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A tribute to Michael Jackson
Since the tragic news of the death of Michael Jackson many people have taken an interest in his family. So did we.
To give you a small overview of the King of Pop's family, many of whom are famous in their own right, all of which have different and varied histories, happy and sad, we've made a small tree of the family.
In the tree you can find the whole Jackson family- which consisted of ten children - and all the partners that Jacko had throughout his exciting life. The tree is a great illustration of how complicated families can get, when members have different spouses and children with different partners; Micheal Jackson had three different women in his life, among whom famous singer Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley.
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It is also a great illustration of how our Smart Matches can help you continue building your family tree. Smart Matches show when information on members in your tree matches that of another user. Most members in the Jackson tree have several matches with other users' trees, meaning that many other people have captured data about Michael Jackson in a tree. You can import your tree from any of them, and for Michael Jackson there are as many as 30 trees to choose from!
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The Nile River has been the lifeblood of Egypt for thousands of years; the narrow fertile strip on either side of the river lies in stark contrast to the desert wasteland beyond.
The annual flooding of the Nile, and the resultant deposit of silt on its banks, has left layers of archaeological remains from previous settlements that have been discovered underneath almost every town and village in the valley. Excavations have revealed thousands of tombs, temples and monuments along the banks of the river, and the best places to explore some of these relics are the historic towns of Luxor and Aswan.
Cruises along the mighty Nile River are very popular and allow tourists the chance to visit the numerous ancient attractions along the banks as well as view rural Egyptian life slowly passing them by. The sunsets on the river are legendary.
Popular sightseeing stops include the magnificent Abu Simbel temples, built by Ramses II, the Temple of Karnak - still the largest temple complex in the world - and the West Bank, which includes the famous Valley of the Kings. Visitors who aren't keen on a river cruise can easily travel on their own steam to all these incredible places.
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Inside the Brush panel, you'll find a subpanel known as the Transfer panel. This panel allows you to use pressure to control various aspects of the color wells. You'll get a much more subtle brushstroke when you take advantage of your stylus pressure in conjunction with these controls. Let's take a look. I am going to go over and use my little icon here to open up the Brush panel, and we'll see that we have access to a number of subpanels here, and the one we are going to focus on right now is the Transfer panel.
Now it's named this because it allows you to transfer control of the brush to various mechanisms. And in this case, we are going to be taking advantage of the control pop-up menu to get to Pen Pressure, and I am going to go through each one of these and show you how it works. So you can see how they apply individually to the Mixer brush, but then you can also gang these up to do even more sophisticated activities with the brush. So let's start with Flow, and Flow Jitter is a bit of a misnomer.
Yes you can use this slider to jitter flow, and if you look down in the little sample, you'll see that it's kind of dotted and speckly. That's because it's taking the individual unit of the Mixer brush, and when Jitter is turned up, its randomizing how much flow each individual dab of the brush has. So when it's turned all the way up, you get this rather erratic randomization within the stroke. That's really not what you want to deal with, and I am telling you this because in each of the case of these controls, these are not important sliders.
You're not going to want to turn these up under typical circumstances. What is important is that we can address pressure through the control pop-up. Now that that's on - in fact, let's start with it off, so we can see how the brush behaves by default. Okay, so it's a brush, and it runs out of paint because we have a short load on it, but let's go ahead and turn Pressure on. Now, I have a brush that, depending on how hard I'm pressing, I can control the amount of opacity of that brush.
And as I mentioned in an earlier movie, Flow for the Mixer brush essentially replaces opacity. So that you can turn load all the way up, and now have a brush that, based on your pressure, you can control exactly how heavy of a stroke you're applying. So right there, that offers a very nice ability to modulate the expressive quality of the brush through opacity, or in this case, Flow.
Now let's take another color, and I'm now going to shut this off. Let's go down to Wetness, and I am going to turn it to Pen Pressure now, via its control pop-up. And for this to work, it has to have some Wetness engaged - right now we are zero - so we need to have some amount of wetness for this to work, otherwise you won't see any difference. But now we are controlling Wetness through Pressure. So when I take this brush and press very lightly, it's wet, but it's not applying a lot of color.
As I press down, it gets wetter, but it also adds more color into the brush. So you can see this very light pressure, all I'm doing is modulating the underlying color through wetness, but as I press down, I am able to not only make it more wet, but at the same time, it's applying more color. Okay, now let's isolate the Mix control, and in order for the Mix control to have any value under pressure, you do have to have some mix value in here.
If it's turned all the way down, it's not going to do anything. But with this turned up, we can now use pressure to modulate the degree of Wetness and Load within the brush stroke. So we have got another color here, and at this point, it's mostly at very light pressure, applying the green. As I press down, it really adds green into the mix, because we're modulating from its full wetness at light pressure, and as I bear down in pressure, the ratio is transferring to where load becomes the predominant part of the equation to be applied.
So we're using light pressure, just gives us wetness, and then increasing pressure modulates from that to primarily a load-based brush. Now you can start to combine these together and in fact many of the brushes that I create, I have either two or sometimes three different categories of these on. At first, the brush is very transparent because there's not much opacity associated with it, but as I now bear down in pressure, all of these categories are coming to bear, and it's just adds a very complex quality to the overall stroke that's created.
And it's just a matter, really, of playing around these various controls and seeing what different combinations will give you, and based on how these are set and then secondarily, what the degree of each one of these controls are set to, offer almost an infinite possibility set of what the brush can do based on pressure. So there's a lot of power inside the Transfer subpanel, and each one of these controls, by switching to pressure to address what's having that is in the brush stroke, gives you an amazing range of potential express-ability.
So take time to go into the Transfer panel and play with various combinations of the Flow, Wetness and Mix controls being addressed by Pressure. And I think you'll be very happy with the range of possibilities you are going to find, once you get into this.
- Understanding the axes of motion with a Wacom tablet
- Choosing a brush shape and Bristle Tip
- Adjusting brush angle
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- Simulating the texture of canvas
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PLUS: Michael Del Zotto has been instrumental in the Rangers last two wins. The 22-year-old blueliner has four points (two goals, two assists) and a handsome plus-five rating.
MINUS: Mental mistakes hurt; especially too many men on the ice penalties in each of the last two games. Enemy power plays exploited each with goals.
EVEN: After a shaky start to the season Henrik Lundqvist has regained his Vezina Trophy form.
CHALLENGE: Pitt has won five straight games against New York, dating back to last season. The Blueshirts' will need a complete game against a team seeking to rebound from a 4-1 loss to the Islanders in Pittsburgh. Extending the winning streak to three will be a test of the Rangers ability to prevail without captain Ryan Callahan in the lineup.
1. GOALTENDING: All signs indicate that Lundqvist will make his seventh consecutive start. In the Blueshirts home opener he was pulled after allowing four goals on 18 shots. The King had' better be on his game.
2. PUCK POSSESSION: In the first four games the Rangers were forced to defend rather than attack because they didn't have the puck. Against a skilled Pitt lineup, the Blueshirts must own as much of the rubber as possible.
3. REPLACING RYAN: With Callahan out, other players will have to step up and we know that this is the classic hockey cliche.
1. PENGUINS POWER PLAY VS. RANGERS PENALTY KILL: Pitt's man advantage arithmetic is a solid 22 percent. Rangers penalty kill is middle of the pack 80 percent efficient.
2. RANGERS TOP DEFENSIVE PAIRS VS. PITT'S TOP CENTERS: We're back to the obvious STOP CROSBY! STOP MALKIN! signs. Last time Ryan McDonagh-Dan Girardi were on Malkin and Michael Del Zotto and Marc Staal faced Sid. From here it appears to balance out but we'll find out soon enough.
3. JAMES NEAL vs. MARIAN GABORICK: Each wingman scored forty goals last year and they've shown no regression symptoms so far. Gaborik has five goals in six games and Neal four in six. Don't be surprised to see a bust-out from either end.
MAVEN'S RAVIN': The microscope is on each team for different reasons. Pitt was projected to have a Cup-winning team this year but so far has looked just average; putrid against the Islanders. The Rangers last two wins were against suffering sextets. Beating Pitt would certify this club as ready even without Captain Callahan!


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GRAND RAPIDS — The Grand Rapids Griffins received some positive news this week about rookie forward Landan Ferraro, who has missed the past four games with a concussion.
Ferraro skated by himself Tuesday, then participated in a full team practice Wednesday morning at Van Andel Arena.
Grand Rapids coach Curt Fraser said the team was concerned because Ferraro has had a concussion before, and the Griffins will continue to be cautious over the next few days to make sure he has no lingering symptoms.
"But right now, he says he feels great and looking forward to getting back in the lineup," Fraser said.
Ferraro was injured in the Griffins' 7-2 loss at Rochester on Oct. 16 after taking a hit from the Americans' Corey Tropp.
Also injured in that game was Grand Rapids defenseman Travis Ehrhardt, who hurt his shoulder during a third-period fight with Marcus Foligno. Fraser said Ehrhardt will be out for the next five to six weeks.
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As expected, the Griffins had goaltender Joey MacDonald back with the team Wednesday after he served as Ty Conklin's backup in the parent club Detroit Red Wings' 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.
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Michigan has a humid continental climate throughout the state, although there are two distinct regions. The southern and central parts of the Lower Peninsula (south of Saginaw Bay and from the Grand Rapids area southward) has a warmer climate with hot, humid summers and cold, but shorter winters. The northern part of Lower Peninsula and the entire Upper Peninsula has a more severe climate, with warm, humid but shorter summers and long, cold to very cold winters. Some parts of the state averaging high temperatures below freezing from December through February, and into early March in the far northern parts. During the late fall through the middle of February the state is frequently subjected to heavy lake effect snow. The state receives a good amount of precipation throughout the year, averaging from 30-40 inches annually. Typically, from December through March is slightly drier, while July through September is slightly wetter than the rest of the year, although this difference isn't extreme as in some other states.
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Jennifer Claire Grissett and Matthew Scott Bookout of Shallotte were married May 16 by the lake at his parents' home.
The Rev. James Taylor officiated the double ring ceremony.
The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walter Grissett of Supply. The groom is the son of Scott and Janet Bookout of Shallotte.
The bride was given in marriage and escorted by her father to the trains of "The Wedding March" on bagpipes.
Marvin B. and Dianah L. Allbritton will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on June 7. They were married June 7, 1969, in Orlando, Fla. They have retired to Ash. They are planning a weekend getaway to celebrate their anniversary. Their daughter, the late Kari Leigh Allbritton, was killed in an accident in April 1992. They have two sons. Their son Kevin Bert Allbritton lives in St. Cloud, Fla., with Heather Langville and their four children. Their son Kristopher John Allbritton with his wife Rachel Allbritton and his son live in Marietta, Ga.
We trudge along, immersed in the day-to-day challenges, opportunities, joys and sorrows. Every once in a while, we stop to take stock of our life, to evaluate our existence, and to ask the question: "What is the measure of a man...of a woman?" How does one reckon righteousness?
Where do all the newspapers go that are delivered or brought into households each day? My guess is most of them end up in the garbage and then taken to the landfill.
Jingles is a 7-year-old black-and-white female who was the first feline resident at Cat Tails when the cat rescue facility launched five years ago. She has green eyes, is very shy and needs an adopter who will give her time to adjust. Jingles also has a Cat Tails friend who will pay the adoption fee for anyone willing to provide her with a forever home. To see her, call Cat Tails at 253-1375 or visit their Web site at www.cattails.org.
How many ways can I say aggravation? If I were Browning, I'd be counting and describing them with gracious poetry, but I am stuck in my aggravation.
Admittedly, in fact with loudly vigorous admission, I am not a techie, not a computer geek, nerd, or even an informed user. My computer, I tell all, is my expensive typewriter. I have managed a degree of competence in word processing, as well as sending and receiving e-mails.
Every once in a while, I score on an Internet search, but for the most part, I rest easy and comfortably with my limited use.
CALABASH—Cary artist Nancy Hughes Miller is exhibiting her newest collection of oil paintings at Sunset River Marketplace from June 1 through July 11.
The collection consists of just fewer than 20 works depicting the seashore and wetlands of Sunset Beach, where the artist has a second home.
Miller's inspiration is beauty in the landscape.
"I'm always seeking to capture a bold yet quiet impression of nature, as the colors of sky, earth and water converge on the horizon," she says.
Blue Star Mothers support offspring serving in the military
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Members of Blue Star Mothers of the Grand Strand are spreading the word and fliers about their cause—supporting adult children serving in all branches of the U.S. military.
The chapter, formed in February 2008 in Little River, S.C., meets once a month at American Legion Post 186, 4285 Pine Drive in Little River.
Mr. Murphy will quickly get your attention as he looks at you with such love and devotion and begs for your attention. He's a gentle, 1-year-old husky and shepherd mix who is housebroken, good-natured, and very adaptable. He would be great in any home; he just needs a chance. At 56 pounds, he's medium-sized and ready to go. Paws Place Animal Rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit domestic animal rescue facility that provides sanctuary for unadoptable dogs and seeks loving homes for those that are. Its kennels are open 9 a.m.-noon daily.
CALABASH—Sixty-five years ago this Saturday, as dawn was breaking over the choppy English Channel, 19-year-old Tom Koester was aboard one of the first U.S. landing crafts to reach Omaha Beach at the start of what has been recorded as the longest day in history.
As they approached at H-hour—6:30 a.m.—at first it was a "picnic," the Navy veteran said.
When they were 200 yards from shore, however, German machine guns opened up from cliffs overlooking the beach.
History does not relate the identity of the person who first discovered the pleasure of a tomato eaten with fresh basil, or thought to combine sage with onion in a stuffing, or lamb with rosemary and garlic. We do know most of the flavor-enhancing herbs we enjoy today were prized by the earliest cultures to relieve diets that were often dull and limited.
Temperatures beyond the mid 80s have lots of folks heading for the air conditioner unless you're like me and enjoy the heat. One of our favorite plants also really likes the heat—crape myrtle.
Turfgrass continues to come out of winter dormancy and with the expected high temperatures in the forecast, this means the grasses will really take off. Be sure to sharpen the blades on your mowing equipment. If the blades are too dull, the grass will have a uniform brownish-gray cast to it after mowing. Now is the time to fertilize your centipedegrass.
Centipede prefers having just one application of fertilizer for the season and June is the best month to fertilize Centipede. One recommendation is to apply 10 pounds of 5-5-15 fertilizer per 1,000 square feet of turf area.
Although daylilies are native to eastern Siberia, China, Japan and Korea, the plant has become a popular garden variety displayed throughout America.
Jessie Amber Nicole Faircloth and David Alton Bullard III of Supply were married May 2 on the east end of Holden Beach.
The Rev. Gary Boling officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Philip and Beverly Faircloth of Supply.
She was given in marriage by her daughters, Layla and Hayley, and escorted by Layla.
She wore a white, ballerina-length halter-style dress with a princess silhouette and a sheer, fingertip length veil with diamond gemstones.
She carried a bouquet of hot pink roses wrapped in ribbon.
Jennifer Kristen Farrand and Victor Burke Starling were married Saturday, May 9, at Sunset Beach Community Church in Sunset Beach.
The Rev. Richard Farrand, father of the bride, officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Richard and Karen Farrand of Sunset Beach. She is a CPA and chief financial officer at Riverside Mattress Company in Fayetteville.
The groom is the son of Billie Jean Starling Davis and the stepson of Donald Davis. He has been a police officer with the Fayetteville Police Department for more than 20 years.
SOUTHPORT—Do you remember walkin' in the sand? Dancin' in the street? Rockin' around the Christmas tree?
Those are just a few of the golden-oldie hits performed in "Beehive: The '60s Musical," Brunswick Little Theatre's latest production that debuted last weekend in Franklin Square Park in Southport.
Grilling fish and other seafood outdoors is an easy and enjoyable way to bring the "flavor of the ocean" into your backyard.
Seafood just seems to taste better, more flavorful and juicy, when done this way. To avoid the fish sticking to your grill, be sure to oil the cooking surface or brush the fish with a little oil or butter.
A craze sweeps through the garden every year about this time for those perennial superstars—daylilies. One look at a bed in full bloom and you, too, will be hooked on Hemerocallis. That's the genus for daylily which is derived from two Greek words meaning "beautiful" and "day," referring to the fact individual flowers only last one day.
While I've never gone completely crazy over daylilies, I have just added two interesting selections to my own garden. We'll come back to that.
The crape myrtles are among the most popular landscape plants in Brunswick County. They are valued for their prolific summer flowers, heat and drought tolerance and year-round landscape interest. Under the right conditions, they flower all summer long.
When planted in the right location, crape myrtles can be almost pest free. There are, however, two disorders that crop up during the summer that may require control measures; one is caused by a fungus and the other is caused by an insect.
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July 7, 2010/Detroit Free Press
More students preparing for economic shift
By Lori Higgins
Competition is so fierce for the physician assistant program at Western Michigan University that only 4% of the more than 900 people who applied for the master's-level program got in last year.
In fact, nearly all health-related programs statewide are experiencing surges in popularity.
Programs that prepare students for computer science engineering careers are equally popular, with about 264 job openings a year for computer software engineers, who can net an average of $38 an hour.
At the University of Michigan, for instance, enrollment in computer science is up 73% since 2007, while enrollment in computer science engineering is up 60%.
Experts say it's a sign young people aren't just following their passions; they're matching their dream jobs with majors that will prepare them for the high-demand, high-wage jobs of the future.
"It's like job security," Katherine Skorupa, a recent graduate of Saginaw Valley State University, said of her degree in nursing. Projections show there will be about 3,000 job openings a year for registered nurses, with salaries averaging around $30 an hour.
Choosing the right career is crucial at a time when 62% of students attending public four-year universities graduate with some debt -- and 12% graduate owing more than $30,500, according to the College Board.
Zeroing in on the hot jobs
Personal finance advisers. Financial analysts. Insurance sales agents. These are among the business-related careers that are, and will remain, in high demand in Michigan as the state's economic recovery takes center stage.
"Successful businesspeople are always looking ahead, planning ahead, thinking about how to attract that next generation of entry-level employees," said Rich Studley, president and CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
They don't have to look far. Business is the top area of concentration that Michigan college students are getting degrees in, and it continues to grow. But students are showing increasing interest in other areas, too, such as computer science.
On Michigan's Hot 50 -- a list of the high-demand, high-wage careers through 2016 -- technology jobs requiring computer science skills are six of the top 20 fastest-growing jobs. Fewer students received degrees in computer science between 2004 and 2009 -- likely a result of the downturn in interest that occurred when the dot-com industry collapsed in the early 2000s.
But enrollments have been picking up in recent years -- even surging at schools such as the University of Michigan, where Jason Bornhorst received a degree last year. He pursued a career in computer science engineering because of a longtime interest in computers and because it let him see his ideas come to life in a flash. Entering a field flush with jobs was a nice bonus.
"The demand ... couldn't be higher," said Bornhorst, who is working at Mobiata, a company that makes travel applications for smartphones. His U-M training paid off even before he graduated: He and two U-M classmates created and sold a successful app that encourages users to do good deeds daily.
Personal finance advisers are at the top of the list of high-demand business jobs. Studley said he can only speculate that the economy is helping to drive the demand.
"There are a lot of young people who have just seen parents and grandparents go through some very challenging, very difficult situations regarding finances," Studley said. Those young people, he said, may be thinking, "I can do something that would be meaningful and really helpful to people."
As Michigan transitions from a manufacturing-driven economy, in which even a high school diploma wasn't a necessity, to one that is knowledge-driven, some type of postsecondary education is crucial.
Students increasingly are considering job prospects when choosing careers, something Jeanine Bartholomew sees when she conducts orientation sessions as director of academic services for the College of Health and Human Services at Western Michigan University. She said more students are switching to health-related majors.
"The number of students we have shifting over ... once they've done their homework and done their thinking, is phenomenal," Bartholomew said.
What the list doesn't show
Meanwhile, degrees in areas where the job market isn't robust -- such as education -- are declining. Degrees in education are down 23.6% from 2004 to 2009.
But even though the list of Michigan's hottest jobs is a good barometer of the kind of skills students need to be successful now and for the next six years, experts say that list will fluctuate. Lou Glazer, president of Michigan Future, said that's why it's important for people to have some type of postsecondary training. He said he's discouraged by a recent national report by the Brookings Institution in Washington that found that people between ages 25 and 34 have earned degrees at a smaller rate than those between 35 and 44.
"I am more concerned about a general skill shortage than I am about a shortage in specific areas," Glazer said.
And that list doesn't reflect developing industries. One such area is green jobs, said Steven Bennett, executive director of the Lansing-based Prima Civitas Foundation, a nonprofit economic engine focused on long-term economic transformation for Michigan.
He said Michigan has about 109,000 green jobs right now. The jobs include new ways of using food and other by-products in nontraditional ways, such as how Ford is using by-products to build car seats.
Tech hot on recruiters' lists
For now, technology is among the rulers.
Wayne Thibodeau, director of career services at Oakland University, said most of the calls he gets from recruiters are about information technology jobs. Farnam Jahanian, chair of U-M's computer science and engineering department, attributes the growth to advances in computer science that brought the discipline to other areas -- such as sciences, business, art and cultures -- in ways "that were barely imaginable a decade ago.
"The demand goes far beyond the high-tech industry," Jahanian said. "Our students are essentially being hired by every sector of our economy."
Jobs include developing next-generation video games and building models for predicting the spread of the next flu epidemic.
Learning what's important
Katherine Skorupa graduated this spring with a degree in nursing from Saginaw Valley State University. It's a degree program experiencing rapid growth as universities try to crank out enough nurses to fill the demand.
Saginaw Valley, for instance, has seen its enrollment of nursing students rise from 245 in 2005 to 362 in 2009.
Skorupa first became passionate about nursing at age 5. Despite that, she pursued physical therapy as a major before coming back to her first love.
"I've always had that appreciation for helping people," said Skorupa of Rochester Hills, who learned last week that she had passed the nursing exam required to receive her license.
"There's an overall reward that you get, and that's probably the most important thing."
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I was just curious as to why the majority of shows that are posted here are in SHN format?
Is this some sort of preference that Floyd collectors have?, and if it is a preference, why do you prefer it over formats like Flac? or APE?
I was just curious as to why the majority of shows that are posted here are in SHN format?
Is this some sort of preference that Floyd collectors have?, and if it is a preference, why do you prefer it over formats like Flac? or APE?
I think we see a pretty good mix of SHN and FLAC, with the more recent items being in FLAC. SHN is still used but I think we see it on some of the older items. Don't think we've ever seen much in APE, but that's fine with me as my personal preference is for FLAC first and then SHN.
I am you and what I see is me.
I'm not sure if I can give a definitive answer but if I had to guess on one I would say that SHN in the past was a bit more developed than FLAC at the time.
Now the roles have reversed. FLAC files have more control over what you can achieve in the overall audio editing process and automatically lets you seek to any point in a track, whereas SHN you have to create a .skt file to let you do as such.
As has already been suggested, it's simply because SHN was the first of the audio formats to be widely accepted.
A large number of these shows come from the DC hubs where they've been traded in their original released format for years, and where there's a general rule not to change from the original archive format files.
In real terms, does the format matter??
If you encode, use what you like to use. If you decode, get what software you require.
I'm sure there's all kinds of arguments as to which encodes and decodes best, but what you end up chossing is up to you i guess.
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The most obvious reason to me is that SHN is an older format for lossless WAV compression over the superior in every way FLAC.
Therefore, there is still quite a lot of material out there that was compressed with SHN, and no one bothered to decompress, then re-encode to FLAC.
Speaking for myself, I always store my audio files in FLAC format.
FLAC has much better seek support, significantly greater compression, informative meta tag support, and (best of all!) is a completely open source piece of software that is free and ported to several operating systems, including my beloved Linux.
Why worry about what format seeders use if you can simply do as I do, seeing as how there is no real mystery about to decompress those SHN files, then convert to FLAC; even for me, as - yes - there is even a port of Shorten (SHN compressor/decompressor) sitting on my Linux box right now.
Appreciate the responses to my question.
Just wanted to clarify though, I didn't raise the question about why most Floyd shows are in SHN format because I found it to be a bother or anything of a negative nature ( I have SHN plugins for all my programs that play and burn live music)
I was just curious about whether SHN was a preferred method of audio encoding amongst Floyd fans, and if so, I was hoping for an explaination about why.
I found it curious because the majority of live music I come across is in flac format, and seems to be more popular than SHN these days.
But as some people know, just because something is popular, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
But I do appreciate the responses to my question.
It is no contest: FLAC is superior in every way, mainly for the reasons that I cited earlier.
SHN just got there first.
Excatly what OldPink said. Shn was there first but is inferior to FLAC. Shn is fine but compression ratio's are lower and the player support is lower. There are also standalone players that support Flac now. Most new shows are circulated as Flac.


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I believe it was John Madden who said, "Well, you got your, ah… , your numbers, all that stuff, you know, the stats thing… then you got, umgh… ah… your, you know, results." Or maybe it was President Eisenhower. No matter.
The 2013 season has been a serious challenge to the talents (and patience) of Manager Bruce Bochy and Pitching Coach Dave Righetti. The on-the-surface story is that the celebrated Giant pitching staff is in the tank but the team is actually hitting better.
That's why those stories float on the surface and, if you get close enough, smell. Because while the Giants' pitching isn't going down for the third time, Giant run production is in trouble. Again.
At the 57 game point, with 105 left to play, the San Francisco Giants are in that middle third of the season bubble when smart teams assess themselves and make adjustments to the 25 man roster.
I often quote Giants COO and President Larry Baer who succinctly laid out the blueprint for a winning season: the first 50 games are to assess the team you've got; the second 50 games are to make the necessary adjustments; and the final 62 games are all about wins.
We're smack inside the second 50 games and we will watch as the San Francisco front office decides what it will take to push the accelerator down on this 2013 team.
A quick look at all 30 MLB team ERA rankings shows the Giants at #20 with a 4.21 team ERA. Just behind San Francisco is Tampa Bay with a 4.22 team ERA. Only the Giants have 30 wins and 27 loses, and Tampa is 31-25.
Way up near the top at #6 is the Washington Nationals with a 3.58 team ERA– and a 28-29 record. (Of course hitting counts too, but Part 1 is about pitching.)
As usual, John Madden is right. You got your numbers then you got your results. The Giants' starting rotation is 17-19, which is not good but hardly a reason to grab the kids and move to Canada.
Matt Cain has been terrible but he's 4-3; Madison Bumgarner is 4-4 but has a 1.05 WHIP; Barry Zito is 4-3 with a 3.88 ERA. It's really Tim Lincecum and Ryan Vogelsong's combined 5-9 / 5.98 ERA that has sunk the starting staff in 2013.
While Lincecum's fall from pitching glory is well-documented, more ominous is the fact that Ryan Vogelsong has been pitching very badly for 4 consecutive regular season months between this year and last year.
During the last two months of the 2012 season Ryan Vogelsong put up a 6.38 ERA in 11 starts (6.32 in August, 6.46 in September).
In a twist that no one would have thought possible two years ago the Giants will likely pick up Zito's option (or renegotiate a new contract) at the end of this season, and cut Lincecum and Vogelsong loose. But there should be no panic among the sports talk radio community– as noted in previous posts, the Giants have the resources to hit the free agent market harder than wet on water.
Last Sunday the team opted to go with bullpen long reliever Chad Gaudin to start in the injured Vogelsong's place, and that produced a much-needed 6-2 win over the Cardinals. But the previous week was, well I wouldn't say last week was actually "disastrous". I think "catastrophic" is a much more apt description.
But the reason the Giants went 2-5 in their last seven games wasn't pitching… [This is a blatant tease to move on to the next post– trust me, it's worth the trip.]


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From the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Christchurch, New Zealand; School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, Australia; and National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Renal Medicine and The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Narelle Willis (Review Group Coordinator of the Cochrane Renal Group), Ruth Mitchell (Trials Search Coordinator of the Cochrane Renal Group), and the Cochrane Renal Group for assistance with preparation of this study.
Financial Support: Partial funding for this project was provided by the Cochrane Renal Group.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest:Employment: G.F.M. Strippoli (Diaverum). Consultancies: G.J. Elder (Abbott). Honoraria: G.J Elder (Abbott).
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Current Author Addresses: Dr. Palmer: Department of Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 4345, Christchurch, 8001, New Zealand.
Dr. McGregor: Department of Nephrology, Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board, PO Box 4710, Christchurch, 8001, New Zealand.
Dr. Macaskill: The School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Dr. Craig: Cochrane Renal Group, Centre for Kidney Research Excellence in Renal Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Dr. Elder: Department of Renal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Dr. Strippoli: Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Via Nazionale, 66030 Santa Maria Imbaro (Ch), Italy.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: S.C. Palmer, J.C. Craig, G.F.M. Strippoli.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: S.C. Palmer, G.J. Elder, J.C. Craig, P. Macaskill, G.F.M. Strippoli.
Drafting of the article: S.C. Palmer, G.F.M. Strippoli.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: G.J. Elder, J.C. Craig, D.O. McGregor, G.F.M. Strippoli.
Final approval of the article: S.C. Palmer, G.J. Elder, J.C. Craig, D.O. McGregor, P. Macaskill, G.F.M. Strippoli.
Statistical expertise: P. Macaskill.
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Background: Vitamin D compounds are widely used to prevent and treat secondary hyperparathyroidism.
Purpose: To determine whether vitamin D therapy improves biochemical markers of mineral metabolism and cardiovascular and mortality outcomes in chronic kidney disease.
Data Sources: MEDLINE (January 1966 to July 2007), EMBASE (January 1980 to July 2007), and Cochrane databases were searched without language restriction.
Study Selection: Randomized, controlled trials of vitamin D compounds in chronic kidney disease were identified.
Data Extraction: Two authors independently extracted data.
Data Synthesis: Seventy-six trials were identified for inclusion; 3667 participants were enrolled. Vitamin D compounds did not reduce the risk for death, bone pain, vascular calcification, or parathyroidectomy. Compared with placebo, established vitamin D sterols were associated with an increased risk for hypercalcemia (relative risk, 2.37 [95% CI, 1.16 to 4.85]) and hyperphosphatemia (relative risk, 1.77 [CI, 1.15 to 2.74]) but did not show a consistent reduction in parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Compared with placebo, more recently developed vitamin D analogues were associated with hypercalcemia (relative risk, 5.15 [CI, 1.06 to 24.97]) but not hyperphosphatemia, and levels of PTH were reduced (weighted mean difference, −10.77 pmol/L [CI, −20.51 to −1.03 pmol/L]). For suppression of PTH, intravenous administration was superior to oral vitamin D, but higher intravenous doses were used.
Limitations: Few studies reported patient-level outcomes, including mortality (8 of 76 trials), and only 5 trials directly compared the effects of treatment with newer vitamin D compounds versus established ones. Heterogeneity in some comparisons remained unexplained by metaregression analyses.
Conclusion: Vitamin D compounds do not consistently reduce PTH levels, and beneficial effects on patient-level outcomes are unproven. The value of vitamin D treatment for people with chronic kidney disease remains uncertain.
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Palmer's meta-analysis concludes Vitamin D compounds "do not consistently reduce PTH".(1) PTH suppression by "established vitamin D" is based on just six studies encompassing 187 patients. Of the five studies I could locate, none appeared to titrate vitamin D to achieve PTH suppression, nor had PTH suppression as a primary goal. Active vitamin D treatment did cause significant improvements in the three studies examining bone histology, and the one examining bone mineral density. Meta -analyses must carefully assess the goals of trials from differing eras. Four of these studies were done in the 1980's and therefore, must have employed C-terminal PTH assays which detect PTH fragments that accumulate in renal failure.
Palmer's efficacy analysis excluded a 266 patient, 32 week, intravenous calcitriol versus paricalcitol trial(2) presumably because there was no placebo arm. Goal PTH suppression of >50% was achieved in 80% and 90% of patients with the hormone and analog, respectively. This trial had more calcitriol-treated patients than all the efficacy studies examined by Palmer.
Analyzing the PTH suppressive effects of "newer vitamin D", Palmer examines just three trials containing 163 patients. Palmer excludes the above study(2) and a 6 month double-blind placebo-controlled trial in 220 CKD patients where paricalcitol capsules achieved >30% PTH suppression in 91% of patients (mean reduction 42%).(3, 4) This study served as the basis for FDA approval of paricalcitol for treatment of hyperparathyroidism in CKD.
Palmer chooses hyperphosphatemia and hypercalcemia events as biochemical markers of "cardiovascular and mortality outcomes".(1) However, reductions in these events have not been validated by randomized trials to improve survival. Recently, a 2103 patient randomized mortality study found no survival benefit for dialysis patients treated with non- calcium phosphorus binders versus calcium-based binders, despite increased serum calcium and hypercalcemic episodes with calcium-based binders.(5) Predicting the effect on mortality of any drug based on its potential changes in calcium and phosphorus is speculative.
Palmer(1) combines all "newer vitamin D products" together despite preclinical and human research study evidence of significant differences among agents. In examining hypercalcemia of newer agents, Palmer includes a dose-ranging study of 22-oxacalcitriol by Akizawa which accounts for 82% (27/33) of the hypercalcemic events in their analysis.
Hormonal calcitriol deficiency increases in prevalence throughout CKD,(6) severity of deficiency correlates with decreased survival on dialysis, and replacement with Vitamin D repeatedly has been associated with improved survival.(6) Clinical trials to assess the actions of these hormonal analogs on non-PTH outcomes are ongoing.
Daniel W. Coyne MD Professor of Medicine, Renal Diseases Washington University School of Medicine
1. Palmer, SC, McGregor, DO, Macaskill, P, Craig, JC, Elder, GJ & Strippoli, GF: Meta-analysis: vitamin D compounds in chronic kidney disease. Ann Intern Med, 147:840-53, 2007.
2. Sprague, SM, Llach, F, Amdahl, M, Taccetta, C & Batlle, D: Paricalcitol versus calcitriol in the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Kidney Int, 63:1483-90, 2003.
3. Coyne, D, Acharya, M, Qiu, P, Abboud, H, Batlle, D, Rosansky, S, Fadem, S, Levine, B, Williams, L, Andress, DL & Sprague, SM: Paricalcitol capsule for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in stages 3 and 4 CKD. Am J Kidney Dis, 47:263-76, 2006.
4. Abboud, H, Coyne, D, Smolenski, O, Anger, M, Lunde, N, Qiu, P, Hippensteel, R, Pradhan, RS, Palaparthy, RV, Kavanaugh, A, Melnick, JZ, Williams, LA & Batlle, D: A comparison of dosing regimens of paricalcitol capsule for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in CKD stages 3 and 4. Am J Nephrol, 26:105-14, 2006.
5. Suki, WN, Zabaneh, R, Cangiano, JL, Reed, J, Fischer, D, Garrett, L, Ling, BN, Chasan-Taber, S, Dillon, MA, Blair, AT & Burke, SK: Effects of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality in hemodialysis patients. Kidney Int, 72:1130-7, 2007.
6. Wolf, M, Shah, A, Gutierrez, O, Ankers, E, Monroy, M, Tamez, H, Steele, D, Chang, Y, Camargo, CA, Jr., Tonelli, M & Thadhani, R: Vitamin D levels and early mortality among incident hemodialysis patients. Kidney Int, 72:1004-13, 2007.
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Palmer et al are to be congratulated for exposing the lack of outcome data to support current guidelines and practices involving Vitamin D therapy in CKD(1). It should be noted, however, that their study addressed stage V and end-stage CKD treated mostly with "active" Vitamin D by nephrologists. But the vast majority of patients with CKD are stage III or IV, treated with common Vitamin D2 or D3 by primary care physicians. The findings of the Palmer study should not be extrapolated to imply that therapy in Stage III and IV patients may not be beneficial in treating Vitamin D deficiency and preventing osteodystrophy.
In the Department of Internal Medicine at the VAMC in Grand Junction, Co., we reviewed Vitamin D therapy in stage III and IV CKD. Not surprisingly, we found the studies inadequate and the published guidelines inconsistent and confusing (2,3), which accounts for our admitted treatment inertia. In response, we consulted experts in the field (4) and distilled the available data and guidelines to develop our own user-friendly protocol. There exists no good data to support or refute these or any other guidelines, but we believe ours are at least easy to follow, unlikely to cause harm, and hold reasonable potential to be beneficial if applied with good clinical judgment.
Our protocol is:
1. Check and correct calcium and phosphorus levels.
2. Measure 25-OH Vitamin D. Goal: > 30 ng/ml.
3. Measure PTH. Goal: <150 pg/ml.
4. Treatment protocol:
-PTH and Vit D level both normal: multi-vitamin with or without extra Vit D3..
-Vit D deficient: Vit D3 2000 units daily for 6 months, then 1000u daily forever.
-PTH > 150: add calcitriol .25mcg daily to above Vit D3 regimen.
5. If using calcitriol, Check 25-OH Vit D, PTH, Ca, Phos every 3 months twice, then every 6-12 months.
Our experience is limited so far, but at least providers are finding this approach easy to follow, safe, and cost-effective. Since Vitamin D3 is a generic, over-the counter product, there may not be much support to conduct clinical trials with this therapy. It is our hope that research institutes interested in preventive therapy and not dependant on industry support are conducting studies to answers the questions surrounding the management of Vitamin D deficiency and bone metabolism in stage III and stage IV CKD, which will then lead to evidence based, practical guidelines.
Kenneth Scissors M.D. Veteran's Administration Medical Center Grand Junction, Co.
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1. Palmer SC, McGregor DO, Macaskill JC, Craig JC, Elder GJ, Strippoli GFM. Meta-analysis: Vitamin D Compounds in Chronic Kidney Disease. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 147:840-853.
2. Holick MF. Vitamin D Deficiency. N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 266-81.
3. National Kidney Foundation. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2003;42:S1-201. (PMID: 14520607).
4. Coyne DW: How to Manage Vitamin D Deficiency. Renal and Urology News; October 2007; 38-40.
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Like Dr. Scissors, our preference is for clinical practice to be based upon randomized controlled trials; we also recognise that until the required trials are done, a sensible approach to distilling existing data and informing practice should be used. However, we need to emphasise that our inclusion criteria were not limited to stage V chronic kidney disease (CKD), and we searched for any trials of any vitamin D compound, including generic, over-the-counter products. There were no trial data available evaluating the effects of these products, and very few biochemical data for any product in stage III/IV CKD . Until these trials are done, we would be more circumspect than Dr Scissors and suggest that use of these products for this indication may not be safe.
Dr Coyne raised a number of specific issues with our meta-analysis, but all concern biochemical or surrogate outcomes. He presumably concurs with our major conclusion that the effects of vitamin D compounds on clinically important outcomes are largely unknown. We agree that the design of most studies was fixed-dose vitamin D studies rather than target parathyroid hormone (PTH) studies. We agree that there was an improvement in bone histomorphometry, but we are unaware of trial data to demonstrate a causal relationship between bone histomorphometry and clinical outcomes. Trials of established vitamin D compounds utilised several different assay types for measurement of PTH; however, there was no significant effect modification of interventions on outcomes when different PTH assay types used in the trials were included as a covariate in our meta-regression analysis.
Contrary to Dr Coyne's assertion, we did not exclude a 266 patient, calcitriol versus paricalcitol trial (Appendix Table 2(1)). Simply, this trial is not included in the forest plots because we used the outcome of end of treatment PTH values, as prospectively defined in our a priori- based study protocol and because this was the PTH outcome reported by most trials(2). The choice of the primary outcome of >50% reduction in PTH used in this trial, even if it occurred more frequently in the analogue arm, does not appear to be validated with hard endpoints any more than other PTH outcomes. According to Dr Coyne we excluded a placebo-controlled trial of paricalcitol which served as the basis for FDA approval of paricalcitol(3). This is incorrect. The study is included, but end of treatment PTH values were not available. Dr Coyne notes we chose hyperphosphatemia and hypercalcemia as markers of cardiovascular and mortality outcomes. We describe these end points as surrogate outcomes. We agree most strongly that predicting patient relative outcomes like cardiovascular endpoints from treatment changes in calcium and phosphorus remains speculative and requires randomized trials which show concordance between these outcomes. Dr Coyne states we combine newer vitamin D products despite evidence of differences between compounds. Data are really so scarce on any intervention and all data are included, but differences in interventions are also clearly described in text, table, and graphical form. Grouping by the same intervention exactly would not change our primary conclusion.
Finally, Dr Coyne notes vitamin D is associated with improved survival in dialysis (in cohort studies). We agree, but suggest this is not strong evidence that vitamin D intake causes improved outcomes because of residual confounding and other well established biases, which are typical of observational studies. Recent examples of discrepant results between trials and cohort studies have been well publicised. (4, 5). While trials for vitamin D compounds are ongoing, none detailed in major clinical trials registries are designed to examine clinical outcomes. To restate our conclusions: for decades we have used vitamin D compounds, a potentially beneficial intervention. The perils of accepting interventions in practice have now changed, and adequately powered trials need to be done for us to consider that drugs have "˜proven' efficacy. Our patients deserve this and better.
1. Palmer SC, McGregor DO, Macaskill P, Craig JC, Elder GJ, Strippoli GFM. Meta-analysis: Vitamin D compounds in chronic kidney disease. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007;147:840-853.
2. Palmer SC, McGregor DO, Craig JC, Elder G, Strippoli GF. Vitamin D analogues for treatment and prevention of bone disease in chronic kidney disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2006(Issue 1):Art. No., CD005633.
3. Coyne D, Acharya M, Qiu P, et al. Paricalcitol capsule for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in stages 3 and 4 CKD. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2006;47(2):263-76.
4. Paniagua R, Amato D, Vonesh E, et al. Effects of increased peritoneal clearances on mortality rates in peritoneal dialysis: ADEMEX, a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2002;13(5):1307-1302.
5. Churchill DN, Thorpe KE, Nolph KD, Keshaviah PR, Oreopoulos DG, Page D. Increased peritoneal membrane transport is associated with decreased patient and technique survival for continuous peritoneal dialysis patients. The Canada-USA (CANUSA) Peritoneal Dialysis Study Group. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 1998;9(7):1285-1292.
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Positive views of the European Union and European nations have declined sharply over the last year--so much so that Germany has been overtaken by Japan as the world's most positively viewed major nation, a new 22-country global poll for BBC World Service suggests.
The poll also finds that views of China have improved significantly over the last year, in both the developing and industrialized world, and that the country has now overtaken both the EU and the US. Views of the US overall remained similar to 2011 despite large shifts in some regions.
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Positive views of China rose from 46 to 50 per cent on average. They jumped particularly sharply in the UK (up 19 points), as well as in Australia, Canada, and Germany (all up 18 points). These gains follow modest rises between 2010 and 2011. On average, views of the US have hardly changed, with 47 per cent expressing positive views and 33 per cent negative, compared to 48 and 31 per cent in 2010.
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•"What Lucifer Wanted: Anselm, Aquinas, and Scotus on the Object of the First Evil Choice." Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 1 (2013): 61–82.
•"Can God Create My Thoughts? Scotus's Case against the Causal Account of Intentionality." Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2011): 39–63.
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