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- Setting up a workspace
- Working with the seven key selection tools
- Using the Color Range command
- Automating masking
- Matching a scene with Smart Filters
- Choosing the ideal base channel
- Converting a channel to a mask
- Painting with the Overlay and Soft Light modes
- Using History to regain a lost mask
- Working with the Calculations command
- Extracting a mask from a Smart Object
- Masking and compositing light
- Masking with black and white
- Working with path outlines
- Combining pixel and vector masks
- Creating and feathering a vector mask
Skill Level Intermediate
All right! So here I am looking at the final version of the nameplate and you can see that it's created using a combination of the nameplate and boot channels. So I essentially converted the nameplate channel to a selection and then subtracted the boot away from it. And I'm going to show you exactly how that works in this exercise. I've saved my progress as Completed boot mask.psd. I'm going to zoom out by pressing Ctrl+ 0 or Command+0 on the Mac and then click on the RGB image to make it active. Because I was viewing the boot channel by itself, that went ahead and deactivated the channel as well as turning it off.
Now I'll switch over to the Layers panel and we don't need that adjustment layer anymore. It's definitely not contributing anything positive to the overall composition. So I'm just going to select it and press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac in order to get rid of it. Next, I'm going to create a new layer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N or Command+Shift+N on the Mac and I'll call the layer nameplate and click OK. Now let's go ahead and load up the nameplate selection by switching back to the Channels panel and Ctrl+Clicking or Command+ Clicking on the Mac on that nameplate channel. Now we need to go ahead and subtract the boot away from the selection and there is a couple of different ways to accomplish that.
One way is fairly obvious, but a little bit tedious as well. The other is more convenient in my opinion. However, it requires some keyboard tricks that you'll need to memorize. So we'll start with the more obvious one. Go up to the Select menu and choose Load Selection, and that brings up the Load Selection dialog box. And then you want to make sure the Document option is set to your foreground image. And change Channel from nameplate Transparency, which is, by the way, what's known as the Transparency Mask that's associated with the nameplate layer.
So that would go ahead and trace the selection outline around the portions of the layer that are opaque. And because in our case the entire layer is transparent, that would deselect the image. The other option is to select one of the alpha channels. In my case, I'm going to select boot. Now notice we have these operations down here. If you leave the Operation set to New Selection, then you will just go ahead and trace the selection outline around the boot and deselect the nameplate area. However, you also have the option of adding the selections together, subtracting the new selection from the existing one, or finding the intersection of the two selections.
Obviously, what we want to do is select the Subtract from Selection option and then click OK. And now we've managed to subtract the boot away from the nameplate. And you know what, I'm going to zoom in a little bit so we have a better sense of what's going on here, go ahead and scroll down as well. All right! So that's one way to work. Choose the command, walk your way through the dialog box. Here's another way. I'm going to go ahead and press Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac to deselect the image so we can start over here. Inside the Channels panel, Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on the nameplate channel in order to convert it to a selection.
Once you've established that selection, we have the following keyboard tricks to choose from. Move your cursor down to the boot layer. If you Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on it, then you're going to replace the nameplate selection with the boot selection instead. Go ahead and press Ctrl+Z or Command +Z on the Mac to undo that change. If you press the Ctrl and Shift keys; that would be Command and Shift on the Mac, notice that your cursor gets a little plus sign in front of it. And if you then click, you will add the boot to the nameplate selection.
We don't want that either, so press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac to undo that modification. Now I'll try this one. If you press the Ctrl and Alt keys; that's the Command and Option keys on the Mac, then you'll get a little minus sign inside your cursor. Click and you go ahead and subtract the boot from the nameplate which is exactly what we want. However, I'm going to take a moment to show you one final trick that's available to you. So I'll press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac to undo that modification and I'll press and hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt all at the same.
That would be Command+Shift+ Option all at the same time on the Mac. You'll see that you get a little x inside your cursor, go ahead and click, and that will find the intersection of the nameplate selection and the boot selection. And you'll just select this kind of negative D space inside the boot. All right! So I'll press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac to undo that change. What we want is WIKKED minus boot, so you would Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on the nameplate channel and then Ctrl+Alt +Click or Command+Option+Click on the boot channel and that gives you exactly the result we're looking for. All right! So you decide which way you want to work.
You can work with the Load Selection command or those keyboard shortcuts. I'll continue to document those as we work our way through the course. In the meantime, let's go ahead and switch back to Layers panel, confirm that the nameplate layer is active, and press the D key just to make sure that the foreground color is black, and press Alt +Backspace or Option+Delete on the Mac in order to fill the selection with black. And now I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+ D or Command+D on the Mac in order to deselect that image. What we've done is we've established the pixels that need to be opaque on this layer by filling them with black.
In the next exercise, we'll replace those pixels with a gradient by locking down the transparency.


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Definición de low-pitched en inglés:
1(Of a sound) deep or relatively quiet: the fin whale uses a low-pitched call
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- Our evolutionary fear of certain sounds, such as low-pitched sounds indicating aggression or high-pitched screeches indicating alarm-calls, has been with us for thousands of years.
- They point to research showing that manatees cannot hear the low-pitched sound of slow-moving boats and thus avoid approaching vessels.
- One was a high-pitched sound that resembled a doorbell while the other was a low-pitched sound that gradually increased in pitch.
2(Of a roof) having only a slight slope.
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A new year has begun, the holidays are behind us, and hopefully many of you received the console of your choice as a gift. Whether it be an Xbox One, Wii U, PS4 or even a last generation console. Maybe you even received a gaming PC or built one yourself. Either way, 2014 brings with it the promise of more gaming and entertainment no matter what platform you choose.
So with a new year upon us and a lot of incredible games coming our way, what is your New Year's gaming resolution for 2014? How are you planning on spending the next year as a gamer? Below are some of my New Year's gaming resolutions. I'm sure some of them will be the same as yours and hopefully they'll be realized in this year.
1. Play more video games
This should be the number one New Year's gaming resolution for everyone. The reason being is the more video games we buy and play, the healthier the industry will be. I myself have been guilty of playing less and less video games in the past few years for a couple of reasons.
Less money to buy all the games I wanted
With a new baby at the time, all my money went to her. Not to mention I owned multiple systems for gaming. PC, 360, PS3, handhelds, and more. That's a lot of games to buy in order to support each system. Gamefly became my good friend at this point.
Less time to play video games
That whole baby thing played a big part. At one point, sleep became more important to me than playing video games. Plus I was going to college at the time as well.
I was really burnt out on last-gen
This was a major factor for me in not playing as many video games as I'd like. For one, the last few years of the previous console generation was not pleasant. We kept getting yearly iterations of the same franchises. Motion gaming became the focus of the industry. And the console hardware was showing its age.
I had my last-gen consoles since coming back from Iraq in 2006. That's a long time to own gaming hardware. I was ready for something new by the time 2011 was ending. Luckily I had my gaming laptop and could experience better versions of multiplatform games like Bioshock Infinite, Devil May Cry, Tomb Raider, and Skyrim.
A lack of quality RPG's
Toward the end of the last generation console lifecycle we saw far more shooters and motion gaming shovelware and far less quality RPG's. For the longest I was hoping for a Lost Odyssey sequel last generation. I really enjoyed the first Mass Effect because it was more RPG than shooter compared to the sequels. Tales of Vesperia was great and I loved Final Fantasy 13. Skyrim was incredible and Fallout 3 was a lot of fun.
Still, it seemed that RPG's were not very much in demand and that developers weren't profiting from them like the good old days. The past few E3's I'd sit in anticipation hoping that RPG's would make their triumphant return. Unfortunately, it was a show full of shooters, sequels of sequels and motion controls.
The problem was that towards the end of the Xbox 360 and PS3's lifecycles, RPG's became far and few. I love RPG's and games like Darksiders 2 and Borderlands 2 helped to keep me going. But traditional role playing games like Lost Odyssey were sorely missing.
I know many of you have your reasons for not playing as many video games as you wish you could. And many of you did have the opportunity to play a lot of video games in the past few years. But I learned that as you get older, get married, have kids, earn a degree, have a job, start traveling, and whatever else it is that occupies your time, video games fall further down the priority list.
2014 promises to take us to places that exceed our imagination. It will provide us with adventures, gameplay, and graphics that make our gaming souls feel reinvigorated again with games such as:
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Destiny
- The Order: 1886
- Tom Clancy's The Division
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- EverQuest Next
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
All the games mentioned above will deliver incredible experiences. The great thing is that the majority of them are role playing games and MMO's. RPG's and MMO's will take a considerable amount of time to complete and will offer us deeper gameplay, captivating stories, open-world exploration, and none of them are yearly iterations! What a breath of fresh air.
The Elder Scrolls Online, which is promising new content every four to six weeks after launch, will require you to have a regular gaming schedule to keep up with everything. Bungie's Destiny is set to be a 10 year project so you can imagine how much time you'll be sinking into the Destiny franchise.
These are games that you'll be heavily invested in and will be quality RPG's delivered at the beginning of the new consoles' lifecycle! Who would have thought?
My New Year's gaming resolution is to play as many of these games as possible. Since I'm running a gaming website I'm hoping to have the luxury of mixing work with pleasure. And since the little one will be going off to school soon, that leaves more free time to play.
2. Try social media with gaming
I hate social media. Twitter and Facebook are worthless to me. I do enjoy chatting with people on Google Plus as the community on there is more about conversation and less about posting worthless dribble.
So imagine how I felt when the new consoles were implementing social media aspects in gaming even more so than last generation.
I do enjoy maintaining my website fan pages. I was happy when the What is PlayStation 4 Facebook Fan Page crossed 1,000 likes.
And FYI, none of the +1's, Likes or Twitter Followers on this site are fake/purchased. I know it's a temptation for a lot of website owners to pad their social media numbers with fake followers. But it looks weird when you have 100,000 twitter followers, 1,000,000,000,000 Facebook Likes and only 2 Google Plus followers.
One of the best ways to tell if a website padded their social media numbers is to look at the engagement on their website. It's very suspicious when a gaming website has 10,000 Facebook and Twitter followers and none of their content pages has any Likes. And there is little to no comments on their pages. And nobody on Twitter retweets their content. Just a simple observation like this is all it takes.
A lot of companies and individuals pad their social numbers to get readers like you to want to follow them because their numbers are so large. I makes since because you're more inclined to follow IGN than my website because they have a huge social media presence, receive a ton of comments, and a lot of followers.
So what does a small website like mine do? Purchase a lot of Twitter and Facebook followers and display it for all to see. Instead of my Twitter counter showing 4 followers, it says 22,000. And visitors will see that impressive number and want to join just out of impulse.
So with all that in mind, and the new consoles upping the Friends limit, will social media begin to matter even more in the new generation? Will people start padding their Xbox One and PS4 Friends list or pay to have their Achievements/Trophies boosted? Will gaming social media fall victim to the same fate as regular social sites?
The marrying of social media and gaming is strengthening and we're only seeing a glimpse. Will it be a good or bad marriage? Nobody knows yet. But Twitch could be a strong indicator.
Look at how successful Twitch became with the PS4's launch. But some of the popular videos that made headlines were nothing special. One couple fell asleep on Twitch while live streaming, a guy demonstrated that he could play with virtual robots on the floor, and a husband undressed his wife when she was passed out.
The last situation I read about because the Huffington Post linked to my PlayRoom article. I followed the link in my Google Webmaster Tools to the article about the couple on Twitch that got drunk, the wife passed out and the husband undressed her while streaming live.
So this is what social media is going to be about with gaming? The same lame social media junk we already get? Am I going to find Twitch is full of people masturbating every time I jump into a live stream (Think South Park, Season 14, Ep. 4 "You have 0 friends" )? Am I going to start receiving Friends request from my Great Aunt wanting help with setting up Kinect? Are people going to message me what they are eating at the moment with an attached picture to show? Will I get a ton of Selfies? How about a bunch of inspirational quotes in my PS4 or Xbox One activity feed?
No, of course not. At least I hope not. At least Twitch has been really good so far on PS4. I love watching other gamers' clips from Upload Studio on my Xbox One. I've heard nothing but good things regarding Miiverse. And surprisingly, all the social media features on the new consoles kind of take a back seat to everything else.
I do like that I can see my friends' activities on my Xbox One and PS4. I love racing against other people's Drivatars. I've been frequently messaging with someone named bromm98 on PS4 ever since I got the day one PS4. I have no idea who he is! But we talk gaming and Destiny and it's very enjoyable.
So I'm thinking that as time goes on and games like Destiny and The Division release, I'll be more inclined to use social media features on Xbox One and PS4. It's obvious that throughout this year both consoles will continually evolve their online services. I think streaming raids from Destiny and gameplay from The Witcher 3 will be something I'd like to do.
Since my New Year's gaming resolution is to try social media with gaming, I might start posting videos to Facebook and YouTube and gameplay screenshots to Twitter. You never know.
3. Own more video game consoles
This is a New Year's gaming resolution that I'd like to work on. I currently own a PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, and an Alienware gaming laptop. As of right now there are two video game systems I'd like to purchase.
The first being the Wii U. I'm very interested in playing Super Mario 3D World, the new Smash Bros., Zelda Wind Waker, and other Nintendo exclusives.
The other game system I'd like to own is the Nintendo 3DS. I'm not a big Nintendo fan but from what I've been seeing from around the web, the 3DS has accumulated a very good gaming library. By owning the 3DS and the Wii U this year, I'd be able to make my first resolution of playing more games a reality.
One of the other consoles I'd like to purchase would be the Steam Box. Valve's Steam Machines have me highly intrigued because they seem to bridge the gap between having the convenience of a console with the flexibility and power of a PC right in your living room.
4. Collect more games
The last few years I found myself trading all my games in to GameStop in order to purchase more games. The problem was that at some point in time I would get the urge to play a game I traded in. This happened a lot. As part of my New Year's Resolution for gaming, I'd like to collect more physical games. You know, build up a decent game library for this generation. As long as I can afford to buy games, I'll have no need to trade them in.
I'd like to be able to hold on to the games that matter the most. Even though I won't be playing them, I'll at least have the option to have them readily available if I get that desire to revisit them again.
5. Build up a large digital library of video games
Downloading video games to my PS4 and Xbox One is great. I love that games are available as a digital download when they release. It's extremely convenient and not having to change out discs to play games is fantastic.
I've already started building up my digital library of video games. To me, Steam is such a great service and having my games in a digital format works out for the better. So having the opportunity to do the same with my PS4 and Xbox One games makes the new generation that much more convenient.
So how could I build up my digital library of video games and collect physical games as well? I'm not trying to be a video game collector. I'd just like to retain any physical copies I buy instead of trading them in all the time.
If I build up a decent collection of physical games then so be it. But I'm not collecting them as a hobby. I just want to have them at the ready when they are needed. And my digital library will consist of a lot of indie titles that you can't buy as a physical copy.
I'm not interested in buying a digital and physical copy of the same game just to have both versions either. In some situations I might get a physical copy of a collector's edition for a video game. That's something I'd like to hold on to. If I'm not in the mood to drive to GameStop or have the patience for my games to be delivered through Amazon, then I'll just download the game. It's always great to have options.
6. Finish more video games
A lot of times we all get bored with games and never finish them. Less than 30% of gamers that played GTA 4 have finished it. Red Dead Redemption had only 10% of gamers who played it finish the final mission. No matter the numbers and statistics it's quite clear that with a lot of really good games, there is a large amount of people who don't finish the games.
I'm very guilty of this. Tales of Vesperia was one of my favorite role playing games last generation. I got to the last boss and never finished the game. I don't remember why but I know that I somehow got sidetracked and so much time had passed that I didn't want to play through the game again when I came back to it. I played Red Dead Redemption and liked it a lot. Didn't even come close to finishing it. GTA 4? Played many hours of it. Didn't finish it.
It seems that unless the game is absolutely incredible to me, I won't finish it. The first Mass Effect I finished 3 times. Batman Arkham Asylum I beat twice. Completed Lost Odyssey and loved it. Beat God of War 3 a couple of times. Finished Final Fantasy 13, Borderlands, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, Halo 4, beat Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 more than once, Uncharted 1 & 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, and many other games.
One of the problems I had was that newer games I wanted to play would come out and I would slowly drift away from my current game and not want to return. I would just go from game to game never completing them and would only return to games I really wanted to beat badly enough. Some games I would just finish because I could not stop playing them. At other times there would be a games drought and I would find myself returning to games I previously didn't finish and I would complete them.
In many of these situations the problem was no matter how good the game was, I would get bored of playing it. And when last-gen console fatigue had set in, it was really hard for me to care about playing the games when my gaming Laptop had games that looked and played so much better.
With a lot of quality games releasing in 2014, I really want to finish the majority of them. I've played a bunch of MMO's in my time and not once…ever have I done an end game raid. I played DC Universe Online on PS3 to level cap. Never did a raid! This year, with EQ Next, Elder Scrolls Online, and especially Destiny, I want to do raids.
So far with the current generation, the only games I've finished is Ryse, Peggle 2 and Resogun. At least it's a start.
7. Buy more gaming accessories
The only accessory I bought last generation was a rechargeable battery kit for my 360 controller and an adapter to use the 360 controller with my PC. I see all these gaming accessories that people use to enhance their experience and I ask myself Why not me too? Well, money is always a factor. And paying $100+ for a gaming headset I'd barely use back then wasn't my idea of enhancing my gaming experience.
What I would like to own is a racing wheel for Forza 5. I've always played all Forza games with a controller and would see comments on the web about how great it was to use the racing wheel accessory. I want to make 2014 the year that I get one. As well as a high quality gaming headset. And when a game like Star Citizen comes out, I'd like to play it with a flight simulation controller instead of mouse and keyboard.
Another thing I'd like to add is a comfortable gaming chair. I've never really been a gaming accessory person but I know that game accessories for PC, PS4, and Xbox one would greatly add to the overall gaming experience. This is something that I think I would really enjoy. Just having a great gaming setup for both consoles and PC could make a world of difference.
8. Give the new Kinect a second chance
The first Kinect was pretty much trash. I bought it, tried it for a while, and came to the conclusion that the only real purpose it served was for video chatting with people. With the new Kinect for the Xbox One, I can honestly say it's much better. Will I use it for gaming? No, not at this point. I have no interest to use it for gaming.
Where I will give it a chance is for the voice commands to navigate menus, Skype video chat, and fitness software.
I was really happy to see that a couple of P90X workouts were included in Xbox Fitness. I think that the Kinect and PS4 Eye could provide an enhanced experience when it comes to fitness.
My non-gaming New Year's resolution is to continue working out and getting into the best shape of my life before summer. If Kinect can contribute to that, then I'm willing to give it another chance. Who knows, maybe it'll become a much more useful addition to the living room than last generation.


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.: Past Productions
El Camino's most popular show had record attendance and racked up awards. Awards were: McKenzie Kruse – Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Rachel Dillon – Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Cast of Legally Blonde – Best Ensemble. Nominations included: Martin Ortiz – Lead Actor in a Musical, Reden Magtira – Supporting Actor in a Musical, Saika Pitre – Supporting Actress in a Musical, Kaitlyn Halseth – Featured Actress in a Musical, Lacey Phelps and Marci Francis – Lighting Design. More pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
was a celebrated show for both actors and guest alumni Directors Laurel Burns and Bryce Nicastro. Receiving National Youth Theatre Awards were: Reden Magtira for Lead Actor in a musical and Kaitlyn Halseth as Best Supporting Actress in a musical. Nominations included: Colt Apodoca as Supporting Actor, Martin Ortiz as Supporting Actor, Jessica Michaels as Supporting Actress, Anton Maroun as Featured Actor, Cast of Forum – Best Ensemble. Allyson Francis and Leilani and Hana Mauga – Costume Design, Sharon Strong and Laurel Burns – Best Direction.
Obtaining the rights to the newly-released "Hairspray" for our 2011 spring musical was a big coup and El Camino Drama rose to the demands of this show with high-octane energy. Cast members garnered over 5 National Youth Theatre Nominations and Senior David Eseroma broke the mold with his portrayal of "Edna" receiving an "Outstanding Best Actor in a Musical" National Youth Theatre Award. Other nominees included: Outstanding Best Supporting Actress in a Musical: McKensie Kruse, Helena Marie-Woods, Diane Dumpit; Outstanding Best Supporting Male in a Musical - Colt Apodoca, and Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical - El Camino Cast of Hairspray. More pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
El Camino High School's musical extravaganza, "The Wiz" won top honors in five categories at the National Youth Theatre Awards June 2009 for Best Direction-Sharon Strong, Best Actress in a Musical - Kim Moore, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - Preston Butler, Best Ensemble - The Wiz cast, Best Costume Design - Renetta Lloyd and Janie Newsom. Choreographer Jake Tidwell was also nominated for Best Choreography. Over 1300 productions from across the United States were reviewed with award ceremonies held inCalifornia, Arizona, and New York. More pictures: 1, 2, 3
The musical Urinetown 2008 was an El Camino all-time favorite. The show garnered 4 National Youth Theatre Awards for Best Actress; Makenzie Daris, Best Supporting Actor; Kevin Cleary, Best Supporting Actress; Laurel Burns; and Best Ensemble; Urinetown Cast. More pictures: 1, 2, 3
In the Spring of 2010, El Camino put on, All Shook Up and this show still has the cast and crew singing and dancing as they prepare for the Edinburgh Scotland Theatre Festival Summer of 2011. Helena Marie Woods won Best Actress and the cast won Best Ensemble at the National Youth Theatre Awards. Additional NYT nominations included: Best Actor - Wayne Higgs, Best Supporting Actresses - Kim Moore and Shelby Caughron, Best Choreography - Kim Moore and Demi Boyd. More pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sharon celebrates 29 years in the Oceanside Unified School District and is excited to be at El Camino where she first began her teaching career under the tutelage of Speech and Drama legends Cliff Roach and Marvin Read. Prior to her return to El Camino, Sharon served for 16 years as the Speech and Drama Chairperson at Oceanside High School where she coached over 200 students to State and National finals garnering over 10 state championships in various events. Sharon was honored with the Double Diamond Award from the National Forensic League for her dedication to extra-curricular work. Sharon holds a MA in Curriculum Design from UCSD using drama, speech and video activities across the content area.
Sharon is ecstatic that her senior leadership with Lily Boyd, Jasmine Torres, and Andrew Bandares has accepted this challenge of directing the spring production. She sees her biggest reward as watching her students pass the torch of theatre to others.
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Lilian A Boyd is a senior at El Camino and is honored to be finishing her high school career by directing her first show! The co president of EC's drama department, she has participated as an actor in 5 shows at the Truax and was assistant director and costumer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Favorite acting credits include Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Roxanne in Sequitor, and Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, and she has worked backstage at New Village Arts and Moonlight Amphitheater.
She would like to give a huge thanks to Mrs. Strong, Ms. Noble, and Matt for helping her grow as a performer and a director, and to Mom, Dad, Mali, and Grammie for their love and support, as well as her fellow directors and dream team members Jasmine and Andrew with whom she couldn't survive without. Finally, she thanks the entire cast and crew for creating something beautiful and hilarious with her. Enjoy the show!
This is Jasmine's seventh and final performance to grace the Truax stage. Some of her favorite acting credits include D.A. Joyce Riley in Legally Blonde, The Ugly Showgirl in The Producers, Mrs. Butz in Avenue Q, and Patricia Martin in Little Shop of Horrors.
First, she would like to thank Mrs. Strong, Ms. Noble, and Matthew Gherna for helping her blossom as an actor and person. Second, Jasmine would like to thank her enormous fan base (her mother, father, and sister) for supporting her and keeping the paparazzi behind the ropes. She would also like to give a shout out to her dream team and fellow directors Andrew and Lily for keeping her sane through her high school career.
Last but not least, she would like to thank the cast and crew for their huge effort in making this student led production one for the books.
This is Andrews senior year, and he is very proud to be able to finish his high school career by playing Ivan Hlestakov. He's excited to be in his 4th play at the truax theatre and hopes to move on and continue acting.
This has been an amazing run for his high school career and knows it'll be one to remember! He would like to thank his friends, his directing dream team, and loved ones for all the support they give him. Enjoy the show!
"Wow I love Andrew, he's so talented and funny"-Everyone


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The impact of negative social sentiment
If you haven't, please play the video below, then begin reading this post!
Having sought redress through the airline via normal channels David decided to release his frustration in social media. More details of the background of this story are all over the web if you need more information. The question is the real impact of this form of negative sentiment. It costs the enterprise a LOT of money. Some estimates suggest that the impact on United Airlines of Mr Carroll's social-complaint cost the airline as much as 10% of its stock {$180 Million US Dollars}. The video went 'viral' reaching over 10 million viewers in just a couple of months. Indeed, it had reached 150,000 people within 4 days of posting!
The enterprise contact centre is in the perfect place to watch for, intercept and offer immediate redress for negative customer sentiment. Companies do not have to offer incredible redress to complaint, but it is important that they offer the complainant an immediate and effective response. As likely as the complainant is to broadcast their complaint to their 'followers' and 'friends' they are just as likely to re-broadcast the enterprise redress with a 'positive' tone.
As an academic exercise, as I post this update, I did a quick search on a popular social-media engine; Twitter. I looked for signs of negative sentiment about organizations; and the fray of sentiment was profound. Here are just a few as examples. I can only hope and trust that the enterprises affected are doing something about this! [Please note, the thoughts and observations posted next are those of the original authors and not my own or those of my company and I have xxx'd out the names of original authors and target companies]…
xxx xxx bad customer service in Cebu for Laptop. @xxx @xxx
xxx Is xxx twitter as bad as the rest of their customer service sectors?
xxx I made the unfortunate mistake of buying a xxx product and have found their customer service to be unbelievably bad!
xxx Airlines – Very Bad customer service: I called earlier and a rep. was so rude an I asked to speak to manager…
xxx Chinese owner of a Lamborghini Gallardo destroys it in front of the public. This is due to the frustration with the bad customer service
There were hundreds of these sentiments across a wide range of industries. On some occasions I saw immediate attempts by the affected company to offer redress. For example…
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As an experiment, I wanted to find out how long it takes for the web-engines to see negative sentiment, cache it, build a search profile for it, and make it available to the search engines. My method was to post a tweet and a facebook wall message for this article, and at the same time monitor how long it takes for the search engines to come and 'sniff out' the new content in real-time. How long do you think it takes?
First I need to publish this article. The publication date and time is stored with the article. Published at March 18th 2011 at 08:50am UK time.
Now I'll have a look at what's happening on our web site. We have live analytics and monitoring; so I'll use that to see whats happening….
As you can see, the server itself is running a web triggered cron job, and the Amazon web crawler is already sniffing out the new article. It just so happens that Google's crawler (Spider) was also on the blog, but was finishing its previous crawl.
Now I'm going to do a post to my favorite social-media sites about this content…
Doing this in real-time is a bit of a challenge…..I'm trying to update this post, then take screenshots, monitor the web server, and the post to social-media, take more screenshots, and do this in real-time. I posted the link to Facebook and Twitter at 09:05am….then immediately had a look at what happening at the website….(please note; all bots, robots, crawlers are on THIS page that you are now reading!!)
What are the first things I notice?
Firstly the site gets hit IMMEDIATELY by the range of popular search engines, crawlers, robots etc. They immediately take their snapshots of the content; not because I published something on the site, but because I posted about the content or the media on the social-networks..!
Look who arrived? Bing, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Inktomi, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google…..all of them immediately and definitely taking a snapshot of the updated content.
The purpose of this article is to highlight the way the engines work, and how the impact of what the enterprises customer say about them is IMMEDIATELY distributed GLOBALLY!
For arguments sake, I have, say, 50 followers on Twitter. They follow me for some reason (never mind what that might be!)…and they each have 50 followers.
If I post a tweet that they each retweet then my sentiment will reach 50×50=2500 people IMMEDIATELY. Let's assume that each of the followers followers retweets, then you have 50×2500=125,000 people who know exactly what I've just said!
Anana offers 'sentiment management' as part of our solution portfolio with the Genesys Customer Interaction Management Platform. This allows our call centre clients and customers to include the ability to listen, carefully, and in real-time to references to their company being made on social-media. This listening is for 'positive' as well as 'negative' sentiment. Positive sentiment is re-inforced and redistributed, and negative sentiment is redressed.
The modern contact centre is beginning the process of evolving from voice only interactions (conversations) into one where chat, co-browse, email, SMS form part of the 'interaction' suite that the Customer Service Representative manages. Perhaps not all media at the same time, but with appropriate training and skills distribution it is possible to have the agents working on voice (real-time) for a while, then rotate to doing near real-time channels with Instant Messaging, Chat, Co-Browse and Social-Sentiment monitoring. This affords the CSR a break from the rigour of a single channel of communications, stops them becoming bored, laboured or stale.
If the enterprise is going to offer social-sentiment monitoring then the redress needs to be effective. I have personally (see my posts about my experience trying to get my landline service moved!!) witnessed social sentiment management being used against a negative post I put on social-media. The redress sounded great; but there was nothing behind it. Indeed, the social sentiment redress suggested that I put together a really detailed email of my problem, citing all details, my customer reference number, the order number and send it to the Customer Care team for action. My effort (Customer Effort Score) to do that was HIGH, and when I did it I didn't get a response until a week later! Useless! So, if you are going to do this stuff; then please do it right or don't do it at all!
The bottom line. The Enterprise needs to think very carefully about social-media; not just as a channel for SALES and ENGAGEMENT, but as a key paradigm in managing the customer interaction cycle. When things go bad, the impact is INSTANT. The engines know about what is being said about you, or your product INSTANTLY. That makes social-media a REAL-TIME interaction channel; well, okay, perhaps not; but the impact on business is REAL, it is COSTLY, and it can be handled effectively with the right tools!


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anand is in that list?
fischer isn't??
sorry what?
Fischer and Anand are both in my list.
So why would you think he's referring to yours, not the OP?
Kasparov is the best chess player of all time but if you make this list who is top tactical player then i give you the list below.
1- Mikhail Tal (If you do not agree with me just watchinng his game.He is a real chess magician)
2- Paul Morphy (He is a legend of tactics mosly in italian line)
3- Garry Kasparov (He has No real weakness in chess)
4-Alexandar Alekhine (Probably Kasparov most influenced by Alekhine)
5-Bobby Fiscer (His theory in chess was sac sac sac and mate [LOL] )
If you do not agree with me then tell me a reasonable cause.
Thanks all.
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It's interesting that none of those players are active today.
"5-Bobby Fiscer (His theory in chess was sac sac sac and mate [LOL] "
This is just flat out wrong. Fischer was a charter member of the Pawnsnatcher's Anonymous club. He routinely grabbed his opponent's sacs and held on to win. One of his most famous lines, the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn variation, is an excellent example of his chess philosophy, at least as Black. Grab material, hang on to the endgame, and win. His chess philosophy as White was a bit different: he adhered to classical principles as White and often won in the style of Capa rather than the style of Alekhin or Kasparov.
But today's top players are more tactical than most of those players on the list. Caruana, Aronian, Topalov, and Nakamura all relish complex tactical battles and can work out deep calculations at least as well as Tal, perhaps even better than Tal! That's not blasphemy. Among his contemporaries, Keres and Bronstein may have been better at tactics than Tal was. Tal's tactical vision was good, but what set him apart was his imagination.
Fischer, Morphy, Kasparov, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal, Anand, Paul Keres, Lasker.
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Within a short walk of Museum of Military History, Wyndham Cypress Palms is within 2 miles (3 km) of Fun Spot America. This 366-room, 3.5-star condo resort welcomes guests with 2 outdoor pools and conveniences like a 24-hour fitness center and free in-room WiFi. In central Kissimmee, the condo resort is also close to Downtown Disney® area and Old Town.
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i've read here at this site that 3 times per week is "optimal" and more then that would be diminishing returns. ...
Really? Do you have a cite for that (perhaps, since "optimal" is in quotes)? I've heard people say that 3 times a week is enough to make steady progress, not that it's "optimal".
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maybe so, but even if you're talented you'll need to practice your cello or aikido or whatever more than 3 or four times per week if you want to be good enough to have "jam" sessions with semi-pros, so to speak.
Right, but is that a good analogy? People don't get hurt playing the cello, and if a rank amateur cello player should misrepresent her skill level and get into a performance of the London Symphony Orchestra, she's not going to end up in the hospital as a consequence. And what's the analog in martial arts terms of having a jam session with a semi-pro? Getting into a bar fight?
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Okinawan farmers practiced Kare-Te 2 hours a day everyday, after a full day at their farm, I have read and heard.
I doubt that the average Okinawan farmer practiced anything but farming and sleeping for two hours a day every day.
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train as much as you can, stop counting, and make sure you have ample time for spouse, family, career, and basic play time.
I think that's good advice; however, considerations of spouse, family, career and basic play time doesn't leave a great deal of time left over. For most of us who are not rich and can't afford a maid to do all the cooking and cleaning, a handyman to fix everything that breaks around the house, and a nanny to look after the children, normal people in normal situations where we cannot simply dump off our responsibilities onto others, two hours a day every day is simply not feasible.
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Apple planning third campus after 'spaceship' is finished in 2015Rapid growth at Apple has the company already planning for a third corporate campus after it finishes work on its second, circular "spaceship" facility in Cupertino, Calif., by 2015.
Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong said an interview with the Mercury News that Apple executives told him the company is expanding so fast, they expect to begin working on a third campus after work is completed on their second in 2015. The new campus would reportedly be at a currently unknown location.
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The Summoning is the Halloween party to be at in Modesto. It features a $1,000 sexiest costume contest, $1,000 most creative costume contest, and over a dozen Halloween themed party rooms including:
Area 52(09) where you don your tin foil hats and party with the women in black. Be careful though, there are many aliens in this area and you might find yourself probed.
You can get your grub on at the Texas Chainsaw BBQ. Yes you can get a burger here, but trust me, it's a restaurant experience you will consider yourself lucky to survive!
You won't want to miss the Monster Wrestling: Frankenstein vs. the Vampire, Freddy vs. Jason, it's a horror celebrity death match and you'll have a front row seat.
Other areas include the Church of Catfish, the Zombie Prom, The Hellraiser stage featuring some of the area's best metal bands, Elvira's Macabre Theater featuring the gender illusionists from the Tiki, The 27 Club featuring DJ conjuring spirits from the dead, Chucky's Playhouse of Halloween games, The Pet Sematary dance club, Dia De Los Muertos, and Ghostbusters.
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11:05pm | Tony Martian
11:35pm | Tino
11:55pm | Halloween Hip-Hop Countdown Cypher feat. All Stage Artists
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Definición de self-possessed en inglés:
Calm, confident, and in control of one's feelings; composed.
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assured, self-assured, calm, cool, {cool, calm, and collected}, composed, at ease, tranquil, serene, unperturbed, unruffled, impassive, nonchalant, confident, self-confident, sure of oneself, poised, dignified, equable, imperturbable, suave, urbane, elegant
informal together, unfazed, unflappable
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To prevent RAM fragmentation, the daemon uses a slab allocator [6] for memory management. This method specializes in repeatedly reserving and releasing small chunks of memory. In the case of memcached, small means a maximum of 1MB; the daemon will not accept anything bigger than this. If you want to store more, you need to distribute the data over multiple keys or use a different caching system.
Memcached does not concern itself with security. Clients do not need to authenticate against the daemon. Anybody who can access the network can access the cache without reserve. An attacker who knows the usernames behind the keys can systematically ask all the daemons for these names. Cryptic keys can help provide some rudimentary protection. To generate them, you need to hash the usernames in the scope of your own application and then use the results as keys. All account data should be deleted from the cache after use. Also, it is a good idea to define a limited lifetime for the data and to add more layers of security, starting with a firewall to protect the server farm against outside attacks.
Memcached is easy to set up and integrate with existing applications, but this convenience comes at the price of a number of worrisome vulnerabilities. If you manage to address these issues, you get a very fast, distributed cache that will not fail you – even in extreme conditions. The system demonstrates its value day after day on LiveJournal and Slashdot. At the same time, the system is extremely frugal. Because memcached mainly generates hashes, CPU power is not at a premium, and you can even use older computers as cache providers.
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- (By the way, Horton doesn't appear to have any elephant friends. We see a giraffe, a hippo with a squirrel on its back, a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch, and in true Seussian form, various animals we can't clearly identify.)
- Horton's position just makes their day. They're total bullies, and they can't stop laughing and teasing him.
- The peanut gallery runs off down the hill, dying of laughter.
- Playing would sure be nice, poor isolated Horton admits to himself.
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Clay A. Duke spray painted "V for Vendetta" before opening fire.
Shortly after 8 p.m., the biweekly school board meeting commenced in the district's Nelson Building. Present were school board members, as well as observers seated in the small gallery. For more than 30 minutes, the usual litany of educational concerns were raised and discussed.
Suddenly, a man stood up and declared that he had a motion. Drawing a can of red spray paint from his coat pocket, he sprayed a large circle on the white wall, then rendered a "V" within its borders.
Bewildered onlookers weren't quite sure what to make of the crimson symbol. They hadn't read writer Alan Moore's graphic novel "V for Vendetta" or seen the 2006 movie of the same name. So Clay A. Duke clarified the matter. Then he began to explain the reasons for his actions.
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Duke's wife had worked at an elementary school in the Bay County School District prior to being laid off several months before. Now, out of money, out of benefits, and out of patience, Duke was determined to make his grievances known.
Turning from his crimson artwork, Duke drew a .45 caliber pistol from his pocket. Using the gun as a pointer, Duke indicated two women among the staff and said, "You may leave." He then directed those in the gallery to do likewise.
At the sight of the man with the gun, word spread quickly throughout the building, reaching Mike Jones, chief of safety, security, and police for Bay District Schools, who was in his fourth floor office. Running downstairs, Jones, who had retired after a career with the Panama City Police Department, arrived to find Duke casually swinging the barrel of his gun back and forth at the men assembled frozen before him.
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"The record of 1899-1900, however, would not be complete without some reference to poor Tom Bradshaw, who came from Spurs with Joyce. How well I remember that match with Queens Park Rangers during the Christmas holidays, when Joyce brought over the sad message to the Memorial Grounds that our comrade had passed away. Poor Tom was one of the cleverest wing forwards I have ever known and he was immensely popular with everybody."
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Home > Press > JPK boosts its position in Molecular Analytics with complete takeover of nAmbition subsidiary
JPK Instruments AG, one of the leading developers of measuring and analytical instruments in the nanotechnology field, has increased its share in JPK subsidiary nAmbition GmbH in Dresden to 100 percent. Thus the Berlin-based company was able to extend its product portfolio and significantly boost its Molecular Analytics division.
Founded in 2004, nAmbition develops, products and markets analytical instruments based on nanotechnological methods. The company is thus positioned in the rapidly growing market for instruments and techniques used in nanobiotechnology and molecular biology. For example, ForceRobot®, a product developed by the Dresden-based company and launched in 2007, is the first product of its kind that enables automated measurements on individual molecules, thus producing a protein fingerprint. Among other applications, this feature can be used to identify where active ingredients in drugs bind to the target molecule, as well as the strength of the resultant binding. For the first time it is now possible to gain targeted insights into the complex interactions of individual bio-molecules with active ingredients, thus opening up new paths in the field of pharmaceutical research. In addition to ForceRobot®, which has already generated initial sales, further high-margin projects are also in development.
"The complete takeover of nAmbition now provides us with an opportunity to exploit major synergy potential. We will integrate nAmbition into our overall marketing and sales structure and further boost its sales and earnings contributions," comments Frank Pelzer, CEO of JPK Instruments AG, with regard to the acquisition of shares from investment company Dresden Fonds GmbH, which has actively accompanied the development of nAmbition as a financing partner since 2005.
The development expertise and products of nAmbition ideally complement JPK's portfolio and will significantly strengthen its Molecular Analytics division. Besides growth in sales and long-term improvement of earnings, the Berlin-based company also expects the acquisition to be helpful in winning new customer groups.
Following the complete takeover, JPK Group has two subsidiaries now: nAmbition GmbH and light power instruments GmbH. Not only do both companies possess a high degree of technological expertise, but both subsidiaries as well as the parent company own numerous patents which represent considerable barriers to competitors entering the market. "We are pleased with our complete integration into the JPK family," comments Dr. Jens Struckmeier, Technical Managing Director of nAmbition GmbH. "It will facilitate our cooperation and provide both sides with greater opportunities for exchanging their respective expertise and exploiting existing structures and synergy potential. With JPK Instruments AG, we will also have a parent company on our side which has yielded positive results since 2004. This underlines JPK's extraordinary position as a German company in the growing nanotechnology field."
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By Michael Aschbacher
Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics (No. 124)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print Publication Year: 1996
Online Publication Date:August 2010
Online ISBN:9780511759413
Hardback ISBN:9780521571968
Paperback ISBN:9780521101028
Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759413.007
Subjects: Algebra
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We have already made extensive use of finite geometry in our study of groups generated by 3-transpositions. In this chapter we consider another type of geometry associated with a 3-transposition group G. This geometry is the Fischer space of G. The notion is due to F. Buekenhout [Bu].
Fischer spaces are a special class of partial linear spaces. Steiner triple systems are also partial linear spaces, and the Fischer space of a 3-transposition group of width 1 is a triple system. In Section 19 we prove a result of M. Hall [H4] that can be interpreted as classifying all 4-generator 3-transposition groups of width 1, or as classifying certain Steiner triple systems. Recall we used Hall's result to prove Lemma 8.6.
Fischer's Theorem gives a complete description of finite almost simple 3-transposition groups. Section 20 consists of a survey of results in the literature on 3-transposition groups that are not finite or not almost simple. Much of this work uses Fischer spaces, so Section 20 contains further discussion of those objects. Section 20 also contains some discussion of generalizations of the 3-transposition condition. In particular we find that the long root elements of groups of Lie type are naturally described by one such generalization.
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A Prince William County woman who is raising a child with Aspergers syndrome is about to be evicted from her home and says she has nowhere to turn.
Jessica Chaer says she was shocked to learn last month they were living illegally along Scott Drive in Manassas Park.
She and her partner Christina Simino rented out small portion of a home near their landlord's house. According to city officials, that's a housing code violation. The owner has to knock down a wall.
"I should be getting ready to make a big Thanksgiving dinner for my family. Instead I am packing," Jessica Chaer said. "We really don't know where to go, where to turn to."
Chaer and Simino fear that by Dec. 1 their new address could be their Ford SUV.
"That's the last thing anyone wants, but if it comes down to the streets or the car, at least the car is shelter from the elements," Chaer said.
The uprooting of his routine have negatively affected her 9-year-old son Caleb, Chaer said.
"He's pretty much uncontrollable at school. They're having to restrain him," she said.
The family says they can't find an affordable apartment. Shelters won't take their pets. Social service agencies are tapped out.
"Most people are like, 'well at least I have a roof over my head, but in a few days I won't even have that,'" Chaer said.