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There are three girls, three boys, one puppy, and one teacher. Their names are Gil, Nonny, Goby, Molly, Oona, Deema, and Mr. Grouper. Anyone who has a toddler and gets Nick Jr. on their TV probably knows who I am talking about. If not, meet the Bubble Guppies: a rambunctious set of mermaids and merboys, as well as a mer-puppy. They sing songs, dance, and tell stories all from the comforts of the bottom of the ocean. It is kind of an odd show, especially when you stop to notice that there is wind blowing the trees, or that they are growing vegetables, or that four legged animals have been given fish tails. Yes, the farm episode featured a cow with two front legs and a fish tail. Whether or not this will confuse my son in the future is up for debate, but I am willing to risk it. These cute little characters sing catchy tunes about stuff my son (and my eight year old daughter–shhh, don't tell) loves like airplanes, playing outside, and even dinosaurs and archaeology.
Needless to say, my son is having a Bubble Guppies birthday party. This particular theme involves a bit more creativity than usual though as Nick Jr. does not sell party items for the Guppies. They do, however, have a slew of printables on their website that will cover just about anything you will need. From invitations to party hats to table decorations, they have it all.
Now, I always like to have a backdrop sort of thing behind our table to take pictures and this year was no exception. Since I couldn't buy these little guys anywhere, I got creative. Here is what I came up with:
The background paper is wrapping paper I got at the dollar store. I then printed out images of the main characters and cut them out. Make sure you get them roughly the same size so they look right. Then I looked at one of the backgrounds in the images and got some ideas on how to make the rocks and coral. I matched the colors to the picture I found online and then used a variety of papers (construction, scrapbook, and card stock) to make the rocks and coral. One tip, when making the layered designs on the rock and coral: It is easiest to cut the two colors out together and then trim your lighter color to fit how you like on the darker color. I also made some wavy sea weed, which I put bands of glitter glue on to give them a little shimmer, and some bubbles which I outlined in dark blue to help them pop. I arranged everything before I started gluing so I was sure to get it on there the way I wanted.
I also made a cover for the fireplace (see above) as this is where we normally open presents. I used the same wrapping paper as the other background. The banner letters were printed from the Nick Jr. website. The characters I just found online. I added bubbles that I found at the local craft store. The balloon banner I did with fishing line. I got four different colors of balloons, blew them up to different sizes, then used a needle and fishing line to string them together. My first attempt at any sort of balloon art. I think it looks pretty good.
Other decoration ideas:
- Pearly bites cookies: These look like seashells with pearls. I made a few changes to the recipe. I used Pepperidge Farm Lemon Cookies for the shells, canned strawberry frosting, and Wilton candy eyeballs anchored with a little royal icing. Very cute, see above.
- Blow up a bunch of various shades of blue, white, and silver balloons and hang them on the mantel and elsewhere to look like bubbles.
- Many floral departments in local grocery stores will blow your own balloons up for you for a cheaper price. Take your leftover balloons from the mantel design and blow them up with helium. Weigh them down and let them line the walkway to the front door.
- Use green streamers, twist, and hang vertically on walls to look like seaweed. Add some cutout paper fish or seashells.
- Use fish net from party stores and decorate.
- Put seashells around the house or make a little diorama out of a glass vase with sand and seashells.
- Really, anything ocean related can be used easily.
- For other ideas check out Bubble Guppies on Facebook. People have posted pictures of their parties.
- There are also a ton of items on Etsyand Ebay.


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Upcoming races - links are in red.
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The aim is for all club members to represent SRC at least once every month by taking part in a running event or by representing SRC as a volunteer at a race or social event, for the 11 months 1st March to 31st January.
Each event only counts once (different park runs are counted as different events) and although the aim is for one each month you only need to collect 9 over the 11 month period (2 months allowed for holidays or injury). However only one event per month counts towards the 9.

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Chrysler, Hamilton Sundstrand and Woodward Governor employ hundreds of people, maintain huge facilities and pump millions of dollars into the local economy. They are, however, a rarity.
Chrysler, Hamilton Sundstrand and Woodward Governor employ hundreds of people, maintain huge facilities and pump millions of dollars into the local economy.
They are, however, a rarity.
More than half the businesses in Boone and Winnebago counties have fewer than five employees, and half the employees in the region get their paychecks from companies with fewer than 100 staffers. And while big companies get a lot of attention, economic experts say the health of small businesses in a community is just as vital.
In the Rock River Valley, times are tough.
"It's clear that they're hurting," said John Phelps, executive director of the Rockford Local Development Corp. The agency administers loans for the Small Business Association and has about 200 clients in its portfolio. "All of the literature will talk about small businesses creating most of the jobs, but most of them live off the business from larger companies, especially in manufacturing. When (big companies) slow down, they're more likely to bring work in-house that they would have subbed out. The little guys get squeezed hard."
According to a 2007 Small Business Administration report, businesses with fewer than 500 employees contributed half of the gross domestic product in the United States, about $4.7 trillion, in 2004.
Hurting the food chain
The economic situation in the small-business community mirrors the overall uncertainty in the U.S. economy, the National Small Business Association says.
The advocacy group, formed in 1937 and serving 150,000 businesses of fewer than 500 employees, painted a dire picture for the small-business community in its 2008 year-end report.
When surveyed in December about their last 12 months of sales, 45 percent of businesses said sales were down, and about the same number expected sales to decrease further in 2009. A majority expressed confidence in their own businesses, but the level was down to 62 percent in December, compared with 75 percent in August.
Kevin Holdmann, president of Transatlantic Connection Inc. in Rockford, has managed to keep his seven full-time staffers on the payroll despite a 20 percent drop in business this year. In fact, he's added an employee, who works a few hours a week to maintain the company's Web site. The firm engineers machine tools and has a worldwide clientele.
He's happy to be holding his own, but Holdmann is frustrated that the public doesn't always realize that cuts at a big company hurt more than just that business.
"Most smaller businesses are in some ways relying on a big business out there," he said. "We directly supply the big people, and our customers are supplying them, too. It's essentially a food chain. If there's a problem at the top, it trickles through."
Holdmann's sales decline could be worse if not for a diverse customer base. Several hundred businesses are regular clients, and more than a thousand others order once every few years.
"We do not (intend) to cut staffing. I think, if anything, we have an opportunity to catch our breath and see what we can do better so when the situation turns around, we're able to capitalize on it. Eventually the situation will turn around. We need to be ready for that. Our products, there's a bit of a learning curve to it, so it's not possible to add and subtract people just like that. Looking at the big picture, I feel that's more valuable than short-term savings."
Small brings stability
Big companies have the resources to make a big difference in a community, but fostering small-business growth is no less important to the economy. In fact, most of the business growth in the Rock River Valley comes from small businesses, said Janyce Fadden, president of the Rockford Area Economic Development Council.
"We want those people to be successful in our community. We want business startups. We want to grow our own business," she said. "Resident businesses are more sustainable than nonresident businesses. We can see that from some recent decisions — Apria Healthcare, a nonresident business, is moving 90 jobs. Danaher Motion is cutting jobs. If we can create more resident businesses, we can potentially have a more stable economy. It's one way to diversify."
Phelps said the RLDC has reached out to clients in at-risk industries, such as construction, to discuss their loans before problems arise.
"If they're under stress, we've deferred payments or put others on interest-only payments, trying to nurse them through," he said. "The SBA encourages its partners to seek out distress situations and do restructuring. No one makes out in a foreclosure. If you can keep them viable, it's just good for everyone all around."
Tough to track
Keeping track of that viability, however, is a tough task. For small businesses, layoffs or closings don't usually get a lot of notice and the effects aren't always high-profile, said Dan Saklad, chief operating officer of Sageworks Inc., which tracks sales data from private companies.
The Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires companies with 75 or more employees to give 60 days' notice when they are planning mass layoffs or plant closures. However, layoffs of a few employees or layoffs at smaller companies aren't required to be reported, and they often go unnoticed.
At the Illinois Department of Employment Security, unemployment rates aren't attributed to specific companies. However, 8,300 fewer people were employed in Boone and Winnebago counties in December 2008 than in the previous year. In that same time, 1,700 positions were eliminated, according to WARN reports — meaning most of the cuts happened in smaller chunks or at smaller businesses.
Fadden said data from Northern Illinois University show that the tristate area, including Rockford, Janesville, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, had a 5.66 percent business startup rate in 2007, compared with a 9.34 percent closure rate. The national rates were 10.17 percent for startups and 16.12 for closures.
That data are prerecession, however, so it's hard to know how many are starting and shutting down now.
"Sometimes the effect is not immediate," Saklad said. "It's a difficult thing to track, especially when you have a business of five employees."
Sean F. Driscoll can be reached at (815) 987-1346 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Abdul Hakeem necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 239 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
SoundKey - http://www.soundkey.com
SoundKey.com - where IMDB meets Wikipedia, for sounds!!!
We are the two member founding team SoundKey whose aim is to be the default destination for any and every sound. We currently provide a service where individuals can record a sound snippet and make it part of their social profile (linkedin, twitter, facebook).
We aim to provide the platform for people to record and share sounds with their friends, colleagues, business associates, clients and loved ones.
Currently, we are building a repository of names from different parts of the globe. In this day and age where business is no longer confined to any geographical boundaries, it is highly imperative for individuals & business executives to be sensitive of cultures and make an attempt to get the pronunciations right (especially names, places and historic monuments). We will expand our services to include more variety of sounds/languages and partner with educational programs e.g- sharing the most frequently used names/phrases in a language.
In a nutshell, we want to be the global repository of sounds: Every sound on Earth, each indexed via a unique key (hence the name, SoundKey). The unique key associated with each sound will be used for sharing the sound across various online and offline platforms - social media, email, IM, blogs, websites, business cards, resumes, books, magazines, etc
Our primary target audience is the young (age group 18 - 35), social media savvy individuals/business executives from across the world
Since we are developing content through crowd sourcing, it is highly crucial that our website/logo resonates with the audience and attracts them to visit our website and create content.
We are looking for a contemporary logo that represents our passion and vision for SoundKey.
Our priorities for the logo - in order
- Playful but not a cartoon as we intend it to be used in professional websites, personal blogs, corporate webpages etc.
- Clickable - so the associated sound can play inline (logo should entice the user to click on it)
- Social Media friendly - Integrate well with Facebook, twitter, MySpace user experiences
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Hey, Foodies: (Some) Chefs Hate You
Over on CNN food blog Eatocracy Jennifer Wolfe stirs the pot and reveals the tension simmering just below the surface when it comes to chefs and "foodies":
[Ron] Eyester [executive chef and owner of Rosebud in Atlanta] laughs, "The foodie feels empowered by their passion for food, which creates a false bravado of how knowledgeable they think they are about food. The ironic part is they're simply being spoon fed something from a food personality: 'Well I saw something on the Food Network, and why don't you have it?'"
"Well because we try to cook seasonably and that jacka** was probably in California."
To be fair, not all the chefs quoted in the piece knocked "foodies," and Wolfe quotes an unnamed Boston chef as noting that "there are different types of foodies, and most are tolerable."
I know that SE'rs are none too fond of the f word, and I'm sure there will be some gripes here about the term, but what I want to know is if you ever suspected chefs were rolling their eyes at the more ardent food fans out there. Is the disdain for foodies justified?


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Foot & Ankle Chart
Printed directly onto styrene, this durable plastic chart is approximately 1/16" thick and has metal eyelets in top corners for convenient wall hanging; markable (wipe on/wipe off). Styrene charts are UV coated, latex free and feature bold and bright colors. The chart will remain upright on an easel for presentations and will stand up to heavy use in the office or classroom. Charts can be displayed with chart stands, anatomical charts measure 20" W x 26" H. Illustrates foot and ankle anatomy including bones, muscles and tendons. Shows medial, frontal, lateral, and plantar views as well as a cross section. Illustrates supination and pronation, hammertoe, bunion, sprains, fractures and fracture fixation.
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treosolutions brauchte ein neues Kodierte Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 34 Designs von 9 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need an updated design for our website. Study content from an existing website and create a new design that is clean yet eye-catching and modern, and better reflects "who we are†to clients, prospective clients, and potential employees.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); HTML, CSS, JS
Review our current site to get a general idea of what we do and who we are as a company, and to get a general idea of the content that we intend to provide: http://www.treosolutions.com
- We would like a modern, perhaps Web 2.0 style layout that is clean and simple (elegant) in design with intelligent use of whitespace. Busy and cluttered is to be avoided.
- The existing company logo must be prominent on every page, but additional graphics are at the discretion of the designer.
- Deliverables must include 1) home page design, 2) page template/ layout for secondary content pages that carries over the main thematic elements of homepage, and 3) we would also like to see designers take a bit of additional liberty in the design of a separate page specifically for attracting future employees. This page should maintain common thematic elements of home page and other pages, but can be edgier and less formal.
- The pages should be primarily built using standard HTML, CSS, and images only, but scripting and Flash are also acceptable. Tables should be avoided for positioning (CSS preferred).
- All code must be W3C and fully cross-browser compliant (at the very least, IE6 & higher, plus the latest versions of Firefox).
- The readable content should fit within a screen width of 780 - 1000 pixels. When viewed in larger resolutions the site should expand to fill the screen but not stretch the content. Initial thought is for a fixed width screen-centered layout, with a page background image that will fill left and right sides of center content, but we are open to other layouts as well.
- The design should be built to accommodate up to 8 navigation bar links on the homepage and secondary pages. The links should be CSS text based rather than graphical elements (although CSS-driven background image replacement is also a possibility – we would work with winning designer to create specific links for image based navigation). Separate states for active/hover are required.
- No copyrighted images should be used inappropriately – low res or other versions are OK for design proposals. We will cover cost of image rights once final design is chosen.
- Structure of navigation area(s) can be vertical or horizontal, we have no preference.
- Must be a dedicated footer section for company address/phone number/â€contact us†link.Key Themes:
- Clean, uncluttered layout with eye-grabbing graphics
- CSS based navigation bar (can be horizontal or vertical) with rollover effects
- Uncluttered look with limited content on the home page. The focus of the home page is to present an appealing visual welcome to site visitors, tell an instantly recognizable "story†about Treo Solutions as a mobile, hip, experienced, data driven healthcare intelligence company.
- Two company slogans are "Healthcare performance through transparency†and "Business intelligence for healthcare improvementâ€. Designs that can somehow incorporate both these slogans interchangeably (not both at the same time) into the homepage get extra credit! This could be either a scripted text change, or CSS or graphical text that is easily manipulated by us once final site is in place.The Treo Solutions logo can be downloaded from the following link.
 Here are some examples of site designs that we like:Â
http://www.teamviget.com/Â (as an example of a site that we find appealing to prospective employees)
http://sirius.intersoftpt.com/sampl…sArc.aspx (This one requires SilverLight. Although a plug-in is not desired we like the modern use of images)Â
http://www.onwardengineering.com (this one is a good example of the clean, simple layout we prefer, but still tells a story about the company)Â
http://www.vpfund.com/ (another layout we like for its clean elegance, eye-catching use of graphics and the way it puts the company story front and center)Â
ABOUT US: Our company is a small business (30 employees) that delivers data solutions that provide visual insights into complex healthcare data. Being small, we are very mobile and adaptable, but our employees have a tremendous amount of healthcare industry experience that allows us to work with very large and mature clients. Our work environment is casual, laid back, and fun, but serious when called for. The website design should convey this message. Our primary site audience includes providers (hospitals), payers, government entities, and potential employees.
There is the potential for the winning contestant to perform separately reimbursed follow-on work.


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The August 2015 Cape Coral market report represents all sales that occurred within city limits during the month of August and are based on averages. Each zip code is represented with total number of sales for both single family homes and condos, the percentage of distressed sales that closed from the total number of sales and average list price to sales price ratio.
What can you buy in Cape Coral for the average sales price of August 2015?
Curious about the market value of your home? For a list of available homes fill out the form below or contact us directly at 239.541.5363.
© Danielle Sharp | Sharp Homes Realty | firstname.lastname@example.com | August 2015 Cape Coral Market


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Kronos CEO Aron Ain Wins Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Kronos Incorporated today announced that the company's Chief Executive Officer Aron Ain is the recipient of an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in New England.
News Facts
• The prestigious awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in areas such as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their business and community. Awards were presented at a gala in Boston on June 21.
• A panel of independent judges selected Ain as the winner in the Technology category.
• Since he joined Kronos in 1979, Ain has played a role in nearly every functional area at the company, helping to build what is today a 3,500-employee, $800-million global enterprise software company. Ain assumed the roles of chief executive officer and member of the Kronos Board of Directors in 2005. In 2007, Ain played the leading role in negotiating the sale of Kronos to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $1.8 billion.
• In 2011, Ain accompanied Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and a coalition of business executives, academic leaders, and government officials on the Massachusetts-Brazil Innovation Economy Mission to pursue job growth and economic development partnerships between Massachusetts and Brazil.
• An active participant in the community, Ain is the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of MetroWest Medical Center, serves on the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College, and also contributes his time to several other community-based organizations that enhance the lives of people in New England and around the world.
• Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions, one of New England's largest technology employers, and the largest private employer in Chelmsford, Mass. where the company is headquartered. Kronos hired nearly 600 people worldwide in the past year and is actively hiring, with more than 200 current job openings worldwide.
Supporting Quotes
Aron Ain, chief executive officer, Kronos
"I'm honored to be recognized by Ernst & Young among so many inspiring and visionary business leaders. Running a company is not an individual sport – it's a team effort. It's also not a spectator sport – it takes active participation, innovative thinking, and commitment from our employees and so many others who support our company. Kronos has a wonderfully bright future ahead!"
Supporting Resources
• Follow Ain's experiences and viewpoints via Twitter @AronAin.
• Connect with Kronos via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, andYouTube.
• Subscribe to our workforce management blogs.
• Take a look at the lighter side of workforce management in our Time Well Spent cartoons.
• Now in its 26th year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Michael Dell of Dell Inc., Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Fred Smith of FedEx, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Richard Schulze of Best Buy, Andrew Mason of Groupon, Mindy Grossman of HSN, Inc., Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, and many more. Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the U.S. by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In New England, sponsors include Marsh, Nixon Peabody LLP, Citybizlist, Murray Devine, RR Donnelley, and Scherzer International.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 100 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.


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The 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) will take place in Melbourne, Australia, this year. The conference is for those working within the HIV field as well as policy makers and persons living with HIV. According to the FAQ section of the official website for the conference, each year approximately 20,000 - 25,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries participate.
Emirates Airline has been selected as the official airline for AIDS 2014. Conference delegates are encouraged to take advantage of the 10% discount Emirates is offering on business or economy class roundtrip tickets. The announcement on the website states that the airline has excellent connections to all of the six continents via Dubai.
However, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has very strict travel regulations regarding those living with HIV. People with HIV are not allowed to enter or stay in the UAE. Health exams, which include an HIV test, are required of anyone applying for a residency permit. Also, employers may perform blood tests at any time, and if anyone is found to be HIV positive, it may lead to immediate deportation.
The official AIDS 2014 website states, "The conference strongly encourages people living with HIV to only transit through the gulf as restrictions are in place for longer term visits." Short-term stays are possible as no health certificates are required upon entry, but it should be noted that antiretroviral medication for personal use can't be transported into the country. The official UAE embassy website does not offer any information on HIV regulation within the UAE. After a direct call to the embassy's medical department, we were informed that anyone bringing HIV medication into the UAE for the short term would need prior permission from the minister. No information on how to obtain said permission was given and we were directed back to the website.
"Not only is transiting through Dubai dangerous and illegal for people living with HIV, it is also decidedly unsafe for LGBT people, particularly transgender individuals," said Jim Pickett, secretariat for AIDS 2014. "I have to question the judgment of the IAS for choosing this discriminatory, deeply problematic airline and encouraging delegates to use it. What were they thinking?"
Ironically, AIDS 2014 will have many sessions that will address some of the topics this controversial choice broaches. These sessions include: "Managing Change in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)", "Global Injustices: The Control, Containment and Punishment of People Living With HIV" and "Criminalization of Key Populations: How to Respond to HIV?"
Though AIDS 2014 will cover topics relating to HIV and countries that still have regulations and criminalization against those living with HIV/AIDS, it still opted to select an airline that is based in a country with said enforced rules.
Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia both offer similar service routes to Australia to those offered by Emirates. Additional restrictions do apply and can be found on the AIDS 2014 website. No official comment from either Emirates or AIDS 2014 representatives were provided when offered an opportunity to respond to the controversy.


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In the post "Google vs. Samsung" I compared the profits of Google and Samsung Electronics' mobile (aka Telecoms) division. It showed how Samsung has grown its mobile business to such a degree that, if sustained, could conceivably influence the way Android is controlled.
However, we should not analyze Samsung's mobile group in isolation of the entire company. Samsung relies on internal transfer of technology and capacities of production which are quite unique for device vendors today. In other words, Samsung is a relatively integrated enterprise. Understanding the whole is necessary before understanding the part.
The following graph shows the sales and operating profit for Samsung Electronics as a composite of its divisions since early 2008.
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Those days I heard from two Yllse old newbies that their lvling team or jobbers have been constantly pked at LD, sedless and even in Baratan town for around 1 week. Most time they couldn't catch the chars who pked them but few times they saw one of the pk char's name is Alantoong2020.
I've tried to persuade one of them to take the screenshhot and report it here, but the player thinks it's no use since it's so easy to create another lvl 50 pk char again by the pkers. I was told they are bored already and may quit the game soon.
Well, if people are aware, similar stories happened in Yllse since long time ago. I am not sure the pkers are just one person or a group of gang. All I want to say to them is "Your brain must be full of shit. Go see your doctors please." The server is quite quiet already. Please give others a chance to make the game more fun.


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Who killed Jacintha Saldanha?
The nurse who took the call from two Australian DJs and passed it on to the Duchess of Cambridge's room became the story when she was found dead a couple of days later.
Her death has been called a suicide, but that's just an inference so far. One British newspaper reported Tuesday that she had left a note for her family. But there is no word yet as to what it said and there has been no official pronouncement as to her cause of death or even whether the 46-year-old mother of two took her own life. An autopsy has been performed but the results haven't been released, pending an inquest.
What's known is that her death turned what had been a controversial prank into one that was almost universally condemned. Commentators on social media and some more traditional forms said the two radio personalities that pulled the prank had blood on their hands.
It's natural to want to blame someone in a tragedy like this, and Mel Greig and Michael Christian, the two presenters who posed as the Queen and Prince Charles, are the obvious targets. They made the call that fooled Saldanha and the nurse who talked to them about Kate Middleton's condition. And they laughed about it. They aren't laughing now.
For a while, it was a real coup, advertised on station's website and spread around the world in news reports and social media. It was a prank, pulled by DJs at a radio station that pulled pranks as part of its programming.
Before Saldanha turned up dead, the prank was denounced for intruding on the Duchess's privacy and for making public personal health information without her permission. Not that we learned much. The Royal Family had already announced that she was in hospital for acute morning sickness, just as they did again when she returned to hospital this week.
But after Saldanha died, the prank took on new dimensions, not unlike the actions of a drunk driver who instead of arriving home safely without getting caught, runs down a pedestrian. How different would the last decade have been if then premier Gordon Campbell had caused a fatal accident instead of just being arrested for drunk driving and spending the night in jail during his winter holiday in Hawaii?
Consequences matter in assessing penalties in our legal system, but the judgment, good, bad or appalling, made in deciding to drive drunk or make that phone call is exactly the same.
And what persuaded Greig and Christian that making the call was a good idea to start with?
They were doing the same thing scores of other entertainers have done before them – trying to build an audience. Pranks and practical jokes have long been an accepted form of entertainment. One of the most celebrated radio pranksters was a Canadian, Pierre Brassard, who fooled both Queen Elizabeth and the Pope into believing that he was then prime minister Jean Chretien.
In an interview this week with the New York Times, Brassard said he made it a rule never to involve ordinary people, just public figures that should have known how to fend for themselves. But the Queen wouldn't have talked to him for 15 minutes if she hadn't been fooled into thinking she was having a private conversation.
And who didn't laugh at Rick Mercer making fun of the ignorance of ordinary people in his regular segment on the CBC show This Hour has 22 Minutes called Talking to Americans? Pranks are about fooling someone else, at their expense, for our entertainment.
When news first broke of the prank, millions of people, including me, tuned in and went online to hear the conversation. How different are we than the people who buy the gossip magazines that pay big bucks for celebrity pictures, including royals? Those fees create the incentive for paparazzi to pursue their prey long past the point of common decency, as evidenced most recently by the grainy pictures of the Duchess unclad that caused such a stir.
They appeared 15 years after paparazzi were blamed for hounding Prince William's mother, Diana, to her death, all because the public has such an appetite for celebrity gossip.
So who killed Jacintha Saldanha? There is a lot more to this story than we have heard so far. If it was suicide, there will have been a lot more to it than one bad day at work. And to the extent that she died of shame, as her family claims, we all played a role.


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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on November 9, 2017
Q: Today, during his joint press conference with President Xi Jinping, President Trump said that China and the United States talked about the issue of Afghanistan and reached an understanding on this. Recently the United States has introduced the new South Asia policy and pressured Pakistan to crack down on Taliban. What kind of understanding has been reached between China and the United States? Can you provide us with more details?
A: This morning, the heads of state of China and the United States held talks. The two sides believe that maintaining the stable and constructive relations between Afghanistan and its neighboring countries is of great significance to the peace and reconstruction process in Afghanistan. They support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconstruction process, call on all relevant parties in Afghanistan to achieve extensive and inclusive national reconciliation through political negotiation at an early date and stand ready to play a positive role through such mechanisms as the Quadrilateral Coordination Group of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States.
China and the United States have important shared interests in combating terrorism and upholding regional peace and tranquility. China stands ready to continue stepping up cooperation in this regard with the United States and other relevant parties.
Q: We have noted that yesterday, accompanied by President Xi Jinping and his wife, President Trump and his wife visited the Forbidden City and President Trump said that this is unforgettable. This "state visit plus" arrangement has left a deep impression on us. What is China's consideration behind the relevant arrangements?
A: As is known to us all, when President Xi Jinping visited Mar-a-Lago this April, President Trump and his wife offered a hospitable and considerate reception to President Xi Jinping and his wife with high-standard and thoughtful arrangements being made in all respects. China is known as a nation of courtesy and we believe that courtesy calls for reciprocity. The Chinese side attaches great importance to President Trump's visit to China and it is only natural for us to do the honors and receive him in a hospitable and warmly manner.
The Forbidden City embodies the extensiveness and profoundness of the Chinese culture which boasts a history of thousands of years and mirrors the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation over hundreds of years. It serves as an indispensable window to learn about the Chinese history and culture. The heads of state of China and the United States had an in-depth exchange of views in the Forbidden City, which can help to enhance mutual understanding and friendship and is of great significance to guiding and promoting the sustained, sound and steady growth of China-US relations in the new era.
I believe you have also noted that yesterday evening, President Trump showed President Xi Jinping a video of his grand-daughter Arabella Kushner singing in Mandarin and reciting the Three-Character Classic and ancient Chinese poems. That video has been shared and reposted by Chinese netizens many times. As the little ambassador of China-US friendship, Arabella is adored by the Chinese people. This special arrangement is very sweet and heart-warming. I believe this can also help to bring closer the distance between the Chinese and the American people and build a closer bond between them.


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About the Cedar River Watershed HCP
The Cedar River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is a 50-year, ecosystem-based plan that was prepared to address the declining populations of salmon, steelhead and other species of fish and wildlife in the Cedar River basin.
Prepared under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the plan is designed both to provide certainty for the City of Seattle's drinking water supply and to protect and restore habitats of 83 species of fish and wildlife that may be affected by the City of Seattle's water supply and hydroelectric operations on the Cedar River.
The HCP is made up of three primary areas of conservation and mitigation, all of which are supported by research and monitoring.
- Managing the Watershed — Aquatic, riparian and upland management in the watershed
- Fish Passage Above the Dam — Mitigating for the blockage to anadromous fish at the City's Landsburg drinking water intake (Landsburg Mitigation)
- Managing River Flows — Regulation of stream flows for fish in the Cedar River and people whose drinking water is supplied by the Cedar River."
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For additional information about HCP implementation, please contact:
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The United States Supreme Court decision Monday to hear a case over the validity of President Barack Obama's recess appointments of three people to the National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 4 will "effectively determine" the constitutionality of Richard Cordray's appointment as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling.
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Because Obama also attempted to install Cordray as director of the CFPB "on the same day and in the same manner, the Supreme Court's decision regarding the constitutionality of the NLRB appointments will effectively determine the constitutionality of Cordray's appointment as well," Hensarling said.
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What's the best floatant to use on dry flies?
What's the best floatant to use on dry flies?
I'm partial to "Frogs Fanny". Less than 5 bucks and works great on all size flies - especially with any CDC versions you might fish. The brush on the cap is great to work in the dry powder into your fly(might want to "squegee" the bulk of the water first) and will float like a cork.
Also if you fish subsurface emerger patterns, I like to get it dusted and add a split shot to the line...this will create air bubbles on the fly that will not only float it, but give it that gas encased look and the wieght will allow you to work from the bottom up, depending on where you you see the feeding goin on.
May you find a rise in every puddle... - WATERBORN
Thanks Waterborn! I've heard of "Frogs Fanny", but haven't used it yet. Do you know how it compares to the Shimazaki Dry Shake? I have a bottle of that I got late last season and used it briefly. It doesn't have a brush, just a large opening to dip the fly in while attached to the tippet.
I've also used a silcone paste - heavier than the usual floatants, and I've used a clear liquid. The paste seems to mat the hackle - probably from using too much, and the liquid doesn't seem to last more than a few casts.
I'll try some Frogs Fanny and see how that works...
I agree about Frog's Fanny. It is a very fine, flakey powdery substance, almost insubstantial as you brush it on, but it really floats or reconditions a fly. I used Shamizaki until Frog's Fanny came along and performed better for me.
So far all advice given is great, however, I'd like to emphasis the importance of first applying floatant before ever getting the fly wet as well as removing as much water from the fly each time you use your floatant.
A cotton t-shirt tail works well for this....but in today's high tech fishing world, more and more people are wearing synthetics which do not remover the water very well. I've grown to love the little amadou fly drying do hickies. No matter how drench or fish slimed the fly is, a quick squeeze or two will dry the fly out almost completely.
Once your fly is dried, I've found that a lot of the different types of floatants have their time and place. As mentioned, froggs fanny works wonders with cdc and emergers/nymphs. The powder shakes work well for a lot of bushy patterns, in fact it's almost a must for heavy water....(however, after a lot of use will eventually render the fly practically unfloatable). The shake floatants will also change the color of your fly a little bit which can be used as an advantage in certain situations....and it also comes in a dun color....the shimazake (sp) does anyway.Over all, for continuous application over the course of a day...I like the loon hi float or gink. Will float a good DRY dry fly a long time in rough water. Try experimenting with different types in different situations and you'll see where each is strong and or weak....but I persoanlly think you need to carry a little bit of it all.
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The previous posts are all good. IMHO, what I've learned is that it's not so much the brand but what, when. I start with a paste prior to my fly getting wet, and only powder after that. My powder preference is anything with a brush. It seems to get the floatant in deeper, and any excess off better, than just a shake bottle. This has generally allowed me to use a fly as long as I wanted. Good luck.
I use floatants too but sometimes when I remember I soak them in RainX after I tie the flies. It helps them float. Anyone ever use this?
I tie flies to give fish something to laugh at.
I use "Froggs Fanny". I went on a guide last year and got introduced to it. Im ADDICTED to it! But I use paste to grease the leader.
PS: Hey Jim,
That RainX thing is neat. I might give that a try.


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Question: I've been reading about wait statistics and I see that most scripts people have published filter out some of the wait types. Why is that? Surely all the wait types can be problematic and should not be ignored?
Answer: The simple answer is that not all waits need to be analyzed when doing performance troubleshooting.
(As an aside, you can see an example script for analyzing wait statistics returned by the sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV in my blog post.)
Given the way that SQL Server's thread scheduling works, with concurrent operations in databases you're always going to see waits occurring. The key when performance troubleshooting is to make sure you're investigating waits that are relevant and are likely to be involved in your performance problems.
You may read some people online saying that every wait type can be a potential problem, and that's true, but some of the wait types are only a problem in extremely rare circumstances. For these wait types, for the vast majority of the time it's not worth having the results of the query to pull wait statistics polluted by these benign waits – and nearly all performance tuning experts agree on that.
For example, the WAITFOR wait is one of those that my query filters out. It only occurs when someone issues a WAITFOR DELAY statement and so including it in a query that aggregates and sorts waits to find the top waits by wait time would cause the results to become skewed such that actionable waits would be missed.
As another example, in SQL Server 2012 a bunch of new wait types were introduced in support of various features added by the release. There are two waits, DIRTY_PAGE_POLL and HADR_FILESTREAM_IOMGR_IOCOMPLETION, that occur very frequently and cause data skew as described above. The first is to do with the indirect checkpoints (which should really have been called 'continuous checkpoints', in my opinion) and the second is to do with AlwaysOn Availability Groups. I've added these to my list of usually benign waits to filter out as they occur even when the two features they pertain are not enabled.
As with any troubleshooting scenario, getting rid of information that might lead you on a wild-goose chase is always important, so I'll always recommend filtering out those waits known to be generally benign.


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I'm trying to set up a windows guest to print to an ubuntu (10.04) host. To cut a
long story short (I've been working on this for a few evenings) I started here:
So I set up a network printer in windows, with url:
But once I've added in real values and clicked "Next", windows responds with
"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was
typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost its connection
to the server".
I'm using the NAT networking option for the guest, and I can surf the web
(but I can't access the host's cups web interface). I figured that cups was maybe
rejecting the guest's attempts to connect/print and I eventually verified this
when I found the cups error log, which has faithfully recorded each of the guest's
attempts to print. For example...
E [04/Aug/2010:21:48:20 +0100] Request from "localhost" using invalid Host: field "10.0.2.2:631"
I've tried various solutions, such as this one...
...and others which also involve tinkering with cupsd.conf & restarting cups
but still no joy.
I'm starting to run out of ideas. There must be an easy answer, certainly all the forum
posts I find comment about how easy this all is. Maybe there's a bug somewhere?
For the record: Ubuntu 10.04LTS, Cups 1.4.3, and VirtualBox 3.6.2 (closed source
version, because I need usb support). It's not a USB printer, alas.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
"Why 'Taxi' Was Better"
Sometimes, I think they're just telling me that to make me feel better. You know, "What you did was better than what they're doing now, so you shouldn't feel bad that you've been unceremoniously cast aside."
Sometimes, they're just saying, "I liked the shows they did when I was young, but when you get down to it, I didn't really like them, I just liked being young."
Them, I understand.
Sometimes, however, they're actually saying something about the show. What I hear them saying is that they enjoyed Taxi's honest and imaginative storytelling and the richly developed characterizations. The bulk of the credit for that belongs to the writers, not me especially – with two exceptions, I didn't come up with any of the story ideas that became the scripts I wrote – the kudos go primarily to the prodigiously talented Mr. Brooks, Mr. Weinberger and Mr. Daniels. It also didn't hurt that Taxi had maybe the most talented ensemble of actors ever assembled.
But there was something else.
I believe writing is fundamentally affected by the prevailing technology. I recently tried to explore how creativity was affected by the fact that the authors of the enterprises were writing with a feather. Tethered to so tedious a method of getting things down, not to mention an elaborate and flowing sentence-writing style, I couldn't (and still can't) understand how the feather-writers could remember what they were trying to say. I can't a lot of the times, and I'm writing short sentences quickly. How did those ancient quill pushers pull it off? The answer is,
I don't know, but they did.
Maybe they had better memories than we do. That happens. People once walked seven miles to town; we're out of breath going across the street for a paper. When we don't use them anymore, because of technological advances or other reasons, previously well-honed faculties can atrophy and ultimately disappear, or at least become seriously diminished. Once, storytellers used to sit around a fire and recount entire oral histories. I can barely remember a phone number.
I may have to accept that I may never figure that mystery out.
This one I know. Because I was there.
I know one reason, I think an important one, why Taxi was the show that it was.
Again, aside from the talent involved, it involves the issue of available technology.
Taxi was filmed in what's called the "three-camera" format, (a format that became the "four-camera" format when they subsequently added a camera). In the "three-camera" technique, all three cameras film the scene at the same time. This results in your having three times as much film as you can actually use (if you do extra "takes", even more). The final product is achieved by editing the most desirable portions of the filmed material together, resulting in the show you end up seeing on TV.
Taxi, and all other sitcoms filmed in this manner, was filmed in front of a live studio audience, three hundred or so people waiting for hours outside, only to be ushered in to sit on back-spasmly uncomfortable bleacher seats. These were the folks we were contracted to make laugh.
The bleachers are situated a number of feet above the soundstage floor, allowing audience members to see the performance, as the cameras set up in front of them are filming it. This is vitally important. Audiences don't laugh at performances they are unable to see.
The laughter of the studio audience is essential. It energizes the performers, and allows the writers to feel successful, hugging each other triumphantly at the completion of "show night", rather than going out and shooting themselves. You can't have that. Writers are notoriously bad shots. They may well miss and accidentally take out a departing audience member whose only crime was not laughing enough.
"Audiences don't laugh at performances they are unable to see."
That's the whole thing right there. Think back to what film was. A spool of shiny brownish material with sprocket holes down the sides. Film was the medium on which the show was recorded. Unlike "digital", where you can see what you've just shot immediately, with film, that's not possible. To see what's on the film, you have to send the footage to Fotomat or someplace, and get it developed.
What did this mean specifically to Taxi? Because Taxi was shot on "pre digital" film, there were no immediately generated pictures for the audience to watch on the monitors. Their only access to the performances was the performance itself.
Lacking that "digital" advantage, Taxi was prevented from doing scenes performed on sets set up behind other sets. The studio audience might be able to hear the performance, but they wouldn't be able to see it. Suddenly, they're at a radio show.
You notice on Seinfeld? Due to digital technology, Seinfeld was able to build sets where the audience couldn't see the scenes directly, but they were still able to watch and laugh at those scenes by looking at the monitors. This allowed them to build considerably more sets, which, in turn, initiated an entirely different style of storytelling.
Without digital technology, Taxi also couldn't, as Seinfeld could, go out onto the "New York street" – actually a standing set at Studio Center, California – shoot an exterior scene, and show it later that week to a live audience watching on the monitor. Why not? No time to develop the film, no monitor.
What was Taxi restricted to, besides the garage set and maybe one other interior location?
and storytelling.
That's all they had to work with. A minimum number of (necessarily longer) scenes, in a limited number of locations. What held people's attention? The writing and the acting.
I'm not against advancing technology. I don't know how to use it, but I'm not against it. The hope is that we remember the good parts of what did – parts in no way precluded by technological progress – and not allow them to disappear.
21 comments:
- A. Buck Short said...
A show called "Taxi," and 5 years without an on-camera car chase or pile-up. I don't even remember an overturned fruit cart. Amazing! Could have knocked me over with a quill. And that Judd Hirsch was sure easy on the eyes. Oh wait, that was Danny DeVito. No wait, that was Christopher Lloyd. OK, Marilu Henner.
- April 17, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- growingupartists said...
I don't see how writing with a feather has to do with memory. Either they were copying straight out of the few books they owned, or were writing passionate love letters, friendly letters, or political ideas.
Passion, not memories.
- April 17, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- growingupartists said...
Ah ha, the immediate gratification of digital media takes away from the overall trust and community spirit. I suppose a lot more listening is involved with film, and it delays and stretches out your bosses wrath, very powerful motivator.
Again, I blame the Hollywood egos, who are the actors. They should have researched this difference, and work harder to live it. Why you're not at the head of this industry Earl, I'll never understand.
Instead, we have a society of complainers battling with the "good enoughs". Only good thing to come out of this realization is that Palin's standard setting doesn't need to be limited to the anti-abortion crowd. It will be, but the Democrats can do better.
Artists love God too.
- April 17, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- growingupartists said...
Oh, and I thought of something regarding Canadians and your strange speech patterns. My friend Trina always says rezource, forgoing the 's' for a z. As I heard it for the millionth time and didn't make fun of her (quite the exercise) I thought, maybe it's a spiritual thing.
You know, like resources come from God, obviously. But to put the 's' right up front is kinda well, serpentine, and so the 'z' is favored.
Oh, and process, instead of prahcess. Process is proactive, prahcess, everything lands conveniently in our ungrateful laps. Gimme more, Earl.
- April 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM
You just expressed, more eloquently, why I've generally enjoyed older movies, too. While I appreciate special effects, my favorite movies are those that tell a good story and have interesting, engaging characters.
- April 17, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- thevidiot said...
As an editor, I can agree that there is a lot of truth in what you say. When we pre-shoot scenes for the audience to watch and react to (because of effects or location), the laughs are always less than the scenes performed in front of them.
I worked on a show that preshot all but two scenes so that the producer could get home by 9. Those two scenes always got more response than the other 15-17 minutes of playback.
The worst thing that producer could do was start the show off with a playback - the Cold Opening and Scene A on tape for example. The audience did not come to watch TV... they came to watch their favorite stars act.
Just my $0.2 cents worth!
- April 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Ger Apeldoorn said...
There is an internal reason why a show like Taxi couldn't be made today (and why I love it so much). Taxi was in fact the last show about people who didn't get to live their dreams. Cheers was about losers as well, but with Taxi it was even the theme of the show. That you CAN'T always get what you want. You don't even get what you need. You learn to live whith what you've got. Since then every film and every television show is ony about giving people so-called hope. Hope that they can make their dreams come true. And even though it is probably true that you have a better chnce of seeing your dreams come true if you believe that is possible, the lare majority of people don't see their dreams come true. So how positve is it to give them hope? Still, people want to see hope, so that is what they get. These days, exclusively. There is not a movie or a television show that doesn't sell he message that dreams can come true. It also happens to be the message that creates the most customers for the advertisers, so that's a bonus. xi took another road and tought people acceptance and the comfort of friends. It didn't tell people to give up trying, but not by artificially creating win situations. In fact, I believe on Taxi nobody ever won anything.
- April 18, 2009 at 1:38 AM
The statement "Taxi had maybe the most talented ensemble of actors ever assembled" should emphasize that "maybe". I would say it had AN extremely talented ensemble of actors, plus Tony Danza.
"Ger Apeldoorn said...
Taxi was in fact the last show about people who didn't get to live their dreams."
Ah Ger, did you forget ROSEANNE? Did you forget CHEERS?
Interesting column and excellent overall point. My thanks to KL for referring my attention to it.
- April 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Edward Copeland said...
I know this isn't really on the subject at hand, but another thing about the comedies today that drive me crazy (and why I can't watch any new ones with laughtracks or audiences) is that they make every laugh sound like the exact same laugh. Back on shows from the 70s such as Taxi, there were little jokes, huge jokes, etc., and the laughs followed accordingly. Now, the laughs are as robotic as the shows themselves.
- April 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I have stopped watching comedies because they are no longer funny. They are derivative.
Ger Apeldoorn: If you enjoy shows about characters who do not get what they want, then check out Venture Brothers. The first three seasons are available on DVD. Every character is a loser. It is one of the few shows I catch during its broadcast run.
- April 18, 2009 at 4:58 PM
- WhitneyD said...
D. McEwan said... Ah Ger, did you forget ROSEANNE? Did you forget CHEERS?I have to agree with Ger (who addressed Cheers right after the quote you pulled). While Roseanne was in fact about losers... that final season left such a bitter taste in my mouth with its abrupt change of fortune and gimmick ending, that it pretty much wiped away any memory of being a great show.
Of course, of more recent shows about losers, there's also Malcolm in the Middle. Though, not being taped in front of an audience- it pushes it into a difference niche.
- April 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
There are scads of "comedies" about losers. "Office" to name the king of the manure pile. Only these modern losers are not lovable and not sympathetic. We are not sharing their troubles, we are only watching to sneer coldly and mock their awkward and pathetic existence. And that's a difference that makes me turn the channel.
- April 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM
One of the two finest shows ever to be ripped off from a Harry Chapin song...
- April 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM
that's ridiculous. if they shoot a sit-com style scene and show it to the audience a week later, the actors would have to pause for the "audience" to laugh, so you'd get a track with a bunch of awkward silences after each "joke" (like that episode of '8 simple rules' where they were having that guy's funeral).
If you already have all the pauses there, why not just mix some pre-recorded laugh track in? what can the audience add to that? it's not like it was actually funny anyway. There's a reason why it has a laugh track in the first place; because people don't actually laugh out loud at this shit.
- April 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- thevidiot said...
Actually, some actors needed help with the pauses during pre-shots so several shows that I worked on hired "laughers" to sit in the audience (20 or so people) to give them the responses so that they would leave room.
When you play the scene back, you do get some unique laughs that helps it sound like we're not using the same canned laugh all of the time. Those 20 people get covered up with the rest of the audience (hopefully).
Another show that I worked on did not leave the room for the laughs and then the trouble was in squeezing in a laugh that didn't "step on" the next line. Painful!
- April 19, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- estiv said...
Excellent post, and dead right. As you may well know, this is an idea that has actually been around a long time--that making the technical part of creative work easier does not free up the creative people to do better work, it just makes them a little lazy.
To take an example from music: which Bob Dylan albums were better, the ones from the early sixties where he wrote at home and then was in the studio performing solo for a few hours to produce the final product, or the ones from the eighties where he had endless time and multiple collaborators? In the early ones he was a genius relying on his own innate skills; in the later ones a star with nearly infinite options. The results speak for themselves.
To be fair, in later years he seemed to figure out a good balance between the two, but it didn't happen easily.
- April 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Ger Apeldoorn said...
as to the point of actors giving a better peformance in front of a live audience, I have to say that from the few times I attended tapings and watched the shows afterwards, I got the impression that a lot of the timing was in fact created by the editor. Whole pauses were added if the actor rushed through a line. But I guess the avarage is higher when you have a life audience and also, having three tapes to choose from makes it at least possible to create a new (and better) timing. All this depends on the talent of the editor, but I am talking about the likes of the Cheers editor who later directed Seinfeld. He really knew what he was doing.
- April 19, 2009 at 11:08 AM
"WhitneyD said...
While Roseanne was in fact about losers... that final season left such a bitter taste in my mouth with its abrupt change of fortune and gimmick ending, that it pretty much wiped away any memory of being a great show."
I don't dispute for one second that the final season of ROSEANNE was ghastly beyond belief, one CAN just choose to accept it as ending one season earlier, because it did not erase the many seasons of great show that ran before it, and it certainly didn't invalidate my point that it was a show that was not about people who got to live their dreams. (Remember that that horrible final season was supposed to be a story Roseanne had written, and that, "in reality," Dan was dead and they were still losers. Their final point, apparently, was that Roseanne was a lousy writer.
"Blaze said...
There are scads of "comedies" about losers. 'Office' to name the king of the manure pile. Only these modern losers are not lovable and not sympathetic."
Actually, I find most of the characters on THE OFFICE (though not Dwight Shroot or Creed obviously) to be quite loveable and sympathetic. I'd MUCH rather spend time with Jim and Pam than any incarnation of Roseanne.
- April 19, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- thevidiot said...
Editors DO make a lot of moments - hopefully better, but you don't always have the ability to "open up" a moment for the larger laugh it might deserve. The editor/director you mentioned is a friend of mine and is VERY good at what he does but you are limited by the material you have to work with.
As a very general rule, the actors tend to "light up" in front of a real audience and that is often the best performance, but a lot of what we do today cannot be done in front of an audience - it might involve fire, a dangerous animal, or hour upon hour of work to make something work. Those scenes and others that the producers deem unimportant enough to shoot before the audience must be preshot and may lose some spontaneity in the process.
Ya win some... ya lose some!
- April 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Enzo said...
One specific laugh in many of the Taxi episodes stands out. Guffaw?..maybe. The laugh is heard more directly as "OHH". It's very prominent in the season two episode entitled "Race Off". I know James L. Brooks has a quite distinctive laugh, as showcased most brilliantly as a audience spectator on MTM. Can you verify this is indeed Brooks in the Taxi audience?
- May 28, 2009 at 9:50 PM
the "laugh" from someone in the audience that appears often in the Taxi episodes, the one that is very distinct and the one you are probably familiar with, whose laugh is that? is it an audience member that got tickets to almost every episode or someone from the staff?
- February 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM