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Willimantic, Conn. - Eastern Connecticut State University's Performing Arts Department will present a Classic Brass concert with Oystein Baadsvik, international tuba virtuoso, at 2 p.m. on Nov. 6 in Shafer Auditorium, located on the corner of Windham and Valley Streets. The public is invited. Admission is free.
Music Director Adam Crowe will conduct the performance. Accompanied by Classic Brass, Baadsvik will perform Monti's "Czardas," Baadsvik and Giske's "Fnugg Blue," Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" and Arban's "Variations on The Carnival of Venice." Classic Brass will also perform Bach's "Arioso," Williams' "Henry the Fifth Overture," Allan's "Knight Templar March," Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances" and Lovatt-Cooper's "Walking with Heroes."
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Water Park
Name of Water Park:River Country
Date of visit:Going since 2010
City and State Where Water Park is Located:Muskogee, OK
My Review
Small but Good! Affordable admission and consession. Lines are not usually too long. It has a couple good size slides,a swimming area, a log walk, lazy river, a volleyball court, and a nice play area for the little ones, including a sand pit area.
Usually plenty of shade and lawn chairs available. I have taken my own kids, nieces and nephews, neighbor kids etc. They all love it from area 2 to 12 (not to mention my husband who is in his 30s)! $6 for adults, $5 kids, plan about $5 each for lunch that inc. food and a drink.
The lifeguards are mostly irresponsible teenagers (but I guess thats one way they keep the price down). 4 STARS! Highly reccomended!

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Jim (CanuckJim) asked me to copy his steam comments in the bread section since right now they are a tangent in another section discusiing fire building and heat management..
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I have used two methods for generating steam in my oven. When the ash has been raked out, I leave my high mass oven to moderate for two hours, about the time I take my slow rise doughs out of the fridge. Then I brush and mop the hearth. At this point, I either put an old sheet pan loaded with damp rags into the oven, or give it a long spray with a cheapo garden sprayer. When the breads go in, there should be visible steam in the chamber. Once they're loaded, I give the oven another long spray, pointing the nozzle upwards, not at the breads. Again, there should be visible steam in the chamber. Once more, too, without steam, the crust will not develop properly and caramelization will be underdeveloped.
To retain the steam, it's important that the door seals the oven opening. Although I made my door quite carefully to ensure this, I still have to prop a brick against it to retain the steam, mostly because the metal part of the door has warped a bit from heat.
Simple, but effective.
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I guess it's easy to talk about the need for steam, but it's better to illustrate the result. Here's a close up of one of my breads that shows the grigne that opened so well because of oven spring, the caramelization of the interior and a bit of the crust.
These just won't happen without a wood fired oven and steam.
Hope that's of some help. Members might want to visit my web site, www.marygbread.com , for additional examples of what I mean.
jengineer added these 2 photos cause he can't figure out how to get the photos already residing on this forum to show up, Guess he isn't as much of a computer geek as he thought he was.
Hot linking
On any picture on any site on the web, you can right click (or mac control click) and select "copy image location". If your browser doesn't have that choice, choose "open picture in new window" and copy the location in the URL bar on top.
When you post to forno bravo forum, select the postcard icon above the text box and paste that location in the pop-up box.
This shows an image that's hosted on marygbread.com. A couple of notes about hotlinking. First, I don't know mary g, and don't know if she wants this image used, in other words there may be a copyright problem. Second, if you hot link to her image on a high traffic site, which I don't think this is, the addtional traffic could cause access problems or additional expense to mary g.
Best web etiquette is to ask for permission to use the image, and having recieved same, to host the image on your own or a borrowed server like photobucket. It's also good form to link to the site of origin.
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Dmun's point about image linking and aksing first is good advice. In this case marygbread.com is Cannuck Jim's site, and he had already posted the pics, so I think it is ok...
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Drake and all,
Of course it's okay. If images are posted from my site, I just hope they are useful. Otherwise, there's no problem at all.
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Taylor Swift Not Joking About Being Butt Of A Joke
Story By: Larry Stine
Originally Published on: 3/7/2013
Taylor Swift is speaking out after being the butt of a Golden Globes joke.
And Jennifer Lawrence sweeps yet ANOTHER round of award nominations.
Plus, a former Playboy Bunny renounces modeling for motherhood.
Martha Shade has all the entertainment headlines in today's Hollywood Minute.
Is Taylor Swift ever going to forgive Amy Poehler and Tina Fey?
The Golden Globe hosts made some remarks during the awards show in January that apparently touched a nerve with the 23-year-old singer.
They told as recently broken-hearted swift to "stay awy from Michael J. Fox's son," and, "to take some time to learn about herself."
In an interview with Vanity Fair, she referenced a quote that said "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
Poehler tells Hollywood Reporter she feels bad if Swift was upset, and Fey told Entertainment Tonight the whole thing was a light-hearted joke.
Jennifer Lawrence's hot streal just keeps going, with a set of brand new award nominations.
After taking home both a Golden Globe and an Oscar this year, Lawrence now has five MTV movie nominations.
Four of those are fo her part in the romantic comedy "Silver Linings Playbood," while the other is for her role in "The House at the End of the Street."
The MTV Movie Awards will air live on April 14.
And Holly Madison might be best known as Hugh Heifner's former girlfiend and star of "Girls Next Door."
But she says she's done with modeling for Playboy after becoming a mother.
Madison and her boyfriend welcomed a baby girl on Tuesday and the former playmate says she wants to do things that make her daughter proud.
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UI Design Assets and Tools
20th century advertising has taught us to associate quality artwork and polish with quality products. Given two apps that do the same thing, a potential customer will pick the one that looks and feels better. This means every great app needs great art. Since most developers aren't artists or designers by trade, I've assembled a list of resources that can help. Here are icons, fonts, sounds, color schemes, and other great art assets to help you make your app stand out from the crowd.
Color Schemes
Good use of color can really make your app stand out, but color can be tricky. The best color schemes often come from other people or real world objects. These sites have collections of color schemes created by people who work with color every day. They let you search by color, theme, and popularity.
COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love. (yes, they wrote that part)
Kuler at Adobe is a Flash based color searching site.
For more on the topic of color see my Color 101 article.
Every great app needs great icons. Not only for the app itself but also within the application for buttons and indicators.
The great FXExperience blog has several free PNG icon collections that are generic and useful for lots of things. Most are small so they work well on mobile devices. Free icons for your JavaFX applications @ FX Experience
The Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo is licensed under LGPL and includes icons for apps, actions, devices and mimetypes.
The Nuvola icon set contains 600 icons with a cute cartoon feel to them.
Icon sets for Gnome, under various licenses
Tango Icon Library: another very complete set of desktop icons.
Free Sound has a huge collection of user contributed effects, clips, and just plain weird sounds. Great for building sampled music and effects in your games
Jamendo is a music site containing only Creative Commons licensed works. The perfect place to find your next soundtrack.
Imagery & Textures
Lost Garden
Lost Garden focuses on video game design. The author, Danc, has literally decades of experience in the field. You can easily lose hours reading through amazing essays on the site. Today, however, we are here for the free game graphics. Spanning both vector and bitmap, retro and modern styles, Lost Garden has game graphics for many uses
Open Graphic Design and Think Design blog
OpenGraphicDesign.com has tons of cool shapes and vector artwork. They are great as starting points in Illustrator
ThinkDesignBlog.com has free textures and vector shapes. Good for backgrounds and skinning. Plus tons of inspiration articles.
For photos your best source is images licensed under Creative Commons at Flickr. Conveniently they have a search option for just such photos.
Well Placed Pixels is a blog containing only one thing: screenshots of beautiful software.
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Color 101
Color 101Color is important. We see in color. Different colors make us feel different ways, or remember different things. Most companies take their colors very seriously. Coca-Cola red is trademarked color. Pantone has copyrighted their color sets. The Brits feel it necessary to add an extra letter to their colours. Color is powerful but also dangerous. One false step and your carefully crafted website could look like this. Okay, so maybe it won't be that bad, but your choice of color has a huge effect on your designs. Still, color doesn't have to be scary. In this article I'm going to cover the basics of color, how colors works from a physics and technical perspective, and some quick tips on choosing great colors. In a future article I'll come back and cover the emotional aspects of color, and how to integrate color with other elements of design. This article will definitely not be exhaustive. Many PhDs have been earned exploring the expansive topic of color. Fortunately we just need to know the basics to begin using well balanced colors.
The EyeThe first thing to remember is that color doesn't really exist. Color is simply the sensation in the brain caused by our eyes responding to different frequencies of light. You may have taken a physics class in high school where your teacher talked about the visible spectrum of light, which is the set of frequencies the human eye can see. You probably saw diagrams like this: the rainbow represents the visible spectrum of light Human eye response to light. Our human eyeballs contain three kinds of color receptors that each respond to different ranges of light. These three ranges roughly correspond to red, green, and blue frequencies of light, (though only roughly). It's this correspondence that makes the Red/Green/Blue (RGB) color model so convenient for electronic displays. By combining red, green and blue a monitor can simulate most colors in the visible spectrum. Note that this is only a rough correspondence. There are colors our eyes can see which monitors cannot reproduce, as well as colors screens can show that our eyes can't really see. However, it's close enough to work pretty well in practice. (see this Wikipedia article for more on color vision).
Subtractive and Additive Color ModelsIn order to represent color on a computer screen we need to have a model for color. There are roughly two kinds of color models: subtractive and additive. With subtractive the colors combine to equal black. Additive means the primary colors combine to equal white. Subtractive color is how objects in the real world reflect light (it is often called reflective color for this reason). If you shine a white light on a red ball you will see only the red because the ball's paint absorbs all of the frequencies of light other than red. The other colors have been subtracted from the white, leaving only red. Additive color is used whenever something generates light rather than reflecting it, such as the phosphors in a traditional CRT, or the LCD segments in a modern flatscreen display. Red, green and blue are added in various amounts to create different colors, ultimately adding up to white. In subtractive color the primaries are red, blue, and yellow, which you may remember from art class as a child. That's because paint is subtractive, (and why mixing all of the colors together resulted in a dark brown mush). In additive color the primary colors are red green and blue. This is the last I will discuss subtractive color, at least until we come back to printing technologies (which reflect light and are therefore subtractive). Additive color is used in virtually all interactive computer displays (the reflective electronic paper display made by eInk for Amazon's Kindle is a notable exception). Since at least 99% of my likely audience is working additive color displays, that's all I'll cover here.
Basic Additive Color ModelsSo that's it for theory of light. Now let's talk about how computers actually put colors on screen. If you've worked with computer graphics at all you are probably familiar with the RGB color model. In this model a color is described by equal parts red green and blue. Virtually all computer systems use this model internally because it fits the hardware well and can be easily represented with a 32bit integer, using 8 bits for each color plus another for transparency (called the alpha channel for historical reasons). You can think of RGB as a cube with the value of each axis coming from one of the three colors. RGB is the most efficient format for the modern computer to use but it may not be the best for you, the programmer, to use. There is another common color model which you are likely to run across. The RGB Color Cube
HSV / HSB Color ModelHue, Saturation and Value (HSV) is the color model you are most likely to run into. It is sometimes called HSB, where the B stands for brightness instead of value. This model works hand in hand with the RGB color model, giving you a new way to specify colors which can then be converted into RGB for display. Think of HSV as a cylinder where the hue is an angle (0 to 360) representing the pure color (red, magenta, yellow, etc). The distance to the center is the saturation going from the pure color (1.0 == fully saturated) to white (0.0 == no saturation). The height within the cylinder represents the value or brightness of the color, going from completely bright (1.0) to no brightness (black, 0.0). The HSV Color Cylinder There is also a related color model HSL/HSI where the third component is lightness or intensity. HSL is similar to HSV except that saturation and brightness are arranged differently, represented as a double cone with the pure colors at the center. In practice all of the various computer color models convert into RGB for display, so which one you use is largely a matter of convenience for the particular task you are doing. That's enough theory for today. Here are a few quick tips that will help you pick and use color in your software designs.
Steal Someone Else's ColorsThe easiest way to pick colors is to let someone else do it. Go to one of these sites and search for something which matches your needs. For example, if I'm working on a design that feels like harvest or fall colors I could search for 'autumn'. ColourLovers.com search for 'autumn' Kuler.adobe.com search for 'autumn'
Steal Some*thing* Else's ColorsPick colors from some existing source, such as a photo or object that you think is pretty. For example, Ken Orr and Kathryn Huxtable started building a very nice Swing theme based on a photo of sea glass. If something looks pretty then it probably already has a good balanced color scheme; so steal it!
Sea Glass look and feel DeGraeve.com has a simple webapp which will turn a photo into a color palette. I used it to on the photo below to create a nice tropical sea palette. Color palette produced by DeGraeve.com
Pick a Color and Change One ThingMonochromatic designs are easy to do and usually look good. Take one color and change one thing, such as its brightness or saturation. This is especially good for creating gradients. That's all for this week. Please let me know if there are any particular topics you'd like me to cover.
- "Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences" at UXBooth.com. Parts 1, 2, and 3.
- Color Theory, Wikipedia
- RGB Color Model, RGB
- HSL and HSV Color Models, HSV
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fujative rox
these skis rock, i live in the poconos so there's nothing challenging besides the terrain park, so i started twin tip skiing when i was 9, and i had pair of Nordica beasts. they lasted me a year then i got Rossys and they were too heavy and fat so for my bday i got these skis and it has been so much easier for me to ollie and get more air. on my old skiis i could do 180's - now i'm doin 360's and 540's. its also great in the pipe - i'm only 14, but these light weight skis rock
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REDD will fail if needs of forest communities aren't addressed
December 7, 2007
New report argues that unless REDD mechanisms are properly designed, carbon credits-for-forest conservation schemes will not address key drivers of deforestation
The report, released at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-13) climate meeting in Bali, says that while REDD holds a great deal of promise, success will require sufficient financial incentives to reverse the "political and economic realities" that cause deforestation.
Deforestation, which accounts for around 20 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is increasingly driven by macroeconomic trends like commodity prices, currency fluctuations, infrastructure development, and government subsidies and economic policies, rather than subsistence agriculture and logging. Government policies often favor large corporate interests, like industrial agriculture, over community rights to forest resources. Corruption in the forestry sector undermines efforts to create more fair and equitable access to resources in many developing countries.
CIFOR cites recent trends in Indonesia, the Brazilian Amazon, and the Congo Basin as examples. In Indonesia, surging demand for biofuels, timber, and pulpwood is driving large-scale destruction of carbon-rich peatlands and rainforests, which are logged for wood and then converted for oil palm plantations. The process releases scores of millions of tons of carbon emissions every year. Meanwhile in Brazil, deforestation is driven more by currency swings, interest rates, and land prices than it is by poor farmers simply trying to eke out a marginal existence. In sub-Saharan Africa, fuelwood extraction and charcoal production are leading factors behind the continents loss of 4 million hectares a year, but pressure from industrial interests -- especially the industrial agriculture sector -- are rising.
The report is hopeful that financial incentives that compensate landowners for "environmental services" like carbon storage and watershed protection, but stresses that benefits need to reach rural populations. Otherwise the same industrial interests presently driving deforestation could well position themselves to seize rights to income streams from REDD and other ecosystem payment schemes, intensifying the "severe poverty that now afflicts the majority of rural forest communities in the developing world."
The report goes on to urge policymakers to design "REDD strategies with a clear understanding of potential pitfalls and what can be done to avoid them," including strengthening weak governance mechanisms and ensuring that the process is fair to poor forest communities.
"We need to temper the desire for maximum reduction in forest-based carbon emissions with regard for the legitimate rights of forest communities to realize the income potential of their forestlands," Seymour said. "At times there will be trade-offs between reducing carbon emissions and reducing poverty."
Related articles
Carbon credits for forest conservation concept faces challenges
(11/27/2007) While environmentalists, scientists, development exports, and policymakers across the political spectrum are ethusiastic about the idea of offsetting carbon emissions by preventing deforestation (a concept known as "avoided deforestation" or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)), the concept still faces many challenges, especially in implementation. Working to address these issues is SEKALA, an Indonesia-based NGO that was formed in 2005. In an interview with mongabay.com, Ketut Deddy, director of SEKALA, said he is optimistic that REDD can deliver benefits to rural populations while protecting forests and their resident biodiversity.
Carbon offset returns beat forest conversion for agriculture in Indonesia
(11/21/2007) Conversion of forests and peatlands for agriculture in Indonesia has generated little economic benefit while releasing substantial amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, reports a new study from the the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and their Indonesian partners.
Does palm oil alleviate rural poverty in Malaysia?
(10/23/2007) While it is often argued that the economic benefits of oil palm plantations outweigh the environmental costs of converting biodiverse ecosystems to monocultures, new analysis suggests that the role of plantations in reducing rural poverty may be overstated.


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WITH the help of some tomato and tobacco plants and a narcotic weed, two botanists in Britain have discovered a cunning trick by which plants defeat viruses. The finding may help explain why genes that have been engineered into plants don't always work properly.
David Baulcombe and Andrew Hamilton of the John Innes Centre in Norwich have shown that plants protect themselves by sabotaging any foreign genes smuggled into the plant. They do this by making tiny stretches of "spoiler" RNA that gum up RNA copies of the foreign genes.
Earlier experiments had suggested that plants might defend themselves by making RNA molecules that sabotage the production of viral proteins. To make proteins, a cell first creates RNA copies of a gene, which are "read" by the protein-making machinery. But if a plant can make a short segment of RNA that binds to the viral RNA and gums it up, ...
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Study of an Antibody Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease
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|Alzheimer's Disease
|Drug: BIIB037
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|A Randomized, Double-Blinded (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Placebo-Controlled Multiple Dose Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of BIIB037 in Subjects with Prodromal or Mild Alzheimer's Disease.
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|A Safety study of a human antibody for Alzheimer's disease and Prodromal Alzheimer's disease.
|Length of Study:
|78 Weeks; Study treatments will take place once every 4 weeks.
|Number of Visits:
|25 visits
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|55 Years to 90 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
Inclusion Criteria:
|Subjects must meet criteria for Prodromal AD or Mild AD:
|Subjects must have a positive florbetapir PET amyloid scan.
|Subjects must consent to APOE genotyping.
Exclusion Criteria:
|Any medical or neurological condition (other than AD) that might be a contributing cause of the subject's cognitive impairment.
|Have had a stroke or TIA or unexplained loss of consciousness in the past 1 year.
|Clinically significant psychatric illness in past 6 months.
|Seizure in the past 3 years.
|Have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
|Have a significant systematic illness or infection in past 30 days.
|Brain MRI showing evidence of greater than 4 microhemorrhages.
|Alcohol or substance abuse in past 1 year.
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P.F. Chang's expands gluten-free menu
Posted By Alison On Mar 8, 2010 @ In Food Allergies,Gluten Intolerance,Restaurants/Stores | 7 Comments
P.F. Chang's truly goes out of their way to accommodate the gluten-free diner and anyone with food allergies. I recently took my daughter there and they made her an entirely different entree due to her multiple allergies. They are always warm and assuring and my daughter asks to go back to "the noodle place." They have also been very generous with our local Gluten Intolerance Group. This is one restaurant that really gets it!
And now, the great news — they have now expanded their gluten-free menu to include BEEF! See the press release below, and their menu…
Enhanced Offering Includes 5 New Beef Entrees and a Total of 28 Dishes
Scottsdale, AZ. (March 8, 2010) – P.F. Chang's China Bistro (NASDAQ: PFCB) announced today a newly expanded Gluten Free Menu, featuring beef entrees for the first time. Gluten intolerant diners can now enjoy a wider range of dining options, from P.F. Chang's signature Chicken Lettuce Wraps and Mongolian Beef to a Flourless Chocolate Dome for dessert.
"More and more of our guests are asking for gluten free options and we're proud to offer them a greater variety of P.F. Chang's classics," said Gregg Piazzi, Director of Culinary Training for P.F. Chang's China Bistro. "P.F. Chang's is sensitive to all of the food allergies and dining requirements of our guests and we strive to serve customized cuisine that meets each diner's individual needs."
P.F. Chang's upholds a rigorous gluten free cooking process to ensure the dietary safety of guests with celiac disease. The restaurant's staff takes all the necessary measures of precaution during the preparation and serving of gluten free dishes.
The newly expanded Gluten Free Menu features the following items:
Sides (Small: $2.95/Large: $4.95):
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P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. owns and operates two restaurant concepts in the Asian niche. P.F. Chang's China Bistro features a blend of high-quality, Chinese-inspired cuisine and American hospitality in a sophisticated, contemporary bistro setting. Pei Wei Asian Diner offers a modest menu of freshly prepared Asian cuisine in a relaxed, warm environment offering attentive counter service and take-out flexibility.
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Odor Control Companies in Puerto Rico
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Aerox B.V.
based in Vleuten, NETHERLANDS
Aerox B.V. is the world`s leading odour control specialist. With our Aerox-Injector we destroy the odours that are produced in industrial processes. We help factories to minimize their emissions in order to comply with legislation, laws, but most important: Fresh air for your neighbours.
OMI Industries
based in Long Grove, ILLINOIS (USA)
OMI Industries (OMI) specializes in controlling malodors and emissions with our patented Ecosorb(R) technology. OMI has extensive experience engineering solutions to solve a variety of odor-related problems from industries that experience year-round odor problems due to their production process, to seasonal odor problems due to temperature, to occasional odor problems ...
Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH / CTP Air Pollution Control
based in Graz, AUSTRIA
CTP (Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH) is one of the world`s leading companies in air pollution control for industrial applications. CTP was founded in 1985 and since then, its engineers, chemists and researchers have been developing individual technologies to serve customers worldwide, covering all industrial sectors. At CTP, we adhere to high quality standards ...
Glenro Inc.
based in Paterson, NEW JERSEY (USA)
Glenro offers infrared heaters, as well as complete infrared systems. Our hot air equipment includes impingement dryers, flotation dryers, through-air dryers and specialty batch-style ovens. Glenro's air pollution control equipment consists of three types of fume oxidizers for controlling VOCs, smoke and odor: recuperative thermal oxidizers, recuperative catalytic ...
OLFACTO EXPERT INC. (Odor Management Experts)
based in MONTREAL, QUEBEC (CANADA)
The mission of OlfactoExpert is to offer its customers outstanding olfactometric services and solutions: - by integrating a systematic quality control approach - by surpassing the expected level of security and confidentiality of its interventions - by democratizing modern olfactometry in each of its tools and services, always making them more affordable, objective, ...
United Air Specialists, Inc.
based in Cincinnati, OHIO (USA)
United Air Specialists, Inc. (UAS), founded in 1966, is an industry-leading manufacturer of high-performance air filtration and air pollution control equipment including industrial cartridge filter dust collectors and electrostatic precipitator mist collectors. For over 45 years, UAS has been designing and manufacturing clean air solutions to the highest quality ...
BioBag Americas, Inc.
based in Palm Harbor, FLORIDA (USA)
BioBag is a world leader in providing bags and films for the collection of organic waste for the purpose of composting. Unlike regular plastic, BioBags are made from a resin derived from plant starches, vegetable oils & compostable polymers and can be consumed by micro-organisms that live in our soils. Because of this, our bags can also be readily composted along with ...
EPI Environmental Products - Enviro Cover System Division
based in Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)
Established in 1991, EPI Environmental Products Inc. is a world pioneer of Oxo-biodegradable plastic technology and the manufacturer and distributor of its proprietary plastic compounds and degradable plastic additives and of the Enviro™ Cover System; a uniquely degradable, economical and environmentally friendly alternative daily cover (ADC) for municipal solid waste ...
based in München, GERMANY
Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed 21 202 employees at the end of 2012. In the financial year 2012, Clariant produced a turnover of CHF 6 billion. Clariant is divided into seven business units: Additives; Catalysts; Function Minerals, Industrial & Consumer ...
Ameri-Shred Corp.
based in Alpena, MICHIGAN (USA)
For twenty five year, Ameri-Shred has been a leading manufacturer of rugged, high quality shredders and auxiliary equipment. Industries served include document destruction, e-destruction, wood, plastics, product destruction as well as waste reduction and separation. Ameri-Shred also offers extensive engineering capabilities, and a service department second to none.
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Bloody pirates, arrrrrrrest them all!
But I suspect it will be settled through arrrrbitration.
Ohhhh, that was bad.
I have always said. "Claiming the Minerals in the North Pole is one thing,,, Getting them out is another"
Read about the conditions up there.
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Two canadians were on that ship…HEY, POUTINE, HANDS OFF OUR NORTH POLE!
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oven opening widht and arch form
I am begining my opening arch, due to brick size I have 2 options for the opening:
1. width - 500mm ( 20") hight- 280mm (11")
2. widht - 430mm ( 17") hight - 270mm (10.6)
My oven is 36" with dome of 18" high.
I know the difference between the options are not so big, but I want to make sure that from one hand the oven will be efficient as possible (smaller opening) but on the other hand convenient for working.
what do you guys think?
regarding arch form, after deciding the final size I'll cut my form out of plywood, should I take in consideration the space for the mortar between the bricks? ( Im worried that after mortaring the bricks the final arch size will be larger due to the space taken by the mortar)
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Im sorry but what does brick size have to do with opening size? :confused:
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Cheers filled the gym as the basketball swished through the net during Tara Fields '13 second foul shot. The referees called a brief time-out so Fields could be honored for her achievement. Fields and her friends, who wore white tops and pants for the "white out," cheered and the white wave of Wilson spectators cheered with them.
The basketball team played against Keuka College on Sat, Feb. 4 at 1:00pm in the Field House. The game ended with a score of 39-70.
Field scores 1000 points for the Phoenix
It was during this game that Fields scored her 1,000th point playing for the Phoenix.
"I was excited and nervous because 1,000 points is a big accomplishment that I thought I would never achieve. And the people on the wall are big names. I am honored to be in the same club with my coach," says Fields.
Wilson's long history in the 1000-point club
Head Basketball Coach, Angie Grove '00, was actually the first person to be inducted into the 1,000 point club, which began in 2000. Alumni Grove, Theresa Phelps '01, Doris Zimmerman '03, and Dana Bennett '08 are the only other basketball players inducted into the 1,000 point club. The names of the club members are hanging on the banner next to the scoreboard in the gym.
Vanessa Whitfield '14, team captain, had the team's top rebounds of the game with six total, while Fields was the top scorer with 23 points.
"Keuka was one of the best teams that we played against, but we played hard. I am satisfied with the way we played together," said Whitfield. The opponent, Keuka College, ranks second in North East Athletic Conference.
The goal of the season was to win and lose an even amount of games. However, they could not accomplish this with their 2-19 season record.
"They should be proud of themselves that they have won two games this year, and we are looking forward to next season and getting more players in and continuing to build our program," says Grove.


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Seat Time: Celebrating the life of Kurt Caselli
I'm cross posting this (it is in Kurt's thread too) but, thought it was important enough that it deserved it.
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Having started this press release over many times, we knew it was best to leave the emotion out of it and help in our way to celebrate the life of Kurt Caselli.
November 18th, 2013
: In an effort to help celebrate the life of Kurt Caselli, Seat Time would like to have a memorial show for Caselli. We are looking for any and all who have a story they would like to share with the world about KC66 to please reach out to us. We will skype in those whom wish to give their story in person. If being on the show live isnt your thing, we will be more than willing to read your story during the show.
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A picture taken on December 2007 in Paris, shows French President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi leaving the Elysee Palace after the signature of 10 billion euros of trade contracts between the two countries. AFP PHOTO / POOL / PATRICK HERTZOG
PARIS: French former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be investigated over allegations that he accepted cash from former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 election campaign.
Judicial sources confirmed Friday that a formal probe has been opened that could lead to Sarkozy facing a second set of corruption-related charges arising from his campaign.
Sarkozy, 58, was charged last month with taking advantage of a person incapacitated by illness in a case that centres on allegations he accepted envelopes stuffed with cash from France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt.
He adamantly denies any wrongdoing and is suing investigative news website Mediapart over the Libya allegations.
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Kadhafi's regime was toppled and he himself was killed in 2011 following an uprising backed by a NATO intervention that Sarkozy was instrumental in organising.
That won him international acclaim but his reputation has been blighted since leaving office last year by a slew of judicial probes into his conduct during his time as president or as a government minister.
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Red Epic Dragon vs Red Epic MX, Part 01: Dynamic Range & Latitude [VIDEO]
Description: In Part 01 of this three part series Ryan uncovers the differences between the dynamic range & latitude of the new Red Epic Dragon sensor and the Red Epic MX sensor to see if all of the hype is real.
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Now that Red is finally starting to deliver their fabled Dragon sensor I decided to take it our for a spin to see if all of the hype is real and how it compares to their previous MX sensor. So I met up with Isaac & Shawn to run a a battery of 7 different tests that compared things like dynamic range, latitude, IR, compression, low light, and color response. And rather than bore you with a 2 hour video that compares about 300 exposures, I've split the results into three different videos, and each video contains just the highlights of what you need to know. If you want to pixel peep and examine every frame for yourself, then you can download all of the 6k & 5k goodness in the post below. So in this first set of test let's take a look at the dynamic range and latitude, in these two sensors.
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Ah yes, the good old Sekonic Exposure chart. While charts are not the most sexy thing to shoot, they do give us a precise and controlled way of measuring and evaluating a sensor. Now I'll be the first to admit that it isn't as easy or quick to use as the DSC labs 21 step chart, but I have found it to be an accurate, helpful, and affordable tool to help me map and evaluate a camera's response as well as create a camera profile for my meter. If you want to know how I created the profile, then click on the Smart Side Link to watch the video on how I did that step by step. And you can also have the profile I created available for download in the post below this video. So let's launch the Sekonic DTS program and take a look at the test results. Alright, so I've launched the Sekonic DTS software here and we are going to take a look at the profiles that I created. Before we do that, I want to give you a quick side bar about that the difference between the "-log" and the "-R" profiles that you see here. They are both exactly the same as far how the camera responds. The difference is that I have modified the "-R" one.
So as we take a look at the Dragon "-Log" file at 800, what you want to pay attention to is this green and red line here, and this green line here, so this is the default exposure range that the program created for me. I'm not a huge fan of defaults; I like to modify things to my own liking and personal preference, which is why I developed this profile here. Again this is just set to my own personal preferences. Take a look at this green this red, this green, and this red line. These are just based off of my own personal preferences. You can go ahead and modify these yourself if you happen to download this profile. You can adjust them to your own liking, they're just settings you can change. If you take a look at the cameras response here, everything else has stayed exactly the same. It's just personal preference. That's the difference between the profiles. So let's go ahead and take a look at some multiple profiles here. Oops, that said single. It would help if I could read, that would be helpful. Okay, so let's take a look as I go to 800, that's what I shot these profiles at. And we'll make the Dragon purple, and the MX pink. So the first thing that jumps out at me is over-exposure range right here. As we take a look, the MX sensor clips out at about 5.5 stops over. And it clips out into a harsh clip. The Dragon sensor, it keeps on trucking. It continues on and then it finally clips out just past 7 stops. It looks like it's about 1.5 stops more than the MX, maybe up to 2. But 1.5 stops of additional over-exposure is a safe place to bet there. What I really appreciate about this additional over exposure range is that it is going to make my life a whole lot easier on set, and it is going to make the digital imagery I create a lot more filmic.
When it comes to what I'm used to working with and seeing when it comes to film, it is a nice soft shoulder roll off, and a nice extended range in my highlights. One dead give away of digital is this harsh clip right here. And a lot of digital cameras don't have a lot of over exposure range, they have a lot of underexposure, but not a lot of over. So this Dragon sensor really increases my over-exposure range which helps in creating a more filmic look. Or at least creates an image that closer resembles the way film looks. Something else that is interesting to point out here is this harsh clip. So you can see MX goes pretty abruptly into clip and then it just flat lines. Where as the Epic continues on and it has a softer shoulder than the MX. So this softer shoulder is really going to help it produce a more filmic roll off in the highlights. Of course as soon as it does hit the saturation point, when it is fully exposed, there is no more data there, it just flat lines. So it does have the same flat line characteristics as the MX when it gets there. But getting there is a much softer curve than the MX sensor.
So I'm going to hide the Dragon right now, and we'll go over to the Alexa. As we take a look at the Alexa, this is one of the reasons why I have chosen the Alexa more often than the Epic MX. It is because of this highlight roll off. The MX sensor clips hard, like I said before, where as the Alexa continues on. And take a look at that shoulder- it is a nice soft roll off. And that roll off creates a more filmic image when it comes to the over-exposure range. And that is what I'm looking for when it comes to the digital cameras that I choose to use when the budget allows. So let's take a look at the Dragon sensor and add that back in. Now this is what is really encouraging with Red's new sensor. Take a look at this roll-off here compared with the Alexa. So both are very similar. Both of them have a similar highlight range. Of course the Alexa has maybe about 1/4 or 1/3 stops more in the highlights. Really, I think we are splitting hairs at this point. The over-exposure range is going to be so close that the differentiation right here is going to be lost more often than not in the grade. Unless the colorist really works on finessing that difference. Of course the roll-off in the Alexa is softer than the Epic is right here. Again we're splitting hairs at this point.
Let's hide that Alexa sensor there, and take a look at the rest of this exposure range. As we see the Dragon sensor and the MX are essentially identical the rest of the way. There is some slight variation which is interesting to notice. But I was expecting there to be a bigger differentiation when it comes to the underexposure range. But that just doesn't seem to be the case, at least when it comes to shooting the chart. So let's bring the Alexa back in to see how that is comparing. It is interesting to notice as I look at these that the Epic MX and the Epic Dragon have a bit of an S-Curve to them. These are the log files. As you can see it curves down here at the bottom, and then it also curves here at the top. Again, it's not a huge curve. But if we compare it to the Alexa, which has a straighter line in its log file. And the difference really becomes noticeable in the underexposure area right here. You can see that the Alexa has brighter underexposure values and that jives with my own experience with the Alexa camera. I use a lot more grip material and grip gear in general to create richer and stronger blacks with the Alexa and its underexposure values. The camera just sees into the darkness. And that bares itself out right here where I can see these brighter underexposure values. But as soon as we it -5, or 5 stops under, all three cameras are essentially performing the same. There is little variance between all three. So really the major difference is in between the first 5 stops of underexposure. So that is pretty much what these test results reveal. Charts are great as they give me a clear picture of what's going on. But we don't shoot charts, we shoot reality. So let's take a look at the latitude test and see how these chart results translate into something that is actually usable.
Latitude Test:
For this latitude test I shot in 1/3 stop increments all the way up to 5 stops over and 5 stops under, and then I processed them using the latest version of RedCine-X in two different passes. The first pass was at the exposure I shot it at, with no adjustments, and the second pass I used the FLUT adjustment to correct the exposure back to normal. The point of this corrected exposure isn't so much to say, "Hey you don't need to worry about exposing correctly." You do, even with raw cameras. The point it to take a look at what is really going on in the image and how the sensor behaves as it is over- and underexposed. That way, if I want to deliberately create a look through underexposing or over-exposing an image, I know what to expect. So I've got Photoshop launched here, and let's take a look at these latitude tests that I have going on. Here are the spot readings, I trust that you can read for yourself. We've got the Tenba bag, and the chart over here. Here are the incident readings of that setup. A quick note about the TruND filters. They are the most neutral filters that I have come across yet. Even at really strong grades, they still remain really neutral and they also have some IR blocking built into them. They block IR at about 750. So that's what's going on. The left hand side of these exposures is at exposure, the right hand has been normalized via FLUT.
So lets scroll on down to 3 1/3 stops over on the MX chip. As we take a look at the slate, the slate seems to be starting to burn out. Looks like we've still got detail in the white chip. Just above Tim's eye, pay attention to that area and also to Tim's forehead. That's where we are going to start to see some noticeable changes. As we go to 3 2/3 stops over the slate continues to disappear; it looks like we've lost, or about to lose detail in that white chip, which is now 5 2/3 over. At 4 stops over the area above Tim's eye is starting to burn out, his forehead is starting to burn out. We've lost detail in the white chip here. At 4 1/3, now we've definitely lost detail in Tim's skin. And that is what we were seeing in that Sekonic chart when it goes to that hard clip- that's what ends up resulting here. This hard burn, it is not a soft roll-off it is now clipped and gone, which looks pretty nasty in my opinion. At 4 2/3 it continues to worsen, bye-bye slate. At 5 stops over, now we are in all kinds of nastyville. So that is how the MX sensor performs in the over exposure and why I have tended to favor the Alexa.
So let's see how the Dragon compares. Scroll on down, whoa, that was a little fast, sorry about that. At 3 1/3 stop over, Tim's skin is holding nicely, we see a lot more detail in our slate. The two stops over chip is still holding well. At 3 2/3 everything is still doing nicely. At 4 stops it looks like we are now just starting to lose a little bit of detail in the slate. Above Tim's eye, and also his forehead is still holding nicely. And we still have detail in our white chip. 4 1/3 still doing fine. At 4 2/3 losing more detail in the slate, although there is a lot more detail here than in the MX. Tim's skin still looks fine. The white chip looks like it might be on the edge of losing detail. It is noticeably different than the 4 1/3 chip. Continuing on to 5 stops over, Tim's skin above his eye is just barely beginning to lose detail, as well as in his forehead. We've obviously lost detail in our slate. It also looks like we are losing detail in our two stops over chip. Which all jives with what we were seeing on the chart with the Sekonic profile.
So this nicer softer roll off that we've got going on here, that's what I to see in my highlights. This softer burnout creates a much more filmic, and less digital feeling image. Just as a quick reminder to what the MX chip looked like at 5 stops over. So that's digital, that's not the look that I personally prefer. So that's what is going on with the over-exposure range with the MX and Dragon sensor. And that's what excited me most about Red's new sensor; at the end of the day, I don't really care about 6k, or even RAW for a lot of my commercial work, ProRes out of the Alexa has been more than adequate. But the fact that the Dragon sensor now has almost the exact same over-exposure range as the Alexa is a big step forward for the Epic in my opinion. Now let's take a look and the underexposures. But before looking at those results, I want to throw in a quick disclaimer: over-exposure is a cut and dry matter- either the image is clipped, or it isn't. Underexposure on the other hand is influenced a lot by personal preference. It's like salt: some people like a lot of it, and some people can only take a little. So I'm going to share my thoughts and opinions, but they're just that. And it is also worth pointing out that Red is continuing to work on and update their camera and color science. And they are aware of noise issues with the Dragon sensor- which will be addressed in a future firmware update. But as these cameras are shipping and being used on productions now, it's still worth taking a look at how the current camera performs. Okay, so we're back in Photoshop, and I'm at -1 2/3 stops under for the MX sensor, in case those numbers are not big enough for you. What you want to pay attention to as we go through the under exposure range is the Tenba Bag. Pay attention to this checkered area and also this darker black area. That's where you'll see the biggest differentiation between these two sensors.
So here is the exposure, and here is the normalized exposure. At this level, the noise levels are still acceptable for my tastes. They are a little bit colorful, which is not what I prefer to see in my noise. I prefer my noise to be not colorful, or to be neutral in color, but it is passible. We'll go to 2 stops under, which is still passible. As far as noise level goes, it has picked up a little more color, I'm still seeing a lot of detail in the Tenba Bag. At -2 under, this checkered spot is about 5 stops under, and this black area I believe is about 6 stops under. And we'll go on down to -2 1/3. So here is where the noise level is unacceptable for my taste. This is too noisy for what I prefer. And the colorful bits of the noise are not what I like to see. It's not my personal preference. We're definitely still picking up detail in the Tenba bag.
Let's scroll on down, just for fun, let's go down to 5. Here we go, So this is what we see in the -5 exposure. Not a whole heck of a lot of anything. Let's see what we can recover. Again this is 5 stops under, and we've got all kinds of crazy colorful noise going on. The Tenba bag looks like I can see a little bit, at least on my screen, hopefully it translates over the web. I can see a little bit of the outline of the checkered pattern, and just a little bit of the black area. We'll go up a 1/3 of a stop; it definitely becomes more noticeable and prominent. Another 1/3 of a stop and it is definitely easy to see here. We'll zoom out on the image just to take a look. And as we zoom out it becomes a lot easier to see where everything is differentiated. The little zipper. So yeah, we can actually recover quite a bit. We're looking at about 8 stops to 9 stops under. So that's quite a bit of detail. Not that it is usable, but it does seem to be recoverable. Something else to point out with the MX sensor is that as it gets underexposed, it is getting a more magenta cast to the image. You'll need to adjust for that in the grade.
Let's see how the Dragon sensor compares. So we are at -1 stop under. And here is our regular image and here is normalized. I see a lot less color here. The noise is more neutral. At this level it is still passible and acceptable for me. I do like that it's less colorful than the MX sensor, that it's more neutral. That is a huge plus. We're still getting ample detail in the Tenba bag, which is good to hear, or good to see rather. And at -1 1/3 stops under, and it looks like we are still doing fine. It's passible, it is getting more noisy. We're picking up just a tad more color, but nothing like that MX sensor. And now we are at -1 2/3 stops under. So here is where I would draw the line for my own personal taste. The noise has gotten more color, but nothing like the MX sensor, so that's a huge win. But at this level there is too much noise for my liking. We're still getting detail in the Tenba bag, so that's a win. Now let's scroll down to 3 stops under. And now we are 3, so here what the image looks like. I'm not seeing anything in that Tenba bag and we are only at 3. Let's see what we can recover. And yeah, not really recovering much of anything. I can faintly see the bag here. But it is not like we are seeing in the MX chip which kind of surprises me. I'll zoom out and I can faintly see that outline here, but it is nothing like we were seeing in the MX chip. And that's rather surpassing because according to the Sekonic chart, they should be behaving neck-and-neck to each other. So maybe that is something that will be fixed in a firmware update, who knows. But at this point, at 3 stops under, which would make this bag about 6 to 7 stops under.
Just for grins and giggles, lets zoom on down to 5 stops under. Again not a usable image in my opinion. But let's see if we can recover any detail. And yeah, there is nothing there. At least I'm not seeing it on my screen, even a faint outline. We'll zoom back out just to be fair, I'm not seeing any outline there. Go up a 1/3, still not seeing any outline. So yeah, I'm not seeing that same bag that I was seeing in the MX sensor.
It is also interesting to point out that the Dragon sensor seems to go green as it is underexposed. Lighting, filtration, everything is exactly the same in-between these two. The MX is more magenta, and the Dragon is more green. So you'll just need to pay attention to that as you underexpose the image or as you're playing around with your underexposure values when your using either camera. So that's how these two sensors currently perform using their current firmware and color science.
Final Thoughts:
Well, I don't know about you- but I am honestly impressed with Red's latest sensor. The fact that the dynamic range is now as good as the Alexa without having to use HDRx, and that the over exposure latitude has been increased means that this camera is going to make it easier for us to paint with light and motion. Has it beaten film? I think that's an overstatement- as Kodak vision 3 stock still has at least 8 stop of over-exposure range, but as you have seen in this test- the results are quite impressive. Stay tuned for the next video where we'll be evaluating color, IR & fill ratios. If you have any comments or questions, leave them in the comment section below, and then come join me in the next video.


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Tim, a fellow farmer from two valleys over stopped by a few nights ago for dinner. I had ground up a beef heart and fixed us both burgers on the grill to go with his, as always, excellent salad of spring veggies. He made a nice fresh raspberry salad dressing that I wasn't sure whether to drizzle on the salad or add rum and ice cubes. I opted to use it as a salad dressing.
After dining we sat on the front porch and spoke of weather, vegetables, pigs and Billy Bragg as we smoked cigars and sipped our drinks. It was nice to sit with a friend and watch the sunset over the next ridge and not feel in any sort of hurry. He pulled out his banjo and played while we talked. A couple of hours later we moseyed out to the barn and put up the animals for the night before he headed down the road and over to his own valley.
That night it rained. But, like a slightly soggier version of Camelot, it let up by sunrise yet remained cloudy and misting all day. Hannah, our farm volunteer, part of the WWOOF program, popped out of her apartment around 8 ready to work. She has been on our farm for a week working for room and board and learning about farming. She will stay for a couple more weeks. In one short week she has resurrected the garden after a couple of weeks of heavy rains and knocked out a fairly heavy to-do list. And by all appearances seems to have thrived with the work load.
She and I loaded up our work sled, a truck bed liner abandoned in a back field that we repurposed fourteen years ago. It now serves as a convenient way to haul firewood, equipment or stones anywhere on the property. Pulling it with the tractor we hauled it up into the back forty where we put in a hard mornings work setting t-posts and digging post-holes. As you are now no doubt tired of hearing this ongoing project of rebuilding or repairing every fence line on the farm is now in its third month. Perhaps in fifteen years when I reach retirement age we will have completed the project…in time to start again.
Last night a trip down the hill to our neighbor's house with dinner prepared by one of her daughters, good conversation, good food, nice wine and when stuffed I trudged back home and was in bed by ten. It was a nice way to cap a day of hard labor.
This morning with rain coming down Hannah and I turned our attention to domestic skills making lard and some mead flavored with Tim's strawberries and ginger. I await Cindy's return from her parent's home, a semi-annual visit, by fixing chicken sausage gumbo for this evening's dinner. And that is all from the farm this week.


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The Moment I Lost Faith In Nintendo
I've been a pretty much dyed-in-the-wool Nintendo fanboy for most of my life. Between their opening salvo of Tetris and a fateful Christmas morning of Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye, there was no going back. I've owned (deep breath) a Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, N64, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, Gamecube, DS, Wii, 3DS, and now the Wii U. And other than a few gaming PCs, that's it. Ask 10-year-old me, and he'd have probably told you that buying a PlayStation was only slightly preferable to Grievous Bodily Harm when it came to morally acceptable behaviour. It just wasn't on. Cold hard reason has led me to soften my stance but, perhaps crucially, I've somehow never quite justified the cost of any other consoles. Latent PlayStationphobia perhaps, but somehow I've never quite been pushed into purchasing anything non-Nintendo.
All of that excessive (and perhaps embarrassing?) buildup is to really drive home the significance of my saying that I'm not sure I can really consider Nintendo my favourite videogame developer, or publisher, any more. This isn't an uncommon position - sadly, I imagine they're all too aware how many fans have drifted away over the years. But I might be a slightly unusual case.
You see, I didn't mind the Wii and its motion controls - I actually still think they're pretty neat. The Wii U and its daft name didn't send me over the edge - I'm very fond of my Wii U, as limited as its library may be. Even the reliance on rehashing old tropes and trotting out a Mario game for every sport, hobby, or basic human activity hasn't bothered me - I'd actually probably consider buying Mario Laundry whenever they get that desperate. No, what's tipped me over the edge is the recent comments by Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president and CEO, clarifying a position I'd long suspected: that the future of gaming, and Nintendo, lies in toys, not art.
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Now, I've got a bit of a bias here. I'm a wannabe philosopher, and have written a paper and worked extensively on the idea that video games not only can be, but already are, artworks. And I don't just mean the Bioshocks and Heavy Rains of the video game world, I mean (pretty much) all of them. Sure, something like Aliens: Colonial Marines may not be very good art - but it is still art. There's no shortage of bad art out there, in any medium. In fact, there's a hell of a lot more bad art than there is even alright art, let alone the really good stuff. But we don't write off whole mediums as art forms because of a few dodgy bits.
I'm not going to go into excessive detail here about why video games are art, because it's a) a huge topic, and b) has been covered pretty extensively elsewhere. Just Google it. What matters to me is why it's important for developers and ideally even publishers to pursue games as art. The way an art form develops is through artists pushing boundaries, experimenting with form, and basically just trying to make some really good, interesting art. And I just don't see that happening when all a developer sets out to do is make a really good toy.
Nintendo games are renowned for their excellence, and I don't think that's likely to change any time soon. But Nintendo are looking increasingly adrift in the modern gaming world, an old stalwart continuing to pursue fun at the absolute exclusion of any other qualities in a time where narrative, expression, and emotional involvement are finally working their way into mainstream games in a serious way.
Don't get me wrong - fun is great. Video games can be really, really fun. And perhaps a game can only be good if it is fun - though that's another topic. But when fun is the only aim of a developer, that puts a pretty severe restriction on what can be achieved.
Nintendo have often been compared to Pixar. Both companies have rigorous quality control, make works that can be enjoyed by people of just about any age, and have a reputation for creativity. But Pixar have gotten to where they are by pushing boundaries, by trying new things and experimenting with their medium. They care about an awful lot more than simply making fun films. I only wish Nintendo were the same.


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