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Toca Hair Salon: This is app comes from the makers of Toca Doctor & Paint my wings. This allows kids to do a virtual hair cut on the characters they have. They some of the typical instruments a hair salon will have. When you pick scissors and trimmer and move your hand across it will cut/trim or any other action that the item you pick. Good for teaching pretend play. Also good for social stories. The instrument sounds are realistic so if you have a kid who doesn't go to the hair salon this will be good to do at home before going there. It is better than the videos as you will be doing the actions.
IEP Goals/Skill Covered: Life Skills, Fine Motor, Pretend Play
- Wish the instruments goes with the finger when you pick them. For example, you select scissors but when you cut there is no scissors. I am sure this is a simple fix the developer can do.
- The instruments there are pretty basic instruments but more instruments used by the hair Salon will make this even better.
- If there is a way to include our own picture and let the kids decide how they want to be cut when they go to the salon will be much better basically take a picture when kids hair is grown and try to cut it using this app and decide on the hairstyle they like.
Developer Notes
- Cut and trim hair with the scissors and electric hair trimmer
- Use the hair dryer to style the final hair cut
- 12 hair colors to choose from!
- Use the magic potion G.R.O. to make the hair grow back again!
- Six cute characters that make fun faces and sounds while you cut their hair!
- No rules or stress – play any way your kids want to!
- Kid-friendly interface!
- No banner advertising
- No in-app purchases
Let your kids be a hair stylist for a day! Choose between six cute characters and cut and style them in whatever way you want. They make funny faces and sounds while you style them, and feels like you're cutting real hair! But without the cleaning up afterwards of course. And with the magic potion G.R.O. you can grow all the hair back again whenever you want.
Featuring the following characters:
* Harry (the red-head)
* Berry (the bear)
* Mary (pink hair)
* Rita (from Helicopter Taxi!)
* Larry (the lion)
* Fuzz (the dog)
Toca Hair Salon is made for kids age 3 and above, but many parents have been know to get addicted pretty quick too…
As with all Toca Boca toys, there are no high scores, time limits or stressful music. Your kids can play with it however they want!


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Twinview with different resolutions?
I'm successfully using twinview to drive 2 monitors for my home theatre computer (one in the case, one projector). I recently upgraded my projector and now the two screens have vastly different resolutions (1920x1200, 848x400). As a result twinview is forcing me to use very little of my projector resolution (scaling up a fuzzy image), OR, overdrive the little screen until is shuts off with "OUT OF RANGE" message but have a great projector image.
I would like to drive the projector at full resolution, and have the (nvidia) driver/X scale this same image down to 848x400 for my small screen.
Is this possible? I'm running Centos 6.3 x64 with X.
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Can you post your xorg.conf?
What driver version are you using?
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Here's my xorg.conf. I'm running the nvidia driver 304.43.
Section "ServerLayout"
Re: Twinview with different resolutions?
I'm not sure if Xorg is capable of such thing (I think not). What you can possibly do, is running separate X for each monitor.
Re: Twinview with different resolutions?
Is there another way to mirror them then? Since one is on a projector, one is on the PC, and I want to be able to view movies on PC during setup and ALSO projector...
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Your xorg.conf is a big giant mess. You can achieve what you want with an xorg.conf containing five, maybe six lines. Not kidding with that. I'd have to look at the documentation to figure out the correct Metamodes syntax though. I know how to do it from the commandline, but it requires a patched xrandr utility. With that patch, you do something like:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 848x400 --scale-from 1920x1200
Edit: Here's the xrandr patch that activates the scale-from option: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp....l/30138/match=
About Metamodes, I'm having a lazy moment :), but basically, you need to set ViewPortIn and ViewPortOut. The Nvidia documentation has all the details.
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It's quite cool, for example on my netbook I can do this:
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768 \
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A new report is providing the first details on the economic impact that WrestleMania 29 had on the New York & New Jersey area. WWE is reporting that 140,000 total tickets were sold between WrestleMania 29, the Hall of Fame ceremony, the post-WrestleMania RAW and the four-day AXXESS events. This year's AXXESS has been named by WWE as having the highest attendance to date thanks to the company putting AXXESS in an arena as opposed to the convention center.
According to a union leader, employees earned in the area of $1.4 million in gross salaries and that as many as 450 people worked at the events, which included setting up the WrestleMania set, staffing WWE AXXESS, and staging RAW the night after Mania.
The report also notes that the $524,000 that the company's "Superstars for Sandy Relief" initiative raised will be split between the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.


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A waveguide optical amplifier include a substrate and a guiding or active layer. The substrate has a substrate surface and a substrate index of refraction. The guiding layer is of Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) and/or Alumina (Al2 O3) and is carried on a cladding layer over the substrate surface. The guiding layer has a guiding layer index of refraction which is higher than the cladding index of refraction. The Zirconium dioxide guiding layer is doped with rare earth materials.
1. A waveguide optical amplifier, comprising:
a substrate having a substrate surface and a substrate index of refraction;
an amorphous, unetched active layer containing Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) and doped with a rare earth material deposited on the substrate surface having an active layer index of refraction, wherein the active layer index of refraction is higher than the substrate index of refraction; and
a low index of refraction ridge deposited on the active layer and patterned to thereby define an elongated region of optical confinement in the underlying amorphous active layer in a direction perpendicular to a direction of propagation.
2. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 wherein the rare earth dopant comprises Erbium (Er).
3. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 wherein the rare earth dopant comprises Praseodymium (Pr).
4. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 wherein the rare earth dopant comprises Neodymium.
5. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 including a co-dopant in the amorphous active layer.
6. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 5 wherein the co-dopant comprises Ytterbium (Yb).
7. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 wherein the substrate comprises silicon (Si).
8. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 including an optical pump providing a pump output signal between about 980 nm and about 1490 nm in wavelength.
9. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 wherein the amorphous active layer is Pr--Yb doped and provides amplification to signals between about 1280 nm and about 1360 nm.
10. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 including SiO2 co-deposited in the amorphous active layer with the ZrO2.
11. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 including Al2 O3 co-deposited in the amorphous active layer with the ZrO2.
12. The waveguide optical amplifier of claim 1 including a cladding layer adjacent the amorphous active layer having an index of refraction which is less than the active layer index of refraction.
The present invention relates to optical waveguides for carrying optical signals. More specifically, the invention relates to solid state optical waveguides which provide amplification to optical signals carried therein.
Optical waveguides are known in the art and are used to carry optical signals along a desired path. One type of optical waveguide includes a thin film of material deposited upon a substrate. The material has shape and optical characteristics to form a waveguide path along the substrate. Some types of optical waveguides may also provide amplification to the optical signals carried therein. In general, waveguide optical amplifiers are pumped with an external coherent light source (i.e., a laser) to cause ions to enter higher energy bands. Once in the higher energy band, the transition to a lower band is such that the optical signal passing therethrough is amplified.
Optical waveguides and optical waveguide amplifiers are becoming increasingly important as the communication industry struggles to meet ever-increasing bandwidth requirements. Such optical communication systems must provide a wide bandwidth and be capable of carrying signals over long distances. In particular, when transmitted over long distances the optical signal must be amplified, without significant bandwidth limitation or distortion.
Erbium (Er) doped fiber amplifiers have had a large impact on incoherent optical communication systems in the 1550 nm wavelength band. However, such amplifiers provide a relatively low gain per meter of fiber and therefore require a long fiber length to obtain sufficiently large amplification. Furthermore, in the 1300 nm wavelength band, the lasing transition of Praseodymium (Pr) ions 1 G4 →3 H5 have been found to be the most suitable for use in optical amplification. However, due to the high phonon energies in silica glass fibers, the probability of multiphonon damping is very high. Thus, Pr doped ZBLAN glass fiber, which is a ZrF based material having relatively low phonon energies, is currently the most common amplifier in use for the 1300 nm wavelength band. However, such a Pr doped fluoride glass fiber amplifier has a number of problems. First, the efficiency of the amplifier is relatively low and thus requires high power pump signals. Additionally, the fiber amplifier cannot be easily spliced to conventional silica fiber optical cabling. Finally, the material devitrifies, which results in degradation to the amplifier.
In general, affordable semiconductor amplifiers for either the 1300 nm wavelength band or the 1500 nm wavelength band have high spontaneous emission noise and therefore yield high noise figures. Most single mode optical fiber currently in place was designed to have very low dispersion at 1300 nm. Thus the need for a low cost, high performance and low noise optical amplifier is great, particularly at 1300 nm. This frequency band is used not only by long distance telephone companies but also by cable television companies. Various attempts have been made to provide such amplifiers. Erbium doped dielectric waveguides have been made in a variety of materials. LiNbO3 has become the most prominent of these materials due to its properties. However, such amplifiers have a relatively low gain, only about 13 dB for a 70 mm structure. Thus, there is an ongoing need for a cost effective high performance optical amplifier which introduces little noise into the communication signal.
The present invention includes a waveguide optical amplifier deposited on a substrate. A guiding or active layer containing Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) or Alumina (Al2 O3) is formed on the substrate. The guiding layer is doped with a rare earth material. In various embodiments, the rare earth dopant is Praseodymium (Pr), Erbium (Er), Neodymium (Nd), Ytterbium (Yb) or others, or combinations thereof. The guiding layer is, in some embodiments, co-deposited with silicon dioxide (SiO2) and another material. Various embodiments of the optical amplifier in accordance with the invention include ridge guides stripes and buried ridges.
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an waveguide optical amplifier in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram showing test apparatus used to characterize a waveguide optical amplifier.
FIG. 3 is a graph of gain versus wavelength for a waveguide optical amplifier in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide optical amplifier in accordance with another embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide optical amplifier in accordance with another embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide optical amplifier in accordance with another embodiment.
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide optical amplifier 10 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. Waveguide optical amplifier 10 is shown deposited on a silicon (Si) substrate 12 and includes an amorphous Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) guiding or active layer 14. Zirconium dioxide guiding layer 14 is sandwiched between lower silicon dioxide (SiO2) low refraction index layer 16 and upper silicon dioxide (SiO2) low refraction index ridge layer 18. SiO2 layer 16 is deposited upon Si substrate 12.
In accordance with the present invention, device 10 conducts light in a direction perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 1. The light conduction path is generally defined by, in the embodiment of FIG. 1, upper silicon dioxide ridge layer 18. As used herein, the term "light" and "optical" are intended to refer to frequencies which may be used with devices in accordance with the invention and includes frequencies outside of the visible light region. ZrO2 guiding layer 14 provides amplification to the optical signal when pumped with an appropriate source.
In one embodiment, guiding layer 14 includes ZrO2 which is co-deposited with SiO2 and doped with Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd) or Praseodymium-Ytterbium (Pr-Yb) for use at wavelengths in the 1300 nm range. In another embodiment, guiding layer 14 includes ZrO2 co-deposited with SiO2 and doped with Erbium (Er) or Erbium-Ytterbium (Er-Yb) for use with wavelengths in the 1550 nm range. In yet another embodiment, guiding layer 14 includes Alumina (Al2 O3) co-deposited with SiO2 and/or ZiO2 and doped with Praseodymium and/or co-doped with Ytterbium for use in the 1300 nm band or doped with Erbium and/or co-doped with Ytterbium for use in the 1550 nm band.
For use at 1550 nm, device 10 is preferably pumped with a 980 nm or 1490 nm source. Further, for devices operating at 1300 nm band, pumping should be 980 nm and 1017 nm. The doping of guiding layer 14 with rare earth materials provides the desired amplification to the waveguide when properly pumped.
In operation, the distribution of the rare earth material is such that the corresponding ions are maintained at higher energy levels. The optical pumping induces the rare earth ions to transition from a lower energy level to a higher energy level. Subsequently, the passage of a second stimulating beam or optical signal, (i.e. the communication signal carried through device 10) causes ions to drop to lower energy levels thereby resulting the stimulated emission of phonons. The phonons are added to the optical signal carried in device 10, thus causing amplification. For efficient operation, the pumping signal must be of an appropriate wavelength and energy level to cause atoms of the rare earth material to be pumped to higher energy levels.
In the embodiment of FIG. 1, layer 16 has a thickness of 3.0 μm, layer 14 has a thickness of 0.6 μm, layer 18 has a thickness of 1.0 μm and layer 18 has a width of 5.0 μm. The guiding layer 14 is preferably deposited by sputtering which allows high concentrations of rare earth materials to be included in the layer. In this optical wave single mode propagation of the optical signal is ensured by design, whereas the pump wavelength may either be single mode or multimode, designed to ensure maximum performance efficiency.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the guiding layer is deposited using sputtering techniques, and preferably ion beam sputtering techniques such as those described in Ford et al. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,303,319, 5,319,727, 5,418,182 and 5,438,639. Preferably, the concentration of rare earth materials is as great as possible without excessive clustering which causes signal loss. Furthermore, the rare earth dopant is introduced during the sputtering deposition process to a suitable level to provide the desired amplification without clustering. The same sputtering techniques can be used to deposit both active and passive guiding layers on the same substrate. For example, clustering has occurred when Er is co-doped with Yb even as high as 0.5% using this technique.
FIG. 2 is a simplified diagram showing an apparatus 30 for testing a device 10 in accordance with the invention. Apparatus 30 includes a laser diode 32, isolator 34, mirror 36, 20X objectives 38 and 40, dichroic mirror 42, laser pump 44, objective 46, fiber coupler 48, fiber 50, monochronometer 52, lock-in amplifier 54 and oscilloscope 56. Laser diode 32 provides a test source signal at about 1300 nm and is tunable. Laser diode source 32 is isolated from the system by isolator 32. Its signal is reflected by mirror 36 through 20X objective 38 toward optical amplifier 10. Similarly, the output from optical amplifier 10 is directed through 20� objective 40 toward dichroic mirror 42 through objective 46 to fiber coupler 48. The signal is filtered by monochronometer 52 and detected and selected by lock-in amplifier 54 for display on oscilloscope 56 or other test device.
In FIG. 2, the optical pumping signal from pump 44 is directed toward optical amplifier 10 through dichroic mirror 42. However, those skilled in the art will recognize that other configurations may be used such as depositing the laser pump on the same substrate as the inventive optical amplifier.
FIG. 3 is a graph of gain versus wavelength for optical amplifier 10 generated using test apparatus 30. Laser diode source 32 was swept through about 1290 nm and 1325 nm in wavelength while the gain of the output signal was observed on oscilloscope 56 and recorded. The particular device tested had a length of 6 mm and was pumped with, approximately a 30 mW signal. The particular structure was ZrO2 --SiO2 guide layer (n=2.12) with SiO2 (n=1.49) above and below this layer, the top layer etched into a ridge, the guide layer was doped with 0.5% Pr and 1% Yb. The substrate used was silicon. The SiO2 layer had a thickness of 3 μm, the active layer was sputtered to a thickness of 0.6 μm. The top SiO2 layer was deposited to 0.15 μm and etched to form a 5.0 μm wide stripe with CF4 reactive ion etching through a 75 nm Cr mask. The Yb co-dopant acts to extend the pump wavelength to the 980 nm band of typical high power single-mode strained quantum well InGaAs semiconductor layers. The channel waveguides were endfire pumped with a 100 mW 975 nm laser diode through a 20� microscope objective, and the emitted light was collected at the far end with a multi-mode fiber and coupled through a dichroic mirror into a 1 meter scanning monochrometer with a room temperature InGaAs detector and locking amplifier, as shown in FIG. 2. Due to the poor quality of the as-cleaved facets of the waveguides only about 15 mW was actually launched into the 5.0 micron wide guides.
The observed luminescence spectra shown in FIG. 3 includes peaks in addition to the residual pump signal, centered at 1084, 1117, and 1327 nm. The strong 1 G4 --3 H5 transition at 1327 nm evidences phonon quenching is not a dominant factor in this material. The 85 nm luminescence bandwidth of the 1 G4 --3 H5 emission line is larger than that observed for the chalcogenide glasses. Amplification was also observed by coupling a signal from an external cavity tunable diode laser into one facet of a 0.6 cm long device, while backward pumping the sample with the 975 nm laser diode. Amplification of more than 1.3 dB/cm internal gain at λ=1304 nm was observed. This gain is considered significant considering the low level of pump power used. Amplification may be improved through polishing and anti-reflective coating the facets.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment of an optical amplifier 70 in accordance with the invention. Amplifier 70 includes a guiding or active layer 72 of the aforementioned materials deposited on a substrate 74 such as Si or glass. An encapsulation layer 76 of SiO2 is deposited across the surface thereby covering guide layer 72.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide optical amplifier 100 in accordance with another embodiment. Amplifier 100 includes guide or active layer 102 comprising the aforementioned materials deposited on a layer of SiO2 104 over substrate 106 which typically comprises Si or glass.
In the embodiments of FIGS. 4 and 5, the active layer must be etched to form an elongated shape. The etching process should be such that the sides of the layer are not damaged which can lead to scattering and signal loss. Preferably the active layer is etched using a wet etching process, which uses photolithograph mask and suitable acid etchant.
FIG. 6 is cross-sectional view of another embodiment of a waveguide optical amplifier 120 in accordance with the present invention. Optical amplifier 120 includes active layer 122 deposited on base layer 124 and covered by top layer 126. A ridge 128 is formed in top layer 126. Amplifier 120 is carried on substrate 130. The various layers of device 120 are of materials in accordance with the present invention. For example, layer 120 my be ZrO2 /SiO2, layer 124 of SiO2, layer 126 of SiO2 and substrate 130 of Si or other substrate material. In the embodiment of FIG. 6, the active layer 122 is amorphous and does not require etching. Further, when ridge 128 is formed a portion of layer 126 is not etched whereby layer 122 is covered.
The present invention includes formation of a waveguide optical amplifier having an active or guiding layer of ZrO2 co-deposited with SiO2, Al2 O3 co-deposited with SiO2 or ZrO2, Al2 O3 and SiO2 all co-deposited together. The guide layer is sandwiched between layers having a lower index of refraction. Preferably, the dimensions are selected such that wave propagates in a single mode, preferably the TE mode, along the length of the structure. Further, the dimensions can be selected such that the waveguide is polarization insensitive and the optical modes at the ends of the amplifier match the optical modes of the fiber optic cable to which it is attached.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, workers skilled in the art will recognize that changes may be made in form and detail without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In one preferred embodiment, the guiding (active) layer is an amorphous layer (see FIGS. 1 and 6) which does not require etching which can damage surfaces of the layer and lead to signal loss through scattering near. In embodiments where the active layer is etched (FIGS. 4 and 5), such etching is preferably through wet etching (i.e., a chemical etch) which tends to cause little damage to the etched surfaces.
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Estrada, Moreno arrive at Welcome Rotonda to implement bus scheme
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MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada personally made sure that bus operators and drivers would comply with the city's bus rerouting scheme, forcing their lawyer to draft a proposal that sought to address their concerns against the plan.
Sporting a camouflage jacket, Estrada and his vice mayor, Isko Moreno, arrived at the Mabuhay (formerly Welcome) Rotonda to stop provincial buses affected by scheme from entering the city, according to a report on Radyo Inquirer 990Am.
In a dialogue with the bus drivers and operators and their lawyer Ferdinand Topacio later Thursday morning at City Hall, Estrada said it was their "sworn duty to make
the city of Manila peaceful and pleasant", according to the report.
Moreno said they would not allow the buses to enter the city and would strictly implement the new regulation.
Under the scheme, only bus companies with terminals in Manila were allowed to enter the city.
During the dialogue, the drivers complained about the exorbitant fees imposed by existing terminals in the city.
One operator claimed that they were being asked to pay P120 per entry or exit, or P240 per roundtrip. Another pointed out that the initial price set was P80 per roundtrip.
Moreno berated the bus operators for troubling the local government with their terminal woes.
He said that this was not the problem of the local government anymore and that they have the option to build their own terminal.
Moreno explained that they only facilitated the talks between the operators and the terminal owner.
Radyo Inquirer 990AM reported that after the dialogue, Topacio promised to come up with an alternative proposal or petition paper.
Topacio accompanied bus operators and drivers as they tried to enter the areas where a ban was enforced.
He assured the public that there would be no physical violence but warned authorities against stopping them from entering the city unless there was valid justification.
"This is only a resolution. This regulation violates the franchise [of bus operators]. This is not just regulation. This is prohibition. It disregards the franchise of buses, especially those going to Fairview and Baclaran," Topacio said in a radio interview.
Some of the buses were reportedly impounded after trying to enter the city.
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USA Network, as part of its long-planned expansion into comedy, will pair reruns of the hit ABC series "Modern Family" with original comedies. USA, which will start showing "Modern Family" episodes in September, is considering two original comedy series: "Paging Dr. Freed," about a pair of brothers who take over their dad's medical practice, and "Sirens," a Denis Leary project about Chicago EMTs.
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A down-to-the-ground skirt. A floaty shape. A built in bandeau. For work, brunch, happy hour, dates, shopping and anything else that calls for something a teensy-bit dressy. We love our maxis this season!
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This garment runs true to size! Model is wearing a size Small.
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Well, I want to upload some videos to YouTube, and do some editing the same time, how can I make it easily? sorry, Im a novice for Mac, any advice is appreciated....
Edited. It's Mac not MAC - http://lockergnome.net/questions/46685/why-do-people-write-mac-as-mac
Answer by Janet · Sep 15, 2010 at 06:55 AM
Hmm, just found the answer via Google, share here.
Just found this helpful tips, if you are a youTube video lovers as me, then this tips might do some help for your YouTube video loving.
Video editing usually requires installing software packages and having a fair amount of technical savvy. But now YouTube have introduced its new YouTube Video Editor which allows you to create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing YouTube video uploads. Here we will walk you through how to upload and edit the YouTube videos... go to the detailed source: http://www.ifunia.com/youtube-column/how-to-upload-and-edit-youtube-videos.html
and more, such as "The best video format for uploading to YouTube" "How to download and embed YouTube videos to Keynote" "How to download and convert YouTube 4K videos" in iFunia resouces center: http://www.ifunia.com/how-tos.html
Answer by Uelogy · Sep 15, 2010 at 07:16 AM
I import my movie into iMovie - edit - then either use the inbuilt "share on YouTube" feature, or just export the movie then use YouTube to upload. It's pretty straight forward once you get the hang of it.
Answer by Patxi · Sep 15, 2010 at 08:05 AM
Youtube has a basic editor on the site you can use when you upload videos :), but if you want to edit them with more features use : imovie, Sony Vegas or some of the Adobe Products like Premire or After Effects.
Answer by ageekmom · Sep 17, 2010 at 04:54 AM
iMove is all you really need. There are other options, but iMovie's included with your Mac out of the box and does everything most folks need to do unless they're videographers.
Answer by Justin · Oct 07, 2010 at 06:21 PM
iMovie comes with all Macs, and for a "free" application, it is pretty powerful. Import your footage, and edit to your desire. Then when you're done editing, save your project, then export the video. Then when you will be able to upload it to YouTube.
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Sharing Documents and Collaborating Online
Now it's time for the meat and potatoes. Virtual meetings and group conversations are great, but what about a project that requires much more than communication accessibility? I need an online tool that supports document collaboration. I have a team of five highly talented engineers working with charts and measurements. I'm not sure if I trust online collaboration for a project of this detail.
Why not? Would it make you feel better to sit in a library with your group when one person just drank a liter of Red Bull, another is on a two-day study binge, and one has to leave in an hour and a half? As team leader, how can you possibly accomplish anything? Online collaboration becomes more than a luxury the minute it saves time, allows team members to work at their most productive blocks, and moves a project towards completion in fewer, more efficient and productive meetings.
Google Docs
Create and Share Your Work Online
The leader in document collaboration has made it easy to swallow the Google pill. If a member of your team doesn't have access to Microsoft Office products, they can still view and edit documents using Google Docs, which converts the files into a compatible format. Documents are continuously saved while the work is being done. You can even work on the same document simultaneously and view changes in real time.
With Google Docs, you do not have to send emails, save files, or worry about your information being lost. Team members must have internet connection and a Google account to access docs.
Google Docs now syncs up with the aforementioned Google+ Hangouts so teams can video conference while editing documents. The screen can be shared both with the video call and a shared document. With this feature, users can now see real-time edits while chatting on video!
Cost: Free with a Google account
Usability: Easy to edit, share, collaborate, and save
When to use: Your team has been creating their own documents individually in Microsoft Word and Excel, emails them to the group leader who wastes hours on merging all of the documents into one. Avoid duplicate work and give Google Docs a shot so you always have the most current version of the document at your fingertips.
Create diagrams online. Real-time collaboration!
This file sharing platform is for the artistic minded. Cacoo allows team members to view and create diagrams in real time. There is a chat feature, and the design platform is similar to designs you could create using Microsoft PowerPoint (minus the presentation). Cacoo features templates of iPhone, iPad, Android, and computer monitors to scale to help design teams craft website designs without the hours of HTML and Dreamweaver.
Usability: Easy to click and drag shapes, zoom in, zoom out, share work and save work. If your team is working on architecture or precise measurements, this is not the design platform for you.
Cost: Free trial offer, then $49 a year for single users or $99 a month for teams of up to 100 users. Unlimited sheets allowed for both.
Setup Time: Five minutes, does not require you to download software
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If there were an episode of Hoarders for online collaboration tools, Evernote would make the series premier. Save almost everything, as you scan the Web from any one of your devices. Evernote allows you to view your saved items on any of your devices, at any time from anywhere. In a personal setting, Evernote is fun for keeping items in your life organized and on tab the same way Pinterest has struck a chord with the picture sharing community. With professional colleagues and team members, Evernote is a great way to quickly share your ideas in an open forum. Check out how this restaurant owner operates his business using Evernote.
Cost: Free for individuals. Premium subscription at $45 per year gives you more file storage and the ability to allow others to edit your notes, an important feature in collaboration.
Usability: Concept could be advanced for those new to file sharing and cloud computing. Check with your team on the idea of file sharing in this capacity. Works best when ideas are igniting and extinguishing quick. Evernote is a great way to keep track of those ideas when they are bright to help fuel the innovation fire later down the road.
Setup: Requires some email confirmation and downloads.
Access and share you social files online
For those more interested in the social side of online collaboration, this would certainly be a great avenue for posting pictures of events, connecting with other professionals, and saving some time uploading and updating all of your different social networking profiles. Think of it as a way to bookmark your friends from every social network and bring them all over for dinner, and by dinner I mean open up a folder to see what they are all up to at any given moment in time.
Having trouble keeping track of all those pictures you've been loading onto your social networking sites? Socialfolders.me helps organize all of them in one easy-to-find location. With all this talk about social networks, didn't you have a team project you were working on?
How to use this for your team: Create folders for your team and upload pictures they can view. Have a team folder where ideas flow. You can upload and download files from Google Docs.
Cost: Free
Usability: You would want a solid background knowledge of file-sharing and social networking to make this program valuable and productive. This is a case of you're only as strong as your weakest link. If team members are not participating in the file share, you will have empty folders and you will have actually spent more time taking your ideas and moving them into folders than if you just presented them in person. Get the team on board and this will increase productivity.
A new way to brainstorm
With SpiderScribe, you can create private and public maps. Connect ideas, share documents, pictures, notes, and maps all on the same high-tech white board. This is a great tool for the visual learners and projects that are dealing with more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. If you are planning a presentation, this would be a great tool to map the flow of the presentation and allow others to edit and comment on the development.
Cost: Free for individuals. 30-Day free trial for professional and business users followed by a $5 monthly fee for professionals or $25 monthly fee for businesses, which allows you unlimited users and a larger file sharing space.
Usability: Easy to sign up, easy to use and includes video tutorials. Set yourself up for success by keeping an organized file system on your computer that you can easily upload and attach pictures to the online whiteboard.
Setup Time: Three minutes to set up, two minutes to watch the introduction video.
Use When: Organizing a conference, impressing a professor with new ways to brainstorm and map ideas, or planning a vacation after the project is over.
Titan Pad
Lets people work on one document simultaneously
No, this is not an indestructible iPad. It is, however, one of the easiest online collaboration tools out there. No frills to this titan. Start writing two seconds after you reach the landing page. Invite team members by sending them the unique URL.
Cost: Free
Usability: Easy. Includes blog and help buttons.
Use for: Real time word processing, editing text, or free flow of ideas.
I get that it saves time and money, but are there any advantages in terms of the quality of ideas and finished product to online collaboration in a team setting?
Absolutely. Picture Denzel Washington at a meeting. He is a polarizing figure and may leave some people intimidated to share an idea or in some cases even speak at all. This is no environment to nurture ideas. Not unlike the 8th grader that says things on Facebook they wouldn't dare say in person; the innovator comes in all shapes, sizes, and confidence levels. Teams often find that with online collaboration, the quiet student from the third row of class bangs out Zuckerberg-esque ideas via Titan Pad, only to revert back to their hood up, quiet demeanor in the third row of class as the same three people participate in discussion.
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This will be one of the few Apprenticed Investor columns written in response to current events. I'm doing so because I feel it's necessary to address last week's topsy-turvy market action. More specifically, the investor reaction to it.
A brief background: In my day job, I advise institutional investors on the state of the markets. When risk, according to my metrics, has risen unacceptably relative to reward, I become cautious. When the reverse happens, I get more aggressive. This has been my style for some time, and it works for me. Once I explain the process, I'll lay out the mistakes the public makes in reaction to these market calls.
'Are You a Bull or a Bear?'I've heard this question countless times the past few weeks. And I find it a stunning rejection of Darwinian logic that proponents of such blather have managed to evade extinction. Investors simply never get asked a more distracting and pointless question. Effective investors find their style, then read the market and adapt accordingly.
Of course, in discussions about Wall Street, the bull and bear are mesmerizing. How often do we hear a newscaster somberly intoning: "The bears got gored by the bulls on Wall Street today..." The very next day, we hear the same talking head reverse course: "On Wall Street, the bears came out of their caves to chase the bulls, as the Dow dropped..."The markets we saw last Wednesday and Thursday are textbook examples of why the colorful imagery of the bulls and bears is magnetically attractive to copywriters and repellent to good investing. Why is this such a problem? Because of the "folly of forecasting": Once people commit to a position, there is an unfortunate tendency to root for that perspective. Even worse, people stick with their forecast, regardless of what is actually happening in the market. We addressed this in the very first Apprenticed Investor,


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OChottie 5 years
He should break up with her, then he'd be free to date me. My Hubbin wouldn't mind (if we didn't tell him)
mia1978 6 years
#18 "Barfareli"hahahahahaha.Leo and she not togever. I like leo&Kevin!!
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That s the spirit, you can see Jessica is a caring, loving and patient girlfriend, she deserves to be treated like a princess, and be hugged and loved as much in private as in public, it s Love : no need to hide it. Jay you blind fool : marry the girl, she is the one. ps : the glasses are hot, love it !!
ffrench 6 years
Leo is not with Lindsay
ffrench 6 years
Leo is not with Lindsay
reesiecup 6 years
I'd be stoked to sit court side for a Lakers playoff game! Ah, maybe ONE DAY....once I win the lottery.
NotMeAnymore 6 years
Anyone stupid enough to believe the gossip about Lindsay Lohan SHOULD remain anonymous. You certainly don't want to alert the world to your naivete.
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No one knows the real status of Leo's relationship with Bar unless they know them personally. Their relationship is so off-on-off-on that they could have split and gotten back together since the last time they were seen in public, which was in early April. It's getting old. I highly doubt Leo is with Lindsay and that Bar is with the male Israeli model that has been alluded to here. Either way I doubt there that serious or ever were.
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What is with his glasses?!?!
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What is with his glasses?!?!
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Leo his without Bar Refaeli now, becouse he is dating with lindsay lohan, his new girlfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........what a LOSER!!!!!!!!! and yas, Bar have a new boyfriend too, his also a model and looking MUCH hotter then Leo.
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Has Leo ever heard of weight loss? He has one of the WORST bodies I've ever seen on a "star." Too bad his face isn't much better. He and Robert Pattyson are fug!
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I forgot it was still basketball season- when does it end? Justin's that guy I see out in public and think...'thank God I'm not with him' it's embarrassing. I like guys who there for the love of their team and not to be seen.
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Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page. In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
The challenge: does this narrative compel you to turn the page?
Storytelling Checklist
Evaluate this opening page for how well it executes the following 6 vital storytelling elements. While it's not a requirement that all of them must be on the first page, I think writers have the best chance of hooking a reader if they are. The one vital ingredient not listed is professional-caliber writing, a given for every page.
- Story questions
- Tension (in the reader, not just the characters)
- Voice
- Clarity
- Scene-setting
- Character
Let's Flog Inferno by Dan Brown
When I look at the opening page of a hugely successful author, I wonder how it would have fared without the big name and big sales. What would happen if the opening of this book, the prologue, was submitted to a literary agent by you or me? Following is what would be the first manuscript page (16 lines) of the Prologue in Inferno, the number 1 hardback fiction book on the July 14, 2013 New York Times bestseller list.
I am the Shade.
Through the dolent city, I flee.
Through the eternal woe, I take flight.
Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble breathless . . . turning left onto Via dei Castellani, making my way northward, huddling in the shadows of the Uffizi.
And still they pursue me.
Their footsteps grow louder now as they hunt with relentless determination.
For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground . . . forced me to live in purgatory . . . laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
I am the Shade.
Here aboveground, I raise my eyes to the north, but I am unable to find a direct path to salvation . . . for the Apennine Mountains are blotting out the first light of dawn.
I pass behind the palazzo with its crenellated tower and one-handed clock . . . snaking through the early-morning vendors in Piazza di San Firenze with their hoarse voices smelling of lampredotto and roasted olives. Crossing before the Bargello I cut west toward the spire of the Badia and come up hard against the iron gate at the base of the stairs.
My vote and editorial notes after the fold.
My vote: Yes
The way many literary agents say they skip prologues (Don, how about you?), I wonder if this opening would have been read. I had mixed emotions about it. The writing seemed a little over the top at times, and I was not connected with this mysterious and anonymous character. On the other hand, there is that mysterious part—enough strong story questions were raised to get me to turn the page.
The narrative is cleaner than the last one we read from Dan Brown—perhaps there's an editor more involved.
Oh, how many of you knew what chthonic meant? I didn't. It's of a divinity or a spirit : dwelling or reigning in the underworld. Lampredotto is a typical Florentine peasant dish, made from the fourth and final stomach of a cow, the abomasum.
Here's the blurb from the Amazon page. Note that the prologue give no hint of this story. Is that a good thing to do?
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante's Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.
What are your thoughts?
If you'd like to help beginning novelists with your constructive criticism, join me on Wednesdays and Fridays for floggings at my site, Flogging the Quill.
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24 Responses to "Flog a Pro: Inferno by Dan Brown"
I'd just like to know how mountains to the north can blot out the sunrise when you're in Italy.
If I picked this up in a bookstore and read this opening page, the blurb would have to be pretty compelling for me to put my money down. When reading a book, I read it all, including prologues. I might (in the bookstore) skip ahead and check out the opening of chapter 1. If it looked better than this, maybe I'd go on. By itself, with nothing else to go on–no, wouldn't read on.
Yes, it's a good Dan Brownish, mystery opening, which for millions of readers works. It's a chase, it has mystery, it has setting.
I wonder why, though, the first three lines are italicized. There's a jolt when it jumps to non-ital, and I'm all about removing "jolts" from the reading experience.
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All words that most readers would stumble over. So why include them? If a page has more than one word that has readers thinking "Dictionary" it's probably too many.
I didn't have trouble with the italicized lampredotto as that clearly indicates a local foodstuff and the reader can simply accept it as such.
Beginnings are easy. This one starts off with the right implied promise. Whether that promise is fulfilled is a question for those who have read the whole book.
With the millions Brown's books earn couldn't we afford a better editor? This is so overwritten that it cancels out the mystery for me, pushing me out of the story rather than drawing me in.
The first person narrative is also poorly written and therefore the character and his voice do not ring true.
The opening feels too "goth" to me, making me suspect it's going to be a demonic horror fantasy of some sort. And I don't like when a first page has more than one word I don't know. And I'm an editor!
The "dolent city?" Really? I had to look that up at Merriam Webster's online, and when I did I found a whole page of comments from other people who had also looked it up–because of Inferno.
(Bravo to Dan for increasing America's vocabulary.)
I am a Dan Brown fan, but if I didn't know this was one of his books I would not turn the page. Just don't like the voice or the creepy demonic implications.
I said "no" based on these lines/first page, mostly because I didn't feel a connection with the character being chased – the tension wasn't there for me.
I did like the air of mystery and the Italian setting set up in the Prologue and, if I had the book in hand, I would've flipped to Chapter One to see what that was like.
Since we do this contest "as if" the writing sample were from an unknown writer, I would read on. I would keep reading simply because, if I were a fish, I would be a bottom feeder some of the time. I have read the first twenty to forty pages of LOTS of awful books simply because they were on a bookshelf at the cottage or in a yard sale.
I would not read on if I "knew" this was written by Dan Brown. I've read the first twenty pages of one of his books. It was on the shelf at the cottage.
"Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble breathless . . . turning left onto Via dei Castellani, making my way northward, huddling in the shadows of the Uffizi.
And still they pursue me.
Their footsteps grow louder now as they hunt with relentless determination.
For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground . . . forced me to live in purgatory . . . laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster."
I wouyld have turn the page because of the few lines above. It had tension and intrigue, which is always tasty bait for me. The only part I didn't really like was the phrase "I am the Shade", but I could have easily overlooked that.
I don't know how the Pros do it, but I cannot connect with any character from reading the first chapter, let alone the first page.
I really am on the fence about "Inferno." This prologue does make me at least want to know what is going on, but the language is so over-dramatic, it sounds amatueurish.
I did enjoy "The Da Vinci Code," but after "The Lost Symbol," swore I would not read another Dan Brown book.
Oh, what to do, what to do????
Sorry to say, I voted yes. I do not think Dan Brown's books are well written. But ya know what? They move. At this point I didn't care who the character was, I wanted to know who was chasing him and why and was he going to get away.
Would I lay down money for this book? No. Would I check it out of the library? No. If it were lying there and I had nothing better to read at the moment would I continue reading? Yes.
Who knows how long I would keep reading? Would I read to the end? I don't know. But I read every last page of THE DA DINCI CODE, all the while thinking how badly it was written.
I read every day. And sometimes I read books like this. Apparently, so do a lot of other people.
1. I wondered about the italicized lines myself. I haven't read Dante's "Inferno," so perhaps it's from that.
2. New words don't bother me, and if I have to stop and look them up, I'm ok with that. I have to thank Diana Gabaldon for causing me to buy an "Oxford Universal Dictionary" and several others. If I own a printed copy of a book with lots of new words, I pencil in the meanings. I love buying these annotated books at used book sales.
3. The city in question is Florence and the reference to the Apennines works.
4. I probably wouldn't buy the book, which is a "no" vote for his style, but I would listen to it as a audio book because I love most things Italian.
OK, let's face it. When we pick up a Dan Brown book we expect a fast-paced story chock full of well-researched details and plenty of twists and turns. Yes, it did at times come off like a travel guide and a vomiting history tutorial, but I kind of expected that going in. What I don't expect from Dan Brown is stellar writing, a decent romance, or that Robert Langdon is as sexy as Dan tries to portray him. To me, RL will always seem like an old stuffy college professor, not a hot 32 yo with a swimmers body. Sorry, not happening.
That said, I did stop mid-way through the book on my vacation in Ireland to write a blog post in lieu of throwing the book out the second floor window. I added it as the second in my series called "Are #1 New York Times Best-Selling authors teaching new writers bad habits?". Why? Because my editor would lynch me for the things he got away with. An example, "Did every character have to scream every sentence?! All the time?! On every page?!" My quota is 1-3 uses per 110K word MS of the dreaded, yet sometimes effective, "?!". Not 3 per page. That's just one example of what irked me to distraction.
My vote would have been 'Yes' to keep reading after the first page, and I always read prologues.


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- Key players: Diane Rios, Sr., MB; Ali Poston, Sr., setter; Rachel Leash, Sr., right/left; Charlene Renick, Sr., MB
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you think a lot more of erat than i do, i have to admit i'm not a huge erat fan.. i think he's a good player, but not this point a game player you think he will be, the kid can score goals,but isn't much of a passer or playmaker to be honest, 75% of his assist come off people knocking rebounds off his missed shots and not passes... and unarguably the guy is a puck hog like handtrick notes..skates around looking for his shot, not giving the puck up at times when he should... skates around in the offensive zone with his head down, looking for his play, and not for open teammates most of the time.. i'm really suprised he hasn't been killed by some dman catching him with his head down to be honest
now he's still young, fast and valuable to a team that still struggles to score goals and totally agree you don't give a player with the talent of an erat away for a "maybe"... i hope he stays a pred and grows his game into a more complete rounded one, but if a viable,proven 1st or 2nd line type center comes available in a trade for the guy, i'd be the first to say do it
75%? come on. that's a total exageration. Maybe this season (since he only has 7 asissts), but in previous seasons, he has been one of the only true playmakers on our team.
I have only seen some of the games this year. I can't really speak for all that's he (or anyone else) has done this year. But Erat would have been a point-per-game player 'last season' if he had gotten 1st line ice time and prime powerplay time (based on his ES point-per-minute av and his PP point-per-minute av).
Erat is still "finding himself" (learning how to use his excellent skill base), but in the meantime, he continues to be one of our most productive players. I have little doubt that he will truely find himself in the future. But we agree on one thing... we shouldn't be giving him up for "this guy MIGHT work at center" player.
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On the 1998 was a first try to restore of Epicrise with the new line-up: Dmytro "Long" V'iaznykov (ex-Mental Demise) - bass, Yurko "Pinky" Lysiak - drums, Valeriy Vaschuk - guitar. During of 2 months of numerous rehearsals a new reh. Demo was recorded. But this record dissolved in time without a trace. It was lost. Epicrise died secondly right after the bassman had broken both hands & Pinky was taken to above mentioned Mental Demise.
It was 3rd try to reborn the band on 1999. There old members as Eugen "T.Grinder" Shykarews'kiy (drums) & Yurko "Pinky" Lysiak (guitar/vocals) were returned and two newcomers as Ruslan "Grysha" Kopush together with Mykhailo Petrenko, who joined the band on the bass on the beginning of 2000. The music style had been changed more to Grinding Deathcore direction after the next line up was completed.
On the middle of 2000 Epicrise started touring over Ukraine and participated on 1st issue of MHM fest. On the end of 2000 came new singer Maxim "Yugend" Vaschuk. At the same time Yurko "Pinky" Lysiak left Epicrise decided himself to concentrate on Mental Demise band only.
In the middle of 2001 the band is preparing carefully to record of a new album. But Grysha was left the band extremely fast in cause of problems inside of his family & alcohol addiction again. This was a new stage of band history when they were seeking for a new guitar player, so the band became frozen for an undefined period.
The new guitar player was found on the beginning of 2004. A new musical stuff born too fast with his participation & band returned to its roots of Porno Grind Core. For the moment the line up is following:
Viyacheslav Ischenko (ex-Controvert Yap) - guitar
Mykhailo Petrenko - bass
Maxim "Yugend" Vaschuk - vocals
Eugen Shykarews'kiy (ex-Mental Demise) - drums
During this stable cast tons of new songs were composed & band is touring too much.
On the beginning of June was planned small tour over Russia as headlines - Moscow/St. Petersburg, but crazy dog was ripped the had of drummer Eugen & tour was canceled… or better to say, removed on the later dates in the future.
After the drummer been recovered his rippin' hand, on the end of July of 2006 year Epicirse entered to the Beast Studio and recorded the first 8 tracks studio try. It was finished to be mastered during August/September 2006 under the name "Plexus 69" and showing us a killing mix of Porno Grind with Crust Core.
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I'm sure the word here in Columbus is quite different from the word in Cleveland or Cinci.
Columbus is different because it's very white collar compared to the other major cities in Ohio. Not much in the way of manufacturing here, so we haven't been as hard hit in the last ten years jobs wise. Most of those jobs went away 20-25 years ago here. The only major manufacturing jobs are at the Honda plant in Marysville, but it's not union. Columbus is also very much a college town, so that adds another element to the puzzle demographics wise. OSU isn't all that liberal, but as with most campuses it leans to the left a little.
I work on campus, so what I hear a lot of is the enthusiasm for Obama, but that's to be expected. I have to admit that I never really felt a big buzz for Hillary. I think she tends to do better in places that are more blue collar and union.
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