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Linebeck, or Linebeck Senior as he is refered to in Spirit Tracks, is a character featured in the game Phantom Hourglass.
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He is the captain of the steamboat, the S.S. Linebeck, which Link uses to travel the Great Sea for the full course of the game.[1] Linebeck travels the world seeking treasure, which seems to be his driving force in everything he does, including accompanying Link.[2] People on the islands he visited seem to have a respect or admiration for him, calling him brave and wishing to travel the seas like him.[3] However, Link and Ciela, while journeying, see a different side of him, different from the persona he puts up as a brave adventurer (at one point he claims to go through two dungeons a day before breakfast, though nobody seems to believe him).[4] Instead Linebeck shows himself to be for the most part a coward, running away from trouble and staying with his boat instead of going into the dungeons with Link.[5]
Relationship with Jolene
Because he travels with Linebeck, Link meets Jolene, a pirate girl (described as "crazy" by Linebeck)[6] who travels the seas to get revenge on him. When she spots the S. S. Linebeck she immediately attacks and ambushes it, fighting Link while Linebeck hides in a crate to watch, rewarding Link after he wins.[7] Eventually Linebeck tells Link how he met Jolene: At one point in the past, he had accidentally saved her from a monster that he was trying to escape. Because of this he and Jolene became friends and sailed together for a while, until Linebeck stole some of her treasure and ran away, which caused Jolene to seek revenge.[8] Linebeck said it "wasn't even a that great of a treasure"[9] and Jolene still sought revenge, even, after the final match, saying that Link had "eyes like the man who captivated" her and told Linebeck to "take notes," which hints at an unrequited emotional attachment she holds for Linebeck.[10]
Link meets Linebeck in the Temple of the Ocean King on Mercay Island early in his journey. He is told about Linebeck by Oshus, an old man living on the island, who tells him to go to the port to see him.[11] While the S. S. Linebeck is docked there, its captain has been gone, presumably to the nearby Milk Bar.[12] However, upon entering it, Link discovers that Linebeck had left to the temple for treasure.[13]
Linebeck is then found on the first floor of the temple, trapped by spikes, and he asks Link to help him, saying that he hurt his ankle and couldn't do it himself.[14] After being rescued he runs off, telling Link to find the chart he was looking for inside, then leaves. Link's fairy, Ciela, described him as a coward, which Linebeck tried to dispute.
Eventually Link and Linebeck agree to work together, sailing onwards to the Ghost Ship, Link to rescue his friend, Tetra, and Linebeck to investigate the rumors of treasure on it.[2] After it is revealed that the treasure of the Ghost Ship didn't ever exist, Linebeck decides to no longer allow Link to use his ship.[15] However, Oshus, later revealed to be the Ocean King, promises to grant him one wish if he continues to help Link.[16] Linebeck has an immediate change of heart when faced with the fact that he could have any treasure in the world, and quickly moves out to continue the journey.[17]
Ciela and Linebeck constantly fight throughout the course of the game. The two rarely call each other by their real names, instead using insulting nicknames, and are almost cruel to each other at points. However, by the end of the game, they have reluctantly gained respect for each other.
Near the end of the game, Linebeck and Link board the Ghost Ship after attacking it, though the S. S. Linebeck becomes sunken in the fight. Suddenly, Link is captured by Bellum, the monster who controlled the Ghost Ship and was behind the petrification of Tetra. A terrified Linebeck uses the Phantom Sword dropped by Link to stab the weakened Bellum in one of his tentacles, freeing Link. However, though Bellum remains injured, he manages to attack Linebeck and possess him,[18] turning him into a monstrous knight akin to a Phantom, and forces Link to fight him as the final boss. Link eventually triumphs, defeating Bellum without injuring Linebeck, freeing him. Linebeck seems disgusted with himself for attacking Link, even though he had the excuse of being possessed.[19] However, Link and Ciela forgive him.[20]
At the conclusion of the game, Oshus, in his true form as the Ocean King, asks Linebeck to tell him what his promised wish was.[21] Instead of treasure as the others were expecting, Linebeck's only wish is to have his previously sunken boat fixed.[22] This shocks the others, but his wish is granted, and the S. S. Linebeck restored.[23]
Oshus opens the door to Link and Tetra's world,[24] and soon the heroes find themselves on the deck of the Ghost Ship. Tetra's pirates find them and say that they were only on the Ghost Ship for about ten minutes and that their entire adventure was just a dream.[25] Tetra tries to convince the pirates otherwise, while Link spots something on the sea and happily runs to the side of the boat. The final scene of the game is of Linebeck's boat sailing away and tooting its horn, proving that the adventure was not a dream after all.
His grave later appears in Spirit Tracks in the re-established kingdom of Hyrule, revealing that he, too, came to the new land and made a family there (his grandson, Linebeck III, appears in the game as the spitting image of his grandfather) before his death.
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In the Phantom Hourglass manga by Akira Himekawa, Linebeck was part of an investigation of the ghost ship. His crew-mates were busy celebrating over the treasure they found, which was really an illusion. One by one the crew was disintegrated, leaving Linebeck, who fled in the life-boat.
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- Linebeck's possession and transformation into a Phantom-like knight by Bellum can be compared to Nabooru's brainwash and transformation into an Iron Knuckle by the Twinrova in Ocarina of Time.
- On one occasion in the official Phantom Hourglass Prima guide, Linebeck's possessed form is referred to as "Bellumbeck". This name has been adopted by many fans.
- Also, "Bellumbeck" is present in the game's text dump, implying that developers forgot to insert the boss' name when the battle starts, like how other bosses' names are shown when their respective battles start.[26]
- In Himekawa's manga, it is said that the treasure Linebeck stole from Jolene was just a baby squid.
Ciela, the fairy, getting angry at Linebeck.
Link and Linebeck on the S.S. Linebeck
Link vs Possessed Linebeck
- ↑ "The S.S. Linebeck came equipped with this average anchor." — N/A (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "So you're trying to get your mitts on the treasure! ... If that's what this is about, I'm on board!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "But rumors that the Ghost Ship has returned have all but shut down our harbor! Except for one brave soul who recently docked his ship, that is." — Mercay Island Resident (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "On a typical day, I blaze through one or two such temples...before breakfast!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "What are you doing? Hurry up! We'd be done already if I was the one out there! But someone needs to stay here and look after the ship. A shame, really!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Oh-no-oh-no-oh-no! It's HER! Jolene! She's CRAZY! She's crazier than a rabid squid!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Phew! Say what you will about that girl, she KNOWS how to imitate a pirate! "Linebeck, Professional Crate Inspector!" Kind of catchy, don't you think? Here's a tip for giving that crazy girl the heave-ho for me, Link!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Well, if I'm being totally honest here, I was just trying to get away, see. I sort of lost control of my ship, and it just happened to strike the beast... So after that, Jolene and I traveled together for a time, but... Pretty soon, I realized that the two of us were from different worlds. Yeah... It's kind of embarrassing, but she was a LOT tougher than I. Plus, I just wasn't cut out for the rough-and-tumble life of a pirate! Yeah, I always preferred the laid-back style of just sneaking off with treasure. Anyway, Jolene and I started seeing less and less of each other... I knew I had to end it, and well...you know... Well... I made off with some of her treasure..." — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Ha ha! Anyway, ever since, Jolene has been trying to get her revenge on me! The thing is, it wasn't even that great of a treasure. I didn't think it was worth so much that she'd follow me around like this! That is one persistent woman, let me tell you." — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "There is something about your stubborn personality that...draws me. The one who captivated me so long ago had that same look in his eyes." — Jolene (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "There is a port to the east of here. A sailor by the name of Linebeck should be there. He'll be willing to tell you more about the Ghost Ship." — Oshus (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "What? You're searching for Linebeck? The captain usually drops anchor at the milk bar, but I haven't seen him in days. Perhaps the bar owner knows where Linebeck has vanished to." — Mercay Island Resident (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Looking for Linebeck? Sure, I know him! And that chair there knew him recently! Linebeck just dashed out, saying he was off to the Temple of the Ocean King. I tried to stop that crazy fellow. But off he went to the north side of our isle." — Mercay Tavern Owner (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "I know you're a kid and all, but try to listen up! I'm trapped in here, and I don't know what to do... Normally, I'd free myself without any problem, but... I sprained my ankle and I can't move. Will you help?" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "This is some kind of sick joke, old man! The treasure! What about all the TREASURE! That was the only reason I put my life on the line! And now there's no treasure? Well, I...QUIT!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "No, no. I would never ask you to do this for free. If you help us defeat Bellum... I will grant you one wish. What do you say to that?" — Oshus (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "HEY! Quit standing around, kid! The Ocean King is in trouble! Ship out, kid! Anchors aweigh! I said, MOVE IT!" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Are you OK? Linebeck! You were possessed by Bellum!" — Ciela (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Oh, kid, I mean... Link! I'm sorry! I know I was possessed by that monster... But to think that I..." — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Shush, Linebeck! If you hadn't stood up to Bellum when you did... Who knows what might have happened to us!" — Ciela (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "I have to make good on a promise I made to you. I grant you one wish." — Oshus (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Well, I guess, if I have to... If you insist... Can you bring back my ship? The one that sank?" — Linebeck (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "What? That's it? You know, even if you ask for treasure later, that's it!" — Oshus (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "The time for you to return to your world is near... The door to your world is about to open." — Oshus (Phantom Hourglass)
- ↑ "Ten minutes?! You've got to be kidding! Do you know what we have been through?!" — Tetra (Phantom Hourglass)
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Since many of you are also probably back in the office this week and looking for inconspicuous ways to waste some time until you've fully recovered from whatever it is you do during the holiday stretch, why not read Chris's review on a book about an ex-slave who lives in a tree and talks to herself? WELCOME TO 2014, EVERYONE! First review of the year! FIRST. DIBS. Here's the beginning of his review:
In the beginning of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Afrikaans author Wilma Stockenström, the narrator, a former slave, walks on the path from the hollow trunk of the baobab tree in which she dwells to a water source that she shares with animals. As she collects her water using two "gifts" (a clay pot and an ostrich egg used for a scoop), she considers the journey that brought her to the African veld where she now resides:
If I cannot even know everything on the short walk from the entrance to the baobab to the heap of potsherds and other finds, so many steps there, so many back, what of my journey, which sometimes feels as if it took a lifetime and still lasts, still goes on, even if now I am traveling in circles around one place?
This journey began when she was forced into slavery as a girl. After being sold to different owners over the years, she became part of a failed expedition that brought her to the veld. However, as she observes in the quote above, the journey has not yet ended, in spite of the fact she has now made her home inside the tree. But instead of traveling to a different place, she exhibits the toll her experiences have had on her psyche as her lyrical descriptions of the landscape and the animals that wander through it are eventually overpowered by her imagination.
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In the beginning of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Afrikaans author Wilma Stockenström, the narrator, a former slave, walks on the path from the hollow trunk of the baobab tree in which she dwells to a water source that she shares with animals. As she collects her water using two "gifts" (a clay pot and an ostrich egg used for a scoop), she considers the journey that brought her to the African veld where she now resides:
If I cannot even know everything on the short walk from the entrance to the baobab to the heap of potsherds and other finds, so many steps there, so many back, what of my journey, which sometimes feels as if it took a lifetime and still lasts, still goes on, even if now I am traveling in circles around one place?
This journey began when she was forced into slavery as a girl. After being sold to different owners over the years, she became part of a failed expedition that brought her to the veld. However, as she observes in the quote above, the journey has not yet ended, in spite of the fact she has now made her home inside the tree. But instead of traveling to a different place, she exhibits the toll her experiences have had on her psyche as her lyrical descriptions of the landscape and the animals that wander through it are eventually overpowered by her imagination.
The narrator (none of the characters are named) starts out by describing her life in the veld. She tries to keep track of the days by using green and black beads that she finds, although she later uses them in a more haphazard manner. She also "competes with animals" for scarce food that only makes her sick. Finally, she admits that to get through her days in the veld, sleep is "the dense solution," and only when she wakes does she feel a sense of empowerment. "Imperiously I stand now and gaze out over the veld, and every time I step outside the world belongs to me. Every time I step out from the protecting interior of the tree I am once again a human being and powerful . . ."
This sense is quite a sharp contrast from her time as a slave. Despite her claims at the beginning that she is "ignorant" and "stupid," she actually shows some intelligence, but her status as a slave prevents her from ever thriving beyond the confines that others have forced upon her. For example, her first owner was only interested in deflowering her and sold her as soon as she gave birth to a child, which was later taken away. Her second owner, a spice merchant, made her "toil with a pick and hoe in the garden in the murderous heat" during the day while living under the threat of having her tongue cut out. Her third owner, whom she called her "benefactor," showed her signs of tenderness that were undermined by a bad reputation.
After the benefactor's death, she tried to run away but was captured along with other slaves who were eventually massacred. As she relives the moment she spoke to these slaves, she discusses the fear that has remained with her all this time.
I told them all I knew about my origins. Humbly I offered them the scanty history. My facts I patched together as they occurred to me, my memory of a journey with fear the starting point and fear the end point. I was well grounded in the knowledge of fear. I had felt him in my blood vessels, for he had come to live in me and I had begun to smell like him, and with his eyes I had seen forests and plains shift by poisonous and distorted; with his ears I had listened, and there was a growling, and even the stillness rumbled, and there was bitterness in my cheeks. Oh, fear is by no means whatsoever a connoisseur of events. He gobbles up everything. He crushes everything. He leaves no bloody trail behind because he stands still. Everything comes from him, feels drawn to him, and he knows it.
Later, she goes with the benefactor's eldest son on an expedition to try to expand his late father's business, an expedition she calls "fantastical" and "stupidly romantic." On the journey, she keeps close to her final owner, a man known as "the stranger." However, things start to go awry during the expedition: leaders fight among themselves, cattle disappear. Eventually, the narrator finds herself without the protection of the stranger.
Instead, the tree becomes her only protection; it not only provides her shelter from the elements, but also becomes her confidant. As she recounts the story of that fateful expedition, she wishes she could write, so she could "scratch [the tree's] enormous belly from top to bottom." "Thus I decorate you line after line with our hallucinations so that you can digest, outgrown, make smooth this ridiculousness, preserve the useless information in your thick skin till the day of your spontaneous combustion . . . You are full of my scars, baobab. I did not know I had so many."
Thanks to Stockenström's rich language (wonderfully translated by award-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee) and brilliant use of symbolism, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree is a heartbreaking story about what we stand to lose as humans, and about how what we stand to lose can never be returned. While the novel is not exactly a fable, Stockenström does incorporate elements from that genre in her story, not only by using animals for important aspects of the story, but also by eschewing names to show that, in the end, we are all part of the same human race. Finally, like the fables of the past, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree provides a moral: Regardless of our social status, the impact we cause on other humans lingers for a long time.
Similar to years past, we're going to be featuring each of the 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist over the next month plus, but in contrast to previous editions, this year we're going to try an experiment and frame all write-ups as "why this book should win." Some of these entries will be absurd, some more serious, some very funny, a lot written by people who normally don't contribute to Three Percent. Overall, the point is to have some fun and give you a bunch of reasons as to why you should read at least a few of the BTBA titles.
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Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated by Michiel Heyns
Language: Afrikaans
Country: South Africa
Publisher: Tin House
Pages: 579
Why This Book Should Win: It explores a complex web of human relationships at a familial and national level without ever leaving a single room; and because, as Liesl Schillinger says in her review of the novel published in the NYT Book Review, "Books like Agaat . . . are the reason people read novels, and the reason authors write them."
Today's entry is from Gwen Dawson, who runs the always excellent Literary License blog. And who will be joining the BTBA judging panel for 2012.
At the beginning of this epic novel, seventy-year-old Milla de Wet is confined to her bed. Once the strong and competent owner of a successful farm inherited from her mother, Milla suffers from A.L.S. and now is left with only the ability to blink her eyes and, after a while, not even that. Milla is entirely dependent on the ministrations of Agaat, her devoted house servant, who wordlessly promises Milla "the best-managed death in history." It is 1996 in South Africa, just two years after the demise of apartheid.
From this confined vantage point, Milla narrates her adult life story, beginning with her troubled marriage to the dashing, if agriculturally-challenged, Jak de Wet in 1947. Soon after she and Jak settle on her farm, Milla decides to take in and raise the abused young daughter of a farm laborer, renaming the girl Agaat. Long unable to have a child of her own, Milla eventually gives birth to a son named Jakkie, marginalizing Agaat's position in the family. Over time, Milla and Agaat develop a complex co-dependency, as do Jakkie and Agaat, while Jak becomes jealous of Agaat's hold over both his wife and his son. Agaat forms the center of a decades-long, multi-dimensional game of tug-o-war: "a pivot she was, a kingpin, you'd felt for a while now how the parts gyrated around her, faster and faster, even though she was the least."
Agaat is about many things, including marriage, parenting, friendship, sickness, and death. Politically-minded readers will find plenty of support for interpreting the novel as an allegory for apartheid, while those with more domestic interests will appreciate the details on embroidery, ecologically-sensitive farming practices, and home-based nursing procedures. Perhaps _Agaat_'s most important lesson concerns the importance of communication to achieving lasting change. The best education and carefully constructed systems cannot bridge the gap between master and servant, between white and black. Rather, true understanding is possible only after years of empathetic communication. As Milla nears death, she and Agaat have finally approached this kind of understanding:
[The doctor's] face looms above mine. He looks at my eyes as if they were the eyes of an octopus, as if he's not quite sure where an octopus's eyes are located, as if he doesn't know what an octopus sees. He shines a little light into my face, he swings it from side to side. I look at him hard, but seeing, he cannot see.
Agaat catches my eye. Wait, let me see, she says.
[The doctor] stands aside. He shakes his head.
Agaat's face is above me, her cap shines white, she looks into my eyes. I blink them for her so that she can see what I think. The effrontery! They think that if you don't stride around on your two legs and make small talk about the weather, then you're a muscle mass with reflexes and they come and flash lights in your face. Tell the man he must clear out.
A small flicker ripples across Agtaat's face. Ho now hopalong! it means. Her apron creaks as she straightens up. Her translation is impeccable.
She says thank you doctor. She says doctor is welcome to leave now, she's feeling better. She says thank you for the help, thank you for the oxygen, we can carry on here by ourselves again now.
I close my eyes. He must think she's crazy.
Again the fingers snapping in front of my face.
She's conscious, really, doctor, you can leave her alone now, she's just tired, when she shuts her eyes like that then I know. Everything's in order, she says, she just wants to sleep now. I know, I know her ways.
Milla's disease has the potential to reduce this nearly 600-page novel into an exercise in claustrophobia, but, instead, Van Niekerk has created a work of stunning breadth and emotional potency. Milla's second-person narration is liberally broken up by her diary entries, which Agaat has decided to read to Milla during her last days, and by italicized paragraphs of Milla's stream-of-consciousness musings. Van Niekerk is a poet as well as a novelist, and her considerable poetic abilities are on display throughout the novel. Likewise, Michiel Heyns's masterful work yields an English translation with all the elegant power of the original language. These various elements come together in Agaat to create an unforgettable reading experience that transcends the lives of its four primary characters to implicate the broader world.
Imagine the most baroque excesses of Goethe, Shakespeare, and Poe, blended together and poured into a single book: That is The Nightwatches of Bonaventura. Ophelia and Hamlet fall in love in a madhouse, suicidal young men deliver mournful and heartfelt. . .
In 1899, Maurice Ravel wrote "Pavane pour une infante défunte" ("Pavane for a Dead Princess") for solo piano (a decade later, he published an orchestral version). The piece wasn't written for a particular person; Ravel simply wanted to compose a. . .
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As a Moderator for Renderosity's Animation community, I watch over the Animation Forum and Animation Outlet (our animation gallery). Members often wonder what codec they should use for web-based videos. There are different tools that help you encode videos on different formats. Besides that, most video-editing apps already include the capability to encode to different video formats.
Regardless of the many available formats, most of the videos you will find on the internet will be in either AVI, WMV, or MOV formats. AVI can be the most problematic format because there are a lot of different codecs for it (such as DivX, Xvid, Indeo, and so on). Luckily, people have reached a point where they choose to go for the "standard codecs", so it is very unlikely that you will find yourself unable to watch certain video. Above all this, video upload services, such as YouTube or Google Video, try to keep it easy for the users so they offer their own video-streaming service based on the Flash Video format.
Keep in mind this article is not meant to tell you which codec to use, but rather tell you which codecs are most widely used so you can decide for yourself. Neither will I give you a tech review of every codec, because I believe that the final result is what matters, not the algorithm that is used to encode your videos. I know there are a lot of members that really are into the technical side of the codecs, but the rest of us just want to create animations that will look good, and won't take forever to download.
When it comes to AVI video, the most common codecs are Xvid or DivX. They are both based on the same technology, however they work different and are not at all compatible. The major difference is, obviously, that the DivX encoder is a commercial program while the Xvid codec is still free. When running my tests, I found that at the same bitrate DivX created a smaller size video, although the video quality looks pretty much the same in both cases.
I then made a Quicktime version of the same video. Quicktime offers different "formats", such as sorenson, mpeg4, jpg, and so on. While some yield very nice results, the rest look simply horrible, especially for web-based video. For this test I used sorenson 3 because it's the one that offers the best video quality. The output video had better image quality than the AVI counterparts, but the video was way bigger at the same bitrate (3mb compared to 200kb... it's really hard to decide which one to use, right?), so Quicktime is pretty much out of my list.
Windows Media Video is the Windows' video codec, as you may have already guessed. The video quality is better than that of the DivX or Xvid codecs, but the filesize is slightly bigger, although it's not as big as the Quicktime video. The downside is that you need the Windows Media Player to playback WMV files. This may not be a problem for Windows users, but MAC and Linux users have to find alternate ways to watch those files. Using this codec may actually work against you, because the lack of compatible players will prevent some people from watching your creations.
All these different choices can sometimes be rather frustrating. Sometimes you may download an animation that some guy made, and you realize you can't watch it because that guy used some strange codec that nobody has heard of. Luckily enough, a not-so-new format has been released that makes things easier for us. If you visit YouTube, you will see that the videos play on a Flash console. There are tools now that let you create Flash Video Files that you can put into Flash movies, so that they play in any web browser. This is actually a relief because you can be sure that almost anybody will be able to watch your movie, as almost everybody has a Flash-enabled web browser.
So far, the only application I know that can make a Flash Video File for you (including the playback controls and all that fancy stuff), is Macromedia Studio 8, which I don't have, so I won't be able to run a test. This video format seems to be especially useful for larger movies, because they download really quickly. If you visit YouTube you will notice that movies running for 5 to 10 minutes download really quickly (a 3:26 minute video sample with audio, I found, is 7mb). This video format looks really promising, and I am sure that more apps that support it will be released soon (if they are not already available).
Creating animations has become a painful proccess thanks to all these available codecs. Most of the time, not everybody will be able to watch your animations, so some will offer the same animation in different formats. I don't see this will change in the near future, because more and more people are releasing their own codecs (if you have heard of the "XXX codec pack", you will know what I mean). Also, we have to keep in mind that sometimes our audience will not be willing to download some codec just because of our animation (sometimes in the past, I've even skipped video files just because I don't have Quicktime 7. But don't worry, I do watch all the animations in the Animation Outlet, lol). So until we have a "universal codec" that everybody will use, I think the best option will always be to have our creations in different formats, even if that means more work.
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Sheila Malone
How'd you get to where you are today, working at 435 Digital?
I started selling Directional Marketing in 1987 FOR R H Donnelly who published Yellow Pages for ATT. Later I worked for DexOne where I sold print and digital programs to SMBs. I came to 435 Digital because I believe that Digital Marketing is the most effective form of marketing with the best ROI for these businesses.
What is your favorite YouTube video?
Bud Light' Real Men of Genius. Cracks me up every time.
Who is your favorite person to follow on Twitter and why?
Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen), because he is awesome and the @Blackhawks.
What is your favorite thing about Chicago?
The architecture and the lakefront both are beautiful.
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/sheila-malone
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Working with business owners to help them grow their businesses. The ability to offer a suite of high-end quality digital products and knowing that when I walk into a business what I can do for the owner makes a difference.


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I am very happy with quality of the ATSC compared to snowy NTSC. Another benefit not talked about much is the program guide. Folks, digital channels free up much needed bandwith and can produce near dvd quality out our older television sets. The main problem is getting good reception without a roof antenna and the converter boxes do not have an LED display on the front which could display the channel or time. The picture quality can be better than the overly compressed cable broadcasts. Now, why don't all the networks broadcast in 16:9 in 1080i and have the converter box downgrade to 480i?
I own a small retail business with a good profit margin selling wood carvings, but the product takes a while to produce and is expensive. I place large product orders once a year. The only way I was able to secure financing was through my family the first few years. Finally, I was able to get a small business loan with a bank and the SBA secured it. Now, with the economy in a recession and homeowners defaulting on their loans, banks don't want to lend unsecured loans even with good credit scores. The key is to stay away from using credit cards and pay down prior loans. Ideally, we should re-invest our profit and not borrow, but when times are lean, we need money to keep going. Also, it may take a few years to pay back a loan and when inventory must be purchased every year you can see the dilemma.


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I have just found a German website that is dedicated to the resurrection of Rave!
Since some time it has become a no-no to use this word, at least in Germany.
The creators of the site want to get back the feeling of that time
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A lot of DJs have already joined in.
The site is in German, but the main content is the Top 10 Rave tracks of these DJs.
Of course including a number of 808 State tracks.
Check them out: http://www.rave-strikes-back.de/
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Another article showing the intersection of economics and culture in raising children
The phenomenon of different ways of raising children according to class more than race status is one that is finally getting the attention it deserves. See this post by former political science professor Laura McKenna in The Atlantic.
My wife and I definitely fit the mold of the upper middle class parents shepherding the children off to various things.
I note too Ms. McKenna's belief that pushing the kids is not good. What is it with the academicians who think we should not push our kids to do well, like Bryan Caplan and some others? Those folks say, "It's mostly in the genes, so why worry about it? They'll find their way--in their own way..."
I think these sorts of academicians conclude this because they live in the bubble of academia. They don't realize how difficult it is for those outside academia to enter and that having the right cultural cues is important from how to study for and excel in testing to college interviews. My children live with someone, me, who is a fish out of water. I belong in an academic environment, and have ingested its values. My wife fits the mold as well of public service, parks and recreation. Thus, we gave our children cultural cues that have led our son to do extremely well in most of his college interviews and national testing (However, on local public school testing, he fought us and ended up with far more Bs than As). Whether the cultural tools of elite academic institutions he "naturally" learned from living in our home will make any difference remains to be seen, and maybe not enough for some schools. We're going to know in about a month as the responses from the colleges arrive.
If we want our children to advance to the best colleges, my advice is not to listen to the "let 'em wander" advice of the academics engaged in pop parental psychology. The answer is closer to, but obviously not completely, the "Tiger Mom." Training our children to think critically, linearly and yet have a deep appreciation for literature, music and art, and to excel in mathematics or science, is an important parental goal. If we don't have it, join the museums where you live and take them there. Let them hear what classical music sounds like. Read a classic novel together.
On the other hand, the one important caveat I tell my children is that if they do not want to succeed in school, then they need to find a way into the business world--mostly through sales. Sales is the last place where credentialing has not completely erected a Great Wall of China. Sales is where being smart, aggressive and effective, again without credentials, can raise you to the executive level. Another way to economic success, though here it is the rare bird that flies through the challenges unscathed, is through entertainment--whether dancing, acting, singing or playing music. We have said these things to our children and told them we will support those endeavors in any way they wish. ADDENDUM: And I forgot one more thing I tell the kids: As Warren Buffett famously said, no matter how much we get into computers and other technologies, we still need plumbers, electricians, and other building trade persons as well as folks who know how to fix a motor vehicle (cars, busses, trains and planes). It is my fervent wish that we would find work for those people in a mass infrastructure rebuilding and redevelopment, as most readers of this blog know.
The key reason that propels me toward this active sort of parenting is that American society is becoming more coarse, more heartless and frankly more insane in its discourse and its policies, whether it is the gibberish of business libertarians (pace Caplan) or the outright hateful, rigidness and anti-intellectualism exemplified in Rick Santorum. We must equip our children to deal with the world of 20 years from now, when we may reach a Balkanization of our society into regions, and the breakup of the United States as we Baby Boomers knew it. To be at the economic elite level of society gives our children true choices, including the choice to leave our fair land if things get too out of hand....
Welcome to Presidents' Day, 2012, or am I really talking about Presidents' Day, 2032? :-)


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The brackets have been revealed for the 2014 Charleston Classic basketball tournament from Nov. 20-23.
The event is held annually at College of Charlestons TD Arena.
South Carolina will be among the eight teams slated to compete for the title. The other seven teams in the Classic are Southern California, Miami (Fla.), Penn State, Charlotte, Cornell, Akron and Drexel.
The first day of games will see USC and Akron play at 12:30 p.m. followed by Miami, Fla. and Drexel (3 p.m.), Penn State and Charlotte (5 p.m.) and South Carolina and Cornell (7:30 p.m).
UMass won last years Classic, beating Clemson in the final.
The Gamecocks will make their second visit to the Charleston Classic. In the 2009 Classic, South Carolina lost to Miami in the championship game, 85-70.
Penn State is also making a return trip to the Classic. The Nittany Lions were 1-2 in 2009.
Tickets are available through the College of Charleston ticket office at (843) 953-2632.
Fans can purchase tickets to all six sessions (12 games) for $100 each, or single-session tickets (two games) for $22 each.
All Classic games will be broadcast on one of ESPNs networks.
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Talking about the attrition rate, its quite high in my school. the attrition rate for my students who were enrolled last year stands at 28% as of now that the program is not yet complete. we intend to carryout a study to account for this rate.
but discrimination of faculty to students is rare. pregnant students are given permission but not a leave per say to take care of their babies immediately postpartum.
its a good area, but female students gossip a lot in my school and sometimes basing your judgement on what you hear can be very misleading.


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I haven't been following this thread much but know how important it is to many of you. For those of you who really don't like to drink water, my dh and I have fallen for Fruit H20 which is flavored water -but it is good. It has no calories, made with splenda, and only 5mg of sodium. It comes in flavors like grape, raspberry, orange, peach, lemon, strawberry..and it doesn't take funny or too sweet. I buy it at BJ's for the best price but most supermarkets sell it. Bottles are 16 oz.I have tried the Disani flavored water but find it too sweet.
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The idea is you have a picture of a face (or any image) and you want to cut it into metal or wood using a CNC tool or paint it on something or carve it into something.
You need some way to turn this really complex picture into a collection of simple shapes without losing the ESSENCE of it.
This time, I want to demonstrate a trick that involves GIMP. GIMP is a free paint program (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Find it here: http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP has a filter that I couldn't find in Photoshop that's kind of cheesy in just the way I need it be.
This time, I'm going to actually cut it out of something just to demonstrate that you can actually do that. The first image on this intro is a piece of 14"x14" matte board laser cut with the image described and then held up against a blue wall.
I made it at Techshop! www.techshop.ws
Step 1: Open Your Image In GIMP
Run GIMP and then open your original photo in it.
Step 2: Focus On The Part You Want
This is an artistic choice, allowing you to focus on the most important part of your picture. Mostly though it's practical; if you do this now, you can focus all your work on something that fits on the screen.
Use image->autocrop to select just the image and cut out the white space. Then use image->scale image to make it larger -- 2000 in it's smallest dimension should be good.
Step 3: Grayscale
It's still a breathtakingly beautiful and complicated image.
I was quite pleased with how this came out.
It was not a supplied filter though.
I basically reproduced what I would have done twenty years ago in a darkroom. I used a line pattern to which I added some blur, this blurred line image was placed over the grey scale image and the two merged. I then used curves to increase the contrast to maximum. In the old days this would have been done using lith film and the blurring of the screen pattern would have been achieved by placing on a sheet of glass above the grey scale negative.
It is a lot easier to do on the computer and fun to experiment with different screens.
You could make tone separations and then use screens at different angles for different parts of the image.
Hmm maybe I should write an instructable on this.
I produced quite a few images like that in the 1980s, but they were done in a darkroom using various halftone screens and lith film.
Doing it on a computer is a lot quicker.
Assuming you have a computer already, doing it on a computer is a lot cheaper, too.
Here are my first attempts, best to view full size or the screening on the images will interact with the monitor screen and produce a moiré pattern.
By the way, I, too, learned about this using a darkroom and halftone screens. I guess that's where the basic idea came from... Everything in technology seems to repeat itself eventually...
First, I'm sorry that I haven't actually cut this out on a laser cutter. I think the technique is useful in a lot of different ways but I also want to do the physical part, too. But there's a lot of interest in this right now so I thought I'd "seize the day" even tho I haven't gotten the last piece. I will, I promise.
Second, this one is very closely related to that one:
Now we have a much broader select of techniques for preparing an image.


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UNM Head Coach Mike Locksley Opening Statement
"I thought overall the atmosphere for this game was great. It was great to see our fans come out and support our players. I thought our players played with great effort for four quarters, which is something that we are going to need to be able to do to be the type of team we want to be.
"When you look at the way this game transpired I thought we played well enough on defense to win the game. Colorado State ran the ball for over 300 yards against us last year and this year we held them to just over 100 yards. I thought we tackled well on defense and I thought we played great team defense. On the kicking game I thought we were much improved and limited the big plays.
"The one side of the ball that I didn't think showed up was the offensive side of the ball. I thought we moved the ball pretty well throughout the course of the game, but we had way too many penalties and obviously when you fumble the ball three times, twice inside your own red zone, you don't give yourself a chance to win.
"That being said, all of those things are correctible for us if this team continues to play with the effort that we played with. When you look at a lot of the mistakes made today, they were made by young players; that is part of the maturation process. Putting the ball over the goal line, missing some signals, a penalty at the end of the game--those are all things that we can get correct. I expect to get it corrected and I expect us to show up on Monday. We are not hanging our heads. We are going to build on some of the positive things that we've done in this game. We are going to find a way to prepare our team for a tough challenge going down to Little Rock."
UNM Players
Sophomore Linebacker Dallas Bollema
On leading the game statistically, but still taking the loss...
"We came out with a good game plan and the coaches prepared us well, but tonight we beat ourselves and that's something we have to fix come Monday."
On team morale...
"It's tough because we were all excited and the momentum was going our way, but we ended up making mistakes at the end and again, we beat ourselves."
On how the defense performed tonight...
"I thought we did well and we were all flying around really well, and the coaches had a good game plan set up for us. We didn't see anything that we weren't prepared for. We were ready for what was coming our way, and hopefully we'll keep doing that for the remainder of the season."
Sophomore Quarterback Tarean Austin
On the last New Mexico fumble...
"I was trying to step up in the pocket and make a big play. I should've tucked the ball sooner."
In the first half you were getting outside a lot and throwing the ball, what did Colorado State do differently in the second half?
"They didn't do anything different and we didn't change the game plan either. We just have to go out there and make plays and execute what the coaches are telling us to do."
On his first game...
"I think I could have done a lot better. In every area and by being a better leader."
On not capitalizing on opportunities...
"We made bad mistakes that set us back and brought us down. It takes both the little things and the big things to fall into place."
On losing a close game and how it affects the outlook for the rest of the season...
"It gives us a lot of hope. The good thing about a loss like this is that we see what we need to work on and we'll work on it. Every day we have to keep getting better. There is no looking back."


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Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan announced Thursday morning gives California's colleges and universities good news for the first time in years.
The CSU and UC systems would each receive an additional $125 million in funding for core instructional programs. It was less than they asked for, but far better than their outlook just a few months ago, before the passage of Propositions 30 and 39 in November. Those measures are expected to raise an additional $6 billion annually for the state. In addition, the two university systems will receive $125 million each next year, as promised, as part of a deal struck with the governor last year, pending the passage of Proposition 30.
The state's community colleges would receive $197 million more in general-purpose funds next year -- money that will allow colleges to restore thousands of classes, said California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris.
"Governor Brown's leadership in passing Proposition 30 means California community colleges can begin to make room for some of the hundreds of thousands of students who have been shut out of our system due to recent funding cuts," Harris said in a news release. "This budget represents a good start toward financial recovery for our system. The governor and voters deserve credit for beginning this overdue reinvestment."