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"Odyssey" National Geographic
"Treadwell" by Andrea Modica
"Ralph Eugend Meatyard" published by ICP/Steidl
"Frederick Sommer" published by Yale Univeroty Press
"Gertrude Kasebier" by Barbara Michaels
I find that Photo-eye can be a great source for hard to find out of print books, but you can get better prices through Amazon. (Got a great price on that Frederick Sommer book!)
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The green flash is something used to impress new sailors, or at least those who have never sailed Atlantic offshore. It can also be used to keep morale up through bad weather, if the person does not know that it does not happen in a cloudy situation. Kinda gets everyone together just before sundown, makes for great dinner conversation, especially if you are expecting a fairly bad night and the weather is due to be bad for a few more days.
It does have to do with light refraction, I would expect. I have seen it 16 times now. Each time there were absolutely no clouds from horizon to at least directly overhead. In all the times I have watched the lovely Key West sunsets, and sunsets from the islands, rum punch in hand, I have not seen it from land.
When it does happen after you have played it up to people who have heard about it and think it''s not real, it is fantastic. Makes it even better.
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Over the past weeks Aussie Digger (aka AD) has been sending me a steady flow of pictures of small nuggets up to 5 grams in size that he has been finding with the GPZ 7000. Well a man can only take so much of this and after getting an open invitation to come up any time I decided to bite the bullet, pack my GPZ 7000, head up and give it a go.
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Eolian placers are a special type of residual gold deposit that prospectors should be interested in because the gold is shallow and richly concentrated - a condition well suited to exploitation with a metal detector.
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Following on from my blog about settings and techniques for using the Minelab Excalibur II on SCUBA, I'd like to share one of the great dives I have enjoyed chasing treasure underwater.
My Method for Ground Balancing the GPZ 7000
After having spent quite some time with the testing and development of the GPZ 7000, and coming to grips with the new technology in this detector, I thought it would be great to share with you my 'best' method of getting up and running with all of the initial steps you need to carry out when turning on the unit and properly adjusting it to suit the conditions. While these steps are contained within the Field Guide and Instruction Manual, I have added a few practical tips of my own to help you out. So here they are:
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As I live in South Australia I often feel I was born in the wrong state when it comes to chasing gold. Friends of mine from all over Australia are always telling me about a patch they found and how much they got on the weekend etc. This always leaves me pondering how good it would be to live closer to where the high gold bearing areas are. When it comes to gold, South Australia has only produced a drop in the bucket compared to other states but if you put in the hard yards there are still some nice bits to be found. I recently went to a much hunted out area (because that's all we have here) to see what the GPZ 7000 could find.
Gold Trip to Costa Rica (Part 1)
I have been travelling to Costa Rica for a few years now, taking a metal detector in my hand luggage in the hope to find some gold nuggets out in the jungles.
Over the years I've had reasonable success using the Minelab GPX 5000, last year finding 4 grams including a 1-gram nugget on my hotel's beach. Okay, this is not the greatest of examples of success, but considering the challenging environment it's not surprising I list this meager gold with pride.
Treasure Diving with the Excalibur II (Part 1)
Minelab's Excalibur II metal detector is indisputably one of the best beach and water hunting detectors on the market. However, from the beginning this detector was designed for going underwater and finding treasure. Being a keen SCUBA diver I couldn't wait to take my Excalibur II for a dive when I bought it, and it didn't disappoint!
Examining the GPZ 7000 Menu and Display system
The GPZ 7000 comes with a menu and control system which is something very new for Minelab's gold oriented metal detectors. In looking at it initially, it is clearly a close relative of the system used on the CTX 3030 – Minelab's flagship treasure hunting detector. Some prospectors who do quite a bit of treasure hunting will already be thoroughly familiar with the menu system of the CTX 3030, but for me, although I do my share of coin, jewelry and treasure hunting, my passion is really in the area of gold prospecting so previously I had only spent a short time examining the menu system of the CTX. However, from the first time I saw the CTX 3030, I admired it's easy to operate menu and display system. I have to say that I have long wished for an easily viewed menu screen system while running my GPX 5000. The new handle mounted menu controls on the GPZ 7000 makes this all possible and it is just as easy to use as I had hoped for.
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Well, the much anticipated GPZ 7000 has finally been released, and while some users put their name down for one before they really knew any info, others have been waiting patiently for more info to emerge, mainly performance reports from the field. In my opinion, a gold detector should be judged by its ability to find the gold that is still in the ground, so that's what I did; just put my harness on, switched on the GPZ and went swinging in spots where I have found gold previously. Now, if you are hoping to hear about all the ounce plus pieces I found to date, well then you can stop reading now. It is still early days, and South Australia is generally gold poor, and the Adelaide Hills even more so. With only 3 public areas available to swing a gold detector, you can imagine they've copped a fair hammering, so in saying that, I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of finds with the GPZ 7000. Fingers crossed that larger nugget with my name on it is waiting for me across the border. But before I get onto the field results, I just want to say a few words about the new Search Modes and the audio.


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Auburn traditions will roll onPublished 12:19pm Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Saturday was the end of an era for Auburn fans.
I didn't grow up rolling the trees. I only joined the Auburn family roughly five years ago as a bright-eyed college freshman.
And the first few football games I attended, I didn't even bother going down to Toomer's Corner after the game. I guess I sound like a bad fan, but I usually tried to slip out and beat the traffic to get some food.
But like every Auburn fan, I have my Toomer's Corner memories. What stands out the most was the night we won the national championship.
I wrote a story about that night for one of my classes at Auburn. I can still remember the crush of people around me – the streets were packed with people in every direction from the intersection of College Street and Magnolia Avenue.
A few friends and I pushed our way through the masses, trying not to lose one another in the mayhem of euphoric fans. We took tons of pictures that night, and it's a college memory that I don't think I'll ever forget.
From throwing rolls of TP into the oaks (which I was never very good at) to chanting "It's great to be an Auburn Tiger" with my fellow classmates, the memories I made at Toomer's Corner are really something special.
Saturday I participated in that tradition for the last time – at least, the last time of things being the way they are, as the trees are finally being taken down after their poisoning in 2011.
We headed over to the corner after the A-Day "game" – the trees were already barely visible under the mounds of white toilet paper.
We squeezed our way through the crowds to lob our own rolls of paper toward the oaks. I missed by several feet, of course, but it's the thought that counts.
We got our pictures, and we walked away.
People outside the "Auburn family" don't really understand this tradition that's said to date back to when they hung the ticker tape from telegraph up so people would know when Auburn had won an away game. When I told some of my out-of-state friends about the last roll, they made jokes about it.
It's OK. It's a tradition you can't easily understand until you've experienced it yourself.
I'm not sure what else should be said about something that will never happen again. All I know is killing our trees can't kill our spirit. Plans are already in place for a temporary solution to allow us to roll the corner, and we'll move forward from this moment.
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Teams of the Central Bureau of Investigation organised raids in several places in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday as the agency stepped up its probe into multi-dimensional 'cash-for-bail' scam involving Special Judge for CBI cases Talluri Pattabhirama Rao.
Mr. Rao was suspended after the CBI unearthed Rs.2.87 crore from the lockers of a nationalised bank at Ashok Nagar in Hyderabad. He allegedly struck a deal with mining baron and the former Karnataka Minister, Gali Janardhan Reddy, before granting him bail on May 11 in the illegal mining case.
As CBI intensified its probe, more facts emerged. The deal is understood to be running into several crores of rupees for grant of bail to Janardhan Reddy, his brother-in-law B.V. Srinivas Reddy, the suspended IAS officer, Y. Srilakshmi, and Director-Mines V.D. Rajagopal.
A CBI team raided the residence of Yadagiri Rao, a rowdy-sheeter, at HMT Nagar in Hyderabad.
He is said to have played a part in the mediation process between Mr. Rao and Mr. Janardhan Reddy. The CBI also searched the ancestral house of Chalapathi Rao, former judicial officer and a classmate of the Judge, at Chilakaluripeta of Guntur district and made enquiries about his brothers.
Two close relatives of Mr. Rao in Gudivada of Krishna district may also be questioned. It appeared the CBI had tapped Mr. Rao's phones and those of his son.
Those in the investigation team claimed they had proof in the form of CCTV footage of some of the meetings held by those involved, at a hotel in the city.
The agency is going all out and spreading its dragnet far and wide and the names of Congress leaders, among others, have begun emerging. However, late on Saturday evening, sources said the agency had decided to hand over the investigation to the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the State government, as Mr. Rao was its employee.
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I work on a laptop with a Intel Core i5 M560 CPU and a NVIDIA GT335M Graphik card. In Windows, the cards work with optimus support, in linux, i just want the nvidia card because as far as i searched on the net, optimus isnt really supported.
So after hours of research, i dont have any errors in Xorg.0.log any more, but still, when gmd3 starts, i get a black screen with a white tab leftside on the top of the screen. I can hear the sound it does, when you can choose the username and password but there is just a black screen.
In my opinion, the problem is that the monitor is not detected, i got something like "Unable to get display device CRT-0's EDID" That's why i added Option "UseEdid" "False" to the xorg.conf. The standard DPI set by xorg was 75x75, with xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot gave me 96x96 so i added Option "DPI" "96x96" to the xorg.conf.
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Fox's Gotham is practically drowning in future supervillains, so it's nice to hear there's a future superhero on the way. Though he probably won't be of much help to Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne right now, seeing as he hasn't even been born yet.
Showrunner Bruce Heller revealed that a "prenatal Robin" storyline is in the works for Gotham. Also coming in a future episode is the return of the pint-sized Poison Ivy — though her BFF Harley Quinn will be sitting this season out. Hit the jump for more on the planned Robin Gotham plot.


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BELLEVUE, Wash. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stayed an extra day in Washington state, attending a public event in Bellevue Friday morning, one day before the state's GOP caucuses.
Romney was in Bellevue Thursday night for a fundraiser at the Meydenbauer Center. He held a meet-and-greet Friday morning at the Highland Community Center, his first public event in Washington state.
A long line of people wrapped around the community center hours before the free event.
Absolutely, this is our candidate, said Lindsy Prows of Tri-Cities. We've been here since five o'clock in the morning. We are excited to support Mitt.
Jordan Ballard of Las Vegas, Nevada, also arrived early to secure a spot inside the event.
I feel like if they (voters) were to do their research they would see that Mitt Romney has the best chance out of the four to beat Barack Obama in November, said Ballard.
The former Massachusetts governor is in a crowded primary race with Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. On Friday, Romney focused his comments toward President Barack Obama.
He wants to fundamentally transform America, said Romney. I want to restore America to the principles that made us the strongest nation on Earth.
Opponent Rick Santorum jumped on a comment Romney recently made. On the campaign trail, Romney told a reporter he opposed a Republican bill to block President Obama's policy on contraceptive insurance coverage, then later corrected himself to say he supports it.
Former Washington state senator Dino Rossi, who is supporting Romney, blamed the comment on the campaign schedule.
You are going 12 to 14 to 16 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week. Can you misspeak once in awhile? Yeah, you certainly can. It is very easy to do. I've done it many times, said Rossi.
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I've been struggling for, well, EVER to find a "treat" that will satisfy my chocolate cravings that seem unabated despite doing "all the right things" in terms of foods to eat that should get rid of sweets cravings. I've even worked with both a naturopath and acupuncturist! Tonight, I hit on this tea that is so simple, I'm shocked I hadn't considered trying it before. It definitely helped curb my craving tonight, when the raw chocolate mousse I made from a recipe in the cafe Gratitude recipe book and the accompanying raspberry cashew cream topping was shouting my name from the fridge (I already ate enough today!). Let me know what you think!
1 or so teaspoons raw cacao nibs
5 or so fresh mint leaves
stevia or agave to taste
hot filtered water
Do I really need to do this part?
1. put your tea kettle on.
2. place the cacao nibs and mint in a mug or glass jar
3. pour hot water into mug or glass jar
4. steep for 5-10 minutes (the longer you steep, the more intense the flavors will be). The nibs won't melt, at least they didn't for me.
5. pour through strainer, add sweetener, if desired, and enjoy!
I think this would be great iced, too, for hot summer days, which happen to be far and few between here on the central California coast, but I hear the rest of the state and country suffers heat waves fairly regularly in these months. :)


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Friday, May 20, 2011
People love to laugh at Michael Aitchison and Julie Baker. They believe in Judgment Day, a theory presented by, among others, the Christian group Family Radio, a broadcasting network using its airwaves to send word that the world will end on Saturday, May 21, 2011. Aitchison and Baker both recently quit their full-time jobs to hand out thousands of neon-colored pamphlets prophesying "We Are Almost There" and "Going to Church Will Not Save You."
"Some people thank you, some people laugh at you, some people get angry," Baker said, adding that only one time was she physically assaulted by two passers-by in "weird religious clothes."
The leader behind Family Radio, an 89-year-old engineer named Harold Camping, has said that the Bible indicates Judgment Day falls on May 21, 2011 because it marks 7,000 years since Noah's flood. On Saturday, a massive earthquake will then shake the earth and believers will ascend to heaven. Non-believers will be left in misery to wait for the earth to be officially destroyed on October 21, 2011. One of the pieces of scripture Camping cites is Genesis 7:4 on the Family Radio Web site.
But Ron Walborn, the dean of Nyack College's Alliance Theological Seminary, said that Camping is alone in his interpretation of the bible.
"What he does is goes back and forth from a very literal, mechanical interpretation of scripture, and when that doesn't apply he shifts to a very allegorical interpretation," Walborn said.
Even so, at Union Square, Baker and Aitchison said that their pamphlets had been going fast — they've been handing out 3,000 a day — in part thanks to Family Radio's major commercial and media campaign alerting people to Judgment Day, which is also referred to as doomsday and the rapture. Believers have donated millions of dollars to the cause, some even spending their savings to spread the word. Atheists are capitalizing on the end-times message with organizations like Eternal Earth-bound Pets that collects a fee to protect furry loved ones. All manner of "Rapture-Ready" and judgment-themed T-shirts — selling for between $19 and $37 online — have also been up for sale.
On a flyering break, Aitchison sat cross-legged on the ground to munch on a ham-and-cheese sandwich. A crowd of people gathered around him — many of them Christians who don't believe in the rapture — to debate end-times.
"The Bible says that when Christ comes, he's going to come like a thief in the night," said Rory McAllister (pictured at left). He carried a pocket-sized Bible with underlined passages with him. "No one knows the time or the hour."
Ray Richardson (also pictured at left) agreed with McAllister.
"If you read the Bible — not what we think, or what we believe should happen — you're going to find out what's the principle of salvation," he said.
If Judgment Day is to be believed, Friday will be the last day for people to read the Bible and ask to be taken to heaven. Aitchison said one of the things that preoccupied him most about Saturday was his wife and two teenage sons are non-believers.
"They feel I'm mentally ill, they feel I'm crazy, they feel I'm deluded, they feel like I'm following a cult," he said. "It's upsetting, but I know it's not the truth."
Still, he and Baker said they'd be at home reading the Bible on Saturday to prepare for the rapture.
Others will spend the weekend at apocalypse concerts and at tongue-in-cheek end times parties. A Facebook page devoted to post-rapture looting has over 480,000 followers.
Back at Union Square, naysayers don't have an affect on Baker as she pressed on earnestly with her calling.
"There's great hope. There's time left, and he actually saves more people during this period than he's ever saved, so yeah. There's hope," she said.
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Who said rapture was a bust?
I am now writing in heaven. Rapture came and gone. It is just that Camping and his cronies were not saved. Isn't that obvious?
I think Mr. Camping is doing humanity a great service and should be applauded by us all! Evolutionary pressures on humanity have eased up and Mr. Camping is reapplying those forces by weeding out the weak minded and the misfit! I think Mr. Camping deserves the Nobel Prize for service to humanity.
They should pass a law allowing 3 times the damage for civil lawsuit from anyone who takes money on a mass scale and is wrong. This guy will go down in history as one of the worst to have broken people.
It seems that there is another group on the scene with a new perspective in disputing Camping's prophesies. They make a compelling statement that "Jesus is here now." Check out a video about their billboard which I think will stir the pot a bit.
Mark my words: Tomorrow at 6pm you will be alive. This consipiracy that people have planned is a lie, and all is being done is for attention. So I what I will do tomorrow is laugh at your faces when you see that NOTHING happened.
Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses have little credibility with their own fairy tale primary doctrine of Jesus 'invisible' second coming October 1914
Watchtower society false prophets declare end of world in 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1984....
Danny Haszard been there!
Perhaps some people choose to believe in the "END OF THE WORLD" as an escape from the endless challenges of the worlds as it is.
If you don't like your reality, create your own....
I am very sad for those who have been following this lie that the rapture will occur on May 21st. Even if they attempt to explain away "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father" (Mark 13:32), they cannot explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed. I pray that they will take a moment and read my book, "Final Warning" because the hour of is His judgment has come. http://www.revelation-truth.org
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The world has a big problem with homeless people, yet no one seems to help them.
We are all equal but they have no choice but to survive outdoors. We look at them like they are scum, and think if they wanted to they could have made something of themselves.
In all cases that's not true. Many homeless people are veterans, who served our country to help us. What do we do for them? Really, we do nothing at all.
The government needs to pay respect to our veterans. They fought for our country, and went through a whole lot more than anyone should.
This is in response to The Gazette's editorial, which implied that the Grayson County Public School system lacks sound fiscal planning.
A comparison was made between Carroll County Public Schools and Grayson County Public Schools, but these two systems have completely different funding issues.
The Carroll school system is fortunate to have excellent support from its board of supervisors. The Carroll supervisors provide approximately $2 million to the school system above minimum funding required by the state.
The Grayson County Board of Supervisors feels it is important to communicate and inform citizens on important issues, and from time to time to provide relevant facts that impact or have potential to impact taxpayers of Grayson County.
The board does not wish to perpetuate any back-and-forth regarding school funding, nor interject any opinion about fellow elected officials.
We all serve an important role and the board has been, and will continue to be, a committed partner to education.
Immigrants threaten democracy
There is no need for anyone to see the Mexican border to be concerned about illegal immigration.
It is enough to see that the Mexican consulate feels the need to set up office from time to time in Southwest Virginia, that there is any crime committed by illegals who simply return after deportation, and that our police have to concern themselves with Mexican gangs recruiting in our schools.
U.S. 58 a road to nowhere
Alaska has its "bridge to nowhere."
Now Virginia has its "highway to nowhere."
The $90 million budgetee'busting Hillsville bypass, from the widening of U.S. 58 to four lanes, continues merrily along while poor Richmond has a multiee'billion dollar shortfall.
If you all think national healthcare reform, which is about to change America for the better, is an unwelcome monstrosity, then the Hillsville bypass makes the overhaul of healthcare look like a Girl Scout picnic.
President's credibility questioned
A question about Obama's credibility.
He ran on a campaign of negotiating with world heads and not being a bully like Bush was accused of being. He ran as a "unifier" rather than a "divider" like Bush was accused of being.
Budget cutting for Carroll County Public Schools may feel painful, but the hurt can't go nearly as deep as other divisions in the state and even in the Twin County area.
It's probably not too much of a stretch to call Carroll schools a model of fiscal responsibility for anticipating from a long way off the budget crisis that has caught so many divisions off guard this year.
The proposed 2010-2011 schools budget marks the third year Carroll administrators have decided not to hire new employees to fill positions that have recently become vacant.
Education should be main priority
I don't believe in calling the Readers' Hotline, so I am writing to voice my opinion about some of the uninformed Hotline callers.
I would like to comment on a March 8 blurb, titled "Money Doesn't Teach." Since the caller doesn't seem to take much stock in education, I want to grade his/her work.
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The following week, Quintana picked up his third honor of the season as he also received the recognition in March. Quintana had an earned run average of 0.00 after throwing seven innings of shutout ball for a win over Baker. In the win, Quintana allowed just three hits and struck out 12 batters.
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Traditionally, DVD authoring has been an expensive affair. Full-featured professional applications can cost thousands of dollars, while cheaper products, such as Apple's iDVD, have arbitrary restrictions that significantly reduce their usefulness. A new open-source effort, dvdauthor, is bringing the possibility of low-cost, professional-grade DVD authoring to Linux. Although it doesn't yet support all the features of the DVD specification, development is proceeding at a fast pace, and new features are being added with each release. Together with a more established open-source toolkit, mjpegtools, this article explains how to construct a relatively complex DVD application, a photo album, with dvdauthor. We also illustrate the various features that dvdauthor currently supports and how to use open-source tools to construct a DVD-R that can play on almost every DVD player.
A DVD is comprised of one or more video title sets (VTSes), which contain video information in the form of MPEG-2 video streams. Each disc can have up to 99 VTSes, and each title set can be subdivided further into as many as 99 chapters, allowing DVD players to jump to a certain point within the video stream. Within each VTS, a DVD can have up to eight different audio tracks and 32 subtitle tracks that the viewer can switch between at will. A menu system can be included within a title set, allowing the viewer to select between the different subtitle and audio tracks. An optional top-level menu, known as the video manager menu (VMGM), is used to navigate between the different title sets. One VTS may contain a feature film and another may contain a documentary on the film, and the VMGM allows viewers to select which one they want to watch.
The DVD format doesn't eliminate the differences between the two competing broadcasting formats, NTSC (primarily used in America) and PAL (the standard in Europe and Japan). I live in Britain, so the frame information and resolution details used in this article are for a PAL system, but I point out the differences you need to be aware of when they appear and offer appropriate settings for an NTSC disc.
The DVD specification includes advanced features, such as the concept of region coding, the possibility of viewing different angles of a video stream and simple computations using built-in registers provided by a DVD player. I don't know much about these features, and they aren't discussed in this article. The dvdauthor mailing list is a good source for further information.
Before we rush headlong into creating menus, subtitling and multiplexing, it's a good idea to sketch out the structure of the DVD with paper and pencil. Proprietary DVD tools offer GUI systems for creating this type of structure, but no such tools are available yet for DVD production on Linux. As you'll soon see, the command-line tools have a lot of different options, so having your ideas on paper is preferable to trying to keep everything in your head.
The DVD application I'm creating is a photo album, using pictures that I took while studying abroad at UNC-Chapel Hill this past year. For simplicity's sake, I have only six photos in each category. On paper, I decide that the main menu (the VMGM unit) should have five buttons, four of which are simple text buttons (one for each different photo category), plus a secret link unlocking extra pictures (secret extra features are a common occurrence in commercial DVDs) and a music track playing in the background. The four regular buttons link to one of four menus, one for each different section. The menu system for each section consists of two menus and an audio track, with selectable preview images of the slideshow, a button to move onto the next set of preview images and two buttons that allow the viewer to watch the complete slideshow or go back to the main menu. To keep things simple, the photo slideshow should have the same song as the section menu playing in the background. After the slideshow is finished, the viewer is sent back to the section menu. The secret link is a short slideshow with no menu, but it has two different music tracks that the viewer can switch between while the video sequence is playing.
To prevent things from getting mixed up, I created the directory structure below to organize the files. The image directory eventually will hold the completed DVD, while the raw photos go in the photos/setN directories and the video files go in the titleN or main directories:
dvd - title1 - title2 - title3 - title4 - title5 - mainmenu - photos - set1 - set2 - set3 - set4 - set5 - image
The tutorial was great, but I
The tutorial was great, but I am still confused about something. I wanted to know more about the process of authoring a DVD to work on as many players as possible. This was still about creating cool menus and stuff like that. Where do I read more about the authoring process? Thanks.
latest advancements
Still one of the best tutorials out there, all these years later. I wonder if there is a similar tutorial written recently with the latest linux command line and gui front-ends for authoring and editing. I've found the devil is in the details with linux authoring. It takes several tools to get the background music and menus to be just right. Or wipes and graphics. These tools seem to be around in windows so I know there must be much better linux analogues?
Bake your own!
You might like to check out an application I've written that does the work for you:
A other tutorial
Here is a other tutorial, in French this time. May be usefull
Although dvdauthor doesn't ha
Although dvdauthor doesn't have the easy-to-use interface of professional applications,
This is insulting. Although many new-media monkeys today use point and drool applications in a professional setting, a professional applications is quite likely to have a scriptable "small and sharp tool" interface that will allow it to be automated, pipelined or in some other way made to fit the working environment and methods.
The programmer(s) can't know how (another) user will use the tools and should make no assumptions! And it is particularly the professionals that need to be able to throw away repetitive wizards and other joe random user interfaces and make work after work happen the right way. Every time. And when a change is needed, you make the change and only the change and re-run the process etc.
Maybe Milk of Magnesia would
Maybe Milk of Magnesia would help you.
DV tape w. DateTime > Subtitle in Linux ?
Is there any programs for linux that grabs the datecode from a dvstream and creates subtitles accordingly ?
I've been using DV sub maker for windows to grab the datetime but would like to go linux.
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Re: DV tape w. DateTime > Subtitle in Linux ?
You can try http://dv2sub.sf.net
Re: DVD Authoring
I've posted a DVD Authoring on Linux primer at my website. It's still a work in progress but might be usefull to others as it is.
Anders Dahnielson
Re: DVD Authoring
Just a couple of points:
I got mixed up between Japan's placement in Region 2 and what TV format it uses. Although the country is in Region 2 like Europe, it uses NTSC instead of PAL/SECAM. Apologies for that error.
Secondly, in the time since I wrote this article, the dvdauthor team have been busy improving the application. One of the main changes has been to switch to using XML to lay out the title information, thus eliminating some of the huge command-lines in my tutorial. They have a brief guide to the new format here.
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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.
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The Stanley Parable is an experimental narrative-driven first person game. It is an exploration of choice, freedom, storytelling and reality, all examined through the lens of what it means to play a video game. You will make a choice that does not matter You will follow a story that has no end You will play a game you cannot win ...it's actually best if you don't know anything about it before you play it :D
Aug 5th, 2011 21 people agree 3 people don't
Nice idea for an unconventional mod. The narrator stands out the most. Long time since I heard such a perfect English and such a high class intonation work. The lines written for him though are great too. In general a very nice take on connecting the narrator with the player and the world around him. Only minus point for the mapping problems. Lighting is a pain in some places and definitely needs work as it drags down an otherwise great mod.
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I truly admire the unconventional nature of this mod in it's artistically " human nature " approach and how skillfully it was accomplished. For this fact alone I rate it so highly, but to be honest, it didn't offer me much else in the form of content or game-play.
I strongly encouraging the author to pursue and expand his work with this type of project(s) in the future.
Aug 1st, 2011 11 people agree 7 people don't
intriguing. but not polished
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Outstanding narrative, but it needs some posh. Perhaps someone out of the blue will help you in making this mod a perfect 10.
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A very interesting game about breaking through the 4th wall and about choice. Be sure to play all the endings!
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Very innovative and humorous story telling with alternate endings!
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The mod is very interesting, It kind of enthralls you into sense of obligation to play it until you heard every single piece of narritive in the game. The voice actor was great. The humour was awesome and I enjoyed all the endings. However the visuals were a bit lacking but that seems to fit well for some reason. 9/10
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Wow. Just wow. I've never been so impressed by a game's story in my life. The narration is excellent, the plot is superb and meaningful. I found it very satisfying and thought-provoking. To say anything more would mar the experience. Do yourself a favor and step into Stanley's shoes right now.
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At Carl's Jr., and Hardee's, multiple locations, every Monday in December is Monday Bunday, when customers can get a free Original Six Dollar Thickburger or an Original Thickburger at either restaurant. Here's how it works: visit www.CarlsJr.com/coupons or www.Hardees.com/coupons, or check on the brands' Facebook and Twitter feeds to find the day's #MondayBunday coupon. With […] [Read More]
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- Pre-Roman Spain
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- Visigothic Spain to c. 500
- The Visigothic kingdom
- Christian Spain from the Muslim invasion to about 1260
- Christian Spain, c. 1260–1479
- Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia, 1276–1479
- Muslim Spain
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- The early Bourbons, 1700–53
- The reign of Charles III, 1759–88
- Charles IV and the French Revolution
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- Franco's Spain, 1939–75
- Spain since 1975
- Kings and queens regnant of Spain
The ṭāʾifas
The death of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Sanchuelo in 1009 ushered in 21 years of unrest, during which the social and political unity—among "Andalusians" (Arabs, Imazighen who had settled in Al-Andalus a long time earlier, and the population that had converted to Islam), Imazighen who had arrived fairly recently, and the slaves—fell apart. The consequence of those years of anarchy was the formation of numerous independent kingdoms, or ṭāʾifas, which may be classified into the following: (1) "Andalusian" factions in the three capitals of the frontier area (Zaragoza, Toledo, and Badajoz), in the valleys of the Guadalquivir (Wadi Al-Kabīr), and in the transition zone from the Ebro to the Tagus (Tajo) valley, (2) "new" Imazighen in Granada, Málaga, and four small southern ṭāʾifas, and (3) groups of slaves in the east.
The political history of the period comprises an uninterrupted series of internecine wars. Preeminent is the confrontation between the Arab factions, under the leadership of Sevilla (Ishbīliyah) and governed by the dynasty of the Banū ʿAbbād, and the Imazighen, presided over by Granada. Little by little, Sevilla united southern Al-Andalus under its aegis, exclusive of Granada and Málaga. This state was ruled by al-Muʿtaḍid, a sovereign devoid of scruples, who pretended at first to have found the vanished Hishām II al-Muʾayyad (at most, the pretender was a mat maker from Calatrava who bore some resemblance to the old caliph), and then by al-Muʿtaḍid's son, the poet-prince al-Muʿtamid. In the east, except for a brief period when the petty state of Denia (Dāniyah) built a powerful fleet that enabled it to stage incursions throughout the western Mediterranean as far as Sardinia, the various ṭāʾifas preserved a certain static and dynastic equilibrium; farther to the north, the various ṭāʾifas also spent their time embroiled in interminable internal quarrels.
This fragmentation facilitated the expansion of the Christian states of the north, which, lacking the demographic potential to repopulate the lands they had succeeded in occupying, wisely annexed only those that they were capable of repopulating and garrisoning. The Christian states also imposed a heavy economic burden of tribute on the ṭāʾifas. Christian armies forced the Andalusian petty kings to buy peace by paying annual tribute, the famous parias. The tribute revitalized the economy of the Christian states, but it created sharp friction between the Muslim authorities and their subjects. The ṭāʾifas constantly had to increase the yield from their imposts, and they constantly laid new and heavier tax burdens on their subjects; when cash was lacking, they devalued the currency, minting low-standard coins that were not accepted by the Christians. This in turn gave rise to new tax increases and to popular discontent, which was considerably aggravated by the legalistic party of the faqīhs. Furthermore, the extravagant luxury and lavish public outlays of the local petty courts rendered Al-Andalus ripe for the foreign intervention that came when the Castilians occupied Toledo (1085), the key to the Meseta Central and to the entire peninsula. The factional chiefs, alarmed by the Christian advance, called in the help of the Almoravids, the powerful Amazigh confederation then exercising hegemony over northwestern Africa.
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The Almoravid ruler Yūsuf ibn Tāshufīn entered the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa and slowly advanced to the fields of Al-Zallāqah, north of Badajoz (Baṭalyaws), where in 1086 he defeated a Castilian army under Alfonso VI. However, unable to further exploit his victory, he returned to the Maghrib. For two years Almoravid policy in Spain remained indecisive, but it appears that the siege of Aledo (1088) convinced Yūsuf ibn Tāshufīn of the urgent necessity of putting an end to the ṭāʾifas if he was going to rescue Spanish Islam. From 1090 he deposed their rulers, beginning with those of Granada and Málaga; the next year he dethroned the rulers of Almería and Sevilla, followed by the leader of Badajoz in 1093. Only Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (the Cid), exiled from his native Castile by King Alfonso VI, was able to resist the Africans, and he established an independent kingdom in Valencia—a new ṭāʾifa. The figure of the Cid—the Lord (Spanish Arabic: al-sīd), a title that the Arabs conferred upon him—is quite curious. He first served as a mercenary in the ṭāʾifa of Zaragoza, after which he became an independent prince in the east, ruling over states that were mainly inhabited by Muslims. He had the good fortune, however, of finding efficient administrators from among the Mozarabs residing in his states; further, his superb grasp of Almoravid tactics enabled him to overcome his numerical inferiority. Upon his death, Valencia remained under the control of his forces until 1102, when they were forced to evacuate it and seek refuge in Castile. Following the fall of Valencia, the Almoravids were unopposed, and in 1110, under the leadership of ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf (1106–43), they were able to occupy Zaragoza.
However, the conquest of Zaragoza marked the beginning of the Almoravid decline. The Aragonese king, Alfonso I (the Battler), and his stepson, Alfonso VII of Castile, launched renewed Christian assaults against the entire frontier of Islam in Spain. In 1118 Zaragoza fell into the hands of Alfonso I, who reconquered a large part of the valleys of the Jalón and of the Jiloca. After 1121 the Almoravids experienced serious difficulties in Africa as a result of the preachings of an Amazigh reformer, Muḥammad ibn Tūmart, and could not successfully withstand the Christian onslaught; indeed, they had to hire Christian mercenaries to help them. A resounding Almoravid victory over the Aragonese at Fraga (Ifragah) in 1134 bore no fruit, because the Almoravids lacked the resources to exploit it.
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2The constitution states that "Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State," but that "the other Spanish languages [including Euskera (Basque), Catalan, and Galician will] also be official in the respective Autonomous Communities."
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Rural: (2011) 22.6%
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Female: (2011) 84.9 years
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