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Policy makers warned on UK shale gas - assume there won't be any
The Ecologist
25th March 2015High ranking academics have issued a stark warning to policy makers on the future of Britain's shale gas - your best bet is that we have none that can be recovered consistent with policy objectives. more...
We must 'green' the government machine - and here's how
Duncan Brack
27th March 2015A culture of environmental denialism is deeply embedded in the institutions of government, writes Duncan Brack. So how to put that right? How about a powerful new Office for Environmental Responsibility? And an annual 'natural resource budget' complete with bright green box? more...
Profits before whales! To know why TTIP would be a nightmare, look to Canada
Nick Dearden
26th March 2014A series of judgments against Canada in secret corporate tribunals costing taxpayers $100s of millions show that 'free trade' agreements really do restrict governments' right to protect health, environment and endangered species, writes Nick Dearden. more...
Truth is our country
Paul Craig Roberts
21st March 2015Journalism in the United States is a dying profession, says Paul Craig Roberts, recipient of the International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2015. Corrupted by corporate wealth and power, and intimidated by a repressive state, the mainstream media have assumed a new role as messengers of fear, hatred and naked aggression that's driving the world to nuclear war. more...
Wind turbines generating 4.5% of US electricity
Kieran Cooke
20th March 2015Wind generates almost a twentieth of America's power, writes Kieran Cooke - and that's set to double in five years, despite the phase-out of tax credits. Now the main constraint to future expansion is power line capacity. more...
Clear blue water! Pitcairn Islands reserve is Britain's biggest conservation initiative ever
Nick Hurd and Zac Goldsmith
20th March 2015The the creation of almost a million sq.km of the South Pacific as a fully protected marine area builds on a long Conservative tradition of protecting the natural environment, write Nick Hurd & Zac Goldsmith - and as factory trawlers close in on Pitcairn's pristine waters, the initiative could not have been more timely. more...
Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
Julian Rose
19th March 2015At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers. more...
Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
Paul Mobbs
18th March 2015Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of aggressive 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America, writes Paul Mobbs. So what are they doing running 'impartial' UK bodies including a Parliamentary group on unconventional oil and gas, and the 'independent' Task Force on Shale Gas? Are they really US-style 'astroturf' bodies designed to fool us all? more...
Will the badger cull cost the Tories the election? It certainly should!
Dominic Dyer
16th March 2015David Cameron has called the badger cull is 'probably the most unpopular policy for which I am responsible', writes Dominic Dyer. But unable to break his pledge to landowners and the NFU, he has left Environment Secretary Liz Truss to fudge the issue until election time. Electorally fatal? So events may prove. more...
Dear Bryony - don't dump your nuclear waste on us!
Dr Becky Martin
12th March 2013The 'environmentalist' peer Baroness Worthington argued last week in the House of Lords for local authorities to be stripped of their powers to refuse the dumping of radioactive waste in their areas. Geneticist Becky Martin takes her to task in this Open Letter. more...
London Assembly votes for £5 bn fossil fuel divestment - listen up, Boris!
Divest London
12th March 2015Members of the London Assembly yesterday voted for the London Pension Fund Authority, worth £4.8 billion, to ditch all its fossil fuel investments over a 5-year period. The vote is non-binding, but the huge 15-3 margin puts strong pressure on London Mayor Boris Johnson to follow through. more...
Use VAT to reward 'green' refurbishment - not demolition
Duncan Baker-Brown
19th March 2015Another budget, another missed opportunity: the VAT system charges the full 20% on home upgrades, but 'zero-rates' developers who demolish and rebuild, writes Duncan Baker-Brown. Instead we should target VAT to reward those who meet 'green' criteria for energy efficiency and sustainability. Chancellors in waiting, listen up! more...
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The end is nigh: last rites for Hinkley C
Jonathon Porritt
11th March 2015The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant never made sense, writes Jonathon Porritt, but as legal challenges gather, finance fails to materialize, the cost of renewable energy keeps on falling, and the 'dead duck' EPR design is prepared for burial, even nuclear fanatics are turning against the doomed project. more...
Cambodia expels forest defender
Rod Harbinson
9th March 2015Determined to flood 10,000 hectares of precious rainforest for a power station producing a meager 108MW of power, the Cambodian government has expelled a big 'fishbone in their throat' - eco-defender Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, who has galvanized local and nationwide protests against deforestation, land grabs and official corruption. more...
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Natalie Bennett
9th March 2015The #GreenSurge - which has seen the Green Party's membership quadruple in a year - has happened for good reasons, says Natalie Bennett: a deep disgust and frustration at 'mainstream' politics and its subservience to vested interests; and the growing yearning for a better, greener, fairer future. more...
Wildlife protection depends on enforcement
Angus Nurse
10th March 2015The Labour Party has launched a new manifesto for wildlife protection, writes Angus Nurse - and a good thing too! But turning the tide for nature will take more than stricter laws and penalties. Ultimately it's about enforcement. And that means prioritising wildlife crime, committing expert officers, and providing resources. more...
It's here, and it's growing: the self-assembling Coalition of the Radical Left
Alexander Reid Ross
6th March 2015Naomi Klein famously called for a 'grand coalition' of the progressive left to fight climate change and Earth-destroying capitalism, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And now it's happening, drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet. more...
With corporate energy, we're stuck in the dark ages - let's switch to public ownership
Calum McGregor
23rd March 2015Britain's corporate energy oligarchy has failed us, writes Calum McGregor. It's given us widespread fuel poverty, unfair tariffs, constant price hikes, billions siphoned off to shareholders, and chronic under-investment in renewables. Now is the time for a new model: public and co-operative ownership of energy infrastructure under participative democratic control. more...
After UK's record solar year, government tries to kill the sector
Oliver Tickell
3rd March 2015The UK will soon complete a record year for solar installations, almost doubling the nation's solar capacity. But drastic and overtly discriminatory changes to support for renewables may see solar installations collapse to 1% of current levels. more...
Green rising: the betrayal of Europe's peasant democracy
Simon Fairlie
20th May 2015100 years ago a new political movement swept across Europe, as a vision of agrarian democracy gripped a newly emancipated peasantry, writes Simon Fairlie. Betrayed by dogmatic socialists and crushed under the Nazi boot, it failed to leave a lasting mark on history. But could its time be coming once again? more...
Ukraine and the Cuban missile crisis - we must choose peace over annihilation
William R. Polk
28th February 2015As tensions grow between US-dominated NATO and Russia, former cold warrior William R. Polk hears the echoes of the Cuban missile crisis - only this time, it's Russia that feels forced to fight for its vital strategic interests. We must hear the lessons of 1962 Cuba - and negotiate a just and durable peace, before we sleep-walk into a world-destroying war. more...
MPs' GMO report is a scandalous cave-in to corporate demands
Rupert Read
26th February 2015A report published by MPs today displays a shocking ignorance of scientific logic and the nature of risk, writes Rupert Read. Confusing inconclusive evidence of harm from GMOs, with conclusive evidence of safety, they reach a false and dangerous conclusion - that the EU should give free rein to pro-GMO governments. more...
Fracking: MPs and Lords have derelicted their legal duties - now they must pay the price!
Jojo Mehta
26th February 2015The rushed passage of the Infrastructure Bill with all its pro-fracking provisions and toothless 'safeguards' is an abuse of democracy. And as it's manifestly against the national and public interest, it's also in breach of both MPs' and Lords' legally binding Codes of Conduct. Now Jojo Mehta intends to hold them to account - in Court. more...
Rifkind and Straw: Westminster is swimming in corporate influence
Adam Ramsay
25th February 2015Green leader Natalie Bennett may have been lost for words on LBC yesterday, writes Adam Ramsay - but at least she doesn't charge £25,000 for a speech or £10,000 to have dinner with you. Unlike Jack Straw, Malcolm Rifkind and other politicians so deeply mired in corporate influence that they can't even see what they have done wrong. more...
TTIP hypocrisy - making corporations 'more equal' than people
Conor J. Lynch
13th March 2015There's only one principle behind TTIP, CETA and other 'free trade' agreements, writes Conor J. Lynch. And no, it's not 'free trade' but 'corporate profit' - at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, environment, workers and democracy itself. more...
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VIDEO: How to Make a Star Pizza Bento
Note: This post was written forever ago and I never published it, so here it is!
Back in January I packed a lunch for Buddy with leftover pizza slices by cutting them into star shapes with a cookie cutter. I took a video of myself making the bento for you guys to watch and see how I packed it. It's a nice, easy way to turn leftover pizza into a nice bento lunch the next day.
The leftovers were stuck into the toaster oven and eaten for breakfast.
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So I actually decide to giver EQ2 a try after a friend told me how it improved and honestly I think the items were crappy as hell so I rolled a character used the cash shop to make my character look decent I purchased a gold plan, and put $50 for cosmetic purposes and a house.
Well shortly after actually starting to play the game I noticed Lag, I was like What the Heck is going on.
I finally discovered my G15 keyboard had EverQuest 2 stats on it so I looked at them and my god.
150-200 MS Ping?
Yes I tried running max graphics I did things like disabled shadows, even lowered a lot of graphics settings but still very bad ping and poor fps so now I got stuck contacting sony for support on how to fix the issue.
The problem isn't my comptuer and I can say why.
Every Game I have played from sony LAGS, EQ2, PlanetSide 2, both laggy at max graphics yet my computer should be able to handle it just fine.
I am running Quad Core 3.0 AMD Phenom II
8GB Ram
7770 1GB VideoCard.
I can fully max out 3 EVE Online clients with very little lag all max graphics.
I can run multiple instances of other games as well without lag, and play the latest games like Aliens, DOTA 2, League, Age OF Conan, TSW, TERA all without lag.
But with EQ2 I noticed that my graphics card only goes up to 35% use when playing in fact it eats up more CPU Usage than my GPU, that is extremely odd.
My friend suggest disable webcam because it had headtracking I did that in EQ2 disabled it same bad lag, the game is just not playable in this state.
On top of this they do need to improve armors, and cosmetics in this game character models look like trash I mean the way I see EQ2 its a decent game quest and gameplay wise offers a bit that other games don't but try false advetisement when they show character models in their AD's and such its okay for an old game but could be done better.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
EQ2 does not run well on ultra high. Durring raid I turn my settings to performance so I can get good fps. I only run on high when doing groups or by myself.
What you need to understand is that eq2 hits the cpu hard, and is not optimized for vidoe cards. They made the mistake thinking the performance would be on the cpu and did not realize what the new gpu's could do.
You have to consider that this game is 8 years old and has always taxed computers.
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I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
My guess would be single threaded renderer which gains little advantage from multi-cores, and the majority of pre-processing done on CPU (not offloaded to GPU).
In such an environment, having more cores or faster GPU won't do much for performance gains.
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Joined: 4/11/09
Originally posted by XAPGames
Your guess is right SOE tech support have stated this on a number of occasions.
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Joined: 2/10/13
I can add something about the shadows. As default, they are set to be under cpu performance. You have an option to change that to gpu. Also by doing that, you get much nicer looking shadows.
I have a Phenom II X4 965 myself, and a 6870 videocard. My EQ2 runs great!
Do some adjusting, and you should be ok. I hope! :)
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Joined: 4/29/03
It's already been stated but I'll address your issue one more time. EQ2 wants a FAST SINGLE CORE CPU. Your issue is in fact your computer. Not that it's a bad system by any means but it is a bad system for EQ2. When the game was in development Intel and AMD were in the single core cpu wars of old and everyone expected they would get faster and faster but then physics kicked in and prevented that from being a viable option. Thus they moved onto multi-core cpus and the EQ2 engine has been left wanting ever since.
Try typing "EQ2 performance issues" into google and you will see what I mean.
As far as some of your issues with other Sony games those actually can be attributed to your overall system specs. Your GPU is fine for playing games but it's an entry level card and you really shouldn't expect to get high-max gfx options at playable rates out of it on modern games. If you do, great, it means those game have been coded to work on older hardware. I'm just saying you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't and Sony isn't really well known for catering to older systems.
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Originally posted by miguksaram
Yep, I concur with this poster. Just came back to EQ2 after a long break and it runs around 40 fps on high settings with all of the pizzaz on a much worse machine (and a laptop on top of it). It is highly playable and only seems to drop in areas where there is a lot of water, particle effects, or other reflective surfaces. You could probably just disable those in the graphics options for areas where your computer does not handle them well.


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ClassicsOnline Home » MENDELSSOHN, Felix: Midsummer Night's Dream(A) (Sung in English) (Wollerman, Becker, Varsity Voices, Nota Bene Choir, New Zealand Symphony, Judd)
In 1826 Felix Mendelssohn, aged only seventeen, composed his famous overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. He wrote incidental music for the same play sixteen years later, and effortlessly recaptured the world of his youthful imagination. It sparkles and shimmers with its fairy magic even now. In this recording, the haunting Nocturne, the lively Scherzo and the famous Wedding March are interspersed with 'melodramas' accompanying spoken text from Shakespeare's much-loved play.
By Ralph Moore
MusicWeb International
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Complete Incidental Music for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
by William Shakespeare
Oberon / Snout / Moth – Tom Mison
Puck / Philostrate – Adrian Grove
Titania / Hermia – Emily Raymond
Helena / Fairy / Hippolyta / Peaseblossom – Anne-Marie Piazza
Demetrius / Quince / Mustard-seed – Gunnar Cauthery
Lysander / Flute / Cobweb – Peter Kenny
Theseus / Bottom – David Timson
Incidental music written for a stage play is, by its nature, ephemeral. Very seldom is the music written for a specific production suitable for use in another production of the same play. Since different directors, designers and so on require a different musical input to reflect their vision, it is not surprising that most incidental music dies with the production for which it was written. It is remarkable therefore when a theatre score survives and makes the transition to the concert hall. Those few, successful scores that have transferred include Beethoven's overture to Goethe's Egmont, Schubert's music for the forgotten play Rosamunde, Grieg's music for Peer Gynt—and the most performed and popular of them all, Mendelssohn's score for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
As an adolescent Felix Mendelssohn had developed a passion for Shakespeare, reading the plays in translation by A.W. Schlegel. He saw a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Berlin with his sister Fanny. And it was in 1826 at the tender age of seventeen that Mendelssohn composed his famous overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its first incarnation was as a piano duet that he could play with his sister, but Mendelssohn soon orchestrated it. Its originality caused excitement in the musical world and helped to establish Mendelssohn's reputation as a prodigy. He, however, rejected the idea that he had broken new ground with this piece, saying that he had modelled the overture on Beethoven's overture to Fidelio. He told his friend Lobe, 'What did Beethoven do in his overture? He painted in tone pictures. I tried to do the same thing.' But he added roguishly, 'Unless, you want to consider it as new ground that I used the ophicleide.' A now long-forgotten wind instrument, the ophicleide is a cross between a bassoon and a serpent.
Mendelssohn, despite his protest, was indeed breaking new ground, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in effect created a new musical genre. It was the first overture intended for the concert hall which had a descriptive programme—in other words, its music told a story or reflected the plot of a play. Mendelssohn declared that it was Shakespeare's imaginative portrayal of Oberon's fairy kingdom which inspired him, and which became the subject matter of the overture. During its composition Mendelssohn was teeming with musical ideas. On one occasion, lying on the grass with his friend Schubring, he suddenly seized him by the arm and whispered, 'Hush!' 'He afterwards informed me,' Schubring recalled, 'that a large fly had just then gone buzzing by and he wanted to hear the sound it produced gradually die away.' Mendelssohn later pointed out to his friend the passage in the score inspired by the fly (a descending scale in the cellos, from B minor to F sharp minor).
Through a clever use of motifs Mendelssohn characterised the chief elements of the plot and some of its characters, notably Bottom, whom—as an ass—we hear braying, and also the mischievous Puck. The overture opens with four slow, suspended chords which are like the conjuring of a spell to hold the listener entranced. Next we hear the busy fluttering of the fairies, then the grand music for Theseus and Hippolyta; this is followed by a romantic melody for the lovers which leads into a bucolic folk-tune representing the mechanicals, complete with the braying Bottom in the brass. A slow passage of descending scales might indicate the lovers' arrival in the wood, lying down and dropping off to sleep, then to have their vision enchanted by Puck's magic juice.
When the fairy music next returns, it is accompanied by vulgar notes that mimic Bottom's snoring in the arms of Titania. The snoring is provided in the original scoring by Mendelssohn's concession to 'new ground'—the ophicleide. After a brief return to the world of Theseus, Puck and the fairies mischievously return, as they do in the play, to bless the Duke's house. The same four magic chords heard at the opening are repeated at the end of the overture, releasing the listener from the enchantment.
In 1841 Mendelssohn was appointed Royal Kapellmeister to the Prussian court, and the King proposed that he write incidental music for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to be directed by the court poet and dramatist Ludwig Tieck. Mendelssohn approached his task with his customary energy, and it is a marvel that this new music blends so perfectly with his youthful overture. Though sixteen years had passed he effortlessly recaptured the world of his adolescent imagination, using and developing many of the themes found in his overture. Echoes of the overture are heard throughout the incidental music.
The incidental music's charm belies the difficult rehearsal period Mendelssohn encountered. Working independently from the stage director Tieck, Mendelssohn created music for the traditional five-act version of the play, unaware that Tieck had compressed the play into three acts. This meant that two of Mendelssohn's entr'actes (music to cover scene changes) would not be played while the curtain was down. The Nocturne, for instance, which was intended as a reflection on the sleeping lovers, was now to be played with the curtain raised when the supine lovers were in full view of the audience. Also, Mendelssohn could not realise his original conception of the music and production flowing without interruption from the opening chords, first heard in the Overture, to their repetition as the play ends. The Royal Court insisted on a half-hour interval for refreshments.
The incidental music reflects the dual worlds of the play: humanity and the fairy kingdom. The four human lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, are characterised in the Nocturne, and also the Intermezzo, which leads effortlessly into a contrasting bucolic tune to accompany the appearance of Bottom and his fellow workmen. Later Mendelssohn gives them a raucous 'Dance of the Clowns', a development of the ass's braying first heard in the Overture. The court of Theseus is portrayed in the grandiose Wedding March—perhaps the most famous piece Mendelssohn ever wrote. But it is the fairy music that lifts this score out of the merely functional. In the Overture, and the Scherzo (so reminiscent of the scherzo in Mendelssohn's Octet), the rapid string passages brilliantly suggest the flapping of tiny wings as the fairies flit about their fairy business. The effect is magical. There are some breathtakingly beautiful moments, such as the truly magical transition in Act V—from the retiring of Theseus' court after the wedding festivities to the arrival in darkness of Oberon and Titania to bless the house with light. In a seamless transition the court exits to a reprise of the Wedding March, which fragments into the fairy motif in the strings.
An aspect of the score which is often omitted from the many recordings of Mendelssohn's music is his 'melodramas'. A nineteenth-century stage convention, a melodrama was musical accompaniment to the spoken text, to heighten the emotional content of certain scenes. Thus Oberon's application of the magic flower's dew on Titania's sleepy eyes is accompanied by an extended passage based on the opening bars of the Overture.
In this recording, hearing the melodramas with the spoken text as indicated in the score gives listeners a unique opportunity to recreate in their minds a lavish nineteenth-century Shakespearian production of one of the world's most popular plays, as Mendelssohn intended it should be heard.
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The details of Naipaul's insecurities, his rants, his racist vocabulary fill this book, but French offers as admirable Naipaul's commitment to his own literary excellence. Beating the British in their own language was part of that commitment. Being a writer of great imaginative depth, showing the world what he uniquely saw, framing that vision in a prose as careful and precise as any written in the 20th century - these were what Naipaul thought his life was. The work was far more important than the people who surrounded and helped him. In the process, Naipaul became a Nobel laureate and a British knight.
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|Apr 1, 2013, 07:27 AM
iPad for a professional musician...
I am professional organist. I play concerts, funerals, weddings....etc. i was thinking about using an iPad for all my music scores.
Do you think the iPad with Forscore are solid and reliable enough for a concert. Funeral...etc?
Would it be safe to leave all my paper scores at home?
One last question, if I am just going to use it for my scores, email and some games, do you think anything better than a refurbished iPad 3?
|Apr 1, 2013, 07:41 AM
Isn't the screen a bit too small for that ? My father had the same profession. Playing the big pipe instrument in churches and concert places. To what I remember he had always quite big paper and lots of remarks on it.
Did you try once with iPad ?
Watching my son playing piano I also thought would be nice on iPad. But still a tad to small for me.
Where would you get the content from ? Like J.S.Bach ?
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|Apr 1, 2013, 07:55 AM
If I play the organ for a concert on 5-manual organ, the iPad is going to be way too small. If the organ has just two keyboards, the score(iPad) would be close enough.
I have tried the iPad and I think it could work for me on several occasions. My wife is singer, she could also take advantage of the iPad.
I borrowed an iPad for a few minutes. I could read ok.
I just would like to know if an iPad would make things easier for me. I would prefer not to carry lots of books every time I play somewhere.
Thank you very much!
|Apr 1, 2013, 08:47 AM
For a singer an iPad would be great. While I never really learned playing piano or organ I was singing quite lots in several choir (and still in the car when alone ). The distance while holding the iPad in the hands seems ideal.
But still while playing an organ I can't imagine how often you need to swipe / turn the page. If there would be a software with auto-scrolling that could help. And switch off autolock and eMail/iMessage to avoid unasked screen changes.
Still where to get the scores from ? Scanned PDF ?
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|Apr 1, 2013, 08:59 AM
This post has quite a listing of apps for sheet music management, etc: http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/...aders-For-iPad
In terms of content: http://www.imslp.org
|Apr 1, 2013, 10:03 AM
For the effects (stomp boxes, MIDI, and synthesizers) as well as recording (Garage Band, Nano Studio and other DAWs)...both the tablets and laptops are becoming ubiquitous on stage these days. We see a lot of guitarists using the iPhones/iPod touch for tuning as well. You've got a thirty day trial---perhaps give one a shot during your 'busy' month and redundantly add your paper to your shows....see how it works for ya? Maybe borrow a friend's iPad? Many folks have them now-days. As well...pre and post production, you'll have a LOT of fun 'playing' with the iPad and your in home studio keyboards. They're fantastic and this is absolutely ONE area iOS completely trumps the Android offerings (phones or tablets). There are literally no music production apps worth mentioning, incredibly difficult if not impossible MIDI I/O---and the performance/reliability factor isn't matched yet by Android in comparison to iOS. As simple as iOS is, it definitely gets out of the way and allows for Apps to be front and center---efficient and reliable. Nothing sucks MORE than having an integral part of your sound system 'go down' during a live performance....NOTHING!!!!
Good Luck, drop me a PM if you have ANY questions!!! iPad has literally changed our business (21 years in live Audio and Video production in the Pacific NorthWest) paradigm---they have literally shaved many tens, if not hundreds of pounds of gear and eliminated daisy chaining 3,5 10 different stomp boxes, DI, MIDI controllers and tuners from the equation. During big performances, it's never a bad idea to have redundancy (IE, the paper on hand)....as well, if it's an important tool for your craft, look at the iPad 4. The iPad 3 is an excellent device, however the iPad 4 is faster...up to date and just all around more 'fluid' with all tasks. Again---in an important facet such as a live performance, the most up to date device, IMO, makes sense. If sheet music is your primary 'load' on the iPad, you should be fine with 16GB. Even audio production doesn't take up a whole lot of space....compared with video, games, photography, et al. If you do plan to use is as more than a sheet music tool---and utilize some of the production/MIDI functions...32 or 64GB may be the better choice (Garage Band and some of the other DAW and production software can be in the order of 500MB....from there, doing a few projects can easily exceed a GB or several magnitudes more than that---pending your activity)
Good Luck!
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|Apr 1, 2013, 11:23 AM
Also keep in mind that some ipad apps allow you to send to multiple screens. You could have as big a screen as you like. For what I do the ipad screen is big enough, but if I ever wanted bigger I'd just send it to a flat panel.
|Apr 1, 2013, 12:31 PM
I'm a jazz pianist by trade and use my iPad on all my gigs. It works great and saves me lugging around 1500 pages.
The only possible issue you might run into is page turns, but there's an airturn Bluetooth pedal which can turn pages. Although since you're an organist your feet may be busy...
See if you can borrow one for a while, or buy one and I guarantee you won't return it within 30 days. Forscore is the best app I've found for scores because of the tagging and setlists, so you can create a wedding setlists or a funeral setlist or tag certain pieces as appropriate for weddings, etc. Once you've put in the initial effort to set everything up it really is a very powerful device for musicians.
|Apr 1, 2013, 03:48 PM
Thanks a lot. I am a lot more confident now to buy the iPad. I was hesitating because I wanted to hear from a musician that it works and that it is reliable.
I imagine the 32Gb one is more than enough, right? Do you think the iPad 3 is good enough? Is there any reason why I should go for the 4? As I said, I'll use just for reading music.
|Apr 1, 2013, 04:31 PM
Would you need more than 5000 pages on the device at any time?
Buy from a seller that has a good return policy, and be prepared to give the thing a good shakedown within that timeframe. Also, don't rule out the possibility that you'll use it for more than reading music -- better to figure that out during the return period. That's why you may regret getting the 3, or 16GB. But, if you've purchased the 3rd gen 16GB, the resale should be pretty good.
|Apr 1, 2013, 04:32 PM
If money isn't an issue always get the newest. Especially when they change the connector for the first time. Oh and I'm a big fan of AppleCare+. Never know when it'll get knocked around. Especially on stage.
|Apr 1, 2013, 07:11 PM
The iPad 4 is a little quicker at handling a huge database of scores but if you have even a few hundred the iPad 3 will be more than enough.
|Apr 2, 2013, 02:24 AM
My buddy I travel with uses a Blue Spark Digital on the go for his iPad.
It plugs right in perfectly.
I use GarageBand on the iPad.
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Once upon a time, about a half hour ago, this guy said to me on Twitter:
@scalzi @exjon: Remind me to never buy 1 of your books.
— Shawn Smith (@Zaklog) March 7, 2014
Well, okay!
I love being helpful!
Once upon a time, about a half hour ago, this guy said to me on Twitter:
@scalzi @exjon: Remind me to never buy 1 of your books.
— Shawn Smith (@Zaklog) March 7, 2014
Well, okay!
I love being helpful!
There's a fine line between being snarky and being a jerk, and I think you're pretty much there. I laughed anyway.
I was going to email, but since you posted here… Are you sure you wanted to do this? He wasn't worth it, and the wrestling pigs quote comes to mind…
And now the Internet is beckoning Scalzi over… it's handing him something… I can't be sure, but it looks like two ears and a tail…
If you continue to have a opinion different from mine, I will be forced to continue to buy your books.
Hmmm. I can't put my finger on it but somehow this doesn't seem to work as intended. Back to the drawing board.
Exjon and craigontheweb are still at it, too. Those poor guys. They bit a wooden leg and now their teeth hurt.
Ooh, Thank you for reminding me that Red Shirts is being made into a TV show.
Speaking of the Rough Guides. Any chance that you'll update The Rough Guide to the Universe? It's a good book.
You're a much nicer person than I am (but I think we both know that anyway…)
It was years ago, but the last time someone used that phrase on me, IIRC, I'd mentioned something or other that I tend to like to do in books, and indicated that the more common/formulaic thing was something I didn't like. Probably one of those moments when one realizes that the reader has defined himself as a sovereign customer who is entitled to read what he wants to read, with my name on it.
I responded with, "I just did. Are you so dumb you missed it?"
Nowadays I might settle for the Errol Flynn line "I trust I'm not obscure."
Alas indeed.
Oh, you sneaky little man, John. I see your ploy here. Now he's going to buy All of your books…15 copies each in fact, just to spite you. That'll show you!
"Shawn Smith (@Zaklog) March 7, 2014″
You get tweets from the future? Did the Doctor "doctor" your computer with his Sonic Screwdriver again?
Never buy 1 of your books? The proper solution is to buy *all* of your books.
This was churlish and almost small minded of you… and I'm glad you did it. I neither like nor trust people who don't give in to this kind of impulse every now and then.
Scorpius, Maybe he's in Australia? It's tomorrow there.
Considering some of the violent, racist garbage that guy has spewed forth in his twitter feed, I think you let him off easy. Bravo for giving the little monster a taste of his own medicine.
I think he should have been more specific. Did he want you to remind him never to buy any books you had written, or did he want you to pick a single book and remind him not to buy it?
I believe the saying is that one should never engage in a battle of words with someone who wields words for a living.
Nice. "The cat is not for sale." I love it.
Wifofoo, never piss off John Scalzi. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever.
This is an instance of "Be careful what you wish for" isn't it?
Also this: BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!
There's a fine line between being snarky and being a jerk, and I think you're pretty much there. I laughed anyway.
LOL – I think Scalzi would need to repeat this for a few more days before reaching jerk territory. Or unleash the hordes to heckle this guy.
So, let me see if I got this straight: the cat in the picture in this post is not for sale, but the other cat in the picture in the immediately previous post explicitly was for scale.
Is that right?
If you are going into the reminder business, could I get reminders to put the garbage out every Tuesday night?
So he doesn't buy one. Uh, "1". Then he could buy 2. Or 3, or a dozen. I'm an optimist.
From one of his related tweets comes "OS Card." First there was OS/2, then OS X, now there's OS Card.
Apparently right wing nut jobs think this operating system is a better writer than you.
'Helpful'… I do not think this word means what you think it means ;->
This cheered me up immensely. I salute your impish splendour.
I loved it! Thank you for these moments of cheer in an otherwise not very amusing Friday…
Warren Terra @ March 7, 2014 at 12:20 am
So, let me see if I got this straight: the cat in the picture in this post is not for sale, but the other cat in the picture in the immediately previous post explicitly was for scale.
Is that right?
No. None of the ScalziCats(tm) work for scale. They are "independent catractors".
PS: Probably can't prove their catizenships either.
I just randomed my way to your 'quick note to about-to-be-married gays and lesbians' back in 2004, and I really loved it. I suspect that the guy who has to be reminded not to buy your books probably would not, but those are the breaks…
I do llike Ghlaghghee's watchful red eye ….
John John, you are teh awesum … I wuv you
Last night my friends assured me that Scalzi isn't "punching down" here, and I thought eh, close enough, don't wanna argue it. But this morning I'm still bothered. A lot of us were mad this week that the ex-Hugo host called a person stupid on twitter, and that was punching down. What's the difference here? We like Scalzi (I do, a lot!) and the twit being mocked (very amusingly mocked, both on twitter and here for full exposure!) is clearly a jerk (very clearly; I blocked him straight off). But a jerk doesn't an unperson make. When someone with a very loud voice so loudly and openly mocks a person with 200 followers, I'm a little disappointed that the response (from some people) is "no, this is totally fine."
Thank for starting my day with a laugh. BEST tweet ever. No one can slice and dice like you. His phone is probably bleeding.
Sorry, John, I've bought 5 of your books, does that put me outside of zaklog's category?
Why would it be such a bad thing if this clown was ganged up on? It is rare that someone can actually be put in their place for being a jerk on the internet.
Like Abi, Jen, and our host, I take a dim view of "punching down," but I don't think that means that successful people with a lot of friends are obliged to eternally suffer repeated annoyances in silence, any more than anybody else is.
John gets a shedload of "Wait, you have THOSE political beliefs? Well I'M NOT GONNA BUY YOUR BOOKS ANY MORE whaddya say to that!" comments from random internet dudes (and, I'm guessing, almost all of them are dudes). Subjecting one of them to a brief round of this kind of tomfoolery doesn't seem out of line. It wasn't John who started the food fight, and he's entitled to discourage others from thinking it's smart to engage with him like this.
And, as we see here and we've seen before, John is actually pretty careful to anticipate possible occasions of on-piling by his fans and friends, and to explicitly discourage them when appropriate.
(My own version of this is people who begin criticisms of my grammar, spelling, ethics, or cheese preferences with "I'm SHOCKED that AS AN EDITOR you…", etc., etc.)
If there was some question about whether John Scalzi was sufficiently kind and considerate to discharge a public role for which he had been put forth, and his first response to critical remarks made directly to him on the subject was to call the critic "stupid," yeah, that would be something else. But it's a bit hard to imagine that scenario.
The ethic of "don't kick down" doesn't mean "decent people have to be infinitely forbearing." It means try to be proportionate, and to keep track of the overall compass of your behavior. I think John does a pretty good job of that.
As a final note, I'm not attributing anything in quote marks to anyone else in this conversation. If I were, I would have said so.
I laughed. By the way, the Washpost debunked the Ryan anecdote. It's from a book…
Just reminds me of why I hate Twitter. Took me like thirty clicks to figure out what originally went down between @Scalzi and @Exjon to prompt this and, honestly, no one comes off looking great. Just reflexive insults, snark, and cursing, which is no surprise because what else can you fit in 140 characters? (Obviously, when you're in a mud fight, you're better off as the dude in the mud fight who favors feeding needy kids, but you're still in a mud fight). Anyway, I'd better stop, because I've written like twelve tweets worth already. #getoffmylawn
I wonder if he actually meant that you should remind him to buy at least 2 of each of your books since it's hard to lend one while you're reading it.
I used to read another blog which shall remain nameless here, but who regularly unleashes his horde of readers to wreak internet havoc on those deemed unworthy.
The thing I like best about this blog is that John didn't encourage that, and the readers DIDN'T mindlessly go forth to pile on this twit, but instead stopped to consider the ramifications.
You guys are awesome.
From my perspective, Scalzi, though in a position to punch down, did not do so, even though the jerk in question took his own can-opener to a can that might have been full of metaphorical whoopass.
That was pretty gentle mockery, I thought. And my face hurts from grinning.
I am thinking that attacking an AUTHOR with WORDS is probably not an intelligent thing to do! :) Loved the part about the cat!
No time to read through the Comments now, alas, but wanted to thank our host for sharing this amusing episode because about 4-5 clicks away from the twit-links I found some really cool & thought-provoking ideas. :-)
Love the demon cat's red eye..so appropriate1
Sorry, but when you poke the bear, you shouldn't be surprised when the bear reacts. This made me laugh. Because, well, bear poking. I would add that as far as reactions go, this one was both benign and amusing. He didn't call the guy names, didn't call for the internet to be brought down on his head, in fact, he just did exactly what he was asked to do.
David, there is an excellent piece about punching down here: http://reasonableconversation.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/punching-up/
I think you got it wrong. He asked you to remind him not to buy 1 of your books. Clearly he wants your entire collection of Scalzi goodness and doesn't want to purchase them one at a time.
You should send him a box set.
Just surfaced from an epic Brandon Sanderson marathon reading session (I'm rereading Way of Kings and reading Words of Radiance in one epic read-a-thon) to say:
You PWN, Lord Scalzi. This is absolutely, utterly, completely hilarious, and made my day.
Now, I have 300 more pages of epic fantasy to finish, and then I have to go back to being impatient for the Redshirts TV show.
I loved this.
I also loved the cat's half-open "Oh, WTF is this about now?" eye. I *know* that look.
@David: Yes. It's attacking people below your own class, social station, economic bracket, pay grade, etc. Good taste (and good sense) says you aim your shots at your equals or "betters." Bad news pundits punch down when they deride homeless people; good stand-up comics punch up at entertainment "stars," politicians and corporate executives. That kind of thing.
Rough Guides axed its non-travel reference books.
Perhaps someone should tell Rough Guides that many of us plan to travel the universe, and are just awaiting the opportunity to buy a ticket.
Maybe he was just saying that no one should ever just buy one of your books. The only Scalzi purchase possible is buying many of them at once. I mean do you really want just one Scalzi book, that's like a single Oreo. Plus I don't really want to give my copy to a friend. I won't get it back- they'll hoard it rereading it occasionally. I couldn't lend it out to someone else or reread it myself. The loss to me and humanity as a whole could be incalculable. Yet I still want the community of having them read it. I mean if I can't share, we might not be really friends, and if not friends with some things in common, we might misunderstand each other and become enemies. And then what? This could be a vital linchpin to all of civilization, and we just don't entirely realize it.
It's like the entire- For want of a horseshoe the war being lost sort of thing.
I am beginning to wonder whether this guy might have bought just one Scalzi book, and now through his disregard for civil behavior is unable to recognize that the only solution to having bought one Scalzi book, is only to push on and buy more. Get past his fear, and the horrendous position that only having one Scalzi book is, Exit the darkness and buy more. It is the only cure to the nihilism of Scalzi Book Insecurity. Push on, I say buy more. Lots more. There is no turning back!
I will definitely remind everyone never to buy ONE Scalzi book. It just won't be enough.
I'm reminded of the words of a very wise man:
"Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you."
jenphalian and Abi Sutherland–
It's entirely possible that John did, in fact, do this Dudebro a considerable mitzvah. And I'm not cracking, here. You have to understand the Twitter dynamic, and the particular nature of the trollery that Our Respected Host attracts.
John has (by Twitter standards) vast hordes of followers.
Not all of them follow him because they are refreshed by his dry and nutty 140-character wit. A certain percentage of them *must* follow him, because they need to keep track of exactly what troll-fodder he's (advertently or inadvertently) scattering at any given time.
Now this subset of John's followers (that word does not necessarily mean what you think it means on Twitter) are aware that @zooklag or whatever his handle is, can be inducted into their Follow Scalzi Around and Troll Him (FSATH) club.
Which, since @zukleg or whatever has a comparatively small follower count and therefore a relatively short 'reach' or visibility on Twitter, might never have happened, if the blazing comet of Scalzi-ness had not briefly illumined his trollitude.
He may now be happily sharing the text version of fart-sounds and vapid body-noise jokes with his fellow FSATH club members, assuming he got through whatever childish induction ritual they require.
Seems likely, he appears to be right there with them on their spiritual/intellectual plane.
Mat – thanks, I actually meant finding the conversation with exjon that Scalzi referred to as starting the mess. It involved a lot of scrolling and clicking on "conversation," then more scrolling and more clicking when that excluded various replies. Which, really, isn't that difficult and I shouldn't be complaining. But I like complaining, and I do feel like it was more difficult than it needed to be, so I guess there's that.
Remind me too. However, I don't buy books that often though :p
One of the reasons I don't tweet very often is that being thoughtful and precise (usually) takes more than 140 characters…
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As they say on tumblr, don't tag your hate.
Which is to say, had this dude omitted @scalzi from his mean little tweet, then yes, Mr Scalzi would have been rather out of bounds to stomp on this one mean little tweet – he'd have had to go searching for this one mean little tweet and pluck it from the thickets of twitter in order to stomp on it. That would have been… disproportionate. At best. But this dude included @scalzi, which dropped his mean little tweet into the twitter equivalent of Mr Scalzi's inbox, where Mr Scalzi could hardly avoid it. If you insist on insulting people to their faces, you cannot take umbrage when they respond in kind.
There's also that the sentence was directly addressed TO Scalzi — not just in the sense of tagging him, but actually speaking to him: "Remind me never to buy one of your books." If the sentence had been addressed to the other person it would've been "…of his books." That, to me, places the exchange firmly in the court of He Had It Coming. (For values of "It" corresponding to what John actually did, not additional dogpiling etc.)
I just love that you used the same level of intelligence in your reply, that he exhibited in his initial post.
Alternatively, you could stay in and buy one of John's books, though not the cat.
@Zaklog: Never buy only one of John Scalzi's books. Buy two so you can give one to a friend.
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"The Philippine government and its people express deep appreciation to the Jordanian government and military officials on the successful safe passing over to the Jordanian side of all our 21 Filipino peacekeepers," a statement said.
Military spokesman Colonel Arnulfo Burgos said the peacekeepers' battalion commander and one of the freed officers had personally confirmed by telephone that they were in Jordanian custody.
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He said the group's commander had already met with the freed men, adding that they would be staying in a hotel in Amman for two days before being transferred back to the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
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1. Afghan is made from 99 Octagon Motifs, and 116 Square Motifs. 2. The Octagons and Squares are arranged as shown in Assembly Diagram (or as desired) and then sewn together. An edging is then worked around the entire outside edge of the Afghan.
OCTAGON (make 99 - 22 with C, 14 with K, 9 each with B, E, F, G, I, and L, 5 with J, and 4 with D) Ch 2. Rnd 1 (RS): Work 8 sc in 2nd ch from hook; join with sl st in first sc - 8 sc at the end of this rnd. Rnd 2: Ch 5 (counts as dc, ch 2 in this rnd and in all following rnds), *3 dc in next sc, ch 2; rep from * around, 2 dc in first st (at base of beg ch-5); join with sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch - 24 dc and 8 ch-2 sps at the end of this rnd. Rnd 3: (Sl st, ch 5, dc) in first ch-sp, *dc in next 3 dc, (dc, ch 2, dc) in next ch-2 sp; rep from * to last 3 dc, dc in last 3 dc; join with sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch - 40 dc (5 dc on each side) and 8 ch-2 sps at the end of this rnd.Fasten off, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing.
SQUARES (make 116 - 30 with D, 28 with A, 20 each with B and H, 10 with J, and 8 with F) Ch 9. Row 1 (RS): Dc in 4th ch from hook (beg ch counts as dc) and in each ch across - 7 dc at the end of this row. Rows 2 and 3: Ch 3 (counts as dc), turn, dc in each dc across, dc in top of beg ch.Fasten off, leaving a long yarn tail for sewing.
FINISHING Arrange Octagons and Squares as shown in Assembly Diagram, or as desired, and sew together. Note: For each seam, use the same color yarn as one of the edges being sewn together. Edging With RS facing, join G with a sl st anywhere along outside edge of Afghan, work sc evenly spaced all the way around the outside edge of Afghan, working ch 1 at each corner and point; join with sl st in first sc. Fasten off. Weave in ends.
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