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Today, it's been 13 months since I've been living in the States. I've been called a Nazi, asked if we have electricity in Germany, and been made fun of the way I speak with my "German accent", the list goes on. I'm not even German, I'm Danish. FML
by LearnGeographyUSA / 12/12/2012 at 1:45am / United States (Washington) / Kids
Today, my son turned 8. We watched as he unwrapped a $55 Nerf gun, extra 'bullets', new shoes and a school bag with his favorite TV character on the front and a action figure inside. As he finished he looked me straight in the eyes and says, "That's great ma, but seriously what'd you get me?". FML
by Anonymous / 12/02/2012 at 3:19am / Australia (New South Wales) / Kids
Today, my brother paid the DJ $300 to ruin my wedding by playing the Imperial Death March as I walked down the aisle. FML
by Anonymous / 12/15/2012 at 3:52am / United States (Washington) / Miscellaneous
Today, I bought my son a nice car for his 18th birthday. When I gave it to him, he just got mad and told me that if I really wanted to spend that much money on him, I should've used it to help him pay for college. FML
by Anonymous / 12/05/2012 at 6:27am / Israel / Kids
Today, my 14-year-old daughter came home after sneaking out and partying. She was totally drunk, and started crying on my shoulder because some boy named "Thomas" has a small dick, and she had to fake an orgasm. FML
by valnaj1 / 12/24/2012 at 10:03pm / Denmark (Syddanmark) / Intimacy
Today, one of the girls who has made it her job to ruin my life cornered me in the hallway at school. She tried to insult me, and for the first time in my life I had a scathing comeback. My elation quickly ended when she violently shoved my face into the water fountain. FML
by ShadowReiku / 12/13/2012 at 3:39am / United States (Maryland) / Miscellaneous
Today, as every day for the past few weeks, my husband won't have sex. His reason? We've decided to have a baby, and he reckons that the longer he waits, the more competition there will be between his sperm and thus the better the result will be. FML
by Bouh / 12/26/2012 at 11:04pm / Love
Today, after having sex, my girlfriend left my apartment after furiously ranting at me, because I made her come "too many times" and that it's "unfair" to her. What? FML
by AllegroRubato / 12/04/2012 at 3:09pm / Chile (Region Metropolitana) / Intimacy
Today, my daughter finally gave birth to twin boys. She informed me that she named them Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck. My grandsons are named after Hobbits. FML
by Anonymous / 12/06/2012 at 11:49pm / United States (Minnesota) / Kids
Today, my girlfriend donated most of my book collection because she got me a Kindle for Christmas. Some were signed, including my Harry Potters. FML
by Anonymous / 12/27/2012 at 11:31pm / United States / Love
Today, feeling very distant to my daughter recently, I decided to sneak a peek in her diary to see what was on her mind. The book was apparently one of those that play the sound of a woman screaming when opened improperly, and alerted everyone in the house to my actions. FML
by Anonymous / 12/08/2012 at 2:30pm / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, a senile old lady came up to me and offered me chocolate. I noticed that it was ex-lax, so I politely told her no. My 4-year-old daughter pushed me aside and ate the ex-lax, because she thought it was candy. I now have a stinky child on a 3 hour bus ride, with no stops. FML
by Anonymous / 12/09/2012 at 11:29am / United States (Texas) / Transportation
Today, I was sitting cross-legged, idly jerkin' the gherkin. I guess I got slightly carried away, because I zoned out, forgot where I was aiming, and came all over the side of my face, up my nose and into my eye. FML
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Mr. Wallace was born May 30, 1966, in Beeville to Walter Wallace Sr. and Beverly E. Lara. He was an electrician by trade and was a member of International Brotherhood of electrical workers.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Spurgeon and Marceline Garrett and Levi Clifton Wallace and Lela Francis Miller Wallace.
Survivors include his wife, Wendy Wallace of Beeville; three sons, Wally Wallace III of Beeville, Tony Wallace and JP Wallace, both of Corpus Christi; one daughter, Megan Wallace of Beeville; parents, Walter (Ella) Wallace Sr. of Beeville and Beverly (Ricky) Lara of Beeville; four sisters, Teresa (James) Halpain of Madisonville, Robin Maldonado of Friendswood, Priscilla Enriquez and Julie McGivern, both of San Antonio; three grandchildren, Marina Spencer, Aareon Wallace and Jade Simpson; one brother, Michael Rios of San Antonio; an uncle, David Henry Wallace; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
A memorial service was held Saturday, June 28, at 2 p.m. at Treviño Funeral Home with Pastor Carl Pickett officiating.
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Wisconsin protester fined for spitting at Romney event
A Wisconsin protester who spit on a Mitt Romney supporter last year during an event in Grand Chute will be fined but not criminally charged.
The August event was on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate, who was not in attendance. It was part of a statewide "Wisconsin Women for Mitt" tour.
Video from the event shows the 83-year-old protester interrupting Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling to ask about GOP opposition to Planned Parenthood.
A woman standing next to the protester chides her in a loud voice to "wait until she's done. Zip it. Zip it." The protester tells the woman to get out of her face, and then spits on her.
A WLUK-TV report says a Green Lake County prosecutor recommended a $277 fine but no charges.
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A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse biology professor and a graduate from the university's biology graduate school program have discovered three new species of edible mushrooms in Hixon Forest.
While in graduate school, Matthew Foltz did research that led to the discovery of the three new species.
UW-L Biology Professor Tom Volk, Foltz, and UW-L Biology Assistant Professor Kathryn Perez co-authored a paper about their discovery, which was published in the March-April 2013 edition of "Mycologia." Their paper also describes how the new species were "previously all masquerading under the blanket classification of 'Chanterelle,' or 'Cantharellus cibarius,'" according to the news release.
The researchers named the new species based on the mushrooms' appearance. The new species are called: "Cantharellus phasmatis," named for its ghostly white-colored stem; "Cantharellus flavus," named for its overall yellow color; and "Cantharellus spectaculus," named for its contrast of its orange and salmon/purple coloring, Volk said. The researchers say these edible mushrooms grow in association with hardwood trees, particulaly oaks.
Volk and Foltz found the three species about 20 meters away from another one in Hixon Forest. With Perez's help, Foltz extracted regions of DNA from the mushroom and compared it to related mushrooms to compare them at the molecular level.
"I never thought going into this program I would walk away with three new species attached to my name," Foltz said. "To come this far in that amount of time, I feel like I had a great opportunity. I thank Tom for that opportunity."
"If new discoveries are being made with these large, conspicuous, edible mushrooms, you can only imagine what is happening with the more obscure species," Volk said. "To have these three new species growing within such a small area is pretty remarkable."


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Have you noticed the number of different types of JAR files that you have to deal with lately in J2EE?! JAR files do not just hold EJBs anymore. Rather, JAR files are being used to store utility classes, web applications, enterprise applications, and Java Connector Architecture (JCA) resource adapters. Additionally, in some scenarios, some JAR files are composed of other JAR files.
Now that most major application servers are supporting dynamic class (un)loading with custom classloaders, what are the issues J2EE developers face when working with all of these packaging technologies? This article discusses some of the nuances associated with J2EE packaging and provides some hints to make you more productive.
Currently, the J2EE 1.3 specification defines an enterprise application packaging unit to be a JAR file with an
.ear extension. EAR files can contain one or more:
.jar extension)
.war extension)
.rar extension)
.jar extension)
Since most web-based J2EE applications are composed of web and EJB applications, the EAR file meets the basic requirements for packaging an application. However, it is lacking in capability for packaging complicated J2EE applications. For example, the following components are often used in a J2EE application, but cannot be declared in an EAR file:
MessageConsumer that runs as part of a
Currently, all of these components of an application have to be manually configured and deployed through a vendor's administration interface. As the usage of the items listed above increases over time, it will become more important for EAR files to natively support packaging of these components to achieve true J2EE application portability.
Give your questions to Tyler Jewell.
Also in EJB 2:
Unlocking the True Power of Entity EJBs
Stateful Session EJBs: Beasts of Burden
EJB 2 and J2EE Packaging, Part II
EJB 2.0 Specification Release Review
The most frequent question raised about J2EE packaging is in regards to utility and support classes. When packaging a web application or an EJB application, where should you place these libraries?! If you place these classes into the standard
CLASSPATH of your application server, they will likely lose any unloading ability that Web/EJB applications have that are driven by special classloaders used to load them at deployment. If your Web/EJB applications need to change the version of the libraries that they use, then the dependent library will need to be re-deployed when the Web/EJB application is re-deployed. In this scenario, storing utility classes on the standard
CLASSPATH is not a feasible option, since the entire application server would have to be restarted for each deployment of a Web/EJB application. (Yuck!)
Given the standard definition of J2EE, where are you supposed to place libraries so that they can be re-deployed with an application at runtime? I've seen some creative, yet undesirable, solutions:
Utility classes and JAR files can be placed in the
WEB-INF\lib directory of a Web application. Generally, the
WEB-INF\lib directory should primarily be used for the storage of servlet classes, but servlets/JSPs will look for classes in this directory when loading new ones. If the utility library that you are using is only needed by your servlets/JSPs, then this solution will meet all of your needs. However, if the same libraries are also needed by your EJBs, JMS consumers, or startup/shutdown classes, then this option will not work since the
WEB-INF\lib directory is not visible to these items.
A complete copy of all of the utility libraries is placed in each EJB JAR file in addition to the
WEB-INF\lib directory. When an EJB is deployed, an EJB classloader will only look within its own JAR file for any utility classes that are referenced. It will not look within the JAR files of other EJB applications that have been deployed or in the WEB-INF\lib directory. If all of your EJB applications require the use of the same library, then placing a copy of each of that library's classes in each JAR file will meet your needs. The utility classes will be re-deployable along with the EJB.
The second solution is admittedly gross:
So what is the right solution to this dilemma? One of the possible solutions is to eliminate the need for multiple JARs in your J2EE application by converging all of your EJBs and their utility classes into a single, unified package. The EJB 2.0 public final draft 2 (PFD2) specification is driving some projects to do this. This new version of the specification mandates that entity EJBs participating in a relationship do so using local interfaces and requires both of the EJBs in the relationship to be packaged into the same JAR file. PFD1 allowed EJBs in different JAR files to participate in relationships, further promoting greater modularity of the system, but ultimately limited the persistence optimizations that containers could do for CMP entity beans in a relationship. Now that PFD2 eliminates this capability, many vendors are providing tools that perform EJB JAR convergence. These tools will take as input two valid EJB JAR files and merge their contents and deployment descriptors into a single, unified package. You could potentially use one of these convergence tools to re-package your existing JAR applications.
Keep in mind that even if you converge all of your EJBs into a single JAR application, you will have eliminated copies of your utility library among the EJBs, but a copy will still exist in your
WEB-INF\lib library. Additionally, the need for modularity of EJB applications still exists, since many companies desire to re-deploy EJBs on an individual basis. Since every EJB in a JAR will be re-deployed when that JAR file is re-deployed, an unnecessary amount of deployment processing could occur if your only desire is to re-deploy a single EJB.
With the release of JDK 1.3, Sun Microsystems redefined the "extension mechanism," which is the functionality necessary to support optional packages. The extension mechanism is designed to support two things:
Additionally, the J2EE 1.3 specification's section 8.1.2 mandates that compliant application servers must support the extension mechanism as defined for JAR files. This requires that any deployment tool that references a JAR file be capable of loading any optional libraries defined through the extension mechanism. This also implies that if an application server or deployment tool supports runtime undeployment and re-deployment of EJB applications that use libraries via the extension mechanism, then that tool or application server must also support undeployment and re-deployment of any dependent libraries!
Support for the extension mechanism does not exist for EAR, WAR, or RAR
applications as defined in the J2EE specification, since these applications are not directly loaded by a
ClassLoader instance. Web applications still have to have libraries packaged in the
WEB-INF\lib directory and resource-adapter applications can have libraries bundled directly in the RAR file. Enterprise applications will need to package any libraries within the Web, EJB, or resource-adapter application that requires them. So how does the extension mechanism work with EJB applications? A JAR file can reference a dependent JAR file by adding a
Class-Path manifest attribute. The
Class-Path manifest attribute lists the relative URLs to search for utility libraries. Multiple URLs can be specified in a single
Class-Path entry and a single JAR file can contain multiple
Class-Path entries. For example, a JAR file might have:
Class-Path: log4j.jar xmlx.jar foo/bar/util.jar
NOTE: If you use the extension mechanism in a J2SE application, the
Class-Path manifest entry can reference directories, too. But for J2EE applications that are wholly contained within JAR files, the
Class-Path manifest entry can only reference other JAR files.
The extension mechanism is a nice capability, especially since it is designed to handle circular redundancies by creating a unified class path containing all dependencies in first parsed-based ordering. For example, if the first EJB application parsed is
EJB1.jar and it references:
Class-Path: jaxp.jar EJB2.jar xmlx.jar
A classloader will then parse EJB2.jar that references:
Class-Path: jaxp.jar EJB1.jar
The resulting "application" class path that a classloader would ultimately use would be:
Class-Path: jaxp.jar EJB2.jar xmlx.jar EJB1.jar
The manifest class path will definitely spur better modularity of J2EE packages in the future. Using this model, developers can employ a simple scheme for determining which EJBs should be packaged into a single JAR file and which should be packaged in separate JAR files:
The only limitation that developers are now faced with is locating an application server that fully supports this packaging capability. Developers will need to look for application servers that run in a 1.3 JDK and fully support section 8.1.2 of J2EE 1.3. Without this support, developers will need to fall back to one of the other, less-desirable solutions posted in this article. Happy packaging!
Tyler Jewell , Director, Technical Evangelism, BEA Systems Tyler oversees BEA's technology evangelism efforts that are focused on driving early adoption of strategic BEA technologies into the ISV and developer community.
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As a state and as a nation, we're getting older.
"Every single day 10,000 people turn 65... and that's going to continue every day for the next 19 years," said Stan Michaels, a public health coordinator with the state Health Department's Injury Prevention Program.
Perhaps the growing number explains why so many of Hawaii's senior citizens are succumbing to injuries caused by falls. According to a new DOH publication called "Injuries in Hawaii: 2007-2011," 541 people died as the result of a fall during the five years studied.
Michaels believes the key to lowering the number of fatal falls among those in their golden years is better communication among relatives, caregivers and those who are most susceptible.
"We have to convince kupuna that they have lost a little bit of their balance and their strength, and they have to be aware of that," said Michaels, who himself is 71. "We have to let all the caregivers know that that's a possibility, and don't underestimate it – you've got to do tough love."
The second most common type of unintentional fatal injury in Hawaii is poisoning, not by an unknown substance, but rather prescription drugs that are either abused or ingested accidentally.
"It's less sort of the street drug use as opposed to medically prescribed substances, particularly opiates," explains Dan Galanis, an epidemiologist with the Injury Prevention Program, who helped compile much of the new data.
The report shows drugs caused 93 percent of fatal poisonings, including 32 percent from "narcotics and hallucinogens" and 34 percent from "sedative-hypnotic and psychotropic drugs."
Drugs and alcohol also played a role in the third leading cause of unintentional fatal injuries in the state, crashes involving motor vehicles.
According to the study, 40 percent of drivers involved in fatal car crashes tested positive for alcohol, almost one-quarter (23 percent) tested positive for drugs, and nearly half (49 percent) tested positive for either alcohol or drugs.
However, the 290 people who died as a result of motor vehicle collisions are considered an improvement from previous data five years earlier.
"All along, Hawaii's had lower rates per capita to the rest of the United States, and it looks like we're decreasing further. So, that's kind of a positive area in terms of the injury picture," said Galanis.
Finally, drowning remains high on the list of unintentional deaths in Hawaii caused by injury, coming in at number four. A total of 175 residents drowned from 2007 to 2011, most of them in the ocean.
Jim Howe, the operations chief for Honolulu Division of Ocean Safety, says while the number is alarming, it's important to point out that Hawaii is surrounded by the mighty Pacific.
"To put that in some context," said Howe, "we have an awful lot of folks who use the ocean on a regular basis. We as a community are doing a pretty good job of getting to people when they are in trouble."
In the past year, Ocean Safety officials have taken the initiative to improve response times even more with the goal of saving lives. Waverunner crews were added to Oahu's North Shore as well as the Windward side, bringing the number of fast response teams to two along each coastline.
"Really, what we're attempting to do is reduce the amount of time it takes to get a trained person on scene," said Howe. "Early intervention is the key to success in these situations."
Howe also points to the division's Junior Lifeguard Program, which for the past 20 years has helped educate teens about the dangers of the ocean and proper life-saving techniques.
"If they're well-trained and well-skilled, they can intervene and they can call (911)," said Howe. "It's about communication, and it's also about us all taking a little bit of responsibility for each other out there."
However, the one area where a call to action is perhaps the hardest to measure is suicides. During the five-year period studied, 795 Hawaii residents took their own lives.
"It may have peaked in 2010," Galanis said of Hawaii's suicide rate. "We're hoping that we're seeing more encouraging trends as of late."
According to the data, suicide was the second leading cause of death among those 10 to 19 years old. The report says the most common negative life events for victims were related to intimate relationship problems (34 percent), usually a break-up or divorce (12 percent), or serious illness or medical issues (26 percent).
The entire injuries in Hawaii report can be accessed online by visiting the DOH website at: http://hawaii.gov/health
Falls most common fatal injury among Hawaii residents
As a state and as a nation, we're getting older.
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Why Study Anthropology at Fisher?
As an anthropology major you will develop the skills necessary to:
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- Mehmet Dosemeci is an intellectual and political historian of modern Europe and the Turkish Republic. His work to date has explored the ambivalent ways that Turks and Europeans have approached, understood, and reacted to one another over the course of the world's most recent globalization. He has published on various aspects of this entangled history, examining: Turkey's relations with the European Union; development, dependency, and state directed industrialization; Turkish anti-westernism; and Turkey's place in the cold-war Mediterranean. His book, Debating Turkish Modernity: Civilization, Nationalism, and the EEC, will be published in Fall 2013 through Cambridge University Press.
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SPRINGFIELD – Students looking for the best college option to fit their needs – including tips to identify diploma mills and other consumer fraud – have a valuable new tool: www.ibhe.org.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) today launched a revamped website highlighted by a consumer information guide to help students navigate the sometimes daunting array of higher education opportunities.
"Higher education is more important today for more and more of our citizens than it's ever been before," Judy Erwin, Executive Director of the Board of Higher Education, says. "At the same time, the higher education landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, and our new website is an attempt to assist students and others in making wise and informed choices through a user-friendly environment designed to make them smarter consumers."
The web guide includes a listing of key questions and issues for students to consider when shopping for a college, including information about:
In addition, the website has links to carry consumers to other web pages where they can access financial aid applications, enroll in online classes, find out whether a college or university is accredited, and plumb deeper into understanding what collegiate opportunities may be right for them.
The consumer fraud section of the site explains what diploma mills are and lists common traits – no requirements for study, tests, or other academic assignments, for example, or having no faculty or classes – that will help consumers identify shady operations. The webpage suggests various questions to help consumers avoid being victimized by diploma mills, such as:
"Illinois has nearly 200 institutions of higher learning that offer quality academic programs and legitimate credentials," Erwin said. "Consumers need to be aware that there also are bogus institutions operating – particularly in the hard-to-regulate online market – solely to take advantage of people. This website can make consumers more savvy in avoiding being the victim of the scam artists."
The new IBHE website also introduces a new design aimed at making it more accessible and easy to use. The new home page, which features rotating photographs of Illinois colleges and universities, contains links to valuable higher education resources, information about grant programs, a daily digest of higher education news and roster of news releases from the Board and from colleges and universities, the Board's annual collegiate artists competition, and a calendar of upcoming events and meetings.
Other links take users to in-depth information about academic programs, higher education budgets and appropriations, legislative affairs, grant programs, data and statistics, featured links to other prominent higher education or state and national websites, and various reports and studies ranging from the study of faculty salaries to listings of new academic programs to the annual report to the General Assembly on the progress of underrepresented groups in Illinois higher education.
"We are pleased to unveil this new website, which contains a wealth of information about Illinois' stellar system of colleges and universities," Erwin said.


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FN Rising Star sets up new consultancy
Kiri Self, chief executive of technology consultancy The Realization Group Post Trade Services, has left the company to set up her own consulting firm.
Galaxias Capital Markets will offer independent consultancy and advice on capital markets technology, from pre-trade technology through to post-trade, and across a range of asset classes.
The company will also act as a networking platform, connecting organisations experiencing specific problems or issues with personally-recommended individuals who have the necessary skill sets to solve them.
Self, who was last year named one of Financial News' 40 under 40 Rising Stars in Trading and Technology, said a wave of regulation across the financial services industry had created new demand for specialist consulting services.
She said: "I think it's fair to say that every organisation operating within the capital markets environment is currently facing a host of challenges in terms of regulation, profit margins, increased competition and technological development. What we offer is a service that can address any or all of these issues professionally and in a timely manner. We have a vast database of personal contacts so we can connect clients with the right person with the skill set to help in whatever area requires solutions, fast."
Self, 31, joined The Realization Group in 2010 to establish its post-trade consultancy business. Prior to that, she worked at the London Stock Exchange for two years, before which she worked at Nyfix where she helped to build its Euro Millennium platform.


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This rich and gritty kidney bean curry is adapted from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries, an extensive and creative collection of Indian creations that are straightforward to follow and easily changed to suit the preferences of the cook. This collection is not vegetarian, but even if you took out the meat and seafood recipes, you would still have a fat cookbook with lots of inviting vegetarian recipes.
The key to this dish is to follow Iyer's method for creating a thick and creamy sauce. Water is added gradually to a blend of spices and tomato paste and simmered down in stages. I did adjust the quantity of water a bit, added some hot chilies, some shredded paneer and made a few other minor adjustments besides. The complexity of this dish is in the taste experience alone, as the preparation is a simple pleasure.
|Kidney Beans in a Slowly Simmered Tomato Sauce (Rajma)
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from 660 Curries
Cuisine: Indian
Published on April 22, 2009
Red kidney beans simmered in a rich and creamy Indian-spiced sauce with shredded paneer cheese
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Mastering is a bit of a nightmare I find, best to go with pros IF you can afford it. It's pretty expensive, I mastered my own album recently it took a lot of patients and second/ triple guessing. I used as many speakers and headphones as I could get my hands on and tried to get it to sound good on them all. I didn't limit or compress too much as the it's soul/jazz stuff, I found getting an even volume through out the album was tricky tho.
I did take it to a mastering facility just to run everything onto their tape machine which was affordable and gave the tracks a bit of smoothed out cohesiveness in sound. Overall I might have mixed it too dark, but that's my preference I guess.
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What i've been doing lately tho is trying to step away from complicated chains for every element, now is quite the opposite. Im pretty much not doing anything except having a limiter at the end of my chain. But b4 the limiter i have alloy 2 and ozone 4 , alloy i use the dynamics in there and normally gate the high end so there isnt any hiss, also ill widen the high end. After i get the high end where i want it ill de-ess to remove them ouch frequencies then that goes to my limiter that ill probly have a lil bit of gain on .. boom
no compressors
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> lite multiband compression
>harmonic exciter
>stereo widening on the high mids and highs
>EQ to taste
mastering is more about getting a consistent sound out of your mixes and having a cohesive album sound. Most mastering techniques have to do more with industry standards than they do with what sounds good. Ideally there would be no "mastering" and people would have a decent hifi to listen to mixes on. Like Dilla says "turn it up"
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I master Clients tracks for 40$ flat rate
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$40 a track? what if its like 25 tracks how much would it be? and what all would an artist need to send? just an mp3 of the track? ive never understood the process
Posted 19 November 2013 - 08:10 PM
Most of it isn't really more than some subtle stuff
EQ boost/cuts with a really wide Q.
A little MB Compression.
Actually its usually not much more than that unless I want to get into the ear candy stuff like Harmonic Exciters, or trying to give the track more color with some Nebula3 processing.
Posted 24 November 2013 - 10:04 PM
Usually you need to give up a 24bit Wav for mastering, you give up an MP3, then you have lowered the sound quality before the job has been started. I suppose if whoever was doing it used hardware it would cost more.
$40 a track? what if its like 25 tracks how much would it be? and what all would an artist need to send? just an mp3 of the track? ive never understood the process
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Mines would be:
1.Dbz- Of course!
4.One piece
5.Fairy tale
I would put bleach over naruto
The only thing that matters is DBZ being #1.
I think you need to read more manga and watch more anime.
Bleach > Naruto.
1 piece
fairy tail
Originally Posted by Temporary Account
I think you need to read more manga and watch more anime.
I think you are trolling my good sir.
Originally Posted by PuppyDogGeneral
Bleach > Naruto.
Best animes
1. Deidara
2. Deidara
3. Deidara
4. Deidara
5. Deidara
You obviously haven't seen Gurren Lagann. Galaxy throwing ftw.
Originally Posted by Lordlloyd7
I think you are trolling my good sir.
How? I really feel sorry for you if those are the only series that you have watched.
Originally Posted by Temporary Account
How? I really feel sorry for you if those are the only series that you have watched.
Where's your list than?
Originally Posted by Yo pappy
You obviously haven't seen Gurren Lagann. Galaxy throwing ftw.
Seen it and no.
1.Saint Seiya
2.Dragon Ball Z
3.One Piece
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
in terms of power and abilities
1. tenchi muyo
2. slayers
3. noein
4. bastard!
5. digimon
You trollong lol!
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
how am i trolling?
I would have to agree; as much as I loved it, if digimon made your list, you're probably trolling.
Well, this is just my opinion as I have watched different anime from alot of people but from my perspective I would say I suppose...
2) Yu Yu Hakusho
3) Naruto
4) One Piece
5) Saiyuki
I probably will change my mind in 5 minutes...lol
Originally Posted by Kage Phoenix
I would put bleach over naruto
No I'm reality Naruto and one piece above bleach in power now.
The title is extremely misleading. Should be more something like "rank dbz/naruto/one piece/bleach/fairy shit in terms of strength" since that's all you've seem to mention.
But to the list, it's gotta be something like this
1. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magicka
2-5. don't care
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
digimon has guys like
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Origin: Digimon
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Evil God Digimon, Mega/Ultimate level
Powers and Abilities: Super Strength, flight/levitation, time manipulation, teleportation, intangibility, transmutation, telepathy, dimensional/universal manipulation, governs all space and time, can consign his opponents to the gulf beyond space-time and has a Fractal Code to negate his powers, etc.
Weaknesses: Ryo, his mere presence weakened Zeed. Zeed's seal negates his full/true power, if the seal is released, then everything – all time and space will be destroyed.
Destructive Capacity: Multiverse level
Range: Multiversal
Speed: Not omnipresent level
Durability: Multiverse level
Strength: Class 100+
Stamina: Infinite
Intelligence: Knowledge of many universes, including the past, present and future. He's shown motives that suggest significant foresight, he is brilliantly intelligent in his plots. Is also a member of Gaia Origin (Digimon World: Dawn/Dusk).
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Fallen Hell: Makes a dark portal which pulls everything around him into a "chaos world" and putting the whole universe into total darkness.
- Chrono Paradox: Fires two atomic rays out of his mouths that destroy everything in their way and can destroy a whole universe in a single shot.
- Time Destroyer: Sends his enemies to the other side of space-time.
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Loaded Potato Soup-Gundersen Lutheran 500 Club
Loaded Potato Soup
Makes 4 (1 ¼-cup) servings
Getting started Equipment you will need: fork, paper towels, knife/cutting board, medium saucepan, microwave-safe plate, spoon, ladle Do right away when you get home: Action steps 1 & 2
4 medium red potatoes
1/2 cup onion
2 tsp. olive oil
1 1/4 low-sodium chicken broth
3 Tbsp. flour
2 cups low-fat milk
1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
3 bacon slices
4 tsp. green onions
1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1. Clean potatoes and pierce with a fork. Place on paper towels and microwave on high for 13 minutes or until tender. Cut in half; cool slightly.
2. Meanwhile, chop onion. Heat oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion; sauté for 3 minutes. Add broth, flour, and milk. Bring to a boil; stir often. Cook 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in sour cream, salt, and pepper.
3. Arrange bacon on a paper towel on a plate. Cover with paper towels and microwave on high for 4 minutes. Crumble bacon; set aside. Slice green onions into thin pieces.
4. Remove skins from potatoes. Mash potatoes with a fork and add to soup. Top soup with cheese, green onion, and bacon.
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Tips: Plain Greek yogurt can be substituted for the sour cream. This recipe can easily be doubled. Shopping list: Red potatoes (4 medium) Reduced-fat sour cream Green onions Low-sodium chicken broth Bacon Shredded cheddar cheese
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Could it be possible a Nuk nipple causes more gas in a baby than a regular nipple? This bottle issue is causing all of us a lot of stress right now. Work is looming in less than 3 weeks now. :( I guess we could try again tomorrow to see if it happens again. Maybe it was just a coincidence?


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|This easy and delicious chicken recipe is a good reason to grown French Tarragon in your garden!
(For Phase One Fridays I highlight Phase One recipes from the past that have been my personal favorites, and I was reminded of this lovely chicken dish when a follower on Twitter told me yesterday about how much she had enjoyed it. If you're not growing French Tarragon, this recipe is a good reason to plant some because this simple dish of sauteed chicken breasts with a sauce featuring Dijon mustard and finely-chopped French tarragon makes a great dinner!)
In 2008 I planted French Tarragon for the first time in my herb garden, and it was the beginning of a huge love affair with the flavor of tarragon. I tried lots of different recipes using fresh tarragon, and loved them all. Now it's herb-planting time again at a new house, and this year I'll be planting some French Tarragon among my flowers and praying that the deer don't like Tarragon! And I'm looking forward to trying even more recipes with tarragon.
Sauteed Chicken Breasts with Tarragon-Mustard Pan Sauce
4 boneless-skinless chicken breasts
1 T olive oil (use more or less, depending on your pan)
salt and pepper, plus other seasonings of your choice to season chicken (I used Szeged Chicken Rub and pepper, but no salt)
1/2 cup chicken stock (I used homemade chicken stock, but you could use canned chicken broth, preferably low sodium)
1/3 cup half and half or milk
1 T Dijon mustard
2-3 tsp. finely chopped fresh tarragon (preferably French tarragon)
Trim all visible fat and tendons from chicken breasts. (I save these scraps in the freezer until I get enough to make chicken stock.) If chicken breasts are quite thick, pound them with a meat mallet or other heavy object until they are about 3/4 inch thick.
Wash tarragon leaves and finely chop with chef's knife.
Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a heavy frying pan just big enough to hold all the chicken without crowding. While oil heats, season chicken with seasonings of your choice. Add the chicken and saute until chicken is cooked through and well-browned, about 10 minutes. (Actual cooking time will depend on your pan and how high you have the heat.)
Remove chicken to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm. Add chicken stock to pan, scraping off any browned bits, and cook until reduced by half, about 2-3 minutes. Whisk in mustard, tarragon, half and half and any juices from the chicken which have accumulated on the plate and cook until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes more. Serve immediately, with some of the sauce drizzled over each piece of chicken.
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More Recipes with Tarragon to Wake Up Your Mouth:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Chicken Salad with Fresh Tarragon and Peas
Roasted Mushrooms with Tarragon Vinaigrette
Grilled Chicken with Tarragon-Mustard Marinade
Sauteed Chicken Breasts with Warm Tomato-Tarragon Salsa
Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad with Lemon, Dijon, and Tarragon Vinaigrette
Tarragon Tuna Melt from Simply Recipes
Eggplant and Goat Cheese Sandwiches with Tomato Tarragon Sauce from What Did You Eat
Cream of Celery Soup with Fresh Tarragon from Christine Cooks
Angel Hair Pasta with Tarragon-Parsley Pesto and Seared Scallops from Cook (almost) Anything At Least Once
Pork Medallions with Tarragon-Mustard Sauce from Blue Kitchen
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The U.S. is to give more than $300 million in additional "life-saving humanitarian assistance" to Syrians caught up in the country's civil war, Barack Obama has announced, taking the total amount given since the conflict began to nearly $815 million.
At the G-8 summit in Ireland, President Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss his goals in intervening in the Syrian conflict. Meanwhile polls show the American public does not want to arm Syrian rebels. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
The extra money will be used to pay for food, medical care, clean water, shelter and other relief supplies for people in Syria and some of the 1.6 million refugees who have fled to neighboring countries.
The president announced the extra money during a meeting with world leaders at the Group of Eight summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on Monday.
"The United States remains the single-largest contributor of humanitarian assistance for the Syrian people," a statement on the White House's website said.
"The United States supports and appreciates the countries hosting the 1.6 million refugees who have fled the brutal conflict in Syria, and commends host-nation efforts to provide protection, assistance, and hospitality to all those fleeing violence," the statement said.
"The United States recognizes the significant strains on host communities and the economic impact of providing refuge to such a large number of people," it added. "We call on all host governments to continue to keep their borders open to those still fleeing violence in Syria."
Zaatari, one of the largest refugee camps, is 5 miles from the Syrian border in neighboring Jordan. Now there are more than 120,000 people living there -- and half are children. In this first of a special series, ITV's John Ray reports from a makeshift children's clinic inside the camp.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed his first coalition partner in centrist Tzipi Livni, a move that could get a nod of approval from peace activists and U.S. President Barack Obama. But how cohesive any message of peace will be depends largely on the makeup of the rest of the coalition.
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TEL AVIV -- In the Middle Eastern bazaar, the first sale of the day is prized beyond any other. It is called the "siftach," and to clinch the deal the seller gives a discount to the buyer, to launch a good day's business.
In the case of the agreement announced Wednesday between Likud Beitenu leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzipi Livni, leader of "Hatnua" (Movement) to join a coalition government, Netanyahu was desperate to get one of the several political parties he is negotiating with to be the first to reach agreement.
So to entice Livni to sign, he sweetened his offer to include what Livni dearly wanted: the role of chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians, in addition to the guarantee of the post of justice minister for her and the post of minister of the environment for another member of her party.
Her brief in a new Netanyahu government, then, would be to launch a new peace process with the Palestinians, according to the published agreement, "with the aim of reaching a settlement with them that will put an end to the conflict."
The significance of this is that the responsibility passes from the foreign minister, who loudly proclaimed that he did not believe in peace with the Palestinians, to Livni, who does.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still in charge, but he may no longer be Israel's most consequential politician. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd takes a "deep dive" into the new face of Israeli politics, Yair Lapid.
In addition to being the first step toward forming Netanyahu's third government, it allows him to send a signal to U.S. President Barack Obama, expected in Israel on his first state visit next month, that he is serious about moving toward peace and that Obama should support him; Netanyahu's relationship with Obama is famously fraught.
What this means in practice, however, is far from clear. It depends on who else joins Netanyahu and Livni in building a coalition government. Pundits expect Netanyahu to focus his attention next on the Labor party, as well as a couple of the religious Jewish parties, and only then to go for broke -- to offer a role to the two young newcomers, one on the left and one on the right, who have surprisingly found common cause.
The question: Can Netanyau pull off a brilliant ploy and form a government without the second- and third-largest parties, Yair Lapid's 'Yesh Atid' (There is a Future) and Naftali Bennett's Bait Hayehudi (Jewish Home)?
Or is it so brilliant? When the voters speak clearly and give the second- and third-largest number of votes to two new parties with new leaders and a large majority of new members of parliament, shouldn't this call for change be reflected in any new government?
The problem is, and this brings us back to Livni's role as peace negotiator, Bennett and Lapid, who agree on many social and economic issues, could not be further apart on the central question: What about the Palestinians? Bennett is absolutely clear: No Palestinian state. Lapid is with Livni.
So is there a real change in the Israeli government's position vis a vis peace talks? As always, Netanyahu is hard to read. Does he really want Livni to take Israel down the road to compromise and peace? Or does he just want to form a new government so badly that he will offer any enticement to make it happen?
Cynics argue the latter. Some others believe that maybe a miracle is at hand.
And as Israel's first president, David Ben Gurion, once said: To be a pragmatist in Israel, you have to believe in miracles.
Martin Fletcher is the author of "The List," "Breaking News" and "Walking Israel."
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Tim Cook Must Go, He's No Better Than Ron Johnson
Skim this article from March 13, 2013 -- Tim Cook Might Have Made an Absolutely Devastating Mistake. It hammers home the core of the thesis AAPL bears chose and choose to ignore. On Page Two, it links to two more key pieces that do what few others are willing to do. Call into question the decision to consummate and continue Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO.
October 1, 2012: If Steve Jobs Were Alive He Would Fire Tim Cook
CNBC made a big deal about that one:
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February 25, 2013: How What David Einhorn Is Doing Foreshadows the Beginning of the End at Apple
In isolation -- in the emotional vacuum that is part and parcel with being hyper-bullish a battleground stock -- the things I bring up in the above-linked articles and CNBC video feel insignificant. In and of themselves, Tim Cook's missteps appear benign.
Capitulating to the public on how to allocate capital. Butchering the release of Apple Maps. Allowing people such as David Einhorn to control the conversation that surrounds Apple. Ending the incredibly effective practice of sandbagging guidance. No big deal on their own. Put them together, however, and you look back on each as signs that Tim Cook got in over his head and might ultimately beat Apple into the ground.
When you think about it -- how is the situation with Cook at Apple any different than what went down with Ron Johnson at J.C. Penney
There's one significant difference: Johnson took over a mess, whereas Cook inherited a company firing on all cylinders. The trajectory of the two names, by and large, has been about the same. Of course, relative to JCP, AAPL enjoys a slight bit of cushion.
But there are so many similarities.
Apple and J.C. Penney hired men who performed admirably under Steve Jobs. Both boards of directors went all-in, convinced that Cook and Johnson delivered true unfiltered results. At this point, however, it's all but an objective statement of fact -- these cats enjoyed the rare thrill of riding shotgun with Steve Jobs.