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Audio track extension problems
I am trying to extract audio streams of my DVDs so I can burn them on a CD and take it to my car. I read many threads here and in some other forums with solutions for this problem but they all dont seem to work.
I have transcode and mplayer installed and I read these:
In general the files dumped by transcode have 0 size. So I am trying the last resource right now. I am using mplayer but this process takes too long. It playback the file and dump the audio part to a wav file that consumes a huge amount of disk space. The successful command (still under test) was:
mplayer dvd://1 -aid 129 -vo null -ao pcm:file=track.wav
Is there a way to extract the mp3 stream? I have the extra space to extract the wav file but it is taking a long time (30 minutes and still counting).
If anyone knows any way to extract the audio file to a convenient format that can be easily transfered to a CD-R I would be grateful.
Thanks for any help,
The title was "Audio track extraction problems" sorry for the mistake
How do you figure that this is a success story? please choose your forum more carefully before posting next time.
btw. check the -dumpaudio option from the manpage.
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Here's how I've extracted streams before. All you need is decss and the transcode tools.
tccat -i /dev/cdrom -T 1,1-4 | tcextract -t vob -x mp3 -a 0 > file.mp3
This then gets piped into tcextract, which extracts the audio track from the vob. "-t" tells it that it's a vob, "-x mp3" is the type of stream, naturally (some files may be mp2 or ac3 instead), and "-a 0" is the audio stream number.
Note, this gives you the raw audio stream. If you want to convert it to something else you'll have to process it separately with a different program. You can also use the same format to extract video streams.
If for some reason it doesn't work right, you can break it up. Just pipe the tccat output to a file instead and run tcextract on it afterwards. Read the man files for more.
Thanks David, I am trying it right now and will post back with the results I get here.
Ok, the first command returned a 4GB file to my hard drive:
tccat -i /dev/cdrom -T 1,-1 > temp_arch
Then I tried the rest:
tcextract -i temp_arch -t vob -x mp3 -a 0 > track.mp3
But the track.mp3 has 0 bytes. Does it mean that the track isnt mp3? How can I find out what is the file from the header? And suppose it is AC3. How can I convert it to mp3?
Yes, I think the problem is that you have the wrong audio type. Most discs I've seen are encoded in ac3. "lsdvd -a" will give you the details about the audio tracks. Make sure you have the right one. Try stream 1 instead of 0, for example.
For conversion, I would probably use sox, or another standalone mp3 encoder. You can do it through transcode, but I don't remember the exact commands off the bat. I think transcode has to pipe it through another program in any case.
I get the feeling that you are mostly just choosing the wrong options somewhere. I'm certain that once you get the inputs all sorted out, you can go back to doing it all at once with transcode, such what your first link spells out.
ahhh gotta love lsdvd ehh ;-)
personally i'd do this with mplayer still, transcode is so obscure...
you could easily use mencoder to encode an audio only avi file and then suck the stream out a la here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ad.php?t=75291 (funny when you find yourwself on google huh? :D) or you could even use mplayer -dumpaudio and send it to an existing named pipe via the -dumpfile option. before starting that though, start off lame reading from the named pipe and writing out mp3 file. so once you start mplayer you squirt the data directly into lame.
That's the thing, isn't it? There are so many different ways you can do the same thing. Personally, I don't find transcode all that mysterious. You just have to realize that it takes the input from one program, converts it to a raw standard, then feeds that into an output program. I suppose mencoder on its own might be easier, but I could never get through the man file to figure it all out :)
Anyway, here's one way to convert straight from the raw vob to mp3 with transcode. There may be better ways, I didn't spend too much time on this. I just set it up to output a bog-standard mp3. It's a bit slow:
transcode -i input.vob -a 0 -y null,lame -b128 -E 44100 -o outputfile
Or straight from the dvd with the -T title selector:
transcode -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 -a 0 -y null,lame -b128 -E 44100 -o outputfile
I am trying the later command "transcode -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 -a 0 -y null,lame -b128 -E 44100 -o outputfile" and will post back once it is completed.
I did a "lsdvd -a" and this is what I got:
Title: 01, Length: 01:53:33.220 Chapters: 20, Cells: 20, Audio streams: 01, Subpictures: 00
Audio: 1, Language: xx - Unknown, Format: ac3, Frequency: 48000, Quantization: drc, Channels: 6, AP: 0, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x80
Thanks for your assistance.
Hi Acid,
I tried with mencoder too and I got the same results. Since I found many resources for trascode I will give it a try for now. The -dumpaudio option dumped a 0 bytes file too. Based on the lsdvd -a that the dvd presents, do you know how to use mencoder to extract the audio track?
Thanks for your time.
Unfortunatelly it didnt work again. But at least the output.mp3 file generated has 1252 bytes! When I try to play it though it says that the length is 0 seconds :(
The output for the command was:
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source /dev/dvd (ok)
[transcode] V: import format | MPEG-2 DVD NTSC (V=dvd|A=dvd)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync | (2) initial MPEG sequence / enforce frame rate
[transcode] V: import frame | 720x480 1.50:1 encoded @ 16:9
[transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.217
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 23.976,1
[transcode] V: Y'CbCr | YV12/I420
[transcode] A: import format | 0x2000 AC3 [48000,16,2]
[transcode] A: export format | 0x55 MPEG layer-3 [44100,16,2] 128 kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 23.976,1
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 8008 (8008.000000)
[transcode] A: adjustment | 0@1000
[transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse3 (sse3 sse2 sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx asm C)
tc_memcpy: using amd64 for memcpy
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x480
[import_dvd.so] v0.4.0 (2003-10-02) (video) DVD | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
[export_lame.so] v0.0.3 (2003-03-06) (audio) MPEG 1/2
[export_null.so] v0.1.2 (2001-08-17) (video) null | (audio) null
[import_dvd.so] tccat -T 1,-1,1 -i "/dev/dvd" -t dvd -d 0 -L | tcdemux -a 0 -x ac3 -S 0 -M 2 -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 -d 0 | tcdecode -x ac3 -d 0 -s 1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 -A 0
[import_dvd.so] tccat -T 1,-1,1 -i "/dev/dvd" -t dvd -d 0 | tcdemux -s 0x80 -x mpeg2 -S 0 -M 2 -f 23.976024 -P /tmp/filejm6h2d -d 0 | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 -d 0 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0 -y yv12
[import_dvd.so] delaying DVD access by 3 second(s)
.tc_memcpy: using amd64 for memcpy
..tc_memcpy: using amd64 for memcpy
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 0.4.0b loop decoder
[decode_mpeg2.c] libmpeg2 acceleration: none (plain C)
[export_lame.so] cmd=sox -w -s -r 48000 -c 2 -t raw - -r 44100 -t raw - polyphase 2>/dev/null | lame -x --cbr -b 128 -s 44.100 -m j - "outputfile.mp3" 2>/dev/null
clean up | frame threads | unload modules | cancel signal | internal threads | done
[transcode] encoded 0 frames (204412 dropped, 0 cloned), clip length 0.00 s
I am trying "transcode -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 -a 1 -y null,lame -b128 -E 44100 -o outputfile" (instead of 0 for the audio track) to see if anything changes. I am not sure but it seems that this time it is going to work because I see some "encoding frames" and the numbers are growing. Hope at last!
Will post back my results.
It worked now. Thanks David! Now I am looking for tools to edit the mp3 stream to remove clapping and breaks. If you guys have any suggestion to speed up the process I would take them ;)
Glad to hear you got it worked out. It does seem strange, since the first audio stream is almost always numbered 0. You must have an oddball disk there. Is it a homemade one, by chance?
As for editing, the commandline editor sox is good for removing noise and such. But for cutting out stuff from the middle, Audacity (gui) is probably your best bet.
But you should have told us that you wanted to edit the sound at the beginning. You shouldn't go converting the file to mp3 until AFTER you have made all of your edits. You need an uncompressed wav/pcm file for editing, and Audacity, for example, will just convert your mp3 to wav anyway. Might as well stat from one and avoid the sound degridation that results from multiple compression runs.
Yeah, I wasnt aware of that. I am using audacity right now to edit the file. The reason I thought about storing it as mp3 was size. I do all the extraction in my server and then I transfer the file over the network to my laptop to do the editing. But I guess I can afford the bigger file. I will use audacity to edit this one first and then I will use transcode and output it to a wav file and go from there.
Btw, the DVD is a home made disk of a tv show so you were right :)
My plan is to burn some cds with the music from the show only and remove all those inconvenient comments between the songs.
Thank you for all your input. It was really useful.
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Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies have given Qatar until Monday to comply with a list of demands that are unreasonable at best. So where does it go from here?
- By Ben PaukerBen Pauker is executive editor, online, at Foreign Policy. Ben came to FP in May 2010 from World Policy Journal, where he was managing editor from 2007 to 2010. A native of New York, he grew up in Brazil, Australia, and Thailand and has written for Harper's, the Economist, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. He is the co-founder of the Gastronauts, the world's largest adventurous-eating club, and, in the course of reporting but mainly to see if it was possible, has smuggled small arms out of Central Africa.
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On this week's second episode of The E.R., FP's executive editor for the web Ben Pauker is joined by the Council on Foreign Relations' Steven Cook, the Washington Institute's Simon Henderson, and FP columnist Beth Dickinson. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (joined by a handful of partners, including Egypt) announced a blockade of Qatar in early June with little warning, catching the international community off guard.
It seemed a sudden and dramatic escalation of regional tensions. And the move has drastic implications for the United States, which has strong military and commercial ties in Qatar. The Saudis and their allies say Qatar has provided financial and material support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, and other proponents of regional instability. But is it as simple as that? Should we have seen it coming? The panel discusses the historical context of the conflict and debates what it means for the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Steven A. Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of the new book, "False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East." Follow him on Twitter: @stevenacook.
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Another choice: Sea World @ Vero Beach. They too start taking reservations on May 15 at 8 a.m. for June. The phone number is the same 772-388-2750.
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Memorial Day weekend happens in May and the weekend is well displayed at Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina Beach. They have a World War II Event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 23 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday May 24. Featured are military displays and memorabilia of the Allies, Axis and Home front.
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In 2008 Jacques commenced his PGA apprenticeship and was awarded Trainee Professional of the Year for three consecutive years. From 2010 through to 2015 he was Head Professional at The Royal Auckland Golf Club Grange Course. In 2016 he transitioned into coaching full time, specialising in the area of 3D golf swing biomechanical analysis.
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For Sale: Corporate America's Big Blue Period
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: April 23, 1995
IN the glory days of I.B.M., when shirts were white and the ink was always black, there was the art collection. The founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., gathered thousands of the finest paintings and hung them in offices worldwide, a sign of the company's lofty pedigree.
Now, I.B.M. has come down a peg or two, squeezing $6.5 billion out of its cost structure in the last three years alone and cutting staff by half in the last decade. And it is selling much of its art collection.
In a series of auctions scheduled to begin in May, Sotheby's will sell about 300 paintings, drawings and prints valued at about $25 million -- a token nod toward belt-tightening for a company that spends about $500 million a year on advertising alone. The collection goes on view at Sotheby's in Manhattan on Friday.
The most valuable I.B.M. holdings are in late 19th century and early 20th century American paintings and drawings, and some rare Latin American paintings, drawings and prints. Less significant is its small collection of contemporary art. There are blockbusters like Frank Weston Benson's "The Sisters," which Sotheby's expects to sell for $1.5 million to $2 million; Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Money and Parrot," expected to bring $2.5 million to $3 million, and Diego Rivera's "Dance in Tehuantepec," estimated to sell for $3 million to $4 million. These paintings are the sort that rarely come onto the market.
Only a handful of works are in this category. A surprising number of paintings, prints and drawings have prices of $100 and up. "There is also a lot available to the young collector in the $800 to $1,500 price range," said August Uribe, head of Sotheby's Latin American department in New York.
That the works come with the cachet conferred by I.B.M. and have been off the market for 50 years or so, experts say, adds to the appeal. While many of the best works have been lent to exhibitions, most of the art has been in storage for 30 years.
Not everything is a masterpiece. Some of the works have lower price tags for good reason: they may not represent an artist's best period, subject or medium.
Watson, who bought his first painting for $40 in 1902, was given to grand proclamations on art. "Art breaks the monotony of life, which is one thing the human mind cannot endure," he declared in 1936.
But Watson, who died in 1956, became a large figure in the art world. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Commissioner General for the American section of the International Art Exposition in Paris. And by 1946, his company had acquired 30,000 pieces of American folk art, textiles, ceramics, prints, paintings and sculpture.
Big Blue had a sophisticated eye, paying $6,500 in 1943 for George Bellows's "Easter Snow (Easter Sunday)," which Sotheby's expects to auction for $1.5 million to $2 million. In 1945 it paid $3,000 for James A. McNeill Whistler's "The Shop," a watercolor expected to sell for $80,000 to $120,000. And for $4,000, the company snapped up John Singer Sargent's "A Waterfall," which now carries a price of $200,000 to $300,000.
"In any auction this large there will certainly be some buys," said Vance Jordan, a New York-based dealer of American art. "There are many things that are so rare you can't get them today."
American art -- paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints -- is the collection's biggest category and one of the most affordable. But many works have been in storage for decades and may be damaged.
Among the American watercolors, experts say, are significant works whose prices in the auction catalogue make them potential bargains. They include John Marin's "Near Taos, New Mexico," a 1930 work that Sotheby's has priced at $30,000 to $40,000. Experts say it may be overlooked in the auction, because collectors of Marin tend to prefer his New York subjects.
Enthusiastic bidders may want to go higher than the upper estimate, but beyond $50,000, experts say, they will not be getting a bargain. Whistler's "The Shop" is considered rare because it is larger and more elaborate than many of Whistler's watercolors of shopfronts. The Sotheby's estimate of $80,000 to $120,000 is low, art experts say, and the watercolor could bring $250,000 or more, if the work has not faded.
Everett Shinn's "The Bar at McSorley's" has a low estimate of $25,000 to $35,000. Painted in 1908, the subject of the watercolor is so popular that the selling price may exceed its high estimate, but paying more than $50,000 would be too much, experts say.
International Busoness Machines' American prints are also reasonably priced. Two of the rarest are Childe Hassam's "The White Kimono," estimated to sell for $10,000 to $15,000, and Marin's "Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan," expected to bring $10,000 to $12,000. Nancy Bialler of Sotheby's print department in New York said the estimates were reasonable and made sense for collectors who were starting out.
Other good buys include Thomas Hart Benton's "Fire in the Barnyard," which is expected to sell for $800 to $1,200. It is considered a rare image, so an auction price of less than $3,000 would be considered a real bargain. Edward Hopper's "Night Shadows," is an early impression of a famous image. Its auction estimate of $8,000 to $10,000 is considered sound. And a group consisting of three woodcuts and three etchings by Leonard Baskin, priced at $800 to $1,500, is something to consider.
Among the biggest bargains are probably the Latin American works, partly because many of the Latin American collectors who often dominate the bidding for the art from their region may be distracted by the political and economic turmoil there.
"In the area of Mexican prints, we have some icons priced around $1,000," Mr. Uribe of Sotheby's said. "And drawings by top-flight artists can be had for under $20,000. That's something you can't do in other fields." The reason, Mr. Uribe said, is that Latin American collectors often favor paintings over drawings, because many of them live in tropical climates in which works on paper do not survive well.
Mr. Uribe cited several important prints that were candidates for bargain sales, based on the estimated prices in the auction catalogue. Jose Chavez Morado's "Dance of Death," which depicts the day of the dead, a subject with a long history in Mexican art, is well priced at $800 to $1,200, though anything more would be too much, experts say.
But Jose Clemente Orozco's, "The Rear Guard," priced at $4,000 to $5,000, is considered by experts to be such a magnificent image that even at a price significantly higher than the upper estimate it would be a steal. The same is true for two prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada, "Calavera of the Zapatistas," a revolutionary image expected to sell for $2,000 to $3,000, and "The Female Dandy," priced at $1,000 to $1,500.
Buyers who know the market will probably be willing to pay far more than the high estimates. They will do the same for two prints by Rivera, each estimated to fetch $10,000 to $15,000. Both considered masterpieces, "Open Air School" is based on an 1926 mural from the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico City, and "Fruits of Labor" is a scene of children and peasants. Even a price as high as $25,000 would be considered good. And Rivera's "Zapata," will likely go for twice its estimate of $18,000 because experts consider the image so important.
Far less significant are I.B.M.'s contemporary prints. A group of works by Robert Rauschenberg, from his "Stoned Moon Series: Horn," is conservatively estimated at $2,500 to $3,500. More unusual is Ellsworth Kelly's "Nine Squares," which is expected to bring $6,000 to $8,000.
Photos: Some of the art works in the I.B.M. collection that will be sold in a weries of auctions beginning in May, and their estimated prices (Sotheby's)


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Today's feast of the two greatest Apostles, Peter and Paul, tells us what is meant in the Creed when we say we believe in a Church that is apostolic: that it goes back to Jesus himself and is founded on the Apostles.
Peter and Paul proved their faith in Jesus by shedding their blood for him, but each had a different mission: Peter was the guardian, the rock of the Church's faith and its chief shepherd, and Paul was the great evangelizer, bringing the faith to the world around the Mediterranean Sea.
We know that the Pope, now Francis, the 266th successor of St. Peter as the Bishop of Rome, has the unique mission of ensuring that the teachings of Jesus remain uncontaminated down through the centuries. But the Pope also carries on the mission of Paul: to be a prophet, to preach to all nations, to carry the Catholic faith to the ends of the earth. The Church has to be both a guardian of the truth of the Gospel and a prophetic voice in the world.
I would like to take three questions that Jesus addressed to Peter and Paul – one to Paul and two to Peter – and see what they mean to us.
While not taken from today's readings, the risen Lord addressed a question to Saul, who was on his way to Damascus to arrest Christians whom he saw as Jewish heretics. Suddenly, as he was approaching the city, a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" The outward dazzling radiance blinded this once zealous persecutor who was interiorly blind to Christ. After obeying the Lord's command to go into the city, Saul's earthly sight was restored, but he could also see the truth and freedom of the Gospel.
Do we persecute Jesus ... by ignoring him?
And so the question to us is: Do we persecute Jesus, not by harming his followers, but by ignoring him? By pretending that he has nothing to say to us? By putting ourselves first and following our own whims and desires?
Jesus invites us, as he did St. Paul, to take off our blinders and see ourselves as he does – a little flawed, somewhat sinful, in need of healing and mercy and, above all, in need of his love.
Because Peter knew Jesus in the flesh during his public ministry, and not, like Paul, from a vision, we have many more conversations recorded between the master and the apostle. Two of these conversations are particularly significant.
The first is in today's Gospel. As the disciples were walking along, Jesus took a kind of poll, asking his disciples a precise question: "Who do people say that I am?" The popular opinions given did not satisfy Jesus, who wanted a personal statement of his followers' convictions.
So he turned to them and he insisted: "But who do you say that I am?" This question is at the heart of the Gospel and is addressed to you this morning with no less intensity than on that dusty road around Caesarea Philippi.
In fact, there are two ways of "seeing" and "knowing" Jesus: one – that of the crowd – is superficial; the other – that which Jesus expects of his disciples – is the genuine article.
This is how it still is with us today. Many people draw near to Jesus, as it were, from the outside. He is considered one of the great founders of a religion from which everyone may take something in order to form his or her own convictions about who God is and how they should live.
Just as he did then, Jesus repeats his question to us, his disciples today: "And you, who you do you say that I am?"
Jesus repeats his question to us, his disciples today: "And you, who you do you say that I am?"
In the Gospel, Peter, the impetuous leader, responded for the others: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Even if he did not fully understand what he was saying because it was "revealed" to him by the Father, this is the confession of the Church.
Today it is also our question. Do you believe Jesus to be the "Son of the living God?" The one who came among us to save us, to teach us what it means to be happy? Do you believe that he speaks the word of God and that, as such, is to be followed as the surest guide to fulfillment in this life and in eternal life?
The last chapter of John's Gospel records Jesus' last, and greatest, question to Peter. After the Resurrection, on the shore of the Lake of Galilee, he asks Peter three times, recalling his threefold denial on the night before his death: "Do you love me?"
This is a question we ask of others with whom we share or wish to share an intimate, personal relationship. And that is precisely what Jesus asks each of us: "Do you love me?"
That's all he wants from us: to allow ourselves to be loved, and to love him and his brothers and sisters in return. Ask yourself: Do you love Jesus as he loves you?


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Kourtney Kardashian Rocks Thong Swimsuit in Miami: See the Bootylicious Pics!
Peach perfect! Kourtney Kardashian continued to slay in Miami, rocking a lace-up thong peach swimsuit on Miami Beach on Friday.
The mother of three strutted her stuff on the beach, splashing around in the ocean, lying out on a lounge chair and walking in the sand, covering up slightly in denim shorts.
Kourt flashed her toned tushie in the suit on the sunny day. The reality star has spent most of the week in Miami. She was spotted out on the beach on Wednesday with her ex, Scott Disick.
After working on her tan, Kourtney had a fun night out on Saturday with her sister, Kim Kardashian, at Kanye West's show.
Kourtney rocked a red lip and an all-white ensemble while she danced to Yeezy on Snapchat.
For more Miami antics, watch the video below!


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Syvstjernen is up to somewhere around round 40… this means I'm over a third done, right? It only has 100 rounds!
As Stariel so alertly commented, this creature has seven points! Great shade of blue, ain't it.
This is #10 crochet cotton on 2.5mm needles. The last doilies done in #10 cotton (Egeblad and Hilde) were on 2mm needles – same needles as used with #30 thread on the doilybag – so I figured it was high time to try slightly larger needles. Now why didn't I do this sooner? These Addis sure are nicer than the 2mm Inox circs…
I'm quite entertained with using grass as the background. On smooth solid surfaces, the doily wants to skrinch up like most any unblocked lace would. The grass has enough in the way of fangs to keep this from happening, but isn't too distracting. At least… not an a doily. Kimono Shawl disagrees.
Last picture I had about six repeats done… now it's at nine. Fascinating, ain't it. You can (sorta) see that the most recent three repeats are unblocked, while the earlier part has been (mostly) blocked…
Coco wasn't so amused, though. All high and mighty upon her cinder block throne….
However, the chickens are quite entertained by me carrying my knitting around the yard looking for a prime spot for taking pictures.
One again, I caught a bird mid-blink. Ain't I talented.
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5 bedroom terraced house for saleCarisbrooke Road, St Leonards On Sea
Sold STC £535,000
Property Description
Key features
- Victorian Town House
- Far Reaching Views
- Five Double Bedrooms
- Feature Fireplaces
- 36'6 Sitting Room
- 36'3 Kitchen/Diner
- Two En-Suites
- Level Rear Garden
- South-Westerly Aspect
- Viewing Essential
Full description
An exceptional and deceptive five bedroom, two reception room bay fronted Victorian town house, ideally situated within walking distance of St Leonards sea front and promenade, local amenities, restaurants, galleries, shops as well as Warrior Square mainline railway station connecting to London.
The property has been subject to significant improvement by the current owners and provides versatile accommodation arranged over five floors to include a dual aspect 36'6 bay fronted sitting room with twin feature fireplaces, a 36'3 kitchen/diner with built-in appliances, a central island & bifold doors leading to the enclosed south-westerly rear garden.
There is a first floor master bedroom with a feature fireplace & an 11'4 x 6'0 en-suite shower room/w.c, an impressive 24'0 x 12'2 top floor bedroom with views over St Leonards towards the sea and an en-suite shower room/w.c and a further three spacious double bedrooms. In addition to the two en-suites there is a modern fitted family bathroom/w.c, two additional w.c's on the basement and ground/first floor landing and an enclosed level, decked & lawned rear garden.
Further benefits include gas fired central heating (new boiler & traditional cast iron Victorian radiators), sash cord windows, feature fireplaces to the principal rooms, parquet style flooring and new carpets. Viewing is considered essential to appreciate the space and accommodation as well as the lifestyle opportunity this property and its location offers. Viewing strictly by appointment with sole agents, Just Property.
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Bedroom - 15'6 x 12'6 (4.72m x 3.81m) -
Master Bedroom - 20'4 x 12'6 (6.20m x 3.81m) -
En-Suite Shower Room - 11'4 x 6'0 (3.45m x 1.83m) -
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Bedroom - 16'0 x 12'2 (4.88m x 3.71m) -
Bedroom - 17'2 x 12'6 (5.23m x 3.81m) -
Family Bathroom - 11'2 x 6'0 (3.40m x 1.83m) -
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Bedroom - 24'0 x 12'2 (7.32m x 3.71m) -
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Protected: 710 Toll Tunnel will NOT help traffic in Alhambra – Alhambra's city council's myth debunked!
Never-ending story: Messina in the minority
[Current] Alhambra Councilmember Barabara Messina continues to push her 710 Freeway Tunnel agenda, despite only 3.9% of polled Alhambra residents wanting the 710 connector addressed (see City of Alhambra General Plan 2015 Survey Results). According to the Pasadena Star News, she supported Rosemead Councilman Stephen Ly, proponent of 710 freeway tunnel, to be on the South Coast Air Quality Management District governing board, but supporters and the majority of the AQMD members preferred green-going Michael Cacciotti.
Perhaps Ms. Messina should carefully read 710 Facts History Dangers.
Businesses, Environmentalists and the 710 Tunnel Collide in AQMD Board Member Battle (Pasadena Star News, 2/12/16)
710 Tunnel Makes National List of Highway Boondoggles
The headline says it all.
The 710 Tunnel is now considered 1 of 12 highway boondoggles in the country. No surprise there.
A double-bore tunnel would be the most expensive, most polluting and least effective option for addressing the area's transportation problems, reported CALPIRG on Monday.
- CALPIRG report, summary and press release
- Pasadena Star News article "710 Freeway Tunnel Included in Report's Top 12 Boondoggle Highway Projects" Jan. 19, 2016
After spending $40 million on the EIR of March 2015 (of the $780 million set aside from Measure R), and with most of the cities in the San Gabriel Valley against the project (Alhambra City Council being one of the odd-cities-out that is still supporting an underground freeway), when will CalTrans/Metro finally take this project off the table?
As you know, the 710 Freeway Tunnel would have drivers pay a toll of $6-12/car one-way to use it. The Pasadena Star News reports: "Metro is exploring a public-private partnership, known as P3 funding, meaning the idea is to secure private funding for at least a portion of the freeway tunnels. The investors would be paid back by tolls charged to motorists using the tunnel."
According to the CALPIRG report, an extension to an existing toll road in southern California is getting shut down on the grounds "that it, and a future additional extension, would threaten local water resources. Other toll roads in the region have failed to attract enough traffic to meet revenue expectations, and data suggest traffic is not growing as quickly as officials had projected."
Would YOU want to pay $6-12 to drive 4.5 miles underground, with no exits, with the high potential for stand-still traffic at the 210/134 connector? Most drivers currently exiting the 710 in Alhambra would not even benefit from the tunnel, as they are not all heading straight up to the 210 freeway, but rather are also heading east and west, going to San Marino, South Pasadena, Alhambra and lower Pasadena. Drivers will continue to use city streets with or without an extension of the 710 for these reasons.
"The 710 project does not offer comprehensive relief, it costs too much, it creates new environmental problems, and it is not going anywhere. The proposal should be dropped!" wrote former Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard in reaction to the study.
Alhambra City Council supports Tunnel without adequate data
One part of the EIR places the cancer risk of the project at 149 chances per million people exposed to pollutants, well above the district's standard threshold of 10 chances per million. Yet, the report concludes that the cancer risks are "less than significant" based on faulty data….
The eight-page letter from Ian MacMillan, the anti-smog district's planning and rules manager, says the lack of basic air quality analysis renders the draft EIR useless to the agency or those deciding on a tunnel or other transit options.
A letter from Alhambra supports the tunnel alternative as not only the best way to move traffic but to improve air quality. Alhambra comments that a tunnel project would reduce the higher cancer risks currently experienced by residents of Alhambra and nearby communities from traffic gridlock at the 710 terminus on Valley Boulevard and along arterial streets.
- SGV Tribune (8/13/15): AQMD: 710 Freeway Tunnel Would Raise Cancer Risk to Unacceptable Levels
Read for yourself Alhambra City Council's Comment Letter (Attachment A +Attachment B), drafted especially by their pro-710 tunnel lobbyist, paid for by our tax dollars.
Who's facts would you believe: a lobbyist's or a governmental agency (Air Quality Management District)?
Don't Tunnel Our Town! 2 Letters to the Press
2 Letters to Pasadena Star News, Aug. 6, 2015:
710 tunnel proposal not proven fiscally sound
Alhambra Vice Mayor Barbara Messina's letter (Aug. 2) is right about one thing: The city should not be accused of being "imploded by humans." Rather, it is being imploded by over-development and the increased traffic congestion and pollution resulting from that over-development. Messina claims that Alhambra has been overrun by cut-through traffic. The truth is that Alhambra suffers no more cut-through traffic than any of the neighboring cities. Traffic studies by independent transportation planners have consistently shown that 87 percent of that traffic is local.
When Alhambra residents learn that the proposed tunnel will have no entrances or exits for its entire 4.5-mile length; that it will not be a freeway because tolls will be charged; that it will be virtually impossible to rescue people when there is a fire in the tunnel, they are overwhelmingly opposed.
The proponents of the tunnel have not been able to prove that it is fiscally sound. Let's use our resources more responsibly to build a mass-transit system that will provide commuters with viable options. That will reduce traffic congestion on local streets as well as on all of the region's freeways.
— Janet Ervin, Alhambra
No 'virgin air' from the 710
Barbara Messina seems to be for selling out our city's residents. She claims opponents are non-Alhambran wealthy people. Poor Alhambrans belong to Responsible Alhambrans Against the 710. We are witness to Messina's destructive development. Her City Council demolished houses in favor of eight-unit condominiums, which changes allowing two autos per house to the new 24 to 36 cars for each conversion. She demolished our historic Main Street in favor of monstrous 3- to 8-story mixed-use buildings that equal "imploding with humans." She caused thousands of additional cars on Main Street. If the terrible tunnel is built, per Metro's EIR, Alhambra residents would experience increased pollution and nightmare traffic with closed streets and lanes during construction. That we deserve to live without harmful toxic emission is true, so why did she irresponsibly overdevelop? Contrary to her inference that the tunnel will affect emissions, the EIR says all options, including no build, will not provide "virgin air."
— Gloria Valladolid, Alhambra
They've been talking about it for years! But it's time for CalTrans/Metro to hear from YOU until Aug. 5, 2015.
Yes, indeed, they've been talking about the above-ground freeway for years, since the 1950s. More recently, there's been a push for a tunnel. How many commuters would actually use the tunnel, or is the tunnel for freight trucks coming from Long Beach? (The 710 freeway is, after all, called "Alt. Truck Route".) Now that the Environmental Impact Report is out, it's time for the public's voice to be heard. Did you know:
- For those exiting the 710 at Valley, 80% of drivers would not reach their destination via proposed tunnel.
- Metro/CalTrans expects to charge a $6-12 toll per car one way. People will avoid the tunnel and use surface streets, exacerbating the traffic on our streets. (CalTrans Metro estimates 60,000 more cars a day on the streets.)
- For Alhambrans to actually take the tunnel, we would have to catch it south of the 10 freeway, NOT at Valley which is 4 miles further north. Please read Fact v. Fiction and make up your own mind about the tunnel.
- There would be two air ventilators at either end of the tunnel, none in the middle. Since the 'scrubbers' cannot clean the cancer-causing fine particular matter from diesel trucks, Alhambra would directly bear the brunt of that pollution .
- The City of Alhambra spent $141,726 on its 2015 and 2014 "Close the Gap" days (aka: Gridlock Day). Find out more of how Alhambra is spending taxpayer money on promoting the tunnel, even before the draft of the $42-million-dollar, 26,000-page Environmental Impact Report came out.
- The City of Alhambra has spent $133,714 on the banners on Fremont so far.
CalTrans/Metro is asking the public what they want. Read this page about the Environmental Impact Report and the posts below, then submit your comment to them before Aug. 5. After that, CalTrans/Metro will make its decision of its alternatives to the above-ground freeway to build. When you comment on the EIR, be sure to address issues, problems or questions about the document, and ask questions, which will be answered back to you. Check here for tips on how to do this most effectively.
Some criticisms of the Cost-Benefit Analysis released by Metro (June 2015)
1) Valuing "Bigness" over anything else by falsely asserting that benefits "are typically examined independently of their relationship to costs." In fact, if the alternatives were presented in terms of the ratio of benefit to cost, the results would show that the Transportation Systems Management and Transportation Demand Management (TSM/TDM) alternative provides the best ratio of benefits.
2) The Analysis inflates the operating costs of the bus rapid transit (BRT) alternative in a way that degrades its cost-benefit ratio. If the Analysis used the same numbers from the DEIR, the BRT ration would approach the TSM/TDM alternative in performance.
3) The Analysis appears to adopt a model that values the time of car riders over the time of transit riders, without any explanation, and as a result skews the results in favor of the tunnel alternative.
4) The Analysis purposely underestimates the cost of the proposed tunnel by half. Analyses of similar projects, most notably the one for the Sepulveda Pass, are using $1 billion per mile as a budgeting model, yet the 710 DEIR and CBA are using $500 million. This is another example of how the Analysis is skewed in favor of the tunnel.
5) The CBA and DEIR have no provision, plan or budget for the anticipated breakdown of the tunnel-boring machine. The same machine has been stuck in Seattle for over a year and is requiring a four-city block additional vertical tunnel to be excavated in order to free it. While of course we cannot be sure that the same machine would break down in a similar fashion here (despite geology that is, if anything, more challenging than Seattle's), the lack of any contingency costs (again) skews the Analysis in favor of the tunnel. This is most obvious in that the Analysis uses the same discount rate for all the alternatives, which does not reflect the differential in risk among them.
6) One of the primary concept used in the Analysis, "Net Present Value," is an inappropriate measure for public infrastructure projects.
7) The calculations used to come up with an employment benefit for the various alternatives is directly correlated to capital cost, skewing the benefits to the most costly alternatives. (Again, this is a fundamental problem of the Analysis, in that it unfairly favors "Bigness.") Employment benefits are directly correlated to capital expenditures. The disparity in capital costs insures that the higher cost projects will generate more jobs than lower cost alternatives.
"Metro board members and other policy-makers should understand that this so-called Analysis appears to be a continuation of the skewed analysis unfairly favoring the tunnel that was obvious in the EIR," said Marina Khubesrian, South Pasadena councilmember and Vice Chair of Beyond the 710. "It appears that an independent study of these issues may be necessary to get an unbiased view of whether this tunnel will be worth its huge projected costs. Obviously, we believe otherwise, and that instead Caltrans and Metro should study the Beyond the 710 proposal."
The Beyond the 710 proposal was released on May 28, 2015. A key insight of Beyond the 710 is to understand that more than 85% of commuters exiting the 710 Freeway at Valley Boulevard are intent on reaching local destinations, and the vision of Beyond the 710's plan is to use 21st Century planning solutions (such as well-planned transit lines, Great Streets concepts, and traffic mitigation) to reduce congestion and promote smart growth rather than 1960s freeway-oriented approaches.
The Beyond the 710 plan demonstrates that removing the freeway "stubs" at both the 10 and 210 freeways can free up land for smart development, employ transit to connect people to important local destinations and other transit lines, and employ modern strategies for increasing bikeability and walkability.
The plan is available at www.beyondthe710.org/better_alternatives.


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The Watersheds 2014 Forum Consensus
Watersheds 2014: Towards Watershed Governance in British Columbia and Beyond was held on Cowichan Tribes territory in Duncan, British Columbia from January 27th to 29th, 2014.[1] This forum attracted nearly 200 delegates, plus more than 75 virtual participants via online satellite events across the country. The delegates came from a diversity of backgrounds—including watershed groups, researchers, professional resource managers, and decision-makers at all levels of government, including First Nations—who came together to re-envision the way we use, share, and respect our freshwater and watershed resources. This consensus represents the general spirit of common understanding of values, principles, and priorities by those at the forum and is supported by a number of organizations that were partners on the event.
Our Common Values
Water is life. Water is our relation. Water bonds us across time and place to our ancestors, to our descendants, and to our land. Water nourishes, replenishes, cleanses, and refreshes. It is the source of food, sustains our salmon, supports our rich environment, and powers our economy. It is critical to our community and economic prosperity.
Water cannot be owned as it is shared by all life on Earth. It is a public trust that provides a universal link between all cultures and species, requiring us to understand each other's experiences, histories, and identities. As such, we each have a duty of stewardship and share a mutual responsibility to ensure water is protected and stewarded to provide for its availability for the health and resilience of all life.
Toward a New Approach—Watershed Governance
Watershed governance is emerging as a viable approach to achieving long-term ecological and economic sustainability and better engagement of local communities, including both rights holders and stakeholders, in critical decisions that affect us all—upstream and down. A key factor for its success is improved collaboration and connections between citizens and decision-makers at the watershed scale. The approach has many benefits, including building resilience to adapt to change and enable innovation; leveraging expertise and a diverse range of resources; clarifying roles and responsibilities, thus increasing accountability; creating opportunities for shared learning and capacity building; and reducing conflict and increasing public confidence. It need not be yet another layer of government or bureaucracy. Rather, the overarching goal is to provide an alternative to current systems of governance and planning that focus too narrowly on single sectors, thereby isolating water and watershed resources from their broader interactions across communities and within ecosystems.
At the Watersheds 2014 forum the following key principles were revealed that underpin watershed governance:
The following challenges were also identified at the forum:
These challenges can be overcome and, along with the principles identified, offer a genuine opportunity to move past the current logjam of inaction to ensure better governance, and ultimately the sustainability, of our home watersheds.
Priority Actions
Forum engagement and dialogue identified the following priority actions as essential for making progress towards watershed governance:
[1] Watersheds 2014 was organized by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project, situated at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, the University of Victoria's Department of Geography, and Brock University's Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, with significant funding from the Canadian Water Network and the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, and with the support of numerous other partners and sponsors.
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By SIMON EBEGBULEM, & GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
Benin City- The Chief of Staff to the President,  Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, spoke yesterday of his boss determination to put in place a credible electoral system before the 2011 general elections.
Oghiadomhe who addressed supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State during a reception for him on his appointment and Dr. Chris Ogiemwonyi as Minister of State for Works, however lamented the protracted factional crisis in the state PDP and stressed the need for the leaders to close ranks with a view to brightening the chances of the party in future elections.
The state chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih said the PDP was being repositioned to take over power in the state in 2012 governorship election and asked party faithful to remain focused and loyal to the party.
Oghiadomhe who called for continued prayers for the Federal Government, said "Mr President and the Federal Government are determined to put Nigeria on that map of integrity, that map of respect, that map of electoral confidence in the eyes of our people and the international community. Government is committed to the provision of necessary infrastructure and all necessary reforms to ensure that the average Nigerian lives a decent lifeâ€.
Commenting on the crisis in the state PDP, he stated that from the crowd he observed at the occasion, it showed that PDP is alive in Edo State. "But what is required now is to continue to show love and compassion, is to continue to accommodate each other. I do not want to belong to a faction of PDP. In Edo state, we use to be one family. When I won election with Chief Lucky Igbinedion, no body went to court because we were all togetherâ€.