. They stranded runners at first and second in the first inning, didn't advance Bobby Abreu at all after his leadoff double in the fourth or Mark Trumbo when he led off the seventh by reaching third on a double and an error by Rays centerfielder B.J. Upton.
In all, the Angels were 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position - the one hit a two-out, RBI single by Torii Hunter after Howie Kendrick doubled in the sixth inning.
Hitless in three at-bats in his first game back from the DL, Wells was booed after he popped up with Trumbo on third.


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Central Coast to rebuild squad ahead of A-League season
Central Coast Mariners coach Lawrie McKinna admits he needs to rebuild the squad leading into the 2009/10 A-League season.
The Mariners have had a less than successful campaign in the Asian Champions League and whilst McKinna believes it has been a good experience, knows he needs to turn over the playing list.
"We enjoyed the (ACL) experience and I think it's been good for the players but I think it just shows we have to rebuild the squad which we'll do in the off season," said McKinna.
"We've enjoyed it but we've learned that we need to improve and now we'll be looking for players that can come in and add to our squad and improve our squad and focus on next season's A-League.
"We'll look at the back, we'll look at the midfield and probably up front as well."


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Be, K.*, Gamlath, S. and Smith, S.* (2009) In vitro antimicrobial effect of spice extracts on probiotic bacteria, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of Australia, HEC Press, Kent Town, S. A. [E3]
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Halo 4: A Hero Awakens
See all the work that goes into capturing the actor performances for Halo 4's dramatic story.
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Personally I prefer Chief as a quiet, absolute, almost "hand-of-god" character, but I would like to see exploration of his human side. I just hope that this focus is shown more through Cortana, as she does essentially represent Chiefs conscious
3 more weeks..!
Well my 360 just broke and I got a new job. I've been saving for a brand new xbox and am going to get halo 4 come black friday ;)
I want a 360 for this. :(
Looking forward to playing through the story on this one.
So we can finally see Master chief's face!!!
Really hype for this game!
I prefer more ralisgtic games :)
"Halo has a story to get invested in? Damn I must have missed in when I blinked, in between walking down the same corridors and killing enemies for 10 whole hours per game."
I say again, I've read the books. The Halo universe is much bigger than the games you have played. If you have no time for Halo then the books aren't for you but for anyone who likes the story, I would very much recommend them.
I really wish you guys would listen sometimes, we waste so much time with people just not listening.
The only games I own are Halo titles, MGS, GTA, GOW, Crysis, Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer titles.
If you like just 1 of those games, then accept that we have something in common and stop highlighting our differences.
And lastly, for all you guys who take this sooooo seriously, stop masturbating and playing Video games and actually live life a bit more.
Games are for fun, not for arguing about.
I haven't play Halo for a very long time, what I miss the most on this game and I just dont understand why they pull it off is "ROCKET RACE" that was the most fun and frantic game mode, I laughed so hard every time you passed some else at 100 miles an hour ans hear them yelling "GO BACK GO BACK" "SHOOT HIM"....that was fun!!! CO OP at his best! :) if they decide to bring it back, I'm buying the game today....
They wait for the 4th game (technically like 6th? 7th) to make a "dramatic" story?
Single player looks... ok but im afraid multiplayer is gonna be similar to CoD
Damn, Cortana is sexy
How many times have we seen online videos like these and then the game sucks? Not saying it will be the case with this game, so cool your jets fan boys, but you get what im saying right? Dev. can talk as much as they want about how they're trying to achieve something but in the end the game will be the deciding factor.
My only concern that might be 12 hours and less with it all being about multiplayers. I liked halo but seems each game got shorter after first one exception of reach which seemed longer than 2, 3 and ddst.
the holy halo. come on november hurry up
I played the original halo's for story. I might actually pick this up again if there is a story I give a dam about.
interesting, looks alot like new jumping off point for the series. I am very curious now as to how this new trilogy will play out.
Did anyone else notice how much bigger cortana's boobs are?
Sooo... ps3? XD d'aaaw :(
I only got the sequels to CE to continue to story. I wasn't interested in picking this up because the gameplay is highly unlikely to entertain me much again, but the way they're tugging my strings about story is re-convincing me. The chief is always so stoic, even when he's got the world on his shoulders, it'd be interesting to see if he ever loses confidence
Really lookin' forward to this!
i wonder if this will have a better ending to it.
If so maybe she is on the Infinity?
10:18.... I havent looked into how long time wise this is from Reach/the other halos but... could that be Dr. Halsey?
Just remake Halo 2 already. Anyone's who's owned the original Xbox and played H2 online knows that that's one of the greatest games ever made.
@Vitex2003 never heard of a ralisgtic game haha
@buccomatic Worn out? Maybe. Unknowable until the game comes out and is actually played. Nerdy? Every gaming franchise is a nerdy franchise. If you're really using nerdy as an insult, you are certainly in the wrong kind of company. The gaming community is inherently nerdy. We are all nerds. In the context of gamers, 'nerdy' is much more complimentary than insulting, unless it were coming from some jock troll.
You're typing about 5 times as much as me and you tell ME to stop masturbating and arguing about? LOL!!
As for the books thing, yeah Space Invaders also had an AMAZING book to go with the story. So they decided to leave out the entire story from the game and just have it in a book. ;)
Dude, if I have to look elsewhere for the story other than the game itself, then the GAME doesn't have a story.
@danielcliment rocket race was in halo reach for a while but they change the game modes all the time they probs will have it as a game mode at some point in halo 4, also griftball was fun and thats back in halo 4:)
@MooncalfReviews dont know where u were when i was playing halo all of them are "dramatic" this one is more "dramatic" i think u should go play your dull story of resistance.
@nameaprice Yeah, Bungie was pretty bad with the hype to actual gameplay thing, and I doubt 343 is any different. In some cases, Bungie outright lied (remember the videos showing the options for Firefight? Did we even get 1/100 of those options? Those options were for Bungie and Bungie only). Halo 4 will be like all the others, nothing more. That's not a bad thing, mind you.
@nameaprice Brink had a ton of these videos. So did demon's forge. All PR fluff, but still fun to watch.
@goufzero20 ODST was really short. I was surprised to play ODST after Halo 3 and finish it in less than a few days. The main games in the series seem a lot longer, but I think Halo 3 just had better pacing than the other two games, which is why it seemed shorter. But I could be wrong, I haven't played it in a while.
But yeah, 343 better not turn Halo into another FPS with a short singleplayer and an over complicated multiplayer.
@Fist-of-Fury360 Forward unto dawn?
It's 2 years after Halo 3
@Gegglington this is produced by microsoft so ENDING! ENDING YOU SAY! i think not. HALO 5 2014.
@Gegglington Nah, it's not produced by EA
@Sevenizz No halo CE is
@RBwd @Vitex2003 I think he mean , Realistic first person shooter instead of SC-Fi FPS .
Well in an ideal world, games would have a fully fledged story in them and MGS is the only game out of the games that I've played that tells you all you need to know. The long cutscenes are a blessing for me but some its tedious so you can't make everyone happy.
Anyway, it's a given that books are normally better than their film or video game adaptations and Halo itself could only allude to the detail which the books go into otherwise it would need to be like MGS lol.
@jayjay444 never heard of griftball, but sounds fun! I have to admit I lost interest in halo after Reach, I feel it didn't evolve game wise, graphically is pretty good! I wish other games had that amazing theater mode!!!
@jayjay444 @MooncalfReviews Do not insult Resistance , it has it is moment , and i believe it has more potiential to have a dramtic story
@evilweav yea true... im hungry... i think ill make a sandwich
@Lord_Sesshy @JackRo117 it is almost 5 years after Halo 3. @JackRo117 it is either Halsey (Spoiler Glasslands) because she is imprisoned in the infinity or it could be Parangosky Head of ONI... we'll see soon enough
@Genralbold @Gegglington And that you are so naive that it will have an ending. Whats the problem with a sequel?
At least Halo is not popping out every year and they did tried to branch out from FPS.
@Bhemont @Gegglington so you think Microsoft is better than EA if this is true its only by like 0.001%
@Bhemont @Gegglington neither is Mass Effect 3, that was produced by Bioware, the only thing EA produces is feces, and unfortunately Mass Effect 3 was covered by a lot of it.
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June 11th, 2012 #151
A study from Velazquez, my 2nd fav old master.
I used a 100% opacity square brush, which means I have to pick each and every color I use, and color picking takes longer with RGB sliders.
Well, it took fucking 3 hours in the end, but I guess I did learn a lot about color and a bit about comp.
A study after Vermeer, which took 20 minutes. Butchered his amazing lighting so baaaad, but at least I learned somthin baout composition.
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June 11th, 2012 #152
Might be worth repeating that Vemeer study to see if you can get the lighting down btter next time. Great work, though. And you have improved quite a bit in the last three months, you've been working hard.
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June 11th, 2012 #153
Thanks Umbravita, I would definitely do another study from that Vermeer. It's one of my favorite paintings of all time, (screams manically)OF AAAALLL TIMES!
And I was supposed to do Enviroment studies, and finish the blue man thing for Patonki, but well, I ended up doing this instead.
For some reason, I've been in a particular weird mood recently(or for basically my whole life), and whatever I drew from mind just came out either disturbing or disgusting, or both. >_______<
Well, all the good things in life, aye?
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June 11th, 2012 #154
God damn man, that's awesome...those simple block studies are really cool too. Keep doing more, try to get it down to like 10 or twenty minutes for them and do like 5 in a day...now that I'm talking about it I really should be doing that too. Huh. Anyway I'm so jealous of how you render man, keep up the great work!
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June 12th, 2012 #155
Looking good, the pencils are especially nice. Keep it up!
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June 12th, 2012 #156
The work in here is incredible. The application of tones in the last one is messing with my head. Not very sure about the two different rim lights from two directions - especially the blue light, I don't think that was required at all -but everything else is just great.
Your other works are looking ace as well. The idea of using a full opacity brush to study Velasquez and Vermeer sounds very cool, and you pulled them off well. In short, I find this sketchbook to be fantastic, and quite literally underrated. Take five from me, Aaron, you deserve it.
EDIT : Hey just figured out you're continue! No wonder you're good, I loved your work right from the beginning. Don't change your name and give people heart attacks.
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June 18th, 2012 #157
dude you are an absolute warrior for those 100% opacity studies, i would have packed it in after like 10 minutes and gone back and turned sensitivity on, but thats probably why i suck so much at traditional painting. i love the last piece as well, the speculars are very well handled and give a great oily/sylvery/infected effect. and the colours are great too. I think there may be some kind of form change under the right (it's left) cheek bone rather than that Thanks for checkn out my sb pal, keep on rockn!
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June 19th, 2012 #158
Great work on the eye reflection on that tortured creature. He's Definite
nightmare fuel. Send some of those macabre vibes my way.
June 23rd, 2012 #159
long time no see miss me?
oh aaron pig sex
haha made me giggle hard
LoL is timeconsuming,....but the art @___@ and lots of inspiration there c:
hey looseness I can tackle! xD here's where I think instead of focusing on form and shape, try doing 30 second gestures and to finish the gesture with one line, don't really worry about details, don't worry about correctness, you're just trying to capture one fluid motion
Don't even look at your page much if you can help it, it's just about getting your hand/wrists to loosen up. Try to picture yourself in the pose and then let your pen/pencil wander. I find brushes work best but inks are second best for this cause they just glide so well across paper
like this
and your opaque brush studies ma lawdy. good on ya for your patience. you could tell you got a bit impatient with the second one though so maybe work on that one a bit more if you feel like it
I love your grotesque little figures, that face and the reflection in the eye is just beautfil
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July 2nd, 2012 #160
Those 100% opacity studies are golden wow. I got to try that. ^_^
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July 4th, 2012 #161
Mangix: yeah, those are defly useful, you should give it a try.
Kaye:Yep, I totally miss ya haha , thanks so much for the great comment. The gesture thing is really cool, I tried it a few times and it's quite useful. Especially the not lifting the pen part, it's amazing how much you can learn by being loose.
like this.
And yeah, those opaque studies do take a lot of patience, think I'm gonna give that Vermeer another try sometime.
Starear:And may he haunt you forever and ever.
Lol just kidding, glad you like it
Chris Sanders:hahha oh man, thanks a lot for the comment. It takes a while to get used to it, but after a dozen paintings, painting completely opaquely can be quite relaxing. IE, it's more about getting good colors rather than edges.
And I think you're right, the underside of the cheek should be actually visible, oh well, I remember that next time.
Vritra:Wow thanks man, it means a lot coming from you, well, those guys with 5 stars absolutely kick my ass, lots more work to be done.
And I agree with the crit, one of the highlight(probably the red one) needs to be toned down a bit.
Veshkau:Thanks a lot, your work is awesome.
Psychobuddy:Thank you buddy, and maaan, I really did plan to do that many studies and I only ended up doing like a sixth of them>_____________>so much for laziness.
So yeah, haven't been here for a while, real life's been busy. Among other things, I acted as a tour guide for a buncha American students, played tennis basketball volleyball and went to the gym, had a crazy(as in mentally insane) girl getting a crush on me and literally forgetting my name the very next day, played a WW2 sim for 2 days on end and went into the mountains...
So yeah, I've done a whole buncha other things but I'll post them when I can. For now, a completely half-assed doodle of a self-propelled artillery. Oh man, I shudder to think how different history would be if the Nazis have some of these powerful Wunderwaffe.
Edit:Lol, and I realized all the features are screwed up. Fixed.
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July 4th, 2012 #162
really like how you render your digitals, nice pencils as well! great sb!
July 4th, 2012 #163
Thanks Kevin.
MOAR in this series of Wunderwaffe, I represent das HKK.21 KampfhundKükenStar which sounds way more intimidating than the Wunderwaffe, which sounds more like wonder waffle.
Edit:Forgot one. My first attempt to draw something mechanical in a long time(it comes before the other one). And yep, it's supposed to be a German half-track, the most elegant invention in the war I think. Oh wait, this isn't the hoi3 forum, nevermind me, been playing way too much WW2 games.
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July 4th, 2012 #164
Wish I could contribute something constructive to this great sketchbook...
but I can't! All I can say is keep up the good work buddy.
July 4th, 2012 #165
Dammit man...I love the way you render...I have no real crits XD Just keep it up!
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July 5th, 2012 #166
Thanks buddy and Stareater, here are some more
First is a rework of the King of Hill. I'll be looking for a job soon, so I'm trying to rework some of the more promising concepts I had. And step 1 is a re-rendering of head.
Despite rendering always being my strong suit, I think it's actually the thing that improved the most. I used to just put on cool brushstrokes without thinking of the bigger form, but now I now that the one of the most important things about longer rendering is to make the form as 3d as possible. Everything else comes second. Hopefully, I can apply this to my longer drawings as well.
And I experimented with layer modes a bit. Almost("ALMOST") makes me regret using this color scheme, oh well, I'll keep the other schemes in mind for later.
I think this works better. What was I thinking putting all those darks tones in there. Atmosphere's way more interesting....
And something else I tried to do. Did several redraws but I like the one on the right the most.
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July 5th, 2012 #167
lol, didn't realize how big the images are. Ooops
July 5th, 2012 #168
Moaarrr experiments
July 6th, 2012 #169
A portrait of the supercute Marlo from the draw photo thread
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July 6th, 2012 #170
So stylish and cool!
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Good thread , keep up the good work.
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July 6th, 2012 #172
Hey thanks Mat and mushroomz. Here's a somewhat half-assed figure study. I really hope I'll finish this tomorrow, I need to actually finish things.
And just a thought today. Sculpting forms through drawing or paintings is easy. I just need to ask myself what the forms are, and if my image conveys the appropriate forms. If not, what is the difference between the 3d form in my head and the 3d form on the canvas.
I've always put too much attention on the action of the drawing or painting, instead being more reflective about what I'm actually doing, and more importantly, feeling and experiencing the forms through my mind. In the end, the approach doesn't matter at all, as long as I properly reconstructed the 3d forms onto the flat canvas.
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July 6th, 2012 #173
great updates man!! love that Marlo great stuff bro!!
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July 12th, 2012 #174
Thanks a lot Nicky.
I've been practicing my life drawing skills a lot for an application to Art Center. And here are some figures(these are the reffed ones)
Would be pointless to show all of 'em though, I got a huge pile now.
July 12th, 2012 #175
She's mean and fearless, and she kills zombies with fireaxes. She has a lil' brother too.
(It's part of a series idea sketches of some fanart for Zombie Playground, I just can't help doing it after seeing Cameli's great drawings. I have quite a few idea sketches, and I'll post them later.)
July 12th, 2012 #176
Great sketches! And I liked your ZPG fan art
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July 12th, 2012 #178
Man the colour in those last two digitals are literally too good! Please stop.... Jokes Green and violet are a sensual combo, gotta try that at some point!
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July 14th, 2012 #179
Thanks for the visit.
That portrait of a person with head tilted backwards is awesome!
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July 17th, 2012 #180
Thanks ChaosTheory Alrap IceCold and Chris Sanders, and yeah, violet and green is a very striking combho.
As in last time, really busy with life drawing and sketching outside. Didn't actually do a lot of personal work. But well, at least my draughting skills get some attention.
sorta old work. buncha shoes. Really tried to speed up.
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Countercurrent chromatography
Countercurrent chromatography (CCC) is a liquid chromatography technique that uses two immiscible liquid phases and no solid support.[1][2] One liquid acts as the stationary phase and the other as the mobile phase. The liquid stationary phase is held in place by gravity or by centrifugal force.
- 1 Support-free liquid chromatography
- 2 Techniques
- 2.1 Droplet countercurrent chromatography (DCCC)
- 2.2 Hydrodynamic countercurrent chromatography (CCC)
- 2.3 Hydrostatic or centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC)
- 3 Modes of operation
- 4 See also
- 5 References
Support-free liquid chromatography[edit]
Standard column chromatography uses a solid stationary phase and a liquid mobile phase, while gas chromatography (GC) uses a solid or liquid stationary phase on a solid support and a gaseous mobile phase. By contrast, in liquid-liquid chromatography, both the mobile and stationary phases are liquid. By eliminating solid supports, permanent adsorption of the analyte onto the column is avoided, and a high recovery of the analyte can be achieved.[3] The instrument is also easily switched between normal-phase and reversed-phase modes of operation simply by changing the mobile and stationary phases. With liquid chromatography, operation is limited by the composition of the columns and media commercially available for the instrument. Nearly any pair of immiscible solutions can be used in liquid-liquid chromatography provided that the stationary phase can be successfully retained.
Solvent costs are also generally lower than for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and the cost of purchasing and disposing of solid adsorbents is eliminated. Another advantage is that experiments conducted in the laboratory can be scaled to industrial volumes. When GC or HPLC is carried out with large volumes, resolution is lost due to issues with surface-to-volume ratios and flow dynamics; this is avoided when both phases are liquid.[4]
The CCC separation process can be thought of as occurring in three stages: mixing, settling, and separation of the two phases (although they often occur continuously). Vigorous mixing of the phases is critical so that the interface between them has a large area, and the analyte can distribute between the phases according to its partition coefficient.
The mobile phase mixes with then settles from the stationary phase throughout the column. The degree of stationary phase retention (inversely proportional to the amount of stationary phase loss or "bleed" in the course of a separation) is a crucial parameter. Common factors that influence stationary phase retention are flow rate, solvent composition of the biphasic solvent system, and the G-force created by rotation. The settling time is a property of the solvent system and the sample matrix, both of which greatly influence stationary phase retention.[5]
Droplet countercurrent chromatography (DCCC)[edit]
Droplet CCC is the oldest form of CCC.[1] It uses only gravity to move the mobile phase through the stationary phase. In descending mode, droplets of the denser mobile phase and sample are allowed to fall through a column of the lighter stationary phase using only gravity.
If a less dense mobile phase is used it will rise through the stationary phase; this is called ascending mode. The eluent from one column is transferred to another; the more columns that are used, the more theoretical plates can be achieved. The disadvantage of DCCC is that flow rates are low, and poor mixing is achieved for most binary solvent systems, which makes this technique both time-consuming and inflexible.
Hydrodynamic countercurrent chromatography (CCC)[edit]
High-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC)[edit]
The modern era of CCC began with the development by Dr. Yoichiro Ito of the planetary centrifuge and the many possible column geometries it can support.[6] These devices make use of a little-known means of making non-rotating connections between the stator and the rotor of a centrifuge. (It is beyond the scope of this discussion to describe the method of accomplishing this. Any of the several books available on CCC discuss it thoroughly.)[1][7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Functionally, the high-speed CCC apparatus consists of a helical coil of inert tubing which rotates on its planetary axis and simultaneously rotates eccentrically about another solar axis. (These axes can be made to coincide, but the most common or type J CCC is discussed here.) The effect is to create zones of mixing and zones of settling which progress along the helical coil rapidly. This produces a highly favorable environment for chromatography.
There are numerous potential variants upon this instrument design. The most significant of these is the toroidal CCC. This instrument does not employ planetary motion. In some respects it is very like CPC, but retains the advantage of not needing rotary seals. It also employs a capillary tube instead of the larger-diameter tubes employed in the helices of the other CCC models. This capillary passage makes the mixing of two phases very thorough, despite the lack of shaking or other mixing forces. This instrument provides rapid analytical-scale separations, which can nonetheless be scaled up to either of the larger-scale CCC instruments. See, for instance, the Xanthanolide purification found in.[13]
High-performance countercurrent chromatography (HPCCC)[edit]
The operating principle of CCC equipment requires a column consisting of a tube coiled around a bobbin. The bobbin is rotated in a double-axis gyratory motion (a cardioid), which causes a variable gravity (G) field to act on the column during each rotation. This motion causes the column to see one partitioning step per revolution and components of the sample separate in the column due to their partitioning coefficient between the two immiscible liquid phases used.
HPCCC works in much the same way as HSCCC but with one vital difference. A seven-year R&D process that has produced HPCCC instruments that generated 240 G's, compared to the 80 G's of the HSCCC machines. This increase in G-level and larger bore of the column has enabled a tenfold increase in through put, due to improved mobile phase flow rates and a much higher stationary phase retention.[14]
Countercurrent chromatography is a preparative liquid chromatography technique, however with the advent of the higher-G HPCCC instruments it is now possible to operate instruments with sample loadings as low as a few milligrams, whereas in the past 100s of milligrams had been necessary.
Major application areas for this technique include natural products purification and also drug development.
Hydrostatic or centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC)[edit]
Centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) was invented in the eighties by the Japanese company Sanki Engineering Ltd, whose president was the late Kanichi Nunogaki.[15] CPC has been extensively developed in France starting from the late nineties. CPC uses centrifugal force to speed separation and achieves higher flow rates than DCCC (which relies on gravity). This technique is sometimes sold under the name FCPC or SCPC.
This technique is still based on the principles of liquid/liquid partitioning chromatography: two non-miscible liquid phases are mixed together to form a two-phase system, and are then separated multiple times.[16] The individual solutes are isolated based on the different partitioning coefficients of each compound in this two-phase system. One of the liquid phases of the two-phase system is used as a stationary liquid phase: it is fed into the column (the rotor) while the latter is spinning at moderate rotational speed. The stationary phase is retained inside the rotor by the centrifugal force generated. The second phase of the two-phase system is used as the mobile phase containing the solutes to be extracted. It is fed under pressure into the rotor and pumped through the stationary phase. Both phases are mixed together. It is at that time that the exchange of molecules between the two phases occurs. The separation of the solutes is achieved as a function of the specific partitioning coefficient (Kd) of each solute between the mobile and stationary phases. The mobile phase then decants at each cell outlet thus entering the next cell. The eluted fractions of the mobile and stationary phases are collected over a period of several minutes to several hours. These fractions, or eluates, will contain the individual purified solutes.
The centrifugal partition chromatograph is constituted with a unique rotor (=column). This rotor rotates on its central axis (while HSCCC column rotates on its planetary axis and simultaneously rotates eccentrically about another solar axis). With less vibrations and noise, the CPC offers a wider rotation speed range (from 500 to 2000 rpm) than HSCCC. That allows a better decantation and retention for unstable biphasic system (e.g., aqueous aqueous systems or butanol/water systems).
The CPC rotor is constituted by the superposition of disks engraved with small cells connected by head / tail ducts. These cells, where the chromatographic separation takes place, can be compared to lined-up separate funnels.
The rotor is filled with the stationary phase, which stays inside the rotor thanks to the rotation speed, while the mobile phase is pumped through. CPC can be operated in either descending or ascending mode, where the direction is relative to the force generated by the rotor rather than gravity. According to the fast and permanent evolution of the cells design, the efficiency and flow rate with low back pressure are improved.
Advantages over other approaches[edit]
The CPC offers now the direct scale up from the analytical apparatuses (few milliliters) to industrial apparatuses (some liters) for fast batch production.
Modes of operation[edit]
- Reversed-phase - Aqueous phase mobile - The aqueous phase is pumped through as the mobile phase.
- Normal-phase - Organic phase mobile - The non-aqueous phase is used as the mobile phase.
- Dual-mode: The mobile and stationary phases are reversed part way through the run.
- Gradient mode: The concentration of one or more components in the mobile phase is varied throughout the run to achieve optimal resolution across a wider range of polarities. For example, a methanol-water gradient may be employed using pure heptane as the stationary phase. This is not possible with all binary systems, due to excessive loss of stationary phase.
- Elution extrusion mode (EECCC): The mobile phase is extruded after a certain point by switching the phase being pumped into the system. For example, during the elution portion of a separation using an ethyl acetate-water system running head to tail, the aqueous mobile phase is being pumped into the system. In order to switch to extrusion mode, organic phase is pumped into the system. This can be accomplished either with a valve on the inlet of single pump, or ideally with an integrated system of two or three pumps, each dedicated either to a single phase of a binary mixture, or to an intermediate wash solvent. This also allows for good resolution of compounds with high mobile-phase affinities. It requires only one column volume of solvent and leaves the column full of fresh stationary phase.
- pH Zone refining: acidic and basic solvents are used to elute analytes based on their pKa.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Berthod, Alain; Maryutina, Tatyana; Spivakov, Boris; Shpigun, Oleg; Sutherland, Ian A. (2009). "Countercurrent chromatography in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Technical Report)". Pure and Applied Chemistry 81 (2): 355–387. doi:10.1351/PAC-REP-08-06-05. ISSN 0033-4545.
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