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Apparently I lean towards Camper Van, the Replacements. and Ryan Adams. (The last of which I actually had tickets to see in Burlington on Thursday, but the final exam for my mass media class ended up being scheduled for the same time. Dammit.)
- "Red Red Red Red Wine," Ryan Adams Pinkheart and Q-Division Demos
- "Don't Have To Be So Sad," Yo La Tengo Summer Sun
- "Turquoise Jewelry," Camper Van Beethoven Cigarettes & Carrot Juice - The Santa - Cruz Years
"Shut Up #2," The ReplacementsStudio Sessions Anthology (1980-1991)
- "Debaser," The Pixies Doolittle
- "Nothing To No One," Paul Westerberg Stereo
- "core," plagasul and rich_1004_ Cen'Art Compilation
- "spanish lady 00000 ending different voice," The Conet Project The Conet Project
- "Daydream Believer," Paul Westerberg Lucky's Revenge (Live at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, 7.21.93)
- "Hunting Bears," Radiohead Amnesiac
- "I Know What I Know," Paul Simon Concert In The Park
- "Instrumental Piece Number 7," Tom Waits Alice: The Original Demos
- "Turtlehead," Camper Van Beethoven Cigarettes & Carrot Juice - The Santa Cruz Years
- "Hey Good Lookin'," The Replacements It Ain't Over 'Till The Fat Roadies Sing
- "Touch, Feel and Lose," Ryan Adams Live at the House of Blues L.A
- "No one Can Forgive Me But My Baby," Tom Waits Tales From the Underground
- "Hash Pipe (Live)," Weezer Bootleg
- "Matilda No More (with Kasey Chambers)," Slim Dusty Looking Forward Looking Back Country
- "Tremens," Sonic Youth SYR 1
- "Me and Depression," Donna the Buffalo Live 2005-01-15 - Lincoln Theatre
Adam Greenfield has a great piece at Boxes and Arrows, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Some Ethical Guidelines for User Experience in Ubiquitous-Computing Settings. As Greenfield points out, ubicomp is moving up fast on the horizon--but designers and engineers haven't yet deeply considered the immense ethical ramifications of the technologies.
It is, however, the impact of ubicomp on civil liberty that I am most concerned with. While the quality of ubiquitous interaction is more squarely within the typical ambit of our professional concerns, it is the civic sphere where our input and perspective is most critical and can be leveraged to secure the most enduring and important gains.
Ubiquitous systems lend themselves easily to—indeed, redefine—surveillance. However discrete they may be at their design and inception, their interface with each other implies a domain of action that extends from the very contours of the human body outward to whatever arbitrarily large civic space can be equipped with the necessary sensors and effectors. In short, there is no current technology with greater potential to support authoritarian and totalitarian social engineering, and the limitation otherwise of choice.
Greenfield's thoughtful piece includes a set of foundational principles (beginning with the obvious but often overlooked Principle 0: Do No Harm) and a list of useful links.
[via Boxes and Arrows]
Max Rottersman shows how to McGuyver your own teleprompter using a laptop, two CD cases, and a couple of binder clips. He also posts some CSS code to help you scroll text. Too cool.
[via Gizmodo]
At Synaptic Burn, David Heller offers some examples of why the usability meter climbs into the "Sucks" zone in Lotus Notes.
Do you guys see what I see in the tool tip? It actually says "Widget Icon"!!!!!!!
Holy Cow! My design team here at work had to take 10 minutes of laughing hysterically.
Now, some of the other great tooltips we saw were:
For the paper clip which usually means that there is an attachment with the message, it says, "Paperclip Icon."
For the exclamation point that means that a message is high priority, the tool tip says, "Exclamation Point Icon."
[via the IxD discussion list]
The Rake has an interesting article--including interviews with inventors--about the 25th anniversary of the Post-It note. Anyone who has borrowed books from me knows how important those sort-of-sticky-but-not-really pieces of paper are to me.
[via daypop top 40]
Following up on the release of "The Hand That Feeds" in editable multitrack GarageBand format, Trent Reznor is now streaming the unreleased Nine Inch Nails album With Teeth from the band's website. Crazy like Wilco. (Related comments and links to other streaming albums available at a MetaFilter post
[via metafilter.com]
Darth Vader has a blog. There goes the neighborhood.
Big day. Storming the rebel ice fortress.
Took a nap first so I would be peppy. Leg feels pretty good.
[via metafilter.com]
A /. post links to the essay by Jef Raskin (he who more or less wrote the Mac human interface, among other things) in ACM Queue, "Comments Are More Important Than Code" after the poster attempts to figure out spaghetti code he wrote three years ago. As Raskin says,
But the fundamental reason code cannot ever be self-documenting and automatic documentation generators can't create what is needed is that they can't explain why the program is being written, and the rationale for choosing this or that method. They cannot discuss the reasons certain alternative approaches were taken.
Which is what interfaces are really all about, in the real world: interfaces are rhetorical, and if the coders (or someone one design team) doesn't deeply understand why interface decisions need to address logical decisions from the user's standpoint, they're only geek puzzles. And those are fine in some domains--like when the users are geeks (and I use "geek" in its positive rather than negative connotations). But the large majority of computer interfaces aren't written to be used by other geeks, so we need to come up with better ways for coding teams to understand how their decisions relate to their users. The Raskin essay as well as the /. discussion both include some useful insights. (But as a content warning, the /. post is pretty technical if you aren't familiar with code.)
[via Slashdot]
The unfields project at unfound sounds offers various audio field recordings for sampling under a Creative Commons license [sampling, attribution, no commercial use].
welcome to the first installation of the unfields series! the unfoundsound website's new addition offers a palette of downloadable field recordings at no cost. you are free to use these samples (under the terms described in this licence) to further your own sound experimentation and music production. the unfields are audio snapshots of the world that surrounds us, taken from the subjective point of view of the artist who recorded them. they are provided as is, without any processing, along with the inevitable imperfections which are inherent during this kind of recording procedure. the recordings are complemented by a series of pictures and a short text written by the author that illustrate the circumstances of the recording. please feel free to submit tracks created from the unfields for a possible release on foundsound or unfoundsound.
This un/found/field/sound thing is all very complicated, and all of the title tags on their various web pages include numerous typographical marks, repeated many times. Apparently foundsound is a Philly record label that specializes in vinyl techno/microhouse created out of sampled and ambient sounds. The unfield series is a web-based distribution system for field recordings that can be sampled; unfield is actually part of foundsound's web-distribution alter ego, unfoundsound ... gah, my head asplode.
[via PhillyTechno.org] (no, really; I'm not sure how I ended up there)
In which a novice hacker threatens to infiltrate the machines of several other (apparently more experienced) users and "send you a virus." The giggling targets helpfully provide the proto-hacker with instructions on how to attack his/her own machine. Hilarity ensues.
[via metafilter.com]
Time's website reports that the White House blocked Qualcomm and Nokia from sending representatives to the meeting of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission--apparently because those companies supported Kerry during the last election. White House spokesmodel Trent Duffy explained the decision:
"We wanted people who would represent the Administration positively, and--call us nutty--it seemed like those who wanted to kick this Administration out of town last November would have some difficulty doing that."
[via Gizmodo]
Me: So it was only $29.99. How could I not buy it?
Underdog: Do you even know how to play the violin?
Me: Not at all.
Underdog: So why did you buy it?
Me: It was $29.99!
On clearance at Sound Professionals. I think I got the last one. Now I just have to figure out how to play it? It's only got four strings--how hard can that be? (Harder than I thought.) (But it was only $29.99!)
The results of rain today. It's supposed to snow here on Monday.
Boing-Boing points to a Palm Beach Post article about a Senate bill introduced by Rick Santorum that would kill the National Weather Service's service of providing free, online weather forecasts:
The bill... would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel, which offer their own forecasts through paid services and free ad-supported Web sites.
Santorum provides a helpful and cogent explanation for the bill:
"... It is not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products and services for free."
Is this a great country or what?
[via Boing Boing]
Slashdot has an interesting discussion of a BBC article on "Email as the New Database."
I remember when I could not afford a 2 gig hard drive. I remember how hard it was filling my hard drive with useless programs and games. Now I have 2 gigs for email!!
My first hard drive, purchased by a company that I was on a short consulting gig with to test its grammar-checking software in the mid-1980s, was a massive 5 megs. I couldn't imagine how I'd ever fill that much space. I can also remember, with sharp financial clarity, scraping my grad student TA income together to purchase four 512K SIMMS for my Mac SE/30 for something like $400.... In fact, when I was young, we used to have to carry our bits from the hard drive to the logic board by hand, two miles, sometimes in a foot and a half of snow, uphill both ways.
Damn, you kids got it easy.
(I actually posted a link to the BBC article in a Datacloud entry two and a half months ago. I don't think I've ever been that far out in front of /. coverage before. Still, the discussion at /. is pretty a pretty interesting bit of insight into the work habits of geeks (as always).)
[via Slashdot]
Janine Solberg posts an mp3 of Lessig's talk on remix culture from CCCC in SF last month, plus a separate file of q&a after the talk and links to clips and images discussed in his talk. Cool.
[via CCCC-IP]
Another great source for streaming alternative radio: soma fm. Seven different stations, ranging from ambiet/groove to drone to trance to indiepop, all in multiple bandwidths. I'm listening right now to Groove Salad right now, which Soma describes as a "tasty plate of ambient beats and grooves." That's about right.
[via the Research Buzz list]
I regularly check in at Overheard in New York for (purported) quotes from conversations on the streets, restaurants, coffeeshops, and subways of NYC. Frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, often symptomatic of culture in general, such as this one titled I'm Expecting a Call from Two Magpies:
Chick #1: Is that your cell phone ringing?
Chick #2: Julie, those are birds.
[via Overheard in New York]
Neel Krishnaswami discusses some thoughts he has about "Lexicon," a still-unbuilt RPG based loosely on ideas from Pavic's influential Dictionary of the Khazars.
The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers -- the other players -- on the construction of an encyclopedia describing some historical period (possibly of a fantastic world).
The game is played in 26 turns, one for each letter of the alphabet.
More details, such as its possible wiki basis and a link to an encyclopedia entry on Pavic's work, are at The 20' by 20' Room.
[via metafilter.com]
Kindly Contest Persons:
Do you believe in fairies? Do you? Then you'll be as excited as I was to learn that my new house is absolutely packed with fairies, gremlins, and pixies of all sorts, many of whom have literary ambitions.
[via The Morning News]
"We do find that people are able to make fairly accurate assessments solely on the basis of a person's top 10 songs,'' said Jason Rentfrow, a psychology consultant who co-authored a 2003 University of Texas study of more than 3,500 people that showed musical taste can provide a road map to a person's personality.
(Now listening to, btw, Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin's "Yugurre No Kyoku," from Makoto-Shinjitsu ... my automated upload of "now playing in iTunes" seems to be caught in a demo CD I got from Magnet last weekend.)
[via Michael R. Moore]
Whatis.com has collected a very large collection of IT Cheat Sheets. Topics covered range from basic HTML to network cabling to PHP to MS Office apps (here's your chance to get rid of Clippy).
[via Lockergnome Bytes]
Collin v. Blog points to this webpage translator that produces raps based on given weebsites. Here's the Datacloud feed:
org rdf syntax
database of audio snippets ex
title stones dc identifier
sound of a spar
c g tag
vol dc identifier rag
[via Collin vs. Blog]
After we found out we weren't going to get hammered too hard on taxes (consulting and royalty income always hits us hard at the end of the fiscal year, since I can never get organized enough to pay quarterly estimated taxes), I decided to finally spring for an iPod.
I asked Underdog for advice. After overviewing the specs on the three available form-factors for the iPod, and then running through the iPod Shuffle and iPod Mini, Underdog said, So what's the next one again, the MaxiPod? (Then she descended into giggling.)
No help there, so I ended up ordering the Mini, and am now searching around for some better earbuds. I'm sort of stuck, since I the earbuds I've used until now (including Apple's standard earbuds) are too large for my ear canal. I'm looking at the Etymotics er-69 or the Audio-Technica ATH-EM9d, both at audiocubes, at around the $150 mark (although I could go higher if I had good reason--I'll be funding these out of a research account I'm using for some audio work I'm doing for my research). Any recommendations would be welcome.
From Collagemania:
I wish I had more time to play with this. One more week of classes....
I initially thought this was a joke, but then it started popping up everwhere.... In Idaho, House Concurrent Resolution No. 29 (aka, "Napoleon Dynamite Commendation") has apparently passed. The resolution text sounds like someone took the movie to be a tourism promotion piece, but it's just being postmodern ironic, as suggested by this part of section 2:
2 WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the 3 Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent 4 resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" and run the risk of having the "Worst Day of 5 Their Lives!"
MyEyesOpen collects (and then apparently will eventually be posting) pictures taken by people seconds after waking. I'm not sure my camera is up to being batted off the nightstand the way that I routinely do with my alarm clock.
The Freesound Project provides a community-constructed database of sounds you can sample under Creative Commons licenses.
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to
- browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more
- up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
- interact with fellow sound-artists!
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn't been a solution.
[via metafilter.com]
12 Apr, Tue, 12:46:46 MSN
Search: cg tetris
12 Apr, Tue, 14:57:55 Yahoo: Cloud Logs for March
12 Apr, Tue, 20:28:04 MSN Search: purelivegigs
13 Apr, Wed, 01:21:12 Google: neil young torrent uncle tupelo connection
13 Apr, Wed, 02:13:28 Google: "Johnson-Eilola"
13 Apr, Wed, 06:30:54 Yahoo: easytree
13 Apr, Wed, 10:48:19 MSN Search: videogames from 1960
This isn't the sort of thing I like to see during the boot process.
It does, though, have a slightly better user experience than I got from my old PowerBook 5300c, which once told me I had a bad RAM chip by emitting the very loud, high-fidelity sound of a car crash, complete with squealing tires, twisting metal, and breaking glass (at least that's how it got processed in my own, wetware memory). Nothing like programmers with a sick sense of humor.
Brad Beasley's way-cool documentary on The Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks, is apparently getting ready for wide release. Brad was kind enough to send me a copy of the 30-minute, early version of this (under the title "The Flaming Lips Have Landed") when I was writing a chapter for Datacloud [80k MS Word file, temp. availability] that used Doug Pray's Scratch [amazon.com link] and The Flaming Lips' "Parking Lot Experiments" (among other things) to talk about new ways of thinking about text in an information-saturated, visually/sonically influenced notion of writing.
If the Flaming Lips have had an accidental career then this documentary is indeed an accident. In 1991, I was simply Wayne's art school neighbor in Norman, Oklahoma with a film camera and some tenacity. They were in need of a willing and somewhat competent cinematographer and I was on a constant hunt for action-packed stories and oddball characters. And thus a relationship built of geographic convenience and a mutual desire to create ourselves. And now, 15-years later, I have thankfully made my filmmaking career through working with the Flaming Lips.
Brief reviews are available from its SXSW showing [or an Austin Chronicle review of that screening], an IMDB page, and The Flaming Lips official discussion board.
Update: You can now pre-order the DVD of The Fearless Freaks at Amazon.com for $17.49. Cool.
Plasq releases a Comic Life, an OS X app that helps you build comics using iPhoto libraries or other image files. $39.99 to purchase, but a 30-day, fully functional (as far as I can tell) trial is available. The support system is slick, at least for rank novice comic artists: templates with different patterns of empty cells; many types of word balloons; intuitive drag-and-drop; resizing, and cropping (complete with goofy sound effects). You wouldn't be making the next Sandman or Watchmen with this, but it's pretty fun nonetheless. (And I'm guessing even a good comic artist might be able to use this for roughing out some storyboards or whatever the hell comic artists do prior to actually sketching out the start of their production drawings.)
I whacked this out in about ten minutes using an iPhoto album from a concert in Lake Placid last August, featuring Underdog, Donna the Buffalo, one of the guys from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sonny Landreth, and David Hidalgo on and off stage with Los Lobos. Like I said, it ain't art--not even serial art--but still, you can probably see the app has some potential.
Tony Wheeler, one of the founders of Lonely Planet, weblogs his overland trip from Singapore to Shanghai. Much of it is that trademarked LP breezy, I'm coping, albeit somewhat clumsily style endemic to Lonely Planet (not that I'm complaining--I actually like that), but the best part is en route, when he snaps this image of a monk sending a text message.
In the afternoon I take the bus to Phnom Penh. We have not been out of mobile phone range for a single kilometre all the way from Singapore, so it's no surprise when the orange clad monk sitting beside me reaches into the folds of his robe and pulls out his phone to check a text message. He texts back with enviable speed.
All of which raises the issue of why both Wheeler and I are surprised that monks have cellphones. Ethnocentrism, I guess.
Illustrator Danny Gregory offers a journal summarizing his day at his weblog. Generally interesting to read/look at, but I liked this bit:
15:00-16:30. We head out to the P.S. 41 Talent Show. Some of the kids are talented; most are indulged. I am impressed by a 4th grader who, accompanied by her dad on guitar, sings a song she wrote that totally sounds like Lou Reed, circa 1972. I am horrified by a group of white third-grade boys who rap, breakdance and throw out various gangsta moves to a song by Usher. Then their grandmothers rush the stage with bouquets of roses for them. Even Jack is mortified.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox this week discusses a recently published Journal of the American Medical Association article [link to abstract] reporting research on the poor design of one hospital's order-entry system, used by doctors to prescribe medication for patients.
Ross Koppel and colleagues reported on a field study of a hospital's order-entry system, which physicians use to specify patient medications. The study identified twenty-two ways in which the system caused patients to get the wrong medicine. Most of these issues are usability problems. I'll briefly discuss the ones of general interest here.
Playing the curmudgeon to the hilt, after discussing some of the findings, Nielsen rips into the limitations of the research methodology; The New York Times; The Journal of the American Medical Association; university/academic/research websites in general; and small, furry bunnies.
[via Tomalak's Realm]
Zoe, apparently aged 14, has way cooler taste in music than me. She broadcasts over Little Radio 8-9 (PST) on Mondays, but you can also listen to archived shows on Webjay or download podcasts.
Here's a partial playlist from the 4.3 show: The Books, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Keys, Steven Malkmus, Spoon, Saul Williams, Bright Eyes, Fisherspooner, and Antony and the Johnsons. See? I told you. Way cooler than me.
[via Mediaburn]
I don't really like basketball all that much (I'm 5'7" and my name was never mentioned in the same sentence as the word "quick" unless the sentence also included the words "on skates" [20 years ago] or "not"), but this video from DC Shoes is pretty cool. Some guys in an indoor skate park making some frankly amazing trick shots, off walls, floors, ramps, over the shoulder from forty feet out, and more. Hard to explain; you sort of have to see it.
[via Boing Boing]
Apparently, Easytree.org is back, under the new name EzTorrent at http://www.dimeadozen.org. Seems to be just a simple port of all information from the old site to the new one (including all former Easytree userids and passwords).
Of course, it could all be an elaborate RIAA/FBI honeypot designed to gather information on filesharers....
Hitatchi takes a cue from Schoolhouse Rock in their Flash animation explaining their perpendicular hard disk technology.
The real question is, how many of you started hearing the little jingle, I'm just a bill, sittin' on Capitol Hill... when I mentioned "Schoolhouse Rock"? If you're jonesing, here's a better site.
[via Kairosnews]
"Bertha," Los Lobos (Live at Grass Roots (7.24.04))
"Shameless," Cracker (Forever)
"Tennessee Sucks (10-05-01)," Ryan Adams (Live (10/5/01, Boston))
"When You Dance I Can Really Love," Neil Young (A Perfect Echo)
"Mule Conversations 3," Tom Waits (Mule Conversations)
"God in my bed," K's Choice (Cocoon Crash)
"english man," The Conet Project (The Conet Project)
"Mega-Superior Gold," Ryan Adams (Pinkheart and Q-Division Demos)
"John Walker's Blues," Steve Earle & The Dukes (Austin City Limits Music Festival 2004)
"Shaking Hell," Sonic Youth (Live Venlo, Holland 12.27.83)
"Nocturnal Transmission," Medeski, Martin And Wood (Uninvisible)
"Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me?," The White Stripes (De Stijl)
"Catching On," Son Volt (Live In Ames, Iowa)
"The Winter Cows," Guided By Voices (Sunfish Holy Breakfast)
June 18, 1976," Pedro the Lion (Progress)
"Cecilia," Paul Simon (Concert In The Park (Disc 2))
"King Of The Claws," The Olivia Tremor Control (Presents: Singles and Beyond)
"workshop," The Conet Project (The Conet Project)
"Pretty Vacant," he Sex Pistols (Never Mind the Bollocks)
"Still Be Around (Demo)," Uncle Tupelo (Live, B-Sides, and Demos)
"Hung Up On You," Fountains Of Wayne (Welcome Interstate Managers)
A couple of people have commented on the sometimes disturbing continuity of the party mix/shuffles lists I've posted. They're not hand-selected; they're automatically generated by iTunes shuffle mode, so they reflect (according to Apple) a random selection of the always-shifting 30 or 40 gigs of music on my PowerBook. But I have to say, I sort of like the sonic whiplash in moving from Steve Earle to Sonic Youth to MM&W, then curving into the White Stripes, Son Volt, and Guided By Voices. But I'm weird like that.
Emma Stratton at The Morning News waxes nostalgic about that very brief (so short maybe it was just a hope) period when the minidisc was the epitome of small, personal audio devices.
People later called us suckers, but my MiniDisc crew had a vision of a world where portable audio and dignity weren�t mutually exclusive, a vision that to us looked very much like a New York subway where dozens of riders enjoy whatever is pulsing through their tiny white wires. I hear MiniDiscs are still going strong in Hong Kong and Japan, but in the U.S. they are marching to wherever the BetaMax went. Today, a hundred MiniDiscs sit in a shoebox in my closet. They contain priceless music archived for eternity, and until I move to Hong Kong, I will continue to lug them through each phase of my life in the off-chance that I meet a kindred soul with a player that still works.
Although high-density (one gig) minidiscs were released last year, I'm afraid it's a dead end. I keep telling myself that $300 Sharp DR-7 minidisc recorder I paid to import two years ago from Audiocubes was money well spent. On-the-fly adjustable line-level input. 1-bit Auvi digital amp (I'm not geeky enough to really understand what that means, but audiophiles seemed impressed by it). Four-pole headphone plug (ditto). Still, I'm going to have to break down and buy an iPod at some point. I kept waiting for one that would do decent recording of live music, but that doesn't seem to be on the horizon. (If experience is any indicator, Apple will release that tech a few weeks after I buy an iPod.)
Sigur Ros, "Viewsic Special [Tokoyo]" DVD [4.15.03]. Wow.
The Datacloud referrer logs suggest that a lot of people are as upset about Easytree being shut down as I am....
08 Apr, Fri, 04:23:13 Google: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 05:43:56 Yahoo: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 06:10:53 Google: easytree ezt
08 Apr, Fri, 08:46:15 Google: easytree is down
08 Apr, Fri, 09:06:36 Yahoo: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 09:10:02 Yahoo: ezt shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 09:50:34 Google: johndan eilola
08 Apr, Fri, 10:51:49 Google: easytree blog
08 Apr, Fri, 12:03:35 Google: easytree down
08 Apr, Fri, 12:28:35 Google:easytree blog
08 Apr, Fri, 12:30:55 Google: replace easytree
08 Apr, Fri, 12:32:49 Yahoo: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 12:49:36 Google: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 12:50:44 Google: EZT easytree
08 Apr, Fri, 13:02:49 Google: easytree shutdown
08 Apr, Fri, 13:38:37 Google: easytree shutdown nirvana
08 Apr, Fri, 13:42:02 Google: easytree shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 13:42:57 Altavista: easytree+shut down
08 Apr, Fri, 14:12:29 Google: tweedy lessig torrent
08 Apr, Fri, 14:29:36 Google: easytree replacement
If you're looking for sites sharing (legal) music, check the live music section of archive.org (lots of other great stuff there as well) and purelivegigs.com (not as much stuff as at EasyTree or Sharing the Groove, but still worth a look).
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah explores cultural assumptions about computer interfaces and the ways that they optimize performance for white, western users. Among other things, Ofosu-Amaah has some valid issues with the ways that photo-sharing websites optimize uploaded photos. The differences in compression algorithms leads to notable changes in skin tone, particularly for dark-skinned people photographed in bright light.
The first thing I very quickly noticed: somehow all the photos that I uploaded to Yahoo Photos turned out darker than on Flickr (the services both resize uploaded photos). The photo-resizing algorithm used by Yahoo Photos was giving worse results. This was noticeable to me because a large number of photos featured darker-skinned people such as myself. The originals were fine and where there were lighter skin tones everything looked good.
Ofosu-Amaah's post covers a wide range of interface issues. The general topic isn't a new one, but this is the best, short, information-packed post I've seen on the issue to date.
[via Joho the Blog]
Edirol just announced the CG-8 Visual Synthesizer at Musickmesse in Germany. Apparently it's a realtime mixer for video based on audio mixing practices.
Integrate with music: You can use audio to trigger video live, with VLINK/MIDI connections for further music integration, especially tight integration with Roland and Edirol gear.
Sample motion: Grab video for instant recording/resampling.
XY and drum pad triggers plus dual infra-red D-beam for control and triggering
Work from still images with photo and stamp effects and real-time overlaying of titles and graphics
Modulation: Borrowing from the concept of modulation in synthesis, you can modify images in real-time, apparently even beat-synced
640x480 VGA resolution
Not quite sure what all that means, but I still want one.
[via Create Digital Music]
A stop-motion re-enactment of the final scene from Seven [.mov w/sound loads automatically]. Oddly, it's still pretty compelling when the characters are played by stuffed animals. Probably because they use the original soundtrack. Kevin Spacey's character still sounds creepy, which mitigates the fact that he shows up as some weird, light-blue furry monster. And Brad Pitt's screaming and cursing overcome the fact that he's a furry, stuffed gorilla. Morgan Freeman, I have to say, works well as stuffed beagle with a hat.
[via metafilter.com]
Here's a useful link to give to people who think it's easier to post questions to large mailing lists rather than look for the answer on their own. [nsfw if your co-workers commonly read the URL-entry textbox in your browser]
The Library of Congress held a press conference to announce the most recent additions to the National Recording Registry. The list of fifty, culturally, aesthetically, or historically important recordings include works by Al Jolson, Edward R. Morrow, Nirvana (Nevermind) and Public Enemy (Fear of a Black Planet). Chuck D. was even at the press conference.
Part of me says, "Too cool." The other part of me feels the way I felt when I used to paint my fingernails when I was a professor at Purdue--for a whole year, although just on my left hand--just to see if anyone would give me crap about it. No one did. And Purdue wasn't exactly a hotbed of cultural radicalism. That's when I realized that pretty much anything I did had been exhausted of any revolutionary potential. Just another form of Mercedes Marxism. But I suppose being Chuck D. gives one a lot more street cred than being an English Professor, at least enough to support the weight of the irony of recognition by the Library of Congress.
[via metafilter.com]
For those of you who like both Wilco and IP (and I know there are a few of you out there), Wilco's website has a cool promo for the Thursday (4/7/05) event at the New York Public Library, featuring Jeff Tweedy, Lawrence Lessig, and Steven Johnson. I'd call him "Larry" like everyone else, but I wasn't in SF last month to talk to him during the IP panel that I helped set up at CCCC, so I've never met him; I only got to exchange email with a series of his assistants.
The promo doesn't actually do much at this point--it has basic info about the event and participants--but the site promises a live feed of the event (which will apparently allow that "play" button on the videotape graphic to actually do something).
[via Lessig Blog]
/. reports that Easytree.org has shut down under the threat of legal action. Unlike other P2P-enabling sites, Easytree didn't deal in commercial music (in fact, they had strict bans against it and regularly removed links to offending material). Instead, Easytree primarily hooked up people wanting to trade recordings of live shows and obscure, out-of-print (or even never-really-in-print) music. Gems from the last year included 1960s-era Miles Davis live performances, old Capt. Beefheart documentaries, Neil Young and the International Harvester's concerts and Steve Miller Band shows from decades ago, Hank Williams Sr. radio broadcasts, and more.
update: I mis-spoke slightly: Easytree doesn't even allow out-of-print music. Their policy is showed up in an RSS feed that I just pulled from NetNewsWire, apparently sent just shortly before Easytree shut down, after they pulled a seed:
A torrent has been banned from EZT [...]
Sorry folks, no compilation may contain any commercially released material, no matter how limited and no matter if OOP now.
As the /. article points out angrily, exactly what part of the market was being damaged by this?
[via Slashdot]
Lifehacker comments on a friend's hard drive failure, and provides a quote from the victim:
'I was panicked at first,' she told me. 'After awhile, to my surprise, I realized I didn't miss very much at all.'
In addition to spending time offline occasionally just to remind myself that a lot of my online life isn't as worthy of my time as I think it is, I also hose my hard drive about twice a year. I can normally scrounge up some outdated backups to replace most of the important work, but in general I've found the drive failures help me clear the decks. Really important things I need to do slowly emerge when I haven't dealt with them (usually in the form of email messages from editors wondering where drafts of work or reviews of journal articles are). The relatively unimportant things just sort of fade away, as people find someone (more responsible) to do the work.
(I work hard to accurately and publicly portray how incompeten, irresponsible, and socially awkward I really am, in the hopes that people will find someone more competent to bother. That only works some of the time.)
In the same post, Lifehacker also links to an interview with Danny O'Brien (author of Life Hacks), who has some similar opinions about online life intersecting with (and often consuming) other areas of life.
[via Lifehacker]
Researchers at Xerox PARC and Georgia Tech interviewed office workers to find out if they worry about what their co-workers think when accessing their publicly available iTunes streams.
"I just went through (my playlist) and said, 'I wonder what kind of image this is...giving me,'" reported one of the study's subjects. "I just went through it to see if there was stuff that would be...annoying, that I would not like people to know that I had."
Speaking only for myself, I haven't actually deleted anything from my iTunes streams, but I did load up iTunes once when I realized that Dire Straits "Romeo and Juliet" had been listed for nearly a week solid in the "now listening" link just to the right in Datacloud. It wasn't so much that I was embarrassed to let people know I listen to Dire Straits--hey, I'm old--but that someone would think I'd been listening to it for 200 hours solid.
[via CNET News.com]
Comedian Mitch Hedberg apparently died last week of a heart attack. Wikiquote provides some of his legacy in the form of a lot of really, really funny observations.
NYT [free reg req'd] has a brief post (with links to several good resources) on New Games Journalism.
Most reviews of computer games cover only the bells and whistles: how quick was the action, how cool the villains, how original the story line. Over the last year, however, a handful of gaming writers have been bringing a more personal touch to their work, using a narrative, experiential approach that acknowledges the effect of the game on the player. Their young genre even has a name: New Games Journalism, after the New Journalism of the 1960's and 70's.
Here's a bit from Kieron Gillen's article New Games Journalism at always_black:
In the early seventies Tom Wolfe edited a collection of writings from the previous few years entitled "The New Journalism", which provided exactly that. This journalism was intensely personal, throwing away the rules of standard journalistic discourse like the pretence of objectivity and an embracing of the "I". We're talking about people like Capote, Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson. While Games journalism – having nabbed a lot of its tricks from the people who nabbed a lot of tricks from the New Journalism people – uses a sizeable chunk of those already, it hasn't really thought about how the core of that philosophy really applies to videogames.
No matter what the precise form [traditional games journalism] takes, it works of a single assumption; that the worth of a videogame lies in the videogame, and by examining it like a twitching insect fixed on a slide, we can understand it.
New Games Journalism rejects this, and argues that the worth of a videogame lies not in the game, but in the gamer. What a gamer feels and thinks as this alien construct takes over all their sensory inputs is what's interesting here, not just the mechanics of how it got there. Games have always been digital hallucinogens – but games journalism has been like chemistry, discussing the binding reactions to brain sites. What I'm suggesting says what it feels like as the chemical kicks in and reality is remixed around you.
An LED-wrapped building in Seoul:
UN Studio and Arup Lighting, both based in Amsterdam, teamed up to give Seoul's Galleria West fashion mall a dazzling, Paco Rabannesque makeover. Concealing a nondescript 1970s concrete building is a layer of 4,330 frosted glass discs, shielding an equal number of LED luminaires. Each disc acts as a giant pixel; the building becomes a vast display screen. With Dutch company Xilver, Rogier van der Heide of Arup developed an RGB LED fixture that improves the color tone of the LEDs.
This would work well for Defender. The vertical height of the building is too shallow for Tetris, but maybe you could make a scrolling, linear version of PacMan.
Interviews with electronic music pioneers Bob Moog, Peter Vogel (Fairlight), and Dave Smith (MIDI) at New Scientist. Here's a bit of Vogel on the Fairlight:
How did you come to invent sampling?
I had this random idea late one night, probably in 1978. I thought that if we took a sample of an instrument and had a look at the harmonics we could get an idea of how to synthesise it. We were already making interesting sounds but we were still a long way from getting it to sound like a real instrument, like a piano or a trumpet. So I hooked an analogue-to-digital converter up to the radio and sampled maybe a second of some piano piece. Then I wondered how it would sound if I played it back without doing anything. So I played it back at different pitches and it sounded remarkably like a piano, a real piano. This had never been done before.
[via Slashdot]
Valenti autographs Betamax tape at Grokster hearing.
Valenti's either got a great sense of humor, or major chutzpah. Probably both.
[via Boing Boing]
Jeff Veen has some thoughts on method acting as a way of understanding audience/users:
I find my designs are more often inspired by research. I find that the best designs I've created are produced more like writing songs or short stories than conducting an experiment using the scientific method. They just hit me.
This leads me to believe that doing research in web design -- for me at least -- has more to do with Method Acting than ethnography. Robert De Niro used this technique as he prepared for his roll as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, spending a month pulling late night shifts as a cab driver. He did this not to mimic those in the profession, but to be able to react on screen in a way that they would. Applied back to design: Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions.
[via kottke.org]
Chapter 1, in which my email client experiences identity issues.
For those of you on tenterhooks (whatever the hell "tenterhooks" are), you can pre-order Datacloud (the dead tree edition) from Amazon. Datacloud (the weblog) is actually pretty separate from the book, apart from having similar themes, a poor work ethic, and a disdain for the finer points of logic (and those are its positive points).
The book, I should add, also has more big words in it.
Gizmodo posts a link to a DIY (MAKE-sourced) guitar amp you can build using a cigarette pack (empty, I assume). DIY is always cool, but Zinky Electronics has been selling these under the name Smokey Amps for years and years, at only slightly more than it'd cost to make on your own. Underdog bought me one for Christmas several years ago, and even though I've spent a lot more money on amps, this one has the best dollar-to-cool ratio.
The Smokey can power its tiny internal speaker, headphones, or even drive 4, 8 or 16Ω speaker cabinets (up to 4x12s), and can even be used on the input of another amp as a fuzz box. According to Zinky, Smokey users include ZZ Top, Mike Watt, The Supersuckers, Reverend Horton Heat, Bad Religion, Los Lobos, and more. Slightly over $30 plus shipping. You can even send them your own empty cigarette pack to use.
[via Gizmodo]
Street Memes tracks guerrilla-art stickers, stencils, or posters, ranks them by popularity, makes connections among related memes, and provides two RSS feeds (one for small thumbnails and one for large). Images are even CC licensed (with a noncommercial, share alike license)
"street meme": a sticker, stencil, or poster that can spread a single image around the world. Unlike traditional graffiti art where each piece is unique, street memes can be copied repeatedly, taking on a life of their own, and spreading through the collective effort of people scattered around the world.
Obey Giant, 5th Ave., NYC
[via Web Zen]
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, on filesharing:
[Y]you try to encourage people to feel more like a patron of the arts instead of a consumer.
Wilco is always just ahead of the curve. They broke from alt-country before it became a cliche.[1] They deconstructed pop in ways that would make Brian Wilson proud. People acted surprised when they paired up with Sonic Youth for several shows, but it made a lot of sense to me, if you look at the creative arc of the band. They streamed their new albums, and chunks of live shows, over the Web for free. I hope the trend continues, because the concept of "patronage" makes a lot of sense in an era when fans don't have to be simple consumers eating whatever pablum's fed to them, but active and valued participants in helping the band make new music.
[1] OK, there are still some good alt-country bands. But the genre, like any underground movement that starts to become marketable, is getting clogged with some pretty unoriginal stuff. All of which is probably beside the point, since such categorizations never really had clear demarcations, and most of the early bands that ended up being slotted in that category resented the whole act of being labeled "alt-country."
[via philoblog]


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N.H.L. ROUNDUP; Goalie Helps Ottawa Live to See Another Day
Published: May 12, 2006
Ottawa goaltender Ray Emery turned aside the questions, the Buffalo crowd and the Sabres' offense last night to prevent the top-seeded Senators from going out of the playoffs with a whimper.
Emery, a rookie, stopped 29 shots, and Wade Redden scored a third-period power-play goal in a 2-1 victory over the Sabres. Brian Pothier also scored for Ottawa. Buffalo leads the Eastern Conference semifinal series, 3-1. Game 5 is in Ottawa on Saturday.
The Senators rebounded from a 3-2 overtime loss at Buffalo the previous night and beat the Sabres in a playoff game for the first time since April 25, 1997.
Emery has been criticized for his play, particularly in Ottawa's 7-6 overtime loss in Game 1 when he allowed seven goals on 23 shots.
''I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys,'' Emery said. ''That's enough motivation to want to play well.''
Hearing his name mockingly chanted by Buffalo fans did not seem to bother him. ''It kind of keeps you in the game,'' he said. ''I don't mind the attention.''
Although Emery is improving, the star goaltender Dominik Hasek could still return. Hasek, who hurt his groin during the Olympics in February, said he could be back soon.
Only two N.H.L. teams -- Toronto in 1942 and the Islanders in 1975 -- have rallied from a 3-0 series deficit to win.
MIGHTY DUCKS SWEEP AVALANCHE -- Anaheim's stingy defense and red-hot rookie goaltender are headed to the Western Conference finals after the Mighty Ducks completed a series sweep with a 4-1 victory in Colorado.
Todd Marchant had two goals, including one into an empty net, and Teemu Selanne and Dustin Penner also scored for Anaheim. Ilya Bryzgalov, the 25-year-old Russian rookie, stopped 40 shots to cap a dazzling series.
San Jose is ahead 2-1 in the other Western Conference semifinal series. Game 4 is tonight at Edmonton.

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She was born May the 12th (early morning). Labor went all well and after a few hours we have a beautiful daughter. She looks like a little rose, soft and pink with smooth snow white skin and long dark hair. My darling baby girl is amazingly quiet and shy, she almost never cries but tries to smile at her mama. We got to know each other a little more than a day ago but I am completely in love, she is such a cute little thing.
With the help of Nameberry we picked the most gorgeous name ever. It is Cornelia Hermione Winter. We had a list of Cornelia and Cordelia with nickname Cora but after she was born I had no doubt it's a tiny Cornelia. She makes adorable funny face when she eats or smiles and we have decided quirky Nelly will suit her perfectly.
Huge, enormous thanks to everyone who helped us with her name. You are all fantastic namers ladies and I am as grateful as I only can be.
I am sorry I can't post a photo of our girly but Nelly's papa isn't comfortable with them in the Internet. Maybe I will post a couple when she gets older but, trust me, she is such a lovely baby. Our hearts are fulled with happiness and we are thrilled to be her parents.
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The Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden and was tasked with photographing his body tells Scott Pelley how he washed the blood from the dead al Qaeda leader's face to get the best photos he could. The former SEAL Team 6 member, who uses the pseudonym Mark Owen, will appear in his first interview on 60 Minutes Sunday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Excerpts from the interview will appear tonight on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley at 6:30 p.m.
CBS News will not identify "Owen" for security reasons. A makeup artist was employed to disguise his appearance and sound manipulation was used to mask his real voice for his 60 Minutes interview. His book, "No Easy Day," went on sale this week. Below is an excerpt:
Mark Owen: I figured these were the-- probably some of the most important photos I'd ever take in my life. So you know, make sure I do it right, get good angles, and all this other stuff. But, you know, you got to clean off the face, so...[its] identifiable as possible. So one of my buddies had a CamelBak with some water in it. Got some, you know-- spread some water on him, took a sheet off the bed, kind of wiped the blood off and then took photos.
Scott Pelley: Wiping the blood off of Osama bin Laden's face? And you shot pictures of his face in a profile. Can you describe what they look like?
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Thailand is known for that famous Thai smile. A friend's luggage was stolen. Instead of empathy she encountered smiles and an apparent disregard for her situation from those employed to assist her. It infuriated her. She did not know that Thai's will do all that is possible to avoid confrontation and embarrassment. Thai's sidestep being negative, argumentative or judgmental. They avoid aggression. If you tell them a story involving your misfortune they will smile. It can seem that they are callous or uncaring. In reality they are trying to save face for you in your dilemma.
Frustrated, my friend now luggageless in Thailand raised her voice but the smiles merely broadened. It was a non verbal signal that she was embarrassing herself. They maintained composure to suggest she did the same. They did it simply by smiling. In our culture if you have a loss the one you are telling will acknowledge it, and often mirror your own facial expression (frown or look distressed for you) to demonstrate that they hear you and empathize. We understand those signals. The Thai's were doing the same and telling her to deal with it pleasantly. But as she asked, 'Who knew?'
In our psychologically based culture 'talking it out' is thought to be imperative, assertion is a skill to be learned and delivered in words. Not every culture buys that approach.
Thai's love to have fun, or Sanuk. They look for opportunities to introduce good natured merriment into their day.
My daughter is getting married. At a Bridal Show we were given a coupon for a sizeable discount on a wedding gown. We were instructed to keep it safe. At the "try the dress on" appointment she found THE dress. As I prepared to pay for the gown I learned the coupon was safe in her bedroom. The assistant advised me that if I returned with the coupon she would adjust the price down. First I had to sign that I agreed to pay the full price.
I did not want to agree to pay a certain figure and then trust that the store would fully honor the coupon. We had booked this appointment at the Bridal Show, everyone at the show had received a coupon, the fact that we were there and that we had a coupon was easy to track. I asked if that would be sufficient. It would not, I needed to return with the coupon. The weather was nasty. Cold and getting colder and the wind whipped. Never mind, smiling I advised her that we would return later and purchase the gown and accessories once we had the coupon. She smiled and left and apparently evaporated. I did not see her again. A smiling manager materialized; fortuitously she had a coupon in her pocket. What was the statistical probability of that?
She knew if we left the store the chances of our returning with coupon and credit card in hand were slim. I knew that she knew that. I also knew why she had a coupon in her pocket and that it was not luck or a surprise. We smiled, neither of us mentioned any of this.
I thanked her, I smiled and commented on how lucky we were that she had the coupon. She agreed and graciously said she was pleased to be able to assist us repeating how lucky we indeed were. The store got a sale. My daughter now has the gown of her dreams. I checked that off the long to do list. It was a win-win-win.
The Thai's are not the only one skilled in maintaining and saving face by smiling graciousness. And in case you are wondering, yes, it was Sanuk.
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Was £7.99 last year, now it's £11.99
Was £7.99 last year, now it's £11.99
Should that be available today?
Inflation, More empolyee's, longer opening hours, higher charges for shop fittings and electricity. Expanding. Manufacturers upping the price.
All reasons the aldi specials may have increased.
And no sunday
Did anyone buy one last time round, are they any good?
Yes. They are.
Can you get a mount to turn them onto a headtorch?
There wasn't one on sale there. I'm sure that you could improvise one.
What does 5w equate to.?
AAAAARRRGH! MY EYES! bright! The torch even has a stick-on warning notice NOT to look into the beam...
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Can you get a mount to turn them onto a headtorch?
Thats neat Trekster, thanks for the link
Any idea how many lumens this might equate to?
I've heard estimates from 200-500. I gave it the 'real world' test and found it to be a good 'thrower' of light onto a distant object (next door's errant dog) several hundred metres away in a field.
how long do AAAs last with it?
Those mounts treckster linked to are great for all kinds of torches, they dont look like it but they hold the light really well. For head mounts it is better to a have "straight" mount.
I've been toying with getting some lights for a while to replace my (frankly, crap and ill-researched) Cateyes. How would this stack up to the DX outings, anyone know / have any recommendations?
As an aside, I always wondered about helmet mounts for cameras / lights: Does it not present an increased risk if you were to crash? Focusing impact pressure at a single point, or something?
ooooh will have to get one of those
I bought last year's one, I'd have guessed 100 lumen for it.
Don't want to buy another that's no better!
Can you get a mount to turn them onto a headtorch?
If these are a similar weight to the 3xAAA Led torches that Lidls did last year then they're probably a little heavy to use on your helmet, especially if held away from the helmet on a mount.
BTW, are the Aldi ones focusable?
Hundreds of these of Ebay, often in pairs, for less money…
I got a 300 lumen one for running with a Cree Q5 LED in, only cost a fiver.
Is the Q5 the one to get, then?
It's all so confusing, the tech constantly changes and DX have literally thousands to choose from.
I take it the Lidl torch next week for a fiver will be naff by comparison?
There's no details of power, range, battery life, etc given for it, just "6 LEDs and one Krypton bulb".
They're nice wee torches though but I wouldn't, for bike use... AAAs aren't a great choice- heavy and they'll struggle to supply the full voltage.
You could get a 501B torch, charger and a couple of half-decent lipo batteries for under £20- it'll be lighter, brighter, and longer-lifed. Or for bike use you could spend a little more and get a P7 bike light (or an XML one, if you prefer range to spread)
Ironically most of my torches are good bike lights but crap at being torches- tempted to get one of these for those times when I just want a damn torch!
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Is the Q5 the one to get, then?
Mine is supposedly 300 lumen. It's fine for running and projects a decent beam, but I wouldn't cycle with it unless it was just to be seen with, rather than see where I'm going.
The T-series Cree LEDs are more powerful and would IMO make better bike lights. I think you'd want around 1000 lumens minimum to see where you're going.
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SAITAMA (FIBA World Championship) - Lithuania had hoped for a medal, but their seventh place finish at the FIBA World Championship after a 77-62 triumph over Germany on the last day of the tournament is something to build on for a team in transition.
Lithuania, best known for winning three straight Olympic bronze medals from 1992 to 2000 and winning the 2003 EuroBasket in Stockholm, saw captain Saulius Stombergas and center Eurelijus Zurauskas retire after the Athens Olympics.
Sarunas Jasikevicius hasn't played the past two years, either, although he may make himself available next year when the EuroBasket is staged in Spain.
What we did see in Japan was the introduction of promising youngsters Linas Kleiza, Mantas Kalnietis and Paulius Jankunas.
We also watched veterans Arvydas Macijauskas and Darius Songaila make their return to the national side after missing last year's EuroBasket in Serbia & Montenegro.
Kleiza, 21, is sure to have a big role in this team next year.
He averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, saving some of his best performances for the knockout stages.
Kleiza went for 15 points, 14 rebounds and five assists against Spain, although that quarter-final defeat was a mauling.
He also had 16 points and seven rebounds in Lithuania's win over Germany.
Kleiza spoke to Simon Wilkinson on behalf of FIBA after that seventh place game.
FIBA: This is an encouraging way to finish the competition for Lithuania.
Kleiza: "It definitely is good to end our tournament on a high, with a win against a great side like Germany because we are a young team still trying to figure itself out."
FIBA: What were you able to do against Germany that perhaps you didn't do against other teams?
Kleiza: "The main thing we did today that we haven't done in recent games is just play our game, get a good lead and maintain it. We made our shots and we defended well."
FIBA: This is your first experience of international basketball. Do you feel you've learned a lot?
Kleiza: "Yes, I learned an awful lot. This kind of experience will only help our team become better. We also have our point guard, Mantas Kalnietis, who is only 19 and this was a very big test for him. He was basically trying to fill Sarunas Jasikevicius' shoes."
FIBA: Speaking of Jasikevicius, do you think at all about how far you would have gone had he played?
Kleiza: "I think things would have been different, but in a good way if he had played. It's hard to know how much better we would have performed, but I think we could have gone a bit further with him."
FIBA: The Spain game wasn't close, but losing to Turkey in overtime must have hurt.
Kleiza: "Well, I think the only game we should have lost was the one against Spain. We were expected to lose that one and we did. It was a shame to lose against Turkey in the first classification game, but that's the way it goes sometimes."
FIBA: Are you optimistic about Lithuania's future?
Kleiza: "Yes I feel we have a very good group of guys and we just need a chance to play together more. As I said before, this is a young team and you have to keep that in mind and be patient. But I hope we'll do well at the European Championship next year."
FIBA: What are your thoughts about the final between Greece and Spain?
Kleiza: "It will be hard for Spain since they are missing Pau Gasol. But we'll have to see. It's good to see two European teams in the finals. It shows that the level is as good in Europe as it is in other parts of the world."
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October 13, 2012 at 4:53 pm in reply to: German Market Extension for WooCommerce #93627
Hi Dude,
habe das Flashlight Theme erworben und mir die German Market Extension heruntergeladen und bitte um das ZIP-Passwort.
Vielen Dank und ein schönes Wochenende
janingoAugust 31, 2012 at 2:03 pm in reply to: How to show product price on product detail page? #87574
Hi Peter,
thank you very much for your support. There is still no change at the product detail page. Changing the hook from "woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_button" to "woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button also did not work. Maybe we need a deeper look into the theme code of the file(s) regarding to woocommerce functionality?
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JanAugust 23, 2012 at 8:01 pm in reply to: How to show product price on product detail page? #87572
Hi Peter,
thanks for the workout but it did not handle anything.
i revert the first change
remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_price', 10, 2);
back into the config.php at line where it was before. than i added your code solution at the buttom. Refresing browser a.s.o…but .nothing changes the situation. Like it was before the price in the single page product (product without variants) will not be shown.
If you look at the page pls take notice that i now changed back to the first changes you offered me to do but it is not the happy end way. Maybe there is a part of code missing in your second option? Did you tried this code solution at your theme presentation? Did it work?August 21, 2012 at 1:25 pm in reply to: How to show product price on product detail page? #87570
Hi Peter,
or another clear way of layouting could be to set all other product informations (like name, price, qty, info tabs, Jetzt kaufen-Button a.s.o.) left beside the product picture(s). So it is possible more to see for a customer without scolling so much (monitor is more width than high)
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JanAugust 21, 2012 at 1:05 pm in reply to: How to show product price on product detail page? #87569
Hi Peter,
thanks for your reply.
Pls only above the "Jetzt kaufen" Button but not under the Page Produkt Titel. Like the layout is basicly set in the Varianten-Produkt VANDOG Pretty Coat. Also to show the (german requirements) information abaout "inklusive gesetzliche MwSt, zzgl. Versand".
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JanAugust 20, 2012 at 12:28 pm in reply to: How to show product price on product detail page? #87567
Hi Peter,
first of all thanks for your reply. I saw the post but that didn't realy solve the problem.
Please take a look on the website (click on shop)
to follow the Products in detail. On the shop page you will see two sample products, VANDOG Coat Prestige and VANDOG Pretty Coat.
Before i used your postet solution, the product prize was shown on the VANDOG Pretty Coat-Detail Page and only when i wrote an aktionspreis in one variant i was able to see the prize straigt over the quantity. Without specifying a "Aktionspreis" the prize will not be shown on the product detail page anywhere. VANDOG Coat Prestige is a product without variants and the was also not price shown (only at the Shop-Startpage).
Now i did it in your posted way of solution and the prices are shown directly unter the product title and, at the variant product also over the Quantity. But at VANDOG Coat Prestige the price is not shown in the normal way direct unter the quantitiy (and over the Stock message) like it should be also at VANDOG Coat Prestige.
At all products the price should not be shown under the product title like the behavior is now with your solution.
If you take a comparing look at both product pages (also quellcode) i am shure you will see what i mean. How could this be fixed?
Sorry for my complicate way of demonstrating the failure.
See You
PS. If it is easier to understand what i mean, i will write in german language.August 6, 2012 at 2:15 pm in reply to: How to disable the Message "Nothing Found Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" #86112
Hi Devin ,
thank you very much for your fast response. I created a page now that i named "Home" and chosed this page at the Frontpage Settings to be display on my Frontpage. The next step "And where do you want to display the Blog?" – Setting i did not chose a site in hope that if i left it blank no blog will be displayed. But after all still a page, my "Home"-Page is shown. But i simply want nothing to be seen. Just, like in your Demo-Site, the Logo-and-Menue-"Vertical Line (Logo, menue a.s.o." and the Backround, but no Page right next to that. I hope it is possible to understand what i meen(pardon)?
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I hate to say but, $300 won't go as far as you might hope. If you opt for a single stage press it will be better.
Progressive press- nice, fast, higher price on caliber changes.
You will want to buy only carbide dies for those pistol calibers. Four sets of dies,shell plate holders, press, powder scale, dial calipers, a good reloading manual or two. That's the minimum you need.
Then all those supplies Two types of primers (sm. and lg. pistol), Four different bullet tips (9,40,44,45...that's if you only pick one weight per caliber), you can get by with one powder type if you watch it and are not to picky.
The single stage kits are a good deal RCBS Rock Chucker comes with everything except calipers, buy your primers, powder,tips and you ready to go.
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University of Texas Arlington
UTA In The News — Thursday, December 13, 2012
Re-imagining Radiohead
UT Arlington music associate professor Dan Cavanagh was one of the artists mentioned in a Jazz Times roundup of the best new recordings from jazz ensembles at American schools. Cavanagh arranged a song for the Radiohead Jazz Project performed by artists at Lawrence University. For the recording, an international team of jazz artists arranged 12 songs by the popular band Radiohead for big band.
Chief to retire
University of Texas at Arlington police chief Robert Hayes is retiring in the spring, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Extra Credit reported. Chief Hayes has directed a staff of 138, including 38 sworn officers, and managed a budget of more than $5 million. "Chief Hayes has elevated the UT Arlington Police Department to new levels of professionalism and excellence and has earned the respect of law enforcement colleagues across the nation," said John Hall, the University's vice president for administration and campus operations.
Solutions hard to find
The needed discussion about how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must include a key piece of information advocates for a one-state solution ignore or gloss over - most Israeli Jews simply don't want to live in a state with millions more Palestinians, UT Arlington political science assistant professor Brent Sasley said in a post in the Daily Beast's Open Zion blog. Though current conditions are terrible, Sasley said all the evidence indicates this would only get worse if one state was imposed on everybody.
Partnering for better health
Texas Health Resources is trying hard to expand beyond its walls and working more closely with other community partners to improve the care experience for individuals across North Texas, company CEO Douglas D. Hawthorne said in a D Healthcare Daily column. He mentioned a partnership with UT Arlington's College of Nursing to increase the nursing graduates as example of those efforts.
From the lab to the web
The websites Infection Control Today and LabSpaces reported on a research collaboration that included UT Arlington assistant biology professor Jorge Rodrigues and a team from UT Southwestern Medical Center. The group examined the role of unique viruses called bacteriophages in the digestive system and published a study about the work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Recording Weatherford history
The Weatherford Democrat featured a book by Brenda McClurkin, historical manuscripts archivists at UT Arlintons Library, in a recent list of unique gift ideas. McClurkin and Jonelle Bartoli coauthored "Weatherford: The Early Years."


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Reviewed by Jillian Owens, Fri., Feb. 1, 2013
Gruesome Playground InjuriesSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.
Final performances: Saturday, Feb. 2, noon; Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 4-6, 8pm
Running time: 1 hr., 30 min.
Capital T Theatre may be best known for the impressive lineup of well-produced, well-received contemporary plays they've mounted recently. Rajiv Joseph's 2011 gem of a love story, Gruesome Playground Injuries, is no exception. But Cap T is less famous for the program that makes them most unique: New Directions, an annual opportunity for a promising young director to shine (most recently, Gary Jaffe and Derek Kolluri). In this production, Kelsey Kling, who you've likely seen onstage at Hyde Park Theatre, dons the director's hat with bells on.
Kling's most impressive accomplishment here is her casting. Jason Newman and Laura Artesi perfectly embody accident-prone childhood friends Doug and Kayleen; their chemistry is exhilarating and their timing impeccable. However, the production's beautifully detailed design – set by Mark Pickell, costumes by Glenda Barnes – might have benefited from a more minimalist approach. Lengthy transitions occasionally impede the play's heartfelt map of a platonic relationship that fails to blossom into something more. Gruesome Playground Injuries nonetheless challenges our yearning for a happily ever after. Though that might not seem an auspicious start for Kling's directing career, I have a feeling we'll see her name at the top of the credits again.


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I used a ref pic for the idea , but changed it..:)) So its a bit from my imagination.enjoy!!:D
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i know the ref pic that you used.. but i fail to see where you used your imagination, good effort but too much copied. 4 stars!
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Anyone know why @phoenix2000 deactivated?
What Guys Said 13
Seems like so many of the nice people are leaving.
I wonder if it's because GAG keeps on skewing the incentives to post a few decent questions, while what we are getting is huge amount of stupid, pointless and inane questions.
For what it's worth, I'm thinking of dumping GAG when I start uni next month.44|00|0
I wonder if it was deactivated for her, as she was underage.
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@dogbert444, so welcome, hun. Sincerely, One of the Best from the Rest. xxoo
A 15 year old creating drama? UNHEARD of! Let's start the timer for how long it takes for her to sign up again (I kinda felt like she asked this question for attention, btw).76|10|0
Anon is under 18, it's definitely her lmfao
Child lived for attention
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@Triss if you didn't like the attention you got then why make another account and draw attention to who you are under your new moniker?
@teawrecks the only reason I made a new account is some amazing friends I have on here. And just wanted to tell people who talk behind my back that they're wrong. Nothing less nothing more
Rip phoenix2000 :(11|00|0
No, I have no idea.00|00|0
Yeah and what happened to that music lover guy? That guy was cool...11|00|0
I don't know why 😕 I think she's back tho lol11|00|0
They come and go. Enough said11|00|0
I don't know her personally but she seems cool11|00|0
Good riddance00|00|0
Who was he/she?00|00|0
I literally just saw a guy named pheonix on here00|00|0
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She's back already, hah. She couldn't stay away.11|00|0
This site made me crazy addicted 😂
Because this place is really boring, lame, dry, and full of unentertaining individuals?87|10|0
@CoralSun OMG. I simply couldn't agree with you more, as you will hopefully recognise within my own comment/opinion.
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Then why don't you waste your precious time in this lame? Leave we don't need offensive people here
@Triss Excuse me, little girl but you don't have the intellectual capability to hurt anyone's butt. Don't try to tell me what to do, child and don't think you can converse with me normally and receive answers to your questions after getting nasty with me.
I was trying to help you out because you seem to be living a very lame, pathetic, boring life but if you want to be a brat then I'll leave that chore for your own mother. Announcing to GAG that you're back when barely anyone knew who the hell you are. Asking me to talk about you just to hear what people think of someone who apparently was irrelevant and invisible to most of us. I do what I want and I answer to no one, let alone a little girl but you seem to have such a problem with me, I'll make sure you never get to participate on my posts again. :)
Possibly for the very same reason that am considering doing the same.
Am simply becoming extremely fed up to the back teeth with the amount of downright pathetic morons which seem to be surfacing here, and asking the most bloody ridiculous questions imaginable.
I'm fairly certain that she's already back.22|01|0
Yea I'm back fuck haters and pedophiles and creepers
@Triss MURDER THE HATERS
@Waffles731 😜 yeahh
Didn't know she was gone. I just logged on 😐11|00|0
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wasn't aware she left...11|00|0
I don't know why but I'm glad she's back.00|00|0
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The Echo Presents
Lightning Dust
Louise Burns, Glow Marrow
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Lightning Dust - the duo comprised of Amber Webber and Josh Wells - tends to thrive in the spirit of change. 2007's self-titled debut was a hushed, intricate folk affair, while 2009's Infinite Light found a middle ground between Suicide and Fleetwood Mac era pop. So when they geared up to make the music that would become Fantasy, the pair was looking for a new sonic stamp.
Lightning Dust's 3rd proper full length finds its inspiration in skeletal synth pop, modern R&B beats, the films of John Carpenter and -- in accordance with Lightning Dust's only longstanding rule -- absolute minimalism. The core of Fantasy lies as much in the songwriting as in its sonics, and begins with tools familiar to Webber and Wells: her acoustic guitar and his Wurlitzer piano. They worked to distill the arrangements to just the few key elements that were necessary to make the feel right, and through countless hours of labor in The Balloon Factory - their Vancouver studio - the songs found their way to a sonic palette more squarely electronic than either expected.
The first product of this experiment was "Never Again" which was previously featured on a 7" in 2011 and now closes the new album. It is a menacing, almost gothic electro-pop churner, marching from an oscillating beat to an anthemic thunderstorm of synth textures. Like many of its cohorts, the song came together slowly: beginning with a barebones acoustic demo and honed through their new sonic prism, "Never Again" became not only a bouncing synth opus but a thesis statement of sorts for Fantasy.
Knowing now where they were going, the path began to take shape. The duo was keen to use a purely synthetic palette for Fantasy, but instead of toiling away in front of a computer, Wells armed himself with an MPC 2000 -- a cumbersome, outdated machine, but one that proved to be the perfect tool to keep the spirit of absolute minimalism alive in their new musical terrain. The time-honored producer's weapon of choice became Wells' entrance to the world of programming, one that empowered him to work by feel alone. Webber, meanwhile, mined the freedom she felt singing along to records as a child, and strove to write vocal melodies and sing with a more extroverted pop sensibility. The hooks are apparent, and Webber sings with a self-assurance that belies the extent to which Fantasy marks a new, uncharted sonic space for the band.
By beginning at the end, Lightning Dust has delivered an album that informs their sound in remarkable new ways. Fantasy is a hypnotic, exciting record, recklessly new without sacrificing the rich atmosphere that makes Lightning Dust who they are. "Loaded Gun" is a robotic riot grrrl anthem, while "Agatha" stands tall as an ominous lullaby. "Fire, Flesh and Bone" recalls the best cinematic new wave ballads, while acoustic heartbreaker "Moon" makes the rest of the world disappear. And so while Lightning Dust's destination was never an exact place, Fantasy is as vivid a place as you've ever imagined.
According to Louise Burns, the spirit animal hovering above her new album is a Foxx. A John Foxx, to be precise, meaning the impressively cheekboned UK synth pop pioneer who fronted Ultravox in the late '70s. You can find a picture of Burns online, standing in a record store, the proud new owner of Foxx's second solo LP, The Garden. Fittingly, Burns' sophomore album is partly located in the same time and place.
"I went back to the music I first fell in love with," she says of her latest, The Midnight Mass. "Which was the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, all of my favourite influences." You could add Berlin-era Bowie into the mix—there's even a tense, Scott Walker-ish track called "The Lodger"—but The Midnight Mass is hardly an exercise in aping Burns' heroes.
She's too much in the habit of being herself to let that happen. And so, while the glacial presence of NY no-wavers Suicide is felt in a track like "Don't Like Sunny Days," it's in a sort of détente with Burns' natural warmth, amber voice, and her instinct for a hook. And while Townes Van Zandt was a seemingly unlikely source for the slow-burning "Heaven"— "I was literally going to bed listening to the 'For the Sake of the Song' every night for three months," she says—Burns tackles it like she's in a spectral version of the Shangri-Las. The effect in either case is something like sweet depression.
Not surprisingly, The Midnight Mass was conjured out of a tumultuous time for the artist. She describes a feeling of "displacement" that only increased after the release of her Polaris nominated solo debut Mellow Drama in 2011. "Jobs, rent, strained relationships, self-doubt— a lot of the record is about the reality check you get in your late twenties," she says.
As for the striking departure in style, Burns was never likely to stop exploring her private musical landscape—something she does here with the aid of producers Colin Stewart and the Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner. Sonically, The Midnight Mass is like Mellow Drama after it was shoved through the fifth dimension in a TARDIS. First single "Emerald Shatter" is draped in the heaviest of synths; electric clouds of buzz devour roiling post-punk drums in "The Artist"; her cover of the Gun Club's "Mother of Earth" literally sounds like charged fog.
With players James Younger, Darcy Hancock (Ladyhawk), Gregg Foreman (Cat Power), and drummer Brennan Saul (Brasstronaut) on board—with some additional help from Wagner and Dum Dum Girls' Sandra Vu—a track like ``He`s My Woman`` becomes Rowland S. Howard doing Ennio Morricone in a mossy Romanian field (complete with Jesse Zubot's dancing fiddle). In all cases, the instincts that have carried Burns through an almost 20 year career are never abandoned.
"It doesn't feel like a big change for me. I'm a pop writer," she says, acknowledging that no amount of gleefully applied retro-future artifice can obscure the honesty of her songwriting. Ditching the feel for addictive melodies, meanwhile, would be like learning to un-walk. Louise Burns wanted to make an album that was "coherent and cinematic and beautiful and dark"—and she has—but rendering it into an item as gripping as The Midnight Mass was something she never could have helped.
Hailing from North Hollywood by way of Thousand Oaks, Derek Coburn and Darin Green have been collaborating since their days as high school friends with a mutual affinity for writing songs together. After incorporating live electronics into their previously more bare bones sound, the duo formed Glow Marrow. With a focus on creating new textures over music that ranges from electro pop to stark acoustic guitar led lullabies, Glow Marrow is an expansion on the duo's prior project, The Eye The Ear and The Arm. Glow Marrow have recently completed their debut EP, Broadheart and are currently working on a new release while performing throughout the West Coast.
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Srikrishna report on Telangana offers 6 options
Creation of a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital and keeping Andhra Pradesh united with constitutional and statutory measures for empowerment of Telangana region are among the six options recommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee.
The report of the five-member committee headed by the former Supreme Court judge, which gave its recommendations after nearly 11 months of consultations in the state, was released by the home ministry on Thursday, a week after it received it.
The two-volume 461-page report has also suggested maintaining status quo with a rider that it is the least favoured option.
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Image: University students demonstrate for a separate Telangana
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Separate Telangana, United Andhra among options
In the fourth option, for which political parties spearheaded by Telangana Rashtra Samiti have been campaigning, the committee suggests bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into two units -- Telangana and Seemandhra -- as per existing boundaries. Telangana will have Hyderabad as its capital, while Seemandhra, comprising Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions, will have a new capital.
In the option for keeping the state united, the committee has suggested that there should be simultaneous provision of certain constitutional and statutory measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana region by creation of a statutorily-empowered Telangana Regional Council.
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Hyderabad as union territory?
Another option is to bifurcate the state into Seemandhra and Telangana with Hyderabad as a union territory and the two states developing their own capitals in due course.
Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Rayala-Telangana and coastal Andhra regions with Hyderabad being an integral part of Rayala-Telangana is another option suggested by the committee.
Yet another idea is to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh into Seemandhra and Telangana with enlarged Hyderabad Metropolis as a separate union territory.
"This union territory will have geographical linkage and contiguity via Nalgonda district in the south-east to Guntur district in coastal Andhra and via Mahaboobnagar district in the south to Kurnool district in Rayalaseema," says the report.
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Should status quo be maintained?
Following are the options and explanation given by the committee:
1. Maintaining Status Quo: The committee said it is of the unanimous view that it would not be a practical approach to simply maintain the status quo in respect of the situation.
"Some intervention is definitely required and though maintaining the existing status quo is an option it is favoured the least," the panel says.
2. Bifurcation of the state into Seemandhra and Telangana: with Hyderabad as a union territory and the two states developing their own capitals in due course:
"There is a definite likelihood of serious backlashes in Telangana region and on overall consideration, the Committee found this option was also not practicable."
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Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh?
3. Bifurcation of the state into Rayala-Telangana and Coastal Andhra Regions with Hyderabad being an integral part of Rayala-Telangana:
"This scenario is not likely to be accepted either by the pro-Telangana or by the pro-United Andhra protagonists. While this option may have economic justification, the committee believes that this option may not offer a resolution which would be acceptable to people of all three regions," it says.
4. Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Seemandhra and Telangana with enlarged Hyderabad Metropolis as a separate Union Territory. This Union Territory will have geographical linkage and contiguity via Nalgonda district in the south-east to Guntur district in coastal Andhra and via Mahaboobnagar district in the south to Kurnool district in Rayalaseema:
"This is likely to receive stiff opposition from Telangana protagonists and it may be difficult to reach a political consensus in making this solution acceptable to all," it says.
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'Apprehensions of people need to be addressed'
5. Bifurcation of the state into Telangana and Seemandhra as per existing boundaries with Hyderabad as the capital of Telangana and Seemandhra to have a new capital:
"The committee feels that this option has to be given consideration. The continuing demand for a separate Telangana has some merit and is not entirely justified. In case this option is exercised, the apprehensions of the coastal Andhra and the Rayalaseema people and others who were settled in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana with regard to
their investments, properties, livelihood and employment would need to be adequately addressed.
"Considering all aspects, the Committee felt that while creation of separate Telangana would satisfy a large majority of the people from the region, it will also throw up several serious problems. Therefore, after taking into account of the pros and cons the committee did not think it to be most preferred, but the second best option. Separation is recommended only in case it is unavoidable and if decision can be reached amicably amongst all the three regions."
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United Andhra is the preferred option
6. Keeping the state united by simultaneously providing certain definite constitutional/statuary measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana region -- creation of a statutorily-empowered Telangana Regional Council:
"In this option, it is proposed to keep the state united and provide constitutional/statuary measures to address the core socio-economic concerns about the development of the
Telangana region. This can be done through the establishment of a statutorily-empowered Telangana Regional Council with adequate transfer of funds, functions and functionaries. The regional council will provide a legislative consultative mechanism for the subjects to be dealt with by the Council.
"The united Andhra option is being suggested for continuing the development momentum of the three regions and keeping in mind the national perspective. With firm political and administrative management it should be possible to convey conviction to the people that this option would be in the best interest of all and would provide satisfaction to the maximum number of the people in the state.
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'Uncertainty over the future of Hyderabad'
"It would also take care of the uncertainty over the future of Hyderabad as a bustling, educational, industrial and IT hub/destination. For management of water and irrigation resources on an equitable basis, a technical body, i.e., Water Management Board and an Irrigation Project Development Corporation in expanded role have been recommended. The above course of action should meet all the issues raised by Telangana people satisfactorily.
"The committee discussed all aspects of this option and while it acknowledges that there will be certain difficulties in its implementation, on balance, it found it the most workable option in the given circumstances and in the best interest of the social and economic welfare of the people of all the three regions. The core issue being one of the socio-economic development and good governance, the committee keeping the national perspective in mind, is of the considered view that this option stands out as the best way forward," it says.
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