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Sometimes radio seems to know what I'm thinking. On Saturday morning Radio 4's Today carried a brief line in its news about Derek Cooper's death.
Is that all, I thought. What about him inventing The Food Programme, presenting it for 20 years, changing the way we now think about what we buy, what we eat, how it's made?
As the day went on, someone had clearly had a word in the newsroom's ear because Cooper's sterling record as a broadcaster crept in more and more on the news. Then on Sunday Sheila Dillon, once Cooper's producer, now presenter and guiding light of The Food Programme, boldly dropped the planned programme (on holy food) to front a special tribute edition. Here was Cooper in 1979, getting Mr Swindlehurst of ice cream manufacturer Walls to say that, having spent £1 m on a relaunch, their best seller was 50 per cent air and water. Cooper didn't bully him into it. Mr Swindlehurst was being honest. Cooper's aim was to make everyone in the food trade as open, about meat, farmed fish, food dyes. It was also to celebrate the joys of eating and cooking, the simpler the better, whether in hospitals, schools or, best of all, at home around a table. He made us laugh, he made us listen and, most of all, think.
So did Ian McIntyre, co-inventor with producer George Fischer of Radio 4's Analysis in 1970, and its best presenter. who would later, and more controversially, become controller of Radio 4 in 1976. McIntyre also died last weekend, aged 82, after a long illness.
Of him, however, no mention (or none so far) on Radio 4, in the news or otherwise. As a broadcaster he brought clarity and concision to current affairs however complicated, from Anglo-US relations to multi-lateral disarmament, supply side economics to worker participation. As network controller he tried to make his style the pattern for everyone else, with ever-increasing firmness of intent and no heed of consequences, a managerial style doomed to failure. He left Radio 4 in 1978 to be controller of Radio 3, also unhappily. He then became a brilliant biographer, of Robert Burns, of John Reith. If it weren't for McIntyre Radio 4 wouldn't have embraced listener response (his Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells became Feedback) and disability (Does He Take Sugar?) I'm sure he'll be an item on Last Word (invented by fellow Scot and equally radical Radio 4 controller, James Boyle). But he deserved more.
Antony and Cleopatra (Radio 3, Sunday) had such a starry cast (Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the title roles) and useful handle (Shakespeare's 450th birthday) that it broke the new pattern of Radio 3 Sundays by coming on at 7.30pm (usually it is 10.00pm, quite late to concentrate on Lorca, Wesker and such). We were told that this adaptation of the play was by Janet Suzman. Would Suzman, I wondered, have approved of quite such a shrewish, nagging Cleopatra? I've heard this tragedy at least four times on radio in various versions. Never have the lusty bits sounded so fake. Branagh's verse speaking, as always, was impeccable. Robert Pugh as Enobarbus was totally convincing, by turns reflective, wise, sad. The famous speech, about Cleopatra's great river pageant for Antony, was perfectly judged, except by producer Alison Hindell who couldn't resist adding distant, tinkly music (specially composed, too) under its later stages. When this Enobarbus spoke, I could see what was happening. Otherwise, alas, not.
Michael Sheen, an actor of acclaimed versatility, slid into Radio 2 on Saturday night mysteriously. One minute we were listening to Michael Ball at the weekend before's Olivier Awards. Very chummy, Michael. Glad he, not I, had to sit there to sit through all those prize-giving hours. Next, after the news but unannounced, there was this odd, thin, voice saying "Hello London," and dreaming he was on an endless highway. (Who are you, I thought, and why should I want to know where you are?) A woman sang, the man's voice murmured he saw his voice become electric. Then (without a trace of irony) he said he was on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, mystery, romance and darkness lurking at the edge of town.
Then I realised this was an actor talking about Los Angeles, trying to do what Bob Dylan did so well in his stream of consciousness music and word collages, what Iggy Pop is currently (sort of) doing on 6 Music on Sunday afternoons, what Chris Morris accomplished to perfection long ago in Radio 1's Blue Jam. Even as accomplished an actor as Sheen needs a good producer. Don't try this again without one, Michael.
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The USS Courageous was a Federation Akira-class heavy cruiser starship in Starfleet service in the 24th century.
In 2366, the Courageous was commanded by Captain Lavelle, and was dispatched ongside USS Hood to Errev to provide escort for the USS Enterprise. Courageous was the first vessel to hail Enterprise, with Captain LaVelle expressing outrage at Jean-Luc Picard being implicated in ordering the destruction of USS Nairobi. (TNG comic: "The Pay Off!")
By 2377, the Courageous was still in service. (TNG video game: Armada II)
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Chapter 4. The Components of the System Unit. The System Unit. It is a case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data Sometimes called the chassis It is made of metal or plastic and protects the internal electronic components from damage. power supply.
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dual inline packages (DIP) holds memory chips
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Step 2. DecodeTranslate instruction into commands
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Step 3. ExecuteCarry out command
Each tick is a clock cycle
Pace of system clock is clock speed
Most clock speeds are in the gigahertz (GHz) range (1 GHz = one billion ticks of system clock per second)
Processor speed can also be measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS)
Chip that assists processor in performing specific tasks
One type is afloating-point coprocessor, also known as a math or numeric coprocessor
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Billick: Call a timeout on notion Lions fatally damaged their playoff hopes
With marquee matchups like the 49ers at the Saints and the Chiefs at the Broncos, there certainly were plenty of storylines and entertaining games this weekend, but Iâm not sure we learned anything more about the pretenders and the contenders as we approach the final six weeks of the season.
Here are a couple observations from Week 11 in the NFL:
— The NFC North is completely up for grabs. The Lions entered Sunday as the sole leader in the division, a title they hadnât held this late in a season since 1999, but came out flat in Pittsburgh and eventually sputtered out late in the loss to the Steelers. At the same time, the Bears took advantage of a two-hour weather delay to climb out of a 10-point deficit and eventually beat the Ravens with a field goal in overtime.
The Lions and the Bears are deadlocked at 6-4 at the top of the division with no more head-to-head matchups left this season. The Lions still are on the road of least resistance leading to the division championship as they have the easiest remaining schedule and hold the tiebreaker against the Bears. This division is going to come down to the wire.
— Coaches are brilliant when they get it right, but quickly become the village idiot when they get it wrong. Just ask Jim Schwartz. He dialed up a fake field goal from the 10-yard line on fourth-and-5 with a four-point lead early in the fourth quarter. Rookie Sam Martin took the direct snap but fumbled while being tackled two yards short of the first-down marker. Sure, you blame Schwartz, but strategically it wasnât necessarily the most horrible call that the outcome suggests. They were hoping to catch Pittsburgh on their heels and quickly deliver a knockout punch that would have made it a two-score game in the fourth quarter.
If this was a home game, I would be much more critical, but you have to be a little more willing to deliver that knockout punch when opportunities present themselves on the road. Even if they donât convert, as we saw, the Steelers would take possession backed up nearly to their own goal line. Playing the percentages, rarely will a team take it 90-plus yards on a scoring drive, which of course Pittsburgh did.
Again, had it worked, he would have been a genius, but since it didnât, he becomes the topic of debate. Itâs easy to question his decision now, but taking everything into consideration at the time of the call, Iâm not going to be critical.
— It is no secret that the Chiefs win with a great defense and an opportunistic offense and special teams. And while the Chiefs offense was certainly more aggressive in the downfield passing game Sunday night, they werenât opportunistic. The turning point in the game could have been the Derrick Johnson fumble recovery, of which I think he will realize on film that he could have just outrun Peyton Manning to the sideline and taken it all the way back for a score rather than trying to cut it back inside. Instead, the Chiefs offense takes over inside the 20, but turns it over on a fumble of their own on the very next play. That is something this team just canât afford to do; they donât have the explosive ability to make up for those types of miscues.
The Chiefs defense, after facing quarterbacks that all started 2013 as backups in each of the past five weeks, couldnât really get anything going either. They forced just the one aforementioned turnover, which was a muffed snap that basically just rolled in Johnsonâs hands and forget sacks, they didnât even get a quarterback knockdown on Manning all night long. This is the second straight week the Chiefs have finished the game without a sack and have just one in the past three weeks after totaling 35 in the first seven games.
— The Bengals may have a thee-game lead in the division, but they can't feel comfortable. Andy Dalton has been atrocious in the last three games and finished Sunday with just 93 yards and two interceptions. He did throw three touchdowns, but it was a Mohamed Sanu touchdown pass that was needed to kick-start the team after trailing 14-0 early against the Browns. The Bengals have the talent and ability to beat any team in the NFL, but they have been wildly inconsistent and still have a lot of wrinkles to iron out before being seriously considered as a contender for the Super Bowl.
— 49ers fans' anger isn't entirely justified. Sure, they're up in arms about the call that allowed the Saints to kick the game-tying field goal late in the fourth quarter, but they should be happy they were even in contention that late in the game to begin with.
The Saints handed them their first touchdown with a muffed punt at the 11-yard line and then on the next 49ers possession, Colin Kaepernick threw what should have been a pick-six, but Corey White fumbled the ball just before crossing the goal line while trying to switch the ball to his outside arm and it rolled out of the end zone for a touchback. This was a 14-point swing in the game that was basically handed to them.
And let's not forget, even after the hit-to-the-head penalty, the 49ers still had a chance of their own with two minutes left to make their own fate, but they went three and out and handed it right back to the Saints after using just 22 seconds of the clock. This very easily could have been a blowout.
— The Broncos passed the test last night. But it was just the first of three as they now will travel to New England and then once again face the Chiefs in Week 13, this time in Arrowhead. Iâm not sure they make it out of this stretch without another blemish on their record.


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Erica Heather Smith vanished on July 29, 2002, after telling her parents that she was on her way to meet a friend. Eleven days later, the Ashburn teenager's body was discovered in a shallow grave near Broad Run Creek, and for years her case yielded few promising leads for investigators to follow.
On Friday, the Loudoun County Sheriff's department said a suspect they had linked to Erica's disappearance and murder had committed suicide "for unknown reasons" during the course of the investigation. The sheriff's office did not name the suspect or provide information about a possible motive for the killing.
"Regrettably, there will be nothing further that the judicial system can do given that this subject took his own life," Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman said in a statement released nearly a dozen years to the day after Erica's disappearance.
"We'll never have the opportunity to go through the entire judicial process and obtain a conviction, and in the absence of that, we don't think it's fair to put his family through this," Chapman said in an interview Friday. "It wasn't the family that committed this act, it was the individual."
Chapman declined to specify when the suspect committed suicide, noting that such information could effectively identify the individual. The sheriff added that investigators did provide more detailed information about the case and the suspect to Erica's family.
William Smith Jr., Erica's father, said the sheriff's office had indicated that the suspect was a young adult in his early 20s at the time of the murder and was someone 14-year-old Erica knew.
"It's not clear how well she knew him," Smith said. "But this particular individual, from what we know, is one who preyed on and stalked young girls."
Smith said the family was relieved that a suspect had been found at long last.
"This is something we've been praying for since Day One," he said. "It's such a bittersweet situation. Thank God this individual is no longer around, so he can't commit this crime on someone else's family member, but on the other hand, he is not going to face the criminal justice system and our family will never get our day in court."
Chapman said the sheriff's office's Cold Case Unit had spent thousands of hours focused on the investigation — involving several hundred interviews, a comprehensive review of all evidence, consultation with experts and assistance from federal authorities, including the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit and Violent Crimes Task Force.
Chapman has cited the Smith family as a motivation to create the department's Cold Case Unit, which actively reinvestigates unsolved murders in the county.
"The intent was the hope to not only solve these cases, but attempt to bring closure to the family of the victims," Chapman said in the statement. "We also wanted to ensure the citizens of Loudoun that these cases are not forgotten, nor are those victims or family members."
Smith said the announcement brought "a huge sigh of relief" to him and his wife, Erica's mother, but he said his daughter's absence remains a sorrow that his family must face every day.
"I don't know that we'll ever have any real type of emotional closure because of the fact that we'll never see our daughter again here on Earth," he said. "We're still going to have to deal with this and struggle with this for the rest our lives."


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Collaborative working is increasingly popular, but it presents challenges due to the need for high responsiveness and disconnected work support. To address these challenges the data is optimistically replicated at the edges of the network, i.e. personal computers or mobile devices. This replication requires a merge mechanism that preserves the consistency and structure of the shared data subject to concurrent modifications. In this paper, the authors propose a generic design to ensure eventual consistency (every replica will eventually view the same data) and to maintain the specific constraints of the replicated data. Their layered design provides to the application engineer the complete control over system scalability and behavior of the replicated data in face of concurrent modifications.


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There are other possible streams of entry into ASDA, these being George, the clothing wing of ASDA, work experience, and hourly paid colleagues which go through a slightly different selection process.
The first step on the journey to a job at ASDA is the online application form. There are a few different points of note here. Firstly you will be given a chance to upload your CV to the system. As well as this there are some competency questions that you have to answer. You are given 1000 characters to answer these questions. Some possible questions that you can be asked are:
While answering these questions can seem to be difficult and arduous, these are also a huge opportunity for you to shine. The correct way to answer these questions is to incorporate the key competencies of the company into your answers. As well as this, you should use the STAR method for answering these questions as this not only gives a full picture of the competencies you want to demonstrate but also make your writing more readable. The easier you make it for the reader to understand the better impression you create.
The ASDA key competencies are:
Moreover, even though these are the main competencies, you should pay careful attention to the job description as this has some valuable information pertaining to the job. You can use this information in your answers and if you manage to include all the competencies in your answers you will really stand out from the crowd.
After you have completed the main part of the ASDA application form, you will be asked to take a series of online tests produced by Kenexa, a widely used testing company. These tests are used to weed out anyone but the highest percentage of applicants. It is therefore imperative that you practise these tests and learn the skills required in order to succeed at these tests.
The first test you will face is an untimed Cultural Fit Questionnaire. You are given 80 different adjectives and you have to rate them according to your personality. It is important to know how to answer these questions as sometimes you will rate something by mistake and it may cost you.
In this Kenexa test you will be given 20 questions to answer in 20 minutes. You will be presented with some information in a table or graph form and some multiple-choice questions. You have to critically evaluate the numerical information contained within the questions and, with the help of a calculator, answer the questions.
You will be presented with a paragraph and a statement. For each statement you have to decide if it is correct, incorrect, or impossible to tell from the text. There are 24 questions that have to be answered within the 18 minute time frame. Read for more information about verbal reasoning.
With all of these tests it is important to bear in mind that without practise and training, it is almost impossible to do yourself justice. The reason for this is because these tests are unique in nature and are not the type of tests that you have had to sit before. However, with training and practise you will be able to separate yourself from the crowd and show ASDA your best. If you do well enough in the ASDA psychometric tests you will be invited to the next stage of the application process, ASDA Reality.
The ASDA assessment centre, called ASDA Reality is really a test of your skills as well as how well you will fit into the culture and goals of the company. Before you attend ASDA Reality you will be sent some information for a presentation that is stream dependant. For example, if you are applying for a Store development position you may be sent something along the lines of coming up with a business plan or idea to improve the company.
During the day you will have to do the following activities:
The ASDA case study and presentation – Using the material that you have already prepared before the day, you will be asked to present your findings to a panel of assessors. You will have 10 minutes to present your findings and show that you have the leadership qualities that they are looking for. It is important to remember that you have to show the assessors what they want to hear and see, not what you want to show them. Learn more about how to utilise the case study information effectively to prepare your presentation with our online case study practice pack.
Interview – You will have a competency based interview with a manager that is half an hour in length. This interview is testing your abilities as well as your motivation to work for ASDA. They want to hear that you are hardworking and motivated to do the best possible job. Some ASDA interview questions include:
For a full understanding of competency based interviews click here.
Group activity – As well as the other tasks you will also have various different group activities. These are actually aimed to be fun and are used to see how well you fit into a team. For example you may be asked to build a tower from building blocks.
If you are successful in the ASDA Reality assessment day you will be invited back to have a further interview with two members of the Managerial team. This isn't as intense as the other one was as they are already leaning towards hiring you. While they may ask you some competency questions you can use the answers you have said already. This interview is more of "get to know you" style interview. They want to know how well you will fit into the team. If you are successful in this interview you will hear from them within the next week.


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Situated in Istanbul's business district of Şişli, with great public transport links to the rest of the city, this stylish hotel features modern and spacious rooms with free wireless internet access.
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Located in the historical district of Şişli, the cosy Titanic Comfort Hotel is within walking distance of many of Istanbuls museums, parks, art galleries and shopping centres.
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Today I am thanking God for Aunty Carolin. It's her birthday today. I had to go back to late 2012 to find some photos of her that weren't just silly phone snaps. Look at Ashlea with her short hair and Emma with her long hair (poor Audrey would love long hair but it just won't grow).
I am thanking God for Aunty Carolin:
151. For helping whenever there is an emergency - and also when there's not;
152. For paying our bills at the moment (yes, seriously);
153. For accompanying us on fun yet challenging outings to the theatre, beach, movies, ice-skating - pretty much anywhere really.
Obviously that is a very abbreviated list but I could probably fill the entire 1000 thank yous challenge if I were to list all the ways she helps us.
Thank you Aunty Carolin - and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
1 Chronicles 29:13Now, our God we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.


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With the exception of our American Indian brothers and sisters, we are all immigrants! Whether our family came to the United States 200 years or two days ago, most of us have an immigrant story to share. On Local Mission Sunday, Nov. 20, we invite you to come and hear the stories of recent and not-so-recent immigrants in worship and at Sunday Adult Learning Time (SALT).
Local Mission Partner Sunday is also Christ the King Sunday, which marks the start of a new church year. During the sermon, Pastor Peter will reference conversations with Cristo Rey Mission Developer Ana Becerra and a recent Latina immigrant about her story of how she came to this country and how belonging to CtK has impacted her journey. At SALT—offered between services at 9:30 a.m.—three more people will share their immigrant stories and help us all remember that we belong together in our search for community, safety, and a growing relationship with God.
There will also be an opportunity to make a special offering over and above our regular offerings to go to our work of Local Mission Partners. The purpose of Local Mission Partners is to engage in God's Mission with the growing diversity and the minority and immigrant ministries of the Twin Cities. During the offering, we will see a video of thanks from Our Local Mission Partners: Latinos, Hmong, Chinese, Redeemer in North Minneapolis as well as Daily Work and Agora.
For more information about how you can be involved in this exciting ministry, contact Vern Rice, chair Christ the King Local Mission Partners Team, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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At the end of the last year I was spent.
Initially I thought I was spent in a had-a-big-year kinda way, but by the time that all I could do over Christmas was lay on my deck and nap or read I knew instinctively something was most definitely up.
One naturopath visit and a whole truckload of blood tests later and the result was … the old Adrenal Fatigue chestnut.
My initial reaction was "what the f##k?",
quickly followed by "OMG I am a health coach, how could I have missed this?" incredulity and then finally "shiz! What to do now?".
I have mentioned before just how exhausting I find one on one work when my calendar is full even though I l o v e with a capital L working with women busting the BS in their heads in a one to one coaching session. It's just that when I'm holding space for a lot of gals one on one it can get draining. And that's when my self-care erodes.
It started with a little bit (ok a whole lot) of late night working. Then it spread to not getting out of bed to move my butt every day, then it snuck into being a 3pm coffee and chocolate choice, and then letting go of my meditation time and then …. Well you get the drift right?
Have you been there too?
The funny thing about us chicks is that we put ourselves last so easily; we make our children, and our men (or babalicious partners), and our businesses and our {fill in the blank here} …
MORE important than us.
Pushing through when you're tired, propping yourself up with sugar and a cuppa, over-delivering all the time, saying yes when you mean no, not listening to how your body, mind and soul REALLY feel, well they all add up.
And they add up to one thing – self-neglect.
But the thing is this self-neglect cycle affects everyone in our lives.
We hear it and hear it that "putting ourselves first" is best, but do we ever really truly believe that is safe + right to put ourselves first?
Well let me tell you, what all my knowledge (scientific, spiritual, nutritional, medical, blah blah blah) taught me, but what I neglected to LIVE … all had to unravel when I physically could not do it anymore.
When you're laying flat, and getting a glass of water feels oh so hard and oh so energetic. You have no choice. But you do indeed have a lot of reflection time.
What did my reflection teach me?
- Giving lip service to self-care and not doing it over and over each day is flawed.
- That when you don't take care of yourself you cant take care of anyone
- That consistent self-neglect leads to some sort of crises – physical, emotional or spiritual
- That self-loving is the only way to feel filled up by your life
- That is not enough to do the "right thing" by yourself some of the time, it has to be a conscious consistent choice every day
- That self-care really is safe + right!
Here's what I decided on a practical level:
- No more late night working
- Solid business boundaries around time working and client delivery
- Working school hours 3 days per week and 9-5 the remaining 2 days
- Weekends completely disconnected and one family funday per week doing some sort of fun outdoorsy activity
- All social media and work related apps deleted from my phone
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Hi, I have used Macrium (free) in the past to back up my C drive and have created a couple of disk images which have in the past successfully restored in the event of a crisis.
Recently my PC started doing a few funny things (sleep results in fan constantly going, occasionally can't awake from sleep but fan still goes etc). I played around with the power settings today and also changed the BIOS setting from Auto to S3 (save to RAM). When I rebooted the "Windows starting" splash screen came on but when it went, just a blank black screen with a mouse pointer (normal size for the resolution I'm using, implying the graphics card was supporting the resolution I normally use). This happened repeatedly and I was unable to get past it to the pale blue login screen by any means. But I can log in as normal if I boot through Safe Mode (and am posting this via Safe Mode with networking).
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In any case, because Zabuza had (presumably) not seen the Sharingan before, his confidence was rattled, at which point Kakashi used a genjutsu (not native to the Sharingan) to further disorient Zabuza.
The Byakugan being able to create its own external jutsus is not too far away from the concept of a copy-eye all of a sudden being able to create its own thing.
It's not quite clear that the Kaiten uses more chakra than a fireball - I actually think it uses a lot. Consider:
Your own chakra is used to superheat the air to the point where it combusts
You then use chakra to propel the air towards your opponent
Or, you don't heat the air, but rather propel your own chakra towards the opponent in the shape of a fireball. In this case,
You must provide enough chakra to keep the fireball alive - giving it fuel before launching it.
In either case, one must put in enough chakra to make it decent - a fireball of 100º Fahrenheit (37º C) probably won't do too much damage. The fire must be heated enough to make an impact - and however hot that is, I'm guessing quite a bit of chakra must be used.
It's true that if Neji can dodge one knife, it doesn't mean he can dodge twenty. Remember, though, that every kunai he catches is one more that he can throw at you.
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When talking strictly about Neji and Sasuke (not Sharingan and Byakugan) Neji would probably win with his skills.
Neji is a real genius.. He came up with kaitan move on his own and 64 strike thing simply amazed his uncle. He is probably going to surpass any Hyuuga in his clan.. head or branch member.
While Sasuke has developed a lot in few months and granted Neji has got years of training to get where he is... Sasuke pretty much got things handed to him. Lee's taijutsu and Kakashi's chidori. He certainly is a genius (Grand fireball-no-jutsu at that level) but Neji seems to be more skilled at this point.
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Since the original question was Who would win in a Curse Seal Level 2 Sasuke with his Sharingan vs Neji with his Byakagun, I find this entire thread technically pointless until we know what kind of enhancement or new special abilities he gains...though the scenarios and analysis people have posted through these nine pages are well constructed regarding Sasuke with Lv2 chakra boost vs Neji. In that regard, I would have to say Neji after reading all the arguments presented in this thread; however, if Neji and Sasuke were to see other's fully ability before they fight, then the favor heavily shifts to Sasuke.
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Ah, sarcasteak, don't try to take all the fun away. This way we can debate BEFORE we see Sasuke's new super-saiyan powers and then debate for another 9 pages AFTER we see them. Oh, the excitement!! Btw, if the original question had a reference to the Lvl 2 seal in it, that means spoilers are go-go right? No need for pesky spoiler tags?
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Meh, the whole rule regarding spoilers pretty much indicates "when in doubt, use spoiler tags if there's any risk of spoiling (unless topic is anime-only in which manga spoiler is not allowed)"
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Curses seal level 2 isn't that "hugh"
Neji fought "evenly" against a curses seal level 2.
So i don't know who will win, but i think the chances will be at Neji's, cuz if he's fast enough he can attack Sasuke before he releases his level 2
Vicious said something about: "he would be able to beat Neji, and probably even Naruto."
I don't think he can defeat Naruto
Naruto can use (almost) all the powers of the Kyuubi now.
Orochimaru = stronger than 3th Hokage? <- maybe
Orochimaru = stronger than curses seal level 2? <-- i think oro would kick a level 2's ass
3th = stronger than 4th <-- do you really think the 3th is WAAAAAAY stronger?
Which means the 4th is problably stronger than a level 2-user
4th died while defeating Kyuubi which means Naruto can (almost) reach the level of the 4th (brute power/less control)
Anywayz, what i'm trying to say is:
with the Kyuubi powers i think Naruto IS stronger than Sasuke level 2
so maybe it's more interesting to think if Naruto is stronger than Neji or not
(sorry for my english)
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Errr... Naruto is certainly stronger then Neji (he defeated Neji :S) of course with his 9 tails...
Naruto was also able to stay on gama without any 9 tails chakara.. in pretty bad shape... And only 4th has been able to control the frog boss.
Naruto is certainly going to be stronger then anyone in konoha or the entire series for that matters. No doubt about that!
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Okay okay, seriously speaking, "speed" is too difficult to estimate between Neji and Sasuke. We can safely assume Sasuke has faster movement, but whether his actual taijutsu speed is faster than Neji's eyes and body I can't really tell.
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And for the record no one should discourage others from making meaningful comments like the one you've posted.
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First Kakashi copied Zabuza's hand seal and position, then he copied his mind, and then he hypnotized him to suggest what hand seals Zabuza should perform.
It's completely explained in the manga.
You can have all the guessess as you want even when they aren't supported by facts like this one, but you can't use them to defend a point, it's stupid.
The fact is that as far as we know, the Sharingan has special genjutsu abilities (and I don't speak of the Tsukiyomi) when there isn't a single clue about a new ability for the Byakugan.
Actually it's even the opposite, it's the whole point of Neji surpassing the Main familly by learning on his own its two best secret jutsus only known by the Heir of the Hyuga.
It comes from the re-translation of Inane of the chapter whatever (148?), and even if we don't know exactly how this jutsu works, it's true that for the moment it seems than the target is burned literally in a blink of eye.
To use a simple Katon jutsu use a fair amount of chakra indeed, usually too much for an aspirant as Kakashi said.
But nothing near a jutsu using directly the chakra as a weapon, where there is so much focused chakra that it becomes visible like the Chidori or the Kaiten.
The Byakugan allows to know 'everything' in the present, but the Sharingan is always one step above because it can predict how the opponent will react to this present.
How he will move, how he will try to avoid an attack, how the counter attack will be done etc.
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waaait a second ... I thought Kakashi simply guessed which seal Zabuza going to use. He mimiced everything he did. I don't remember any hypnotizing using the sharingan. Sure Zabuza had a psychological breakdown, but it wasn't directly caused by the sharingan.
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Oh, and Lexander, your PM inbox was full so I'll ask you here:
The more I see your posts the more I like the art style of your ava and sig. Would you mind telling me the source of them so I could look for more myself or uploading whatever originals you have if you do not know of its source or that it no longer exists? Thanks in advance!
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Remembering that 1 calorie = the amount of energy needed to raise 1 cc of water by 1º C. How many calories does it take to create and maintain a fireball hot enough to damage the opponent (however hot that may be)? I'm guessing a lot.
While it IS true that the body energy is supplemented by spiritual energy, it's still a very chakra-intensive jutsu.
The Sharingan can't see into the future. One can guess what the enemy will do through battle-sense, acquired through years of fighting, but it's not absolute. Look no further than Kakashi's getting caught in the Water Prison. If he knew what would happen, why did he jump in? (Please, no existantlism-type answers.)
Given that, being able to guess whether an opponent will dodge to the left or the right seems faintly ridiculous.
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How people achieve that?
is, the only way, to remove noise (much noise) to get that?
i tried d&b, and shadow/highlights but aren't as powerful as removing the noise (it seems, for me) but with my method, seems like a bit different the result.
any other way to do it?
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To me, the first photo isn't particularly 'painterly'. The second is closer, but still doesn't seem like a painting.
I do it by capturing the image in low light, then I play with the colour saturation and vibrancy, as well as the contrast.
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yes i know it's not a very paint effect, in fact i want only that little feel like these examples.
usually after all my workflow, at very last i reduce noise and add low percentage of virtual monochromatic noise for the depth, and depending on the size of the subject (full body or half body) i come across an almost good result, but i'm not satisfied, something is different.
and i think they don't use the reduce noise to get that feel
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Regardless of the adjective you use, the histograms for those two images can give you some hints about achieving the effect. In both images, the histogram is pulled back a little from the right side, the mass of the histogram is left of the mid-point, and in both, while there is a kernel of blacks blocked up on the left side, the trend of the mass approaches zero on the y axis at above zero on the x axis. That's a long winded way of saying using curves or levels to short the histogram on both ends is one part of getting the effect.
I'd also say it's likely that both of those have some cross-processing effect applied.
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Try open answer level layer. Change the RGB's value.
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There are two different looks you are asking about a glazed look is a little different than the 'painterly' thing.
I think you need to take a look at the 'glazed' look forum post - http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=529697
Has lots of great info about each.
Jan 02 12 08:25 am Link
yes there's there's cross process on red and blue and maybe a bit on the green curves, plus i think exposure/gamma or rgb curve for the false blacks and whites (glazed look).
so there's toning, that helps for that effect. but i still don't understand how a non-reduced noise image can achieve that feel
i can say with a watercolor filter in softlight (reducing opacity) can bring a shape like that feel, but differently from the reduce noise thing, is more noisy-pixelated.
sorry for my english, it isn't my first language!
Jan 02 12 08:30 am Link
Aside from the lighting (which is very important), I think the effect you see in these two examples is mainly cross-processing. Check the RGB values in the shadows and highlights to see how they're crossed. The following edits were done with curves.
Jan 02 12 08:31 am Link
Deirdre Holmes wrote:
i know that thread, i've read everything if you see the last post is mine, without receiving no more answer i edited that to write a new thread
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Peano but it seems (for me) that in the examples, the subjects are a bit more "plastic" (see the faces), but just a bit
Jan 02 12 08:36 am Link
Daniele Burza wrote:
Could be. That's easily done in various ways -- NR, surface blur, or a plug-in like Portraiture.
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I know the top picture is Jaime Ibarra. He is on this site and does give tutorials. He is a very nice guy and will talk your ear off.
and no Jaime does not blur his pictures, trust me.
Jan 02 12 09:11 am Link
what do you think about this?
this time i didn't use the strong remove noise.
Jan 02 12 03:32 pm Link
Daniele Burza wrote:
Looks nice. Here's another interpretation. There's no right or wrong in any of this. I wanted to pull the light in on the face a bit more and mellow out the overall tone ... (If this shot were for a clothing advertisement, then this treatment obviously wouldn't do.)
Jan 02 12 03:57 pm Link
a question, you didn't contrast it right?
(asking this because in the "glaze" thread i read that these styles usually use low global contrast / tone contrast)
you got down the light a bit + did something with the curve for the color, am i right?
anyway good, i like that tone
Jan 02 12 04:13 pm Link
Daniele Burza wrote:
Right, I reduced contrast around the edges and tweaked curves for color.
Jan 02 12 04:19 pm Link
thank you for everything man, thanks for the hints!
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Laura Kate Photography wrote:
I consider that a painting like portrait. I was trying to achieve an effect like this in a photo. i would like to know
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Hey Marcus. Here are the directions for my process as well as I can remember. *Also please forgive typos and grammatical errors, its been a long day lol.
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try photomatix tone mapping for painterly etffec
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Hi. Did u guys saw the work of Joanna Kustra. I love jaime ibarra work and i kinda know how he gives that effect to his photos but Joanna is absolutely amazing.
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Daniele Burza wrote:
1) You should ask Corwin and see if you can absorb his knowledge.
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I'm very interested in the highpass and gaussian technique. How is it done? Do you duplicate the image into 2 layers? And then use a highpass filter on one (that turns the image grey)? What are their blending modes?
I also am interested in knowing how to clone large areas of skin from a small one. I just cannot seem to get the cloned areas to be seamless... it all ends up looking like a huge patchwork of skin from different sources.
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When I think of "painterly", I look at it maybe a bit more literally. My cheesecake pinups are heavily influenced by Elvgren paintings, so I intentionally go after what some call a cartoonish look.
The way I get the look I am after is really just a bunch of d&b. Here's one that isn't a cheesecake pinup, but that definitely got a bit of that treatment.
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These are paintings, but I really like the colors.
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Does anyone know how to make your photos have this sort of color? What kind of gradient mapping is needed?
Jul 05 13 07:02 am Link
You can get a decent painting effect using GIMP G'MIC, but it's more pastel than oil:
1. Use the GIMP G'MIC Kuwahara and Lylejk filters on two duplicate layers.
2. Put both duplicate layers over the original image in Value mode at 32% opacity.
3. Smooth and adjust the colors.
This is what I get.
Jul 05 13 12:08 pm Link
A little extra smoothing of Sausage69's photo using the Anisotropic Smoothing filter in GIMP G'MIC (with the settings shown below) turned it pretty close to an oil painting.
Adding another duplicate layer on top, running it through the GIMP G'MIC Photoillustration filter, and putting it in Multiply mode at 64% opacity makes this.
Here's the original for comparison:
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Take Jaime's class or buy his video. Worth every cent...
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thank you, checking now
Jul 05 13 01:58 pm Link
Here's my attempt at making Jaime Ibarra's photo look more like a painting, using basically the same technique I used on Sausage69's photo above.
Here's the original:
Jul 05 13 02:27 pm Link
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There are a number of techniques that I think are often found in "painterly" photos. However, I don't know whether there is an exact "recipe" for painterly photos. I've also seen photos that I'd put in that category that do the exact opposite of some of these techniques. Having a "painter's eye" no doubt would be helpful.
This photo includes several of them. Soft lighting. Soft backgrounds. Using light to emphasize what you want to emphasize and de-emphasize what you don't. Selective placement of texture and detail. Muted colors. Using complimentary and split complimentary colors, related colors, triads and tetrads for your color pallet.
Muted blues and golds are a classic combination. Actually in the digital world, blue and yellow are opposites. In the painter's world, blue and orange are complimentary colors. (You can get a color wheel that will tell you everything you need to know about color theory for about $7.)
Green and red are complimentary colors. You rarely see primary colors or bright colors in painterly photos. These are muted variations of green and red. This photo also is low in contrast – and D&B is used to carve and emphasize shape and form. Also note the abstract background of related colors. You rarely see solid color backgrounds in these photos.
There's a class of painted fabric backgrounds called Rembrandt or Old Masters backgrounds. These painted backgrounds usually look something like out-of-focus clouds and generally include variations of the same muted colors, often with related colors mixed in. I couldn't find an example of one of these backgrounds on MM.
The Old Masters backgrounds of 40-50 years ago were more subtle and superior to those of today, imo. Almost every portrait studio used them to add a painterly touch.
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Low contrast. You're more likely to see low-key (at least left-of-center on the histogram, maybe not true low-key). You'll rarely see true black, and you'll almost never see true white.
Soft-focus or out-of-focus backgrounds – and even "abstract" backgrounds.
Backgrounds of related colors (essentially adjacent to each other on the color wheel). Backgrounds that appear to be made of brush strokes.
Here's a folder of photos that I consider (or considered at one time) to be painterly. The may be a few in there that I wouldn't put in the folder today – maybe close, but not as close as others.
This may be the "most painterly" photo in the list.
What do they have in common?
Jul 05 13 02:55 pm Link
Check the work of Scott Deardorff . . .
Also Fred James:
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Last modified: 2008-02-15 21:17:43 EST
Description of problem:
Shutdown's call to Sync the system time to hwclock hard locks. No panic, just a
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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> ...not reporting an ntpd issue
> ...thats why I said could be marked a duplicate of 227234, but still have a
> record for f7 as well
> maybe /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt should have an /etc/sysconfing/halt settings file
> and checks some args before for hwclock syncing as does ntpd since this is a
> known issue on several hardware platforms.
I suggested that to the initscripts maintainer, but he doesn't want to do that.
As I just commented in 227234, I would suggest that the line running hwclock in
this script is unnecessary, redundant, and dangerous, since hwclock failing can
cause the disks to not be synced.
The kernel updates the RTC when ntpd has synchronized the kernel clock, by
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What's the latest on this - have you been able to test the patch successfully?
Is it possible for you to reference said patch in this bug?
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