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Creamy ham & mushroom pasta bake
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal678
- fat25g
- saturates14g
- carbs89g
- sugars8g
- fibre0g
- protein31g
- salt1.58g
- 500g bag farfalle
- 50g butter, plus a little extra
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 200g small mushroom, halved
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- bunch spring onions, finely sliced
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- 50g plain flour
- 500ml milk
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- 140g thickly cut ham, chopped
- 140g mature cheddar, grated
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Cook the pasta according to pack instructions, then drain. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6, then melt a little butter in a large saucepan. Fry the mushrooms for a couple of mins, then scoop out and set aside. Use some kitchen paper to wipe out the pan.
Melt the remaining butter in the pan, then add most of the onions and soften for 1 min. Stir in the flour for another min, then gradually stir in the milk until you have a lump-free sauce. Increase the heat and bubble the sauce, stirring for a few mins to thicken. Turn off the heat, stir in the ham and most of the cheese, then season to taste.
Tip the pasta and mushrooms into a large ovenproof dish, then pour over the sauce and mix well in the dish. Scatter over the remaining cheese and spring onions, then bake for 10 mins until golden.
Bump up the veg content by adding peas or sweetcorn to the sauce. Or make it veggie: instead of ham, stir through wilted spinach and crumbled blue cheese.
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Great recipe with amazing flavour. Did find it a bit problematic adding the flour in first and then adding milk as it created lumps. Managed to get it fairly alright in the end. Used smoked bacon lardons instead of ham and that gave the whole dish amazing flavour. Added some garden peas and pre-steamed kale for a bit more veg, and added wild sage stuffing/breadcrumbs on top too. Easy, affordable and really tasty. Will be making it again.
Very useful recipe that is easily adapted to anything in your fridge. As we don't eat meat, I missed out the ham and put in extra mushroom and spring onions with lots of ground pepper, came out great and is a weekly staple in our house. I reduce the pasta as there's only 2 of us, to about 350g which does enough for 2 dinners and lunch.
I've lost count of the number of times I've made this in my home and always varied the ingredients. Leftover chicken breasts with ham, chicken and bacon, chorizo etc. basically, any meat or veg I've needed to use up. I've also added some passata on occasions to make a creamy tomato sauce for a change.
Basically, this dish is loved in our house as it never seems to be the same way twice! Brilliantly versatile, filling and tasty. Yummy!
Made this today and this will definitely be cooked for the family again. They loved it. I used left over sliced breaded ham, added black pepper and a small pinch of mixed herbs. I even laid strips of the ham criss-crossed over the top of the bake and they crisped up nicely in the oven. A real hit. There was one large (or two small) portions left over. We're a family of four so this would definitely feed a larger family and won't cost too much.
This will become a regular supper dish. So easy, but so tasty. Like some other reviewers, I use leeks instead of spring onions - I had a couple of small ones left over. And I put in some asparagus, which went very well. So, a great recipe which you can easily tweak to suit what you have in the fridge!!
Delicious! I substituted the ham in this recipe for some grilled bacon (1 rasher each). Lowered the quantities to about 80% of whats stated, because theres only 4 in my family, and unusually, this recipe serves 5. The prep time of 10 mins was a bit of an understatement, i took about 25! (but i am an inexperienced cook). Overall really lovely, will definitely bookmark for a nice student meal.
This recipe was really easy and worked out really well, just made it for my family, but only used 80% of the quantities as theres only four of us, and unusually this recipe is designed to serve 5.
It was delicious and didn't take long to prepare, although ten minutes is a bit of an understatement (im an inexperienced cook so I'd say prep time took me about 20-25 mins)
My oven is typically quite hot so I took it out after 18 mins, just as the cheese on top was going brown and crispy in places. Perfect timing :)
I also grilled some bacon and chopped this instead of the ham, which works just as well. (I used about 1 rasher each)
made this for 2 people so I halved the amount of pasta but kept the amount of cheese sauce to which I added 1 teaspoon of mustard. I used mushrooms, red and yellow sweet peppers with leftover baked gammon with garlic bread and it was delicious.
There's still half left so the original recipe would easily feed 7-8 people. I,ll make this again and try sweetcorn and maybe smoked sausage.
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February 1, 2012 —
The bridge that runs over the Upper Delaware River from Pond Eddy, NY to Pond Eddy, PA, serves about 50 cars per day and a community with 24 properties and 12 full-time families.
Perhaps the most unique thing about the Pennsylvania community is that it can only be reached from New York, because no outside roads in Pennsylvania connect with it.
Replacement of the bridge has been an ongoing discussion between the two states, municipalities and interested groups for more than a decade. In 2009, an article in The River Reporter said that an agreement on the issue had finally been reached, and there would not be an attempt to upgrade the existing historic bridge, but instead the bridge would be torn down and replaced with a modern bridge.
While several of the people who live in the community have expressed strong support for a replacement, there are still groups and individuals who would like to save the historic bridge. It was built in 1905 and, according to the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, is one of only four Petit Truss bridges in New York; it is listed on the National, New York and Pennsylvania Historic Landmark Registers.
According to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) spokesman James May, it's not economically feasible to renovate and rebuild the bridge, and that replacement is the best option.
But at a meeting of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (UDSB) on January 23, members said PennDOT engineers have never seriously considered the option of upgrading the existing bridge. The new replacement bridge will have an estimated cost of $12 million to be shared between the two states and the federal government. UDSB chair Nadia Rajsz said that the $4 million cost to New York is too high for a "bridge to nowhere."
Non-voting member Glenn Pontier of Sullivan Rennaisance said that officials in New York and Pennsylvania "are committed by law to the River Management Plan; it's their job to make sure that the heritage and values of the Upper Delaware River are protected and they're not taking that seriously."
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Log Splitters
Units: About 8,000 (This recall was first announced in Feb. 2005)
Manufacturer: Brave Products Inc., of Streator, Ill.
Hazard: The log splitter's hydraulic cylinders can have defective rod retention, causing the seals to leak and the rods to detach. This can result in serious injury to the operator, as the rod can rapidly and unexpectedly extend the splitting wedge.
Incidents/Injuries: Brave Products has received 59 additional reports of leaking cylinders and/or rod retention failure. One consumer reported a hand amputation that could have been caused by this cylinder defect.
Description: The log splitters are made of steel and painted orange and black, or blue and black. They have trailer hitches and rubber tires. Each log splitter has a decal on the side that reads "Brave Products, Inc." or "Iron & Oak" and "__ ton" (either 15, 22, 26, or 34). The following Brave Products or Iron & Oak models are included in the recall:
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Sold at: Ace, True Value, and Do It Best Hardware stores and independent power equipment dealers nationwide from January 2002 through October 2004, and from May 2006 through April 2007, for between $900 and $2,000.
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Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled log splitters and contact Brave Products Inc. to receive a free replacement cylinder.
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Crystal Rusaw, 24, was arrested on charges of child neglect, Tampa Bay TV station WTSP reported.
The children -- ages 10 months, 3 and 4 -- were left in their New Port Richey home for about four hours. Witnesses called police after seeing them crossing a busy street at 5 a.m. Sunday.
The 4-year-old was holding the 10-month-old, who had a wet diaper, as the trio dodged traffic.
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U. S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York doesn't want to wait. She wants it now.
Gillibrand announced a comprehensive plan to provide immediate support for New York dairy farmers who are facing an imminent crisis, not next year, not tomorrow but today.
"We simply cannot wait until the Farm Bill of 2012 to find solutions. We need to address this crisis now," she said.
After hearing from dairy farmers at six agricultural listening sessions across New York States in preparation for the new Farm Bill, the senator concluded that farmers cannot wait for solutions.
First on Gillibrand's list is the overhaul of the milk pricing system with fair, competitive pricing for New York dairy producers and making the opaque pricing system more transparent.
"What is needed is to fix a system where dairy farmers often pay more to produce their products than they make from selling them," she said.
There was a time when something called "parity" and the cost of production were the basis for establishing milk prices, giving farmers and their families a decent living. That all ended in 1981 when President Ronald Regan removed parity pricing and replaced it with marketing pricing, which was an open door for manipulation and corruption, according to many milk industry experts.
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Since it was adopted in 1996, the current system of end-product pricing has contributed to increased volatility in the prices farmers receive for their milk. Gillibrand wants to introduce alternative measures of pricing, such as "competitive pay" pricing. This would base the price of milk on a survey of prices paid to farmers for milk used in cheese production in a competitive market.
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Another item high on her list is opposing the expected cuts to the federal Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program.. Gillibrand calls the MILC program, which pays farmers when the price of a hundredweight of milk falls below $16.45, "a safety net" needed because farmers are struggling to make ends meet. MILC is not popular with all farmers, however, because it
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More specifically, Clark talked about how ethanol is tied to America's wellbeing. Clark spoke from the Case IH exhibit at AgConnect on Saturday in Atlanta, GA.
Every month, the U.S. imports between $25 billion and $30 billion worth of oil. And every month, that money is sent to many countries that oppose U.S. policies.
Clark told farmers and dealers that in 1973 at the height of the Energy Crisis, he wrote a paper predicting that the U.S. would eventually go to war to safeguard its oil imports. The U.S. later fought in the Gulf War and Iraq for oil, he said. Since then, a lot of money supporting terrorism has originated from "America's appetite for oil," Clark added.
"If you want to fix America, work to keep us from importing $300 billion to $400 billion worth of oil every year," Clark said. If the U.S. could save $300 billion per year, that could translate to as many as eight million jobs with an average annual salary of $38,000, he added.
"We need your voice," Clark told the audience. Clark, who serves as co-chairman of Growth Energy (www.growthenergy.org) , an ethanol lobbying group, encouraged producers to contact their local and state governments, asking them to purchase flex fuel vehicles (FFV) and to also ask automobile manufacturers why they aren't making every vehicle an FFV. The automakers do this in Brazil, why not the U.S.?
To put ethanol on a level playing field with fossil fuels, the U.S. needs to improve its infrastructure—including adding more blender pumps at retail stations across the country. Last July, Growth Energy launched the "Fueling Freedom Plan," which calls for phasing out ethanol supports and redirecting those funds to improve the infrastructure in the form of blender pumps and FFVs.
Clark suggested that the American public might be more open to ethanol if they knew where the fuel they were buying came from. This would come in the form of Country of Origin labeling.
Improving the infrastructure for ethanol is about national security. "We need to move to the next level, and we have the entrepreneurship, the technology and the skills to do it," Clark said.
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Curve exceed owner's expectations
Curve owner Bob Lozinak is living a dream that began when he was about 12 years old.
Lozinak clearly recalls a regular routine he enjoyed as a child growing up in Altoona. He and a cousin, Adrian Visocky, would attend early weekend Mass at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and then hustle out in time to catch the 6:05 a.m. train to Pittsburgh. Once there, they'd make their way over to Forbes Field in time to see their favorite baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, play an afternoon game.
"And in those days," Lozinak said, "there were a lot of doubleheaders."
They'd take the last train back and get home by 1 a.m.
Some 60 years later, Lozinak finds himself as the owner of the Altoona Curve, having bought the team in 1999, selling it in 2002 and then reacquiring it in 2008. He also previously owned minor league teams in Albuquerque, N.M., and western Tennessee.
One of his prouder moments came Saturday when the Pirates were here for an exhibition game before 10,000-plus fans – a franchise attendance record – at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
Lozinak took time out to chat with the Mirror's Neil Rudel for a Monday Spotlight Q&A.
Mirror: What does having the Pirates here mean to the Curve?
Lozinak: I think it's the greatest thing that's ever happened. I know we had the Pirates once before [2000], but that didn't have the meaning it has this time, at least to me. There are so many more players of the current Pirates who played here. That has deep roots to me. I think this time around it proves the relationship is a great one. The Pirates are grateful, and so are we.
Mirror: Is it hard to believe it's been 15 years since you bought the team?
Lozinak: Unbelievable. Where does time go?
Mirror: How involved are you in the day-to-day operations?
Lozinak: If they have an idea, I'm the first guy they call. As far as executing it, I'm not the one anymore. We have a good communication system between [General Manager] Rob [Egan] and [Chief Operating Officer] David [Lozinak] and all the others on the staff. Nobody has any surprises when something's being done.
Mirror: How do you keep the concept fresh, particularly in the early portions of the season when weather plays a key role?
Lozinak: That's a tough one for everybody. You get an automatic boost if it's a beautiful day and an automatic setback if it's cold and rainy. When I go to the ballpark, I sometimes say, "Why are so many people here? It's lousy out." But it goes back to the deep roots and the number of generations of Pirate fans in this area – and they haven't seen a championship in 30 years.
Mirror: Has the leadership torch been passed within the Lozinak family and how is that transition going?
Lozinak: David is extremely responsible for what goes on. But Rob is very much in tune to what we're doing, and he's a tremendous asset to the team, and we recognize that. But the torch is passed. It's going to be like osmosis. [Wife] Joan will never say she's retiring. She wasn't brought up that way, and I wasn't either.
Mirror: Has living a lifelong dream with getting a minor league franchise here in your hometown matched or exceeded your expectations?
Lozinak: It has exceeded my expectations because of the fans that support this team – and I think it's growing. It's a slow growth, but when you look at other cities and their support, there's been an erosion in some other places. We try to be grateful to the fans and give them a good experience and make sure the food is good. Last year, a scout walked in from Seattle and said, "I've been told when you go to Altoona, you make sure you have a Curve burger." And the guy was 85 years old. So our attitude is it's got to be good. A lot of it comes from [Senior Adviser] Sal [Baglieri] and I in the McDonald's background. We're always worried about what the consumer eats. (Editor's note: At this point, Lozinak credited the Altoona Mirror and its coverage, calling it "a tremendous asset to us. You don't see that in other places.")
Mirror: How much is the Pirates success, or lack thereof, affecting enthusiasm toward the Curve?
Lozinak: I've often wondered that. The universal response from our fans is the players are learning here, and we someday hope to see them as great major leaguers.
Mirror: What other minor league teams or ballparks do you emulate?
Lozinak: I like the atmosphere in Reading. The people there do a great job. The facility has some obstructions to it that doesn't make it so good as far as the seating. They have great creativity as far as keeping the atmosphere up, but I still think we've got them beat.
Mirror: Living in Maryland, how many games do you get to a year?
Lozinak: About 50 of the 70, mostly on the weekends. We do a lot of Thursday through Monday. And we also catch up with the team in Harrisburg and Reading.
Mirror: How do you see the future for Blair County and central Pennsylvania sustaining a Double-A team and a 71-game home schedule?
Lozinak: Somebody asked me if the recession has hit Altoona. I said no – that it happened in 1950 and we haven't gotten out of it yet. Who knows what next week is going to bring? With the economy today, you never know, but I think we'll do as well as anybody.
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she has been exclusively breastfeeding since birth.
i introduced her solid food when she was 5 months and a half because at that time she increased her night feedings from 1 or 2 to 4 or 5 feeds.
now she eats well her lunch. i giver her puree and some water.
because of that, she started quiclky to breastfed less during the day (one breast instead of 2) but continue to breastfeed a lot a night, often every 2 hours.
its been a month like this without any change.
i dont know what to do.
I tried to give her water at night but she is not interested in the bottle or cup (i dont blame her, in the night she doesnt really now what it is, she prefers my breast of course !).
I tried to give her later lunche. it doesnt work either, as because she is more tired in the evening, all what she wants is my breast.
i triedto express more milk during the day and feed her in a bottle, but it means I have to stay at home often and when I tried that she through up a lot, like she had too much.
she still drink a lot during the day, but i dont know why she drinks too much at night.
i though it was a growth spurt but it lasts too long ! we moved house in the same time but i dont think it affected her that much.
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QuickTime is often described as a "media creation" API, and that means a lot more than just the ability to edit your audio and video and export it to an arbitrary format. This month I'd like to take the term very literally and show you how to create your movies in Java, one frame at a time, without depending on a pre-existing movie.
To do that, we need to take another look at the format of a QuickTime movie. In "Parsing and Writing the QuickTime File Format," we saw how structures called "atoms" represented this format. For today, let's strip away those details and look at the big picture:
A movie contains metadata (creation and modification time, current selection, preferred volume and rate, etc.) and zero or more tracks.
A track contains metadata (creation and modification time, playback quality), exactly one media object, and an edit list describing which parts of the media are to be used.
A media object contains a data reference that indicates where the audio, video, or other data actually is (in the movie file, in another file, on the network, etc.); information about which QuickTime "media handler" can load, save, and play the data; and a structure called a "sample table" to represent where the sample for a given time can be found in the data.
Graphically, this can be seen as a movie where the references are all to external sources (files, URLs, and other movies), as shown in Figure 1, or a "flattened" one, in which the data is all contained within the same
.mov file as the movie's structure, as shown in Figure 2. Either way, the movie is the structure that represents where the samples are, how they're arranged, and what to do with them.
Figure 1. A movie with external sources
Figure 2. A movie with internal sources
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By "samples," we mean what is to be seen or heard at some instant of time, in the smallest amount of time relevant to that kind of media. For example, imagine a format where we have totally uncompressed video (equivalent to, say, North American television) and uncompressed CD-quality audio. The video, by our definition, is 30 frames per second, so there are 30 video samples in one second. CD-quality audio is 44.1 KHz, meaning there are 44,100 samples in a second.
QuickTime, interestingly, realizes that a player would generally like its data to be organized with regards to time. For example, you don't want to have a file with all of the video data first and then all the audio data, since playing back would require jumping back and forth between the two, and the read/write head on your hard drive would scream in agony. It's easier to mix them, so that the video data for a certain time and the audio data for that time are in the same place. In QuickTime's worldview, this is a process of "chunking" — the media data combines video, audio, and any other data into one stream (a long run of bytes), with "chunks" of audio, video, and other samples grouped by time. It's up to the media object to manage several tables, like a time-to-sample table and a sample-to-chunk table, to allow it to find the samples at playback time.
Fortunately, you as a developer aren't responsible for all of that bookkeeping, but it's good to understand how it works.
Getting back to the point, to make a movie from scratch, we need to do the following:
You may have noticed in the diagrams above that our hypothetical movie contains not just an audio and a video track, but also a "text track." This is exactly what it sounds like: a time-based collection of text, commonly used for providing captions to QuickTime movies. More technically, it is a track where the media samples are ordinary text strings. This is a good place to start with creating our own media, since it doesn't require knowing anything about images or sounds.
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MakeTextTrack sample application creates a movie with a
single text track. It starts by creating an empty movie file to write to:
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Next, it creates an empty text track and a text media object, which it will eventually insert into the track:
Track textTrack = movie.addTrack (TEXT_TRACK_WIDTH,
TextMedia textMedia = new TextMedia(textTrack,
The last argument is a time scale for the media. Movies, tracks, and media all have their own time scale, which is the number of time units that pass in one second. For a movie, this value defaults to 600, which has the advantage of being an even multiple of many common frame-rates: 30 (NTSC video), 25 (PAL and SECAM video), and 24 (film). Dean Perry of Abstract Plane also reminds me it's an even multiple of the 60 "ticks" per second that older Macintoshes used for timekeeping. However, you're free to use and abuse the time scales as you see fit. I arbitrarily chose a value of 100 for my media, so my sample durations are measured in hundredths of a second.
Next, we tell the new
Media object that we intend to do some
We then get the media handler object, required in this case because it has a method for creating new text samples:
TextMediaHandler handler = textMedia.getTextHandler();
and we create a rectangle that will be used in every sample to describe the shape that the text is to be rendered into when played back:
QDRect textBox = new QDRect(0, 0,
We're finally ready to start adding samples. The sample application uses a
static array of
Strings, getting a QuickTime-compatible
QTPointer to each one and passing that as the first argument to
TextMediaHandler.addTextSample() method. Here's how that call
handler.addTextSample (msgPoint,
Obviously, this method has a lot of parameters. In order, they are:
QTPointerRef text: a pointer to the string.
int fontNumber: an integer to indicate font.
can always be used as a generic default, or use the
QDFont class
to get the ID for a font name
int fontSize: the font size, in points.
int textFace: a style, such as bold, italics, etc., as defined by constants in
QDColor textColor: the foreground color, expressed as a
QDColor (not a
QDColor backColor: the background color.
int textJustification: the right/left/center justification.
Possible values are in
teFlushDefault, etc.
QDRect textBox: a
QDRect rectangle describing the box in which the text is to be displayed.
int displayFlags: zero or many behavior flags, logically
OR'd together, describing behavior such as clipping or scaling the text when displayed over other video, etc. These flags are in
StdQTConstants and a list of supported flags is documented for the native TextMediaAddTextSample function.
int scrollDelay: a time to delay between scrolls if the
dfScrollIn and/or
dfScrollOut flags are set. Not
useful in this app, with its short samples, but potentially useful for other
int hiliteStart: the index of first character of text to
highlight (select), if any.
int hiliteEnd: the index of the last character of text to
QDColor rgbHiliteColor: the color of the highlight, if
int duration: the duration of this sample, expressed in the
media's time scale.
The duration is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it's expressed in terms of the media's time scale. In our case, the time scale is 100 and the duration is 100, so the sample is exactly one second long. Of course, we could have half-second samples by using a duration of 50, or any sample length that can be expressed as a fraction of duration over time scale. Moreover, despite the commonness of fixed frame rates in audio and video (30 fps video, 44.1 KHz sound, etc.), QuickTime requires no such thing -- each sample can be of an arbitrary duration, different from the sample before or after it.
Wrapping up the application, once the loop is done adding samples, we inform
Media that we're done editing:
and insert this media into the text track:
textTrack.insertMedia (0, // trackStart
0, // mediaTime
textMedia.getDuration(), // mediaDuration
1); // mediaRate
after which we save the file to disk as texttrack.mov, in the current directory.
To compile and run the sample code, make sure you've worked through any versioning or classpath issues as covered in our re-introduction to QTJ a few months back. When you're done, the result will look something like this (assuming you have the QT plug-in):
One of the nice things to notice is that we picked up word-wrap automatically, without hand-coding line-breaks.
CLAUDE I'd like to point out that this tape has not been tampered with or edited in any way. It even has a timecode on it, and those are very hard to fake. JUDGE For the benefit of the court, would you please explain "timecode"? CLAUDE Just because I don't know what it is ... doesn't mean I'm lying.from the movie Strange Brew
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Actually, Claude, you are lying, and timecodes -- which are just a system for encoding the current time in a movie -- are very easy to fake. In fact, the next example will add a timecode to any QuickTime movie.
To do this, we'll add a text track with timecode-like
to the existing tracks in a movie:
Open a movie. Note that this has to be a real QuickTime movie, not just some other format that QuickTime can open, such as AVI or MPEG-4.
Add a text track for the timecode text, set to use the bottom center of the movie's display.
Write text samples every 1/30th of a second, in a typical timecode format (hh:mm:ss:ff).
Flatten the movie out to a new disk file.
We start off by getting a movie from a file rather than creating a new one. The movie already has some sizing information from its existing video track, which will help us later.
This time, I've used a time scale of
30 for the text media,
which will correspond with the idea of having timestamps every 1/30th of a
second. That means every sample will have a duration of 1. Of course, we
could have accomplished the same thing by using a time scale of 60 and samples
of duration 2, or a time scale of 600 and 20-unit samples, and so on.
What's interesting is what we don't have to do, namely care what the time scale or the frame rate of our video and audio is. Just as you can have audio and video at more or less arbitrary frame rates, freely changeable independent of one another, we can have 30 text samples a second regardless of the video's frame rate. Granted, this can't be truly accurate if the video's frame rate isn't 30 fps or something reasonably divisible, but that's not the point. The key is that for any given time in the movie, there is one appropriate sample in each track that QuickTime will retrieve for us, whether that's one of thousands of audio samples that fly by every second, one frame of video, or one of our text samples.
On the other hand, we do have to worry about where our text will be placed over the video. When the (0,0)-based coordinates of the text frames are mapped into the movie's display space, we get a timecode at (0,0), which is not what we want, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. The added timecode
To place the caption box in a specific place relative to the other tracks in
the movie, we can use a transformation matrix. In QuickTime, this is
a 3x3 mathematical construct that maps points from one space into another. In
our case, we need to map from a rectangle whose upper left corner is at
(0,0) to a rectangle that is centered along the bottom of the
movie's space. We do this by calling
setMatrix() on our text
track, with a
Matrix object that describes the spatial
transformation we want QuickTime to perform.
The formula for matrix transformations is shown in Figure 4. Don't run away. It's not that scary, at least not in practice.
Figure 4. The formula for matrix transformations
The formula means that, given a point (x,y), we get the new coordinates (x',y') by applying matrix multiplication. The transformation can be expressed more simply as a pair of formulas:
x' = ax + cy + tx
y' = bx + dy + ty
This buys us the ability to specify operations that move, rotate, and scale your source, all with one object. A full discussion of the possibilities is available on Apple's developer site.
For our purposes, we only need to specify a move to a pair of coordinates we
calculate as
boxLeft and
boxTop, which are then used
to create a
QDRect object called
toBox. We can then
create a
Matrix that represents the moving of pixels from the
textBox, with an upper left corner of (0,0), to
toBox, with upper left corner of (
boxTop). Setting this as the text track's matrix causes QuickTime
to use the matrix when drawing the text frames at playback time:
Matrix transformMatrix = new Matrix();
QDRect toBox = new QDRect (boxLeft, boxTop,
transformMatrix.map (textBox, toBox);
textTrack.setMatrix (transformMatrix);
If you read the docs, you'll notice that the
tx and ty values
are the only ones used for moving pixels; i.e., for translating between
coordinate spaces. So we could replace the
map() call with:
transformMatrix.setTx (boxLeft);
transformMatrix.setTy (boxTop);
Either way, this puts the text box in its proper location relative to the rest of the movie, as seen in Figure 5.
Figure 5. A better timestamp location
The QTJ
Matrix class provides a several methods that allow you
to define matrices that can perform scaling and rotation operations, all
without you having to do your own trigonometry. For example, adding this
rather silly call rotates our timecode counter-clockwise by 45 degrees,
centered on the top left corner:
transformMatrix.rotate (315, boxLeft, boxTop);
The result looks amusing as a screenshot, but is more impressive (or just plain goofy) when played as an accurate, running timecode for the movie, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. A rotated timestamp
Overall, the code for this example is fairly similar to that of the first one. Again
we create a text
Track and accompanying
which we populate with samples. The
addTextSample has a few
differences to superimpose the text onto the video:
fontSize is 14, for better readability.
style is
QDConstants.bold, for better readability.
StdQTConstands.dfKeyedText is given as the
displayFlags argument.
This use of
dfKeyedText produces a chromakey effect, replacing the background color (
QDColor.black, in our case) with the pixels from the video underneath. So the black box surrounding the text becomes invisible, and we just see the text on top of the video.
As before, the resulting movie is
flatten()ed out to a file,
this time called timecoded.mov, which you can open in QuickTime
Having done this simple little timecode with a text track, it should be
noted that QuickTime offers a real "timecode track" as one of the
many track types it supports. It is much more involved than is necessary for this tutorial, but if you have professional needs, check out the
TimeCoder and
TimeCodeMedia classes in QTJ.
Now that we've done some simple text tracks, the next step is to get into the good stuff: writing out video tracks from scratch. In our next article, we'll do just that, borrowing an image-to-movie effect from our favorite Civil War documentarian.
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Each year, CPSC receives about 15 reports of choking deaths to children under age 3. Some of these deaths involve items that are considered known hazards such as small toys, toy parts, balloons, balls and marbles. In addition to known hazards, such as balloons, there are many tragic deaths each year that result from hidden hazards. These are often small objects not intended for use by children but that accidentally end up in their hands and mouths. "Parents and caregivers should stay on the lookout for small parts breaking off of toys or young children getting their hands on items intended for older siblings," said CPSC Chairman Hal Stratton. "Marbles and balls are the most recognizable hazards; but everyday household items also pose choking dangers."Choking has long been the leading cause of toy-related deaths to young children. To help prevent these deaths, the Commission requires age-appropriate labeling on toys and products for older children that contain small parts. Toys designed for children 3 and older should be kept away from young children. Balloons, a leading cause of toy-related deaths, are often a favorite of young children. However, un-inflated balloons and fragments from popped balloons can choke and kill a small child. CPSC has designed new choking awareness posters to educate parents and caregivers about the potential hazards to young children regarding small parts. The posters are available in English and Spanish (both downloadable here in portable document format - pdf). Steps parents can take to keep their children safe include:
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text: The Secret Covenant of the Illuminati TaraStreet posted:1/18/2012 12:08:20 AM The Secret Covenant of the IlluminatiLincolnGenghis posted:1/18/2012 7:32:10 PM That video exceeded my patience. I wanted to stick a fork in that jumpy eyeball.I think the jumpy film was meant to possibly induce some kind of trance in some people. For me it just made me feel like hunting down the person who made it and throw a full sealed beer can at their head over and over until they promise to use image stabilization on their next work.LincolnGenghis posted:1/18/2012 7:37:11 PM Ok I am in a better mood now. Thinking about it the can might rupture and I would waste good beer on an idiot so I will rethink the whole thing. Maybe throwing dead free roadkill would be more cost effective.TaraStreet posted:1/18/2012 8:19:51 PM Indeed more cost effective Mike, I will bring the beer and the firepit for the leftovers.macros72 posted:1/18/2012 8:57:13 PM The Illuminati follow an order given to them by things we still deem a mystery(and discuss frequently here). It started along time ago when we where easier to control. Depictions of Gods where contructed for all to see. We normal folk wondered over these old but beautiful images and just accepted them. The guys behind this (Illuminati) worshipped in private towards the real engineers of this. Who are they? Well you see them but you dont. In present day I may warn you that certain individuals deemed to be focused on helping are in fact members of this hidden group. You may also find that the "bad leaders of countries" are infact protecting themselves from the truth you cannot see. Alas, the "bad" nations are then termed - terrorist. What if anything deemed UFO is then related to orignating off world? A great remote viewer once stated online, "Well yes I sense them but they are not from here nor from up there". He carried on to state that the majority of UFO was linked to an hidden control upon Earth. (not the bible) (( The Illuminati was devised by what isnt here but is )) Please question: What cannot be from here nor up there? Heres a clue: Look in the mirror. Well its time to go and sleep of a better future. gemini663181 posted:1/19/2012 2:21:35 PM These secret societies are based on alchemical practices and are beyond number. They have always existed in Europe and have been a major influence in modern times. To fully understand them it takes lots of research. Start at levity.com seek the alchemical text. They are in latin mostly but arabic as well as chinese and of course they are translated in english, for those who do not speak or read latin. The masonic/ Templar/ Alchemical text are not as scary as people seem to think. It is science before science existed. Lots of it began in Egypt and Babylon. It is not just fable it is true science.gemini663181 posted:1/19/2012 2:24:14 PM There are so many theories out there but the truth is available outside of the rag mags. It does require some research and perhaps some travel for those who are serious about uncovering the truth.gemini663181 posted:1/19/2012 2:31:46 PM The Illuminati were all scientist and mathematicians who gathered together to bring science to a world who killed all who were not religious fanatics. It was a world filled with crusade and death. Most who wrote treatices were burned at the stake or met with worse forms of death for their belief that there was a science to the world that we live in. In the middle ages when most societies like those that we speak of were being hunted. The religious fanatics were killing all who had knowledge of mathematics and science. We should thank those who lost their lives to bring science into a world filled with fanatics who today would be called terrorist.macros72 posted:1/19/2012 6:29:31 PM Someone should dare to make a horror flick based upon this hidden group.spiritech0 posted:1/20/2012 12:37:07 PM The media talking heads have been reporting more and more exceptional scientists are being murdered. Consider their countries of origin. Also, shouldn't the Illuminati be the opposite of shadow ops?macros72 posted:1/20/2012 6:18:36 PM In Reply To:macros72 posted:1/19/2012 6:29:31 PM Someone should dare to make a horror flick based upon this hidden group.Does the movie, Eyes Wide Shut bear any conection towards this group? Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Saginaw Valley State University's men's soccer team has taken drama to a new level.
In their past three postseason matches, the Cardinals have won in a penalty-kick shootout, in overtime and in double overtime.
"It's been exciting, to say the least," said Cary-Grove graduate Taylor Clarke, a junior defender for the NCAA Division II school in University Center, Mich. "It's been stressful, too."
Clarke and his SVSU teammates washed their stress away Sunday with a 1-0 victory against Northeastern (Okla.) State University to advance to the first NCAA Final Four in school history.
"I don't think any of us saw this coming," said Clarke, who has started every game this season. "We've gotten a lot of recognition on campus. We have people coming up to us, congratulating us."
The Cardinals, ranked No. 12 in the nation, will travel to Evans, Ga., this week for a national semifinal match against Simon Fraser University on Thursday. The semifinal winners will face off Dec. 1 for the national title.
"Our head coach (Cale Wassermann) said since he got here during my freshman year that we were going to focus on graduation and winning a national championship," Clarke said. "He's instilled that in us since he's been here."
Clarke, who has started 54 matches in his career, has played a big role in the team's success. SVSU (17-2-4) has suffocated opposing offenses all season, with a 0.65 goals-against average and 13 shutouts. In late October and early November, the Cardinals posted seven consecutive shutout wins.
Clarke said the team's success has been driven by everyone on the field taken defense seriously.
"We've all been solid," he said. "A big thing for us is communication. The guys are confident, and we know what we're capable of."
Clarke, who serves as a team captain, said his focus this season has been on "leadership and communication. It's helped us a lot, whether it's on the field or off the field."
While the team had a joyful flight home from Oklahoma last weekend, Clarke said the team has been focused on the Final Four since returning to campus.
"We don't want to stop and smell the roses too much," he said. "One nice thing about this team is we know what we've done. But we've also been able to focus on what's next."
Making Viterbo go: Huntley grad Bre Burry and McHenry West's Molly Machometa both earned first-team All-Midwest Collegiate Conference honors this fall at Viterbo in women's soccer.
Machometa, a freshman forward, also was named the MCC Newcomer of the Year after leading the NAIA with 3.94 points a game and ranked second in the nation with 31 goals. She also had nine assists on the season.
A sophomore midfielder, Burry was part of an offense that ranked sixth nationally with 3.79 goals a game. Burry had three goals and four assists this season. The V-Hawks (15-3-1) ended their season Nov. 17 in a 2-1 loss to No. 12 Olivet Nazarene in a first-round NAIA tournament match.
Leatherneck success: D-I Western Illinois' women's soccer team posted its best record since 2007 this fall with a first-year coaching staff that included Cary-Grove graduate and former Northern Illinois standout Kesley Passaglia.
Serving as an assistant to head coach Ted Flogaites, Passaglia helped guide WIU to a 13-6 record and a berth in the Summit League postseason tournament after a third-place regular-season finish (5-3). Western lost a 1-0 decision to eventual champion Oakland in the Summit tournament.
Last season, Western finished 7-12, including a 1-8 in conference.
Concordia standout: Crystal Lake Central grad Scott Illich earned second-team All-Northern Athletics Conference football honors this fall at D-III Concordia University Chicago.
Illich, the team's starting right offensive tackle, helped the Cougars to a 10-0 regular season as part of an offense that averaged 38.8 points and 485.7 yards a game. Concordia ranks 14th nationally in yards a game and 20th in scoring offense.
In a first-round D-III playoff game last weekend, Concordia lost a 24-23 decision to Bethel.
Humm helps Oakland: Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Humm ranked second for D-I Oakland University's women's volleyball team in kills (329) and digs (418) while helping the Golden Grizzlies to a 16-13 record.
Humm, a Prairie Ridge grad, had 14 kills and 12 digs last week in a 3-2 Summit League Tournament semifinal loss to eventual champion IPFW. Humm had a season-best 20 kills Sept. 1 against Iowa.
Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at [ mailto:email@example.com ]email@example.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports.com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.


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Together, Brian Benitez and Bobby Fernandez have more than 70 years of experience surfing the waves of Oahu's South Shore, and both say the swell that began last Thursday evening is the most consistently large surf they've seen in a decade or more.
"You know, last time it was somewhere in the '60s or the early '70s," Benitez said of the last time the South Shore was so big for so long. "We used to have back-to-back swells like this, but for nowadays this is very unusual, but unreal."
"I haven't seen it like this in a while, maybe 15, 16 years ago I seen it big for like a whole week," added Fernandez, as another eight foot set crashed on the outside reef at Ala Moana Bowls.
Although surfers have a tendency to exaggerate the size of swells in years gone by, the National Weather Service says experienced surfers know exactly what they're talking about - the south swell that began late last week is producing among the most consistently large waves to hit Oahu's southern coast in quite some time.
"To see a single day of surf like we've had in the summer is not all that uncommon, maybe we get that about once or twice a summer that'll peak out at the sizes that we've seen," said Derek Wroe, a NWS forecaster. "But, what's really unusual about this event is that it's lasted so long. It's been going on for over four days now, and that's the really unusual thing. You'd have to go back quite some time, probably decades, since you've see something like that happen."
NOAA surf forecaster Pat Caldwell agrees with Wroe's assessment. Caldwell looked back at surf observation archives dating back to 1972, and found that only three other swells remained as large as the current south swell for several days. One large south swell in 1976 lasted four days, while two others in 1980 also hit the four day mark. "So, it's been 33-years since we've had such a pattern," Caldwell wrote in an email to KITV4.
The large surf has kept Ocean Safety lifeguard busy, to say the least. In the first three days of the swell, 345 rescues and assists were performed on the South Shore. Lifeguard Buck Giles told KITV4 that more than half of those taking advantage of the waves are experienced surfers, but there are some common themes in how people get into trouble, or need some help getting back to shore.
"Most of the things that we've been up against have been people breaking leashes, losing their boards getting caught in currents and needing assistance getting back to shore," said Giles. "There have been some incidences where people got too close to the shore and got swept in."
Lifeguards patrolling the South Shore have brought in an extra wave runner crew to respond more quickly to surfers or swimmers in distress, but of course they can't be everywhere, even with two rescue teams in the water. That's why Giles said he's so appreciative of those members of the public that have been acting like extra sets of eyes gazing at the horizon. "We've gotten a few 911 calls from people from shore or buildings saying, 'Hey, we have a person in distress, lost their board.' So, the community has helped out a lot as well."
On Tuesday, surf on the South Shore is expected to drop to the 2 to 5 foot range, but a high surf advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. Another swell hitting Wednesday is expected to take waves back up above 6 feet.
Giles says beachgoers should remain vigilant and be on the lookout for waves that could knock them off rocky ledges, which is what happened Saturday at the surf spot China Walls in Portlock when a group of people had to be assisted by lifeguards and a Good Samaritan.
"Watch the waves (and) be aware of the signage," said Giles.
Wroe said the large, consistent surf is the result of a blocking pattern in the southern hemisphere that has allowed powerful storms to track into a "sweet spot" for wave generation just east of New Zealand. Although it's too soon to predict with certainty, the same weather pattern could send another large swell to Hawaii south shores the first week of June.


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Individuals, communities and utilities may be able to receive financial help with repairing damages from the recent winter storms, according to a news release from U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.
According to the release:
• Telecommunication and electric cooperatives have access to normal lines of credit through the USDA Rural Utilities Service for repairs. Cooperatives with outstanding debt to the service may request assistance to bring their system back on line as quickly as possible. Other eligible utilities may seek expedited funding requests from Rural Development.
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First game this year I get to go to. Looking forward to Knicks getting #10 tonight
I can't make any graphics for the game threads this week so we'll keep it simple this week!
Game Preview
Nothing Carmelo Anthony does should come as a surprise to the Atlanta Hawks.
Anthony enters off his first 50-point effort for the New York Knicks, who will try for their 10th straight victory Wednesday night when they visit the Hawks.
New York (47-26) is enjoying its longest win streak since the 1993-94 team won 15 in a row, with Anthony turning in a spectacular performance in the opener of this two-game trip. He matched a career high with 50 points, making his first seven shots and finishing 7 of 10 on 3-pointers Tuesday in a 102-90 victory over a Miami team playing without LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
"I think just from the start of the game, it's a feeling that you just have while you're out there on the court," Anthony said. "Sometimes you get off to a good start and then you get cold the rest of the game, but tonight wasn't one of those cases."
In three games against Atlanta (42-33) under former Hawks coach Mike Woodson, Anthony is averaging 39.0 points. He scored 42 and tied a franchise record with nine 3-pointers in a 106-104 victory Jan. 27 in these teams' only previous meeting this season.
Anthony is averaging an NBA-high 9.0 points per game in the first quarter. He scored 17 in the first period Tuesday, marking the fifth time this season he has scored at least that many through 12 minutes.
Knicks center Tyson Chandler had two rebounds and two blocks in 23 minutes in his return after missing 10 games with a bulging disc.
Chandler said that he does not know whether he will play Wednesday, but that he felt "no serious pain but some stiffness and soreness."
New York cut its magic number to five to capture its first Atlantic Division title since 1993-94. The Knicks pulled into a virtual tie with Central Division leader Indiana in the race for the No. 2 seed.
"It's going to be a fight all the way to the end with Indiana and we want to win our division so these guys are playing for something," Woodson said. "So every game means something and it's important that we continue to win."
While the Knicks caught a break Tuesday since the Heat played without their two best players, they could be similarly fortunate one night later.
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First game this year I get to go to. Looking forward to Knicks getting #10 tonight
Knicks moved directly from florida to georgia long distance hope they wont be to tired to play
Georgia is actually very close to Florida
My Man Melo is still in Miami mode ... RED HOT
Melo get M.V.P chants on the road...
Knicks playing a nice complete game so far, but other than Melo, no one has done enough to help us pull ahead. We just need to tighten things up here in the 4th and we can outclass these guys, plain and simple, even on their home court. Let's go Knicks!
layup line for Felton
Melo to JR!! game over
Great win actually - I have been impressed with this winning streak in the face of adversity. I will admit i thought it was all over a few weeks ago, but very impressed with the courage and heart shown
this thread is empty because all the members are at the game cheering for nyk,
Running out of things to say about this team. We are beyond legit at this point. Just need to stay healthy and the sky's the limit. Tonight's achievement was we are now guaranteed our first winning road record in 16 years. Lebron may eliminate Melo's chances at an MVP bid, but Woodson needs to get consideration for Coach of the Year and JR needs to win 6th Man of the Year in a landslide.
10 game win streak! I can't even remember when we last had a dd win streak.
God please let Atlanta fall to 6th or 7th so we can play them in the first round


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Re: July Dirt Racing: Tony
After looking at my twitter.........it looks like Tony was spending his day in Indianapolis with the media. He probably couldn't cancel any of that to go to Limaland tonight. Do you think he will race at all at Eldora this weekend? He'll be in Loudon for practice and qualifying...........does that leave him any time to get to Eldora? Busy man.


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This should be an easy win for our Knicks.
But if the Suns somehow get their run and gun game going, watch out. That's how the rockets beat us bad, the transition game, and I'm hoping for an improved level of focus when defending a run and gun team, assuming that Phoenix still plays a fast paced offense.


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The 2013 flu season is reaching epidemic proportions. Beyond the flu shot, and avoiding physical contact like handshakes...how about pumping up your immune system at the grocery store?!
Experts at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics have come up with a list of smart food choices that can help boost your immunity.
Start with protein. Lean meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, beans and soy products can all help build your defenses.
Vitamin A works to protect you from infections by keeping your skin, respiratory system and tissues in your mouth and stomach healthy. Your best bets here include colorful carrots, kale, spinach, sweet potatoes, and red bell peppers.
Vitamin C boosts immunity and helps you form antibodies that fight off infection. Citrus fruits of all kinds are a great place to start.
Nuts are packed with Vitamin E... which works as an antioxidant neutralizing free radicals.
Throw in some almonds or sunflower seeds for a little healthy Zinc. It helps the immune system work properly and may help wounds heal. You can also find it in lean beef, crab, black eye peas and tofu!
Bottom line, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics...foods that are rich in nutrients help fight infections and may help prevent illness. Call it flu-trition!
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Wisconsinites who get federal unemployment will see their benefits drop by nearly 11 percent due to automatic budget cuts.
The state Department of Workforce Development said about 30,000 people will be affected starting the week of April 7. The reductions will continue at least through Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year.
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In addition to the Introduction to Empirical Methods course in the common core, MPAff students are required to take another three-hour course in quantitative analysis, selected from among a set of courses focusing on the application of quantitative theory and techniques to policy analysis. Topics offered vary from year to year but include econometrics, demographic techniques, systems analysis, simulation modeling, and quantitative indicator methods. As the second course in the two-course MPAff quantitative sequence, this course is intended to provide students with an in-depth understanding and hands-on experience with a specific quantitative method useful in policy analysis. This course is usually taken during the second semester of the first year.
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"Eureka, there's a 98 percent correlation!" Many users of time series data do not realize that trends and common movements of observations of variables over time, such as employment and prices over seasons and business cycles, present special problems. Improper tests can find statistical correlations that do not indicate causality. Also, mutilation problems arise from a commonly used smoothing procedure: moving averages. This is a user-friendly course in applied statistics in which estimates of economic activity including national income estimates, employment survey data, and financial data will be described. Attempted solutions will be presented for transforming time series for testing purposes. The methods presented include Granger causality tests, autoregressive filter procedures, and cointegration procedures. Control problems that occur when a variable is under the control of the government will be addressed. There will be a final statistical project.


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It starts with a headache across my forehead. Gradually it stretches to my temples, squeezing both sides as if my head were in a vice. Then all of the pain shifts to the right side of my face and head. The pain is so intense and concentrated on that side that I find myself drawing an imaginary line up the center of my face, from the tip of my chin, through my nose to my forehead and back around my head. I think if only I could remove the right side of my face and head the pain would be gone.
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I first experienced migraines as a child. Not mine, but my father's. I learned at a young age the telltale signs my father was suffering with a migraine. If I got off the bus from school and saw my father's car in the driveway in the middle of the day, a bottle of ginger ale or soda water on the counter next to an open Time magazine (I have no idea how he could possibly read, feeling as he did), I knew my father was upstairs in bed, blinds closed, holding his head in his hands trying to sleep off the pain.
His only remedy was the drug Emprin. I don't ever remember him taking anything stronger; I do remember his migraines lasting as long as five days. As a kid it was hard to predict when my father would get a migraine but as an adult now I suspect it was after a long and stressful case (he is a lawyer), or simply while fasting on a Jewish holiday.
I know myself that I rarely get hit with a migraine during a stressful stretch. Ironically it usually hits AFTER the project is completed when I start to relax. Some reward, right? My migraines come in three stages:
Approach: I am nearly immobilized by horrible head pain and nausea. About the only thing to do is grab an Imitrex and an anti-nausea drug, and like my father and fellow sufferers, shut the blinds and try to sleep holding my head in my hands praying the pain will subside.
Sustaining: the drugs are working, my head feels better and the nausea has lessened. I no longer feel like sleeping in the dark for hours, but the pain is still obvious and I prefer people around me to be very, very quiet. I still have this strange feeling of being wrapped in the grips of a migraine but I am slowly beginning to emerge.
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