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GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is rejecting Syrian President Bashar Assad's (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) suggestion he begin submitting data on his chemical weapons arsenal one month after signing an international chemical weapons ban.
Kerry spoke at a news conference Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (SEHR'-gay LAHV'-rahf). Kerry noted Assad said a 30-day lead time would be standard.
Kerry said, quote, "there is nothing standard about this process" because Assad used chemical weapons. Kerry said the Syrian regime's words are not enough.
Kerry cautions that a U.S. military strike could happen if Assad doesn't agree to dismantle his chemical arsenal properly.
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(KurtNimmo) – Earlier this week we reported on riot police storm troopers dispatched in Quincy, Illinois, in response to a Tea Party demonstration outside an Obama event. The Secret Service told black-clad riot cops to "push the crowd back as far as you can, out of sight" outside the the Oakley-Lindsey/Quincy Community Center.
"The Tea Partiers were walking down York after the president's motorcade arrived when a Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move back to the north side of the street," QuincyNews reports today. "As the crowd was moving back, the Mobile Field Force, adorned in full body armor, walked between the crowd and the building, then they turned and faced the protesters."
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|Cops watch Bingo grandmothers and Tea Party demonstrators in Illinois.
"SWAT was there because it looked like the ladies were going to break out in a BINGO game," remarks First Things blog with appropriate sarcasm.
The Herald-Whig reported on April 28:
There were a few tense moments when the crowd moved west down York toward Third Street after the president's motorcade arrived. A Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move back across the street to the north side.
When the crowd didn't move and began singing "God Bless, America" and the national anthem, Quincy Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer called for members of the Mobile Field Force to walk up the street.
The officers, mainly from Metro East departments near St. Louis and dressed in full body armor, marched from the east and stood on the south side of York facing the protesters.
There was no physical contact, and the officers did not come close to the crowd, but there were catcalls and more than a few upset tea party members, including a woman who shouted, "This is communism!"
New video posted on the web reveals additional police state tactics in response to the Tea Party protest. Cops in military green uniforms with binoculars were positioned on the roof of the community center and a cop outfitted in a military uniform watched the dangerous Tea Party terrorist from the roof of a black SUV.
Below: Tea Party terrorists in Quincy, Illinois.
On April 29, Infowars and Prison Planet reported on a military exercise in Kentucky designed to take on the Tea Party movement. Intel advisories characterized terrorist threat adversaries as "Local Militia Groups / Anti-Government Protesters / TEA Party" and described Tea Party supporters as drunken bomb-throwers.
The police and Secret Service presence at the event in Illinois is another indication that the government considers the Tea Party — including little old ladies — a threat that requires the heavy presence of cops outfitted in storm trooper and military uniforms.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan soldiers and U.S forces who are pursuing the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of the Central African Republic say a recent rebellion has not affected their operations, but officials said they welcome a peace deal signed with rebels anyway.
The peace deal signed last week puts an end to any fears that a flare-up in violence in the landlocked country would influence the hunt for LRA leader Joseph Kony and his deputies. President Obama sent 100 U.S. special forces to help advise in the hunt about a year ago.
Rebels over the last month had marched toward the capital of the Central African Republic, but a peace deal reached last week will instead let President Francois Bozize stay in office until his term ends in 2016. Late last month CAR troops abandoned joint counter-LRA operations with Ugandan forces as the government increased security in the capital.
"We are glad that they have reached a compromise," said Col. Felix Kulayigye, spokesman of the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces. "The rebels did not come our way, and the way things are developing we believe our work will continue unhindered."
Kulayigye and Daniel Travis, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Uganda, said the rebel-government fighting had no effect on the hunt for Kony.
"It hasn't had a negative impact in terms of affecting our operations because the fighting has been happening far away from our operational bases," Travis said. "The UPDF is operating in the CAR with permission of the CAR government and as far as we know, they will continue operating there for the foreseeable future."
Ugandan forces, aided by the 100 Americans, are positioned in Obo and Djema, in the east of the Central African Republic, hundreds of miles from the northern part of the country where much of the fighting was centered.
President Francois Bozize signed a decree removing the country's prime minister the weekend, one of the steps called for in a peace deal with the rebels.


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NEW YORK (March 4, 2011) – Major League Soccer today announced a multi-year partnership with Opta, a worldwide leader in sports data, to significantly enhance MLS' data collection and display capabilities. Opta specializes in the collection and distribution of detailed performance data for soccer matches throughout Europe.
Opta works with major companies in the world of soccer, including high profile broadcasters, publishers, sponsors, governing bodies and professional clubs. Opta is currently the official data provider for the German Bundesliga and supplies in-depth live and historical data to their official website.
This new deal will complement MLS' existing partnership with the Elias Sports Bureau and will allow MLS to continue to enhance the League's digital products bringing best-in-class sports information to MLS fans.
"For many years we have heard a desire from our fans for more in-depth statistics," said Chris Schlosser, director of digital strategy for MLS. "We are very excited to partner with Opta to bring this critical information to our passionate fans. This deal will allow for deeper analysis of all MLS matches and ensure that MLS is at the cutting edge of data technologies in 2011 and beyond."
MLS and Opta will build a new North American data collection hub in MLS' Digital Headquarters in New York. From this hub, hundreds of MLS and other North American soccer games will be analyzed with the data available for use by MLSsoccer.com, participating broadcasters and other interested media outlets.
"This is a very exciting new step for our business," said Aidan Cooney, CEO, Opta. "Our pioneering technology creates digital blueprints of each match, enabling rich statistical and graphical insights into the game's tactics and strategies. This is an opportunity to take soccer to a new, but statistics hungry, audience in the United States."
Those interested in building the most sophisticated data tracking center in North America should apply online at http://optasports.com/about/join-our-team.html?ref=opta/ptmls.
The 2011 MLS season starts Tuesday, March 15 when the LA Galaxy travel to face the Seattle Sounders at 9:30 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com). All 18 clubs are in action during First Kick presented by Dick's Sporting Goods. For a complete schedule, click here.


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The A7600 GT TDH is fitted with a GeForce 7600 GT chip and 256MB of GDDR 3 memory connected across a 128-bit bus. The core is clocked to 560MHz, Leadtek said, though it did not disclose the memory speed.
The A7600 GS TDH is kitted out with a 7600 GS clocked at 400MHz, and the memory is DDR 2, though again its operating on a 128-bit bus and there's 256MB of it. Both cards have AGP 8x connectors, dual-link DVI-I ports, HDTV-out and a VGA connector for older monitors.
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UCSF researchers have confirmed that one of their own has been stricken with an adenovirus that has jumped from a population of New World Titi monkeys. What's more, scientists believe that the virus came from a third species before moving to the Titis.
Adenoviruses are a group of viruses that cause symptoms like coughing and sniffling, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Anyone who has had the 'common cold,' has had an adenovirus. They're known to plague certain mammals, like rodents, monkeys, and humans, but until now there has never been a proven case of an adenovirus jumping from one population to another. Recently, though, a lab population of New World Titi monkeys came down with a mysterious virus that caused massive respiratory problems.
The California National Primate Research Center named the virus titi monkey adenovirus or TMAdV, and watched its progress with some concern. A third of the captive population became infected. That infection progressed to pneumonia, and 83 percent of the sick monkeys died.
They were more concerned when they learned that a researcher had come down with a cough, chills, and fever while they had been taking care of the monkeys. Two members of the researcher's family eventually a similar illness. Fortunately, TMAdV seems to be relatively mild in humans. Although the people had symptoms for about four weeks, none of them required medical treatment. By the time the sickness was reported, the virus had disappeared from the researcher's bloodstream, but comparison of the antibodies in the blood of the researcher, the family members, and the monkeys showed that two of the humans and all of the monkeys had had the TMAdV virus.
A study of TMAdV has shown that it's relatively uncommon in both monkeys and humans, leading scientists to believe that the virus crossed over from yet another species. An Old World Rhesus monkey was shown to have anitbodies to TMAdV. The virus may by common among that population, and had spread in the lab to the New World monkeys and then to the human, none of which had proper defenses against it. Researchers are now conducting a study to see if any wild populations of monkeys have the virus, and whether any nearby humans may have contracted it.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Joe Bowler Interview, Part 1: The Early Years
LP: Tell me about your early childhood... were you already drawing during the early years of your life?
JB: Yeah, I was drawing at three... for some reason I drew bicycles... with all the wheels and the spokes and pedals. I was always the 'artist' in the school. My ability wasn't really creative; rather, I had the ability to copy something - anything. My teacher in 2nd or 3rd grade would put a picture of a dog or something on the wall and say "draw the dog." Well I drew THAT particular dog! I don't know if it was eye-hand coordination or what.
When I got into high school I had an assignment for a mechanical drawing class which was a freehand drawing of a very complicated gear mechanism. When I brought that drawing in the teacher said, "You didn't draw that." and he failed me! I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "You didn't draw this!" I said, "I'll see you after basketball practice... give me any kind of assignment and I'll draw it for you."
So we did that. I sat down and he gave me this much more complicated gear thing. I took about and hour and a half or so, and I drew it perfectly. You know that sonofabitch would only give me a B on it? [we both laugh] It was exact, but he just couldn't take it that he was wrong about me. This was in my sophomore or junior year in high school. I was taking all the art I could get, including mechanical drawing.
LP: How about your parents; were they supportive of that?
JB: Very much so. I guess it was in junior year... we had a kind of 'Career Day' thing and they had printed up a list of all these professions and their annual salary. And at the top of the list, above lawyer and doctor and businessman... was illustrator!
"One hundred thousand dollars" it said. Of course this was 1943/44 or so and they were talking about a handful of the best illustrators in the business making that kind of money. Rockwell and a few others.
Well I ran all the way home and showed my parents the list and said, "See? I told you." And they sort of sighed a great sigh of relief. Because we didn't have any money at all - especially for college.
So I went right out of high school and my father, who worked in real estate in New York City, one of his clients was an artist representative on Park Avenue... so my dad got me a job as an errand boy in this Barry Stephens Art Agency. My introduction to the illustration business was through picking up and delivering drawings and paintings for all of his artists...
... so some very exciting things happened to me at that time!
This was long before I really knew too much about art history, but one of the places I used to pick up art was at 51 West 10th St., which happened to be the building where William Merrit Chase had his big studio and which John Singer Sargent borrowed and painted in.
A fellow named John Allen Maxwell, who painted pocketbook covers was there and so was Mortimer Wilson Jr.
(Below, a Mortimer Wilson Jr. painting, 1940s)
So here I was delivering paintings and picking them up in these incredible places.
[Joe chuckles] I'll never forget; Barry used to be very generous with the tips and so on. He didn't pay me anything [chuckles] but one of his big illustrators was a fellow by the name of Frederic Varady, a Hungarian artist who was very popular at that time.
(Below, a 1950s spread from Good Housekeeping by Frederic Varady)
Varady would come into town and Barry would put him up at the St. Regis Hotel, in the penthouse suite. Barry would give me a little envelope to give to the concierge every time I went over to pick up a painting from Varady. One time the envelope wasn't sealed so I peeked inside... it was a $100 bill!
(Below, Frederic Varady, Cosmopolitan magazine, August 1953)
So I gave it to the concierge and went up and knocked on the door. Varady opened the door and here he was in this beautiful velvet smoking jacket.
(Below: Frederic Varady, Good Housekeeping, 1946)
And over his shoulder I see this beautiful blonde festooned on the couch. Right there I said to myself, "I wanna be an illustrator!" [We both laugh]
(Below, Frederic Varady, Cosmopolitan magazine, August 1954)
LP: Now did Barry Stephens have his own art studio where you would have seen artists at work?
JB: No. Most of the artists had their own studios... and most of the ones I saw would come in from Chicago, where Stephens had another office, on the 20th Century train (that was the big one of the day!) and stay for a couple of days.
You know, thinking back on it I can't believe the balls that I had for a 17-year-old kid!
One night, everyone was going home... and my job was to make sure all the illustrations were flapped and matted and put in their proper spots on the shelves. And there was one piece by Varady left out and one of the salesmen said to me, "Don't forget to put that away." I said, "Ok." I was the last one there... I was gonna lock up, and I very carefully wrapped it up and took it home with me. I was staying with my grandmother in Port Washington and I had my paints there.
(Below: a Frederic Varady illustrated ad from 1946)
I took this Varady illustration home and I stayed up all night and I copied the damn thing. I don't think I slept a wink. The next morning I went in to the office and I put my copy up on the table. Then I sort of ho-hummed around until one of the salesmen came in. He looked over and said, "Joe! I told you to put this Varady away!" [Laughter] That really made my day. The salesmen weren't the brightest art people in the world... I looked at it years later and I could have told it wasn't a Varady. But I wanted to test myself... see if I could fool them... and I felt like I'd won that day.
I was making $18 a week... I was living at home and the Pennsylvania Railroad raised the fares. So I went in one day and asked for a $2 raise to cover the cost. Barry put his arm around my shoulder and said, "Joe, I think you've learned enough here. I think it's time for you to move on. He wouldn't give me a two-dollar raise!"[Laughter]
But talk about a guy with luck: unbelievably, a friend of our family had a friend who was an art director for Kling Studios - the New York office!
So I went up to see him and he said, "Yeah, I'll give you an apprentice job."
They had about four or five artists there and I was given a drawing board right in the studio and I sat there and watched to see how they did it.
(Detail from a Kling Studios trade magazine ad, 1951)
I did some little samples and the salesmen started to take them around and I got my first professional work there. It was for Redbook, it was a couple of little black & white medical spots for a feature they ran every month.
LP: How did it feel to get that first professional assignment?
JB: Oh, it felt fantastic! Next I got a double page spread in True Detective or something... that was my first big one.
LP: Were these early jobs all line art?
JB: No, they were black & white, but painted with designers colours.
LP: Did they pay you a salary at Kling or did you split a commission with them?
JB: They paid me a salary and just absorbed the assignment fees into general studio revenue, I think. They paid me about $35 a week I think, so that was a pretty big step up from $18 at Barry Stephens. I was only there for less than a year though, because they closed. The salesmen would go to lunch around 10 o'clock and take a 3-hour lunch and get plastered. I never saw so much drinking in all my life!
So they closed and I thought, "Oh boy, I'm outta luck."
But as I said, I don't know where I got the balls, but I figured, well, there's the Cooper Studio, the biggest, most famous art studio in America... I'll go try there first.
So that's were I went!
Continued tomorrow
* to see recent works by the artist, visit Joe Bowler's website
* Some of today's images are from ondiraiduveau's Joe Bowler set on Flickr.
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Great interview! Interesting to see how different the illustration business was back then.
Thank you for the interview, love the story about the homemade copy.ReplyDelete
One of the best features you've run. Looking forward to the next instalment.ReplyDelete
Great interview Leif, I'm excited!ReplyDelete
Leif, I loved reading article on Joe--- I have been familiar with his work for a long time since my long ago high school mentor worked at cooper studios and gifted me a original Bowler painting. I have been carrying around the masonite masterpiece with me around the country for decades--So to hear his first hand account of his career is fantastic--great interview--Thank you!ReplyDelete
Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for sharingReplyDelete
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When Lonnie G. Bunch III outlines plans for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the historian can barely sit still. This is a buoyant man on the move, overseeing the design for what could be the last major building on the National Mall; urging citizens to bring their family mementos out of the attic; deciding which stories out of more than 400 years of American history should be told; and preaching the necessity of this enterprise.
"This is a museum about African-American life, and African-American life is a lens on what it means to be an American. And we talk about how this is everyone's story. And anyone I can get in front of ends up understanding our purpose," says Bunch, 58, a native of New Jersey, and a specialist in 19th-century American history. His professional career has been steeped in museum building and expansion, including the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and the Chicago Historical Society. Bunch was the supervising curator at the National Museum of American History from 1989 to 1992 and returned to the Smithsonian in 2005 to build the new museum. Now he's the founding director of a high-profile project in Washington that everyone is watching closely.
In his office in D.C., Bunch describes the status of the critical elements needed for the museum to open in late 2015. He walks over to a refined museum model, designed by Freelon Adjaye Bond and SmithGroup. On a 5-acre site, directly in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the building will have three coronas of shining metals, and the exterior walls will reflect some of the signature styles of New Orleans and Charleston, S.C., ironworkers. The proposed design has been condensed from an original model. "Now it sits on the earth as a pristine jewel box," says Bunch, reviewing all the details that will make it a destination.
The fundraising for the $500 million project, authorized by Congress in 2003 as part of the Smithsonian Institution complex, has progressed beyond projections, despite the recession. That status prompts a huge smile from the bearded and bespectacled Bunch. "My thought was that the fundraising would pick up after we had drawings and a model. But we had $70 million before the drawings," says Bunch. Congress has pledged half of the goal, with $125 million in the 2012 budget and $85 million penciled in for the next year.
The challenge with building a museum from scratch is developing the content and collecting the artifacts. All along, Bunch has said he wanted several large objects, not only to be showstoppers but also to reflect the work, achievements, joys and tragedies of black life. The museum was given an original railroad car, divided into colored and white sections. Bunch also has his eye on a slave cabin.
In 2009, the family of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy killed in Mississippi in 1955, gave the museum his original coffin. (In 2005 Till's body was exhumed for a federal investigation into the crime, and the body was reburied in a new casket.) The photographs of the slain boy lying in an open casket in publications like Jet magazine became a pivotal rallying cry for the modern civil rights movement. Also on the museum's wish list is an airplane flown by the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed black fliers of World War II.
The collection has been built through "Save Our African American Treasures" sponsoring workshops around the country, where the public brings articles to be inspected, donations of collections and the spontaneous "over the transom" inquiry. Additional unexpected exposure happened recently when Bunch received a BET Honor, the first to be given to a person from the museum world. And a cache of 700 garments and 300 accessories from the defunct Black Fashion Museum was donated by Joyce Bailey, the daughter of the museum's founder, Lois Alexander Lane.
The subjects to be emphasized in the National Museum of African American History and Culture continue to evolve, Bunch says, and the materials will be a strong guide. So far, the museum will cover slavery, segregation, the civil rights movement, and sports and entertainment; it will also establish a Center for African American Media Arts. "We have about 10,000 artifacts — and we need 20,000 more," he explains. He wants to tell the rich experience of men and women in the military and is scouring for more materials from the World War II era, as well as the rich records of black clubs.
While the monumental objects are the keys to the visual story, Bunch says that smaller items are also important connections for visitors: an 1850 slave badge from Charleston; a letter signed by Toussaint L'Ouverture; a sign from a Nashville, Tenn., bus that reads, "This part of the bus for colored race"; and a Selmer trumpet once owned by Louis Armstrong.
Recently the museum acquired a collection of rare photographs of the great writer James Baldwin. These photos were taken in casual moments in Turkey by photojournalist Sedat Pakay. Lena Horne's family recently donated a gown that the groundbreaking singer and actress wore. Bunch has also collected a costume and turntable from hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy, plus a bleacher seat from Atlanta's Perry Stadium, where the Negro League baseball teams played.
"A woman in Birmingham had lived in the city at the time of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. She picked up glass shards from the church windows and saved them," says Bunch, confident that the tiny glass remnants will have the same emotional impact that they had on him.
The museum's interior, covering 82,000 square feet, will be designed by a diverse team from Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the internationally known exhibition firm that put together the moving galleries inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
To keep reminders of the museum's progress in front of its potential audience, and to test the curatorial ideas, the museum has mounted exhibitions in Washington and around the country. The traveling multimedia exhibition "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," a history of the famed Apollo Theater, is now in New York City and is scheduled to visit Atlanta. "These shows give me a model to show the public and give the staff a way to show off their expertise," says Bunch.
It's all a foreshadowing of the stories that all Americans will walk through in a few years, and another step in Bunch's journey to make certain that the African-American perspective is part of everyone's story.
Jacqueline Trescott covers arts institutions for the Washington Post.


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It's a charmed day for Rose McGowan – the actress has tied the knot!
She wed artist Davey Detail on Saturday in Los Angeles, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
The pair, who got engaged in July, exchanged vows in a "romantic and ethereal" ceremony as 60 guests looked on, a source tells PEOPLE.
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25 Aug 2014 by Sachchi Ghimire Karki and Kamal Raj Sigdel
The problem with social norms is that even the most conscientious of citizens often stop questioning them.
They simply perpetuate.
Across South Asia, and in Nepal in particular, despite major strides in women's economic empowerment in the past decade, gender stereotypes, domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence still continue to cripple society. According to a 2012 study, more than half of Nepali women experience violence in their lifetime.
One way to fight these stereotypes and end gender-based violence is to swap roles so that men can experience what it feels like to walk in a woman's shoes.
At UNDP Nepal, we're building on that premise as we look to tackle the high levels of violence against women in Nepali society. Behavior change is easier said than done, so we've decided to try and break the chain of violence by focusing on young people and their willingness to question social norms.
Here's our gambit: we've designed an online interactive quiz for Facebook that turns how young people view gender roles in society inside-out and back-to-front.
Six short animated videos, each followed by multiple-choice questions, depict situations where traditional roles have been inverted so as to raise the user's awareness of their own potential prejudices and stereotypes.
One scenario projects men being harassed by female passengers on a public bus. When several of the men complain about how harassment is commonplace on public buses, the women retort, "if it is so difficult for you to tolerate chance physical encounters in crowded spaces, you should have a private vehicle or hire a cab."
We will have six such animated videos, each one focused on a particular form of violence such as harassment, domestic violence, political violence and sexual violence. These will be launched through UNDP's social media channels and, to reach out to a larger audience, we plan to launch a publicity campaign (radio announcements, links on main newspaper websites, etc.) to mobilize participation among youth.
We're excited that in the first week of preparation, we have already formed a partnership with the University of Chicago Gaming Lab, to draw upon their technical expertise in the design of the gaming framework that incorporates the animated videos and quiz questions in an interesting package.
Can you think of photos and videos that switch gender roles or create empathy to help us fight against gender violence? Let us know what you think.
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Everything a mama-to-be reads says that her workout routine shouldn't stop the minute she gets pregnant. In fact, keeping active during pregnancy has tons of benefits, as long as the mama listens to her body and gets the OK from her doctor. My OB gave me the thumbs-down for my favorite workout, hot yoga, but encouraged me to continue a regular yoga practice, which helped me feel healthy and relaxed during my pregnancy. The only complaint I had about my routine: finding cute workout clothes that covered my expanding belly during my Downward Dog and happy baby poses!
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Audio Dedupe 184.108.40.206 – Find Similar Songs And Duplicate Audio Files In Any File Format
Audio Dedupe is popular for its features that go beyond the standard duplicate file finders. Audio Dedupe can find similar and duplicate songs regardless of the file format. It analyzes the files and "Listens" to the audio file in order to find similarities. It can identify exact duplicates or remixes of the same song stored in various audio file formats. The tool supports most of the popular aduio formats and will put an end to the mess in you music collection, iTunes, iPod, iPad, iPhone or other mp3 player devices. Here are some of the supported file formats: Supports MP3, MP2, MP1, MPA, WAV, OGG, AIFF, AAC, MP4, FLAC, AC3, WavPack (WV), Musepack (MPC) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) file formats.
Download: Find Similar Songs
The key improvements in this release extracted directly from the Duplicate MP3 Finder's What's new page:
Version 126.96.36.199:
- In Filter dialog added option to filter folders by name
- Clicking on the folders grid header icons now checks/unchecks all folders
- Browse for folder dialog is updated – if no folders are checked the currently selected folder is added
- If delete/move file operation fails, hex error code is displayed in the log
Not all improvements are listed above, but these are just a few of the new features and fixes in this release.
The Key New Features Of The Duplicate Audio Finder Tool
Filtering Duplicate Audio Files
The filtering panel provides a handy new option that makes it possible to filter folders by a phrase including wildcards. If the text "original" is entered – all the folders that contain "original" in the name will be matched. Vertical line e.g.: "copy|backup|bckp" can be used in order to specify and combine several phrases. Using the above example all the folders that contain "copy","backup" or "bckp" will be matched. A more sophisticated example is "b??(*)*" – it will match all folders starting with "b" followed by two characters then an opening bracket followed by one character and then a closing bracket followed by any number of characters.
The asterisk denotes that zero or more characters should be present and the question mark denotes that exactly one character should be present at that position. There are unlimited number of combinations that can be created in order to match a specific folder name. A screenshot of the new filtering window is available below:


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Code Composer Studio v6
Introduction to Processor SDK RTOS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Training Series
Linux is well-adopted within embedded systems. But debugging Linux system issues can be overwhelming. This training series teaches the techniques of debugging kernel issues that may be encountered in embedded Linux systems. This training series explains the Linux kernel logging system and logging API, illustrates how to locate a particular device driver, and demonstrates how to read kernel oops logs.
Profiling Suspend/Resume Latency of Linux Kernel on Embedded Processors
KeyStone Architecture
KeyStone Memory and Transport
KeyStone External Interfaces
KeyStone Wireless Accelerators and Co-Processors
KeyStone Software and Tools
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Processor SDK for TI Embedded Processors
Introduction to OpenCL
66AK2Gx Processors
The 66AK2Gx DSP + ARM processors are designed for automotive and consumer audio, industrial motor control, smart-grid protection and other high-reliability, real-time, compute-intensive applications. This training provides an overview of the device architecture and the processor cores. It also includes training related to voice and audio processing, as well as additional how-to video topics relevant to the EVMK2G evaluation module.
Processor SDK for KeyStone Processors
TI provides key runtime software components and documentation to further ease development. TI's online training provides an introduction to the Processor SDK and how to use this software to start building applications on TI processors.
PRU for 66AK2Gx Processors
The Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) is a small processor that is tightly integrated with an IO subsystem, offering low-latency control of IO pins on TI's SoC devices including the 66AK2Gx, AM335x, AM437x, and AM57x Processors. The PRU is customer-programmable and can be used to implement simple and flexible control functions, peripherals, and state machines that directly access IO pins of the device, as well as can communicate with the application cores.
Debugging Embedded Linux Systems
Debugging Embedded Linux Systems training series teaches the techniques of debugging kernel issues that may be encountered in embedded Linux systems. It explains the Linux kernel logging system and logging API, illustrates how to locate a particular device driver, and demonstrates how to read kernel oops logs.
How-to Videos
This section contains task-specific videos that demonstrate how to perform debugging techniques on embedded Linux systems.
Voltage Regulator Design and Optimization for High-Current, Fast-Slew-Rate Load Transients
Designing to the tight voltage tolerances of today's modern central processing units and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is becoming more difficult as their current draw increases and becomes more dynamic. Getting the correct output capacitance mix to ensure first-time power-delivery success is no small feat with >100-A steps and slew rates in excess of 100 A/µs. Standard point-of-load design techniques no longer hold true; we need new methods to choose the output capacitance.


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The city, which has been declared a Historic-Artistic Site, has had its heritage enriched over the centuries thanks to its strategic location.
Tui is, above all, a walled cathedral which emanated cultural, economic and military life. Always with an eye on neighbouring Portugal –sometimes a friend, sometimes an enemy-, it sits on a border which no longer serves any purpose: the modern motorway replaced the iron bridge –which is still standing and is one of its most emblematic images- and customs controls make no sense in the European Union. Tui is more peaceful for it, and as they stroll through its medieval streets, travellers can understand why the city has been declared a Historic-Artistic Site. Featuring among Tui's architectural heritage is the Romanesque and Gothic Cathedral, the churches of San Bartolomé –Romanesque- and San Telmo –baroque- and several miradors. The mountain of Aloia, near Tui, was the first place in Galicia to be declared a Nature Reserve, and is a perfect viewing point to take in the Vigo estuary and the Louro valley. This river flows into the Miño, the true key figure in the life of the city, forming a natural frontier with Portugal. In fact, all the routes which left the neighbouring country and which did not join the Ruta de la Plata would end up in Tui.
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On Tuesday, a coalition of interested parties took to their pens to urge the Department of Labor to allow plan sponsors to make required disclosures electronically. A coalition of 15 trade organizations, including ASPPA, the Financial Services Institute, the Investment Company Institute and SIFMA, wrote a letter to the Employee Benefits Security Administration to argue for a policy that recognizes "electronic communication today is no longer the exception, it is the norm."
A survey by the SPARK Institute, one of the coalition members, found that interim guidance released by the Labor Department in December does not make electronic disclosure more feasible and lacks incentives for plan sponsors to use it instead of paper disclosures.
"We encourage the Department to pursue a policy that, in operation, would encourage and facilitate the use of modern electronic forms of communication," the coalition wrote in the letter. "Such a policy would have a direct and beneficial impact on plans, plan sponsors, plan participants and beneficiaries."
Technical Release 2011-03R clarifies earlier guidance released in September about using electronic media to satisfy disclosure requirements. The revised release is otherwise identical to the earlier issuance, TR 2011-03.
"We are concerned that the guidance in the Technical Release provides little relief beyond that already available through EBSA's current safe harbor, particularly as it relates to affirmative consent and dependence on paper as the default method of delivery," Larry Goldbrum, general counsel of The SPARK Institute, said in a statement. "Based on responses to the survey and discussions with other coalition members, it is clear that a substantial majority of service providers do not intend to make use of the Technical Release policy and the required disclosures will be delivered in paper form, rather than electronically."
Among the chief concerns of the coalition are:
- Existing systems' inability to support Labor's interim e-delivery approach without costly changes
- Requiring each participant to approve electronic communications
- The administrative impracticality of the required implementation and monitoring
Rather than relying on Labor's guidance from September and December, the coalition would defer to the agency's Field Assistance Bulletin 2006-03 released in December 2006. That guidance states that "a pension benefit statement may be delivered in written, electronic, or other appropriate form to the extent such form is reasonably accessible to the participant or beneficiary." According to the coalition's letter, FAB 2006-03 provides "a viable approach to encouraging and fostering electronic disclosure by employee benefit plans, while providing important safeguards for ensuring that participants who still want to receive required disclosures in paper format can do so."
Brian Graff, CEO and executive director of ASPPA, noted that other government organizations have transitioned to electronic delivery of important documents. "For example, IRS makes tax forms available online now instead of mailing them. The DOL should join IRS and many other federal agencies embracing e-delivery for the benefit of investors and customers," Graff said in a statement. "Making e-delivery more available can also help to keep the costs of retirement plans down by cutting down on paper statements that have to be prepared and mailed," he added.
Despite the benefits to plan sponsors, the coalition believes that electronic disclosure is preferred by participants themselves.
"Research shows that participants of all ages and incomes increasingly prefer to access information online and we believe that doing so makes it easier for participants to act on the information," David Abbey, senior counsel for pension regulation at the Investment Company Institute, said in a statement.
The coalition is made up of the American Bankers Association, American Benefits Council, American Council of Life Insurers, American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA), Financial Executives International Committee on Benefits Finance, Financial Services Institute, Financial Services Roundtable, Insured Retirement Institute, Investment Company Institute, Plan Sponsor Council of America, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Small Business Council of America, The ERISA Industry Committee, The SPARK Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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One of the questions you'll probably ask yourself most often is, when should I cut?…And that is the constant question of the editor.…We're going to be using some old movies here to help us figure out when we should cut.…One of the times that we should not cut is when we want to show a period of…transition from one period of time or space to another.…For example, in this clip from "Night of the Living Dead" this guy is building…these barricades on the doors and windows to secure himself and his friends from zombies.…
And so he is just starting to put up the first board here, and that's not a good cinema.…We don't want to sit here and watch him put up boards around the windows and…doors, just constantly throughout the whole house.…And so there is a transition here, there is a fade, a cross dissolve, as we'll…talk about later in the transitions chapter.…Cross dissolve from when he starts to when he finishes.…Thankfully George A. Romero who directed this picture knew that it's not good…cinema to watch this guy go through a Home Depot project, so now we're just…
- Adding footage to the Timeline
- Creating dynamically linked content
- Making overlay and insert edits
- Moving edit points
- Playing a clip backwards
- Understanding pixel aspect ratio and frame rate
- Applying motion effects
- Cutting video to music
- Compositing with green screen and blend modes
- Correcting color
- Creating titles and lower thirds
- Exporting sequences
Skill Level Beginner
Q: When attempting to open the project exercise files into Premiere Pro CS5, an error message appears:
This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file codec could be associated with this sequence type.
What could be causing the error, and how can the files be opened?
A: There are a few possible explanations.
Lastly, if the projects are not importing into Premiere, try importing the video footage by itself, rather than the entire project file.
Q: How does one perform internal edits within a piece of video in Adobe Premiere? For example, if I have a single clip of video, comprised of multiple segments strung together, how would I go about removing gaps and/or cleaning up each segment and then assembling the clips in a desired order? Most tutorials emphasize laying down multiple clips on the Sceneline or Timeline, but not editing one clip of video.
A: To remove footage from a single video clip:
- Drag the Current Time Indicator (CTI) to the first frame of the segment to be deleted, click the Split Clip button in the Monitor panel, drag the CTI to the last frame of the segment to be deleted, and then click the Split Clip button again.
- Delete the segment by clicking on the clip and either choosing Edit > Delete And Close Gap, or pressing the Delete or Backspace key. That will remove the segment and the rest of the projectwill slide over to the left to fill the gap.
Q: I can't view the exercise files.
A: Most of the video clips in the training were encoded using H.264. If you are on a PC, you may need to download the latest version of the free
QuickTime player from quicktime.com. Be sure to install QuickTime with your Adobe applications closed. QuickTime installs a series of codecs on your
machine, and many Adobe apps require QuickTime components to function properly.
Q: Why are many of the video files H.264 if some users must download additional components to view them?
A: This is one of the most common video formats in the world right now, certainly for distribution. This is because it is currently the most optimal
way to provide high quality video at the low files sizes that we need to be able to distribute these assets online. Even though it may require an extra
download for some users, this is the best way to be able to get you the highest quality exercise files. There isn't another video standard that is
cross platform that is free and that works as well as H.264.
Q: What is the most effective way to import a JPEG into Premiere Pro (i.e. best quality resolution, best playback speed)? When I import a photo as a JPEG and add it to a sequence, only a very small part of my photo is shown, because of the high resolution of these photos. Should they be resized in Photoshop first? Will changing it using effects provide the quality I am looking for?
A: Images can be scaled down using the Scale Transform in the Effect Controls panel as explained in the training. You can also scale down the images in Photoshop to match the size of your sequence in Premiere. But I prefer to use the Scale Transform as it gives me more flexibility and allows me to "zoom in" (aka scale up) photos without loss in quality. You'll probably want to make sure that the proportions of the image match the sequence though.
Q: Does Premiere Pro offer Z-axis editing like After Effects?
A: Premiere Pro does not offer 3D as After Effects does, but you can use the Basic 3D effect in Premiere to simulate that environment.
Q: The exercise files don't work for me. I get an error message stating the sequence(s) could not be loaded and it returns me to the Welcome screen. I am using the trial version of Premiere Pro and the correct codecs do not seem to be included.
A: All the required codecs are included in the trial version of Premiere. You just need to activate the trial with your Adobe ID. If you don't sign into Adobe, anything with MPEG compression will be unavailable. Signing resolves that issue and restores all MPEG-based support.
Q: I'm receiving the
following error message from Premiere Pro. "This project contained a
sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec
could be associated with this sequence type." How do I resolve it?
Additionally, when I try
to create a project, I only have DV sequence presets available.
Q: When I tried to open the exercise files for this course, the following message popped up.
"This project was last used with Mercury Playback Engine GPU
Acceleration (CUDA), which is not available on this system. Mercury
Playback Engine Software only will be used?"
What do I have to do to solve the issue?
Q: After loading a project from the exercise files for this course, the media appears "offline" and cannot be used. How do I fix this?
A: This issue occurs because the project was not created in your copy of Premiere Pro, so your copy does not know where to look for the asset files. To fix this, please see the video "Relinking offline media."


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Chris VandeVelde
Moorhead Minnesota
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4th round (97th overall), 2005
204 lbs.
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2004-05: Chris VandeVelde was a late bloomer for Moorhead, playing just two seasons on the varsity team, but was a major contributor in leading the Spuds to the state AA championship game. The North Dakota recruit led the Spuds in scoring with 67 points, was a Mr. Hockey finalist, and was named to the AP All-State second team. Finished his senior year by playing for Lincoln in the USHL.
2005-06: VandeVelde represented the USHL and USA at the 2006 Viking Cup in Camrose, AB. Finished the 2006 USHL playoffs with a loss to Cedar Rapids in the semi finals. Appeared at EDM's 2006 prospect camp in June.
2006-07: In VandeVelde's first season with the University of North Dakota (WCHA), he potted three goals and nine points through 38 games. He took the Fighting Sioux's Most Improved Player award for his work this season.
2007-08: VandeVelde's second year with the Fighting Sioux (WCHA) resulted in 15 goals and 32 points (3rd on UND) through 43 games, career-high numbers for the center.
2008-09: A junior center at the University of North Dakota (WCHA), VandeVelde tallied a personal best 18 goals and 35 points through 43 games this season. His 69 penalty minutes were another career-high for the soon to be senior.
2009-10: VandeVelde was the leading scorer for North Dakota as a senior; scoring 16 goals with 25 assists in 42 games as the Fighting Sioux won the WCHA playoff title after finishing fourth in the league during the regular season. Vande Velde scored 7 of his 16 goals on the power play and was +4 with 22 PMs for the year. VandeVelde signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Edmonton in April 2010.
2010-11: VandeVelde made his NHL debut in March and appeared in 12 late-season games for the Oilers after skating for Edmonton's AHL affiliate Oklahoma City in his first pro season. VandeVelde had 2 assists and was -6 with 12 PMs while averaging just over 17 minutes of ice time during his stint with the Oilers. Vande Velde played 67 games for Oklahoma City and struggled for much of his first pro season, as indicated by his team-worst -17 plus/minus. After getting off to a slow start, however, he finished with 12 goals and 4 assists. VandeVelde skated in all six playoff games for the Barons and was +2 with 1 goal and 6 PMs.
2011-12: VandeVelde appeared in five late season games with Edmonton – scoring his first NHL goal against Columbus on March 12th – and was a valuable two-way forward for the Oilers AHL affiliate Oklahoma City in his second pro season. He averaged just under ten minutes of ice time in his five games with the Oilers and was plus-two with 2 penalty minutes. He scored 7 goals with 16 assists and was minus-four with 33 penalty minutes in 68 games for Oklahoma City. The Barons finished first in the West Division and reached the playoff semifinals. VandeVelde returned to the Barons for the AHL playoffs and scored a team-leading 6 goals and was plus-eight with 10 penalty minutes in 14 games. He was re-signed to a one-year contract by Edmonton in July 2012.
Talent Analysis
Vande Velde is strong skater who finds open ice, is very active in both ends of the rink, and is able to put the puck on net. Good at both ends of the ice, the offensive ability displayed in college hasn't followed him to the pros. A strong faceoff man, with solid defensive abilities, Vande Velde also brings a physical presence to the rink every night.
Hopes were high coming off a very good NCAA career, however Vande Velde has struggled to make an impact at the AHL level and has to be considered a long shot for an NHL career at this point. Vande Velde is a good AHL support forward who can win faceoffs, kill penalties, and play a physical game, but his skillset just isn't high enough to rise above the AHL level.


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TORONTO - A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against a Toronto hospital, alleging two employees sold the personal information of thousands of new mothers and their babies to an investment firm.
The statement of claim, filed this week in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, alleges the information from Rouge Valley Health System was then used to target the families for the sale of registered education savings plans.
The lawsuit is seeking damages of upwards of $300 million for the breaches that are alleged to have happened between 2009 and 2013.
The two employees — who the hospital has said no longer work there — are alleged to have been paid in exchange for the information of more than 8,300 patients, most of them new mothers who gave birth and their families.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
Rouge Valley did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday, but the hospital's CEO released a statement earlier this month saying it is treating the situation with "extreme gravity" and "greatly regrets that this breach occurred."
Rouge Valley launched an internal investigation after it discovered the breaches in September 2013 and sent letters to affected patients. It has since tightened its information security controls, Rik Ganderton wrote.
"This is a breach of patients' privacy, hospital policy and most importantly compromises the TRUST patients place in us as health-care providers," Ganderton wrote. "We have strengthened procedures for logging and monitoring access to patient contact information. We continue to say sorry to all of our patients who have been impacted by this breach."
One of the two lead plaintiffs in the proposed class action alleges she started getting aggressive sales calls the day her son was released from the hospital and the salesperson refused to identify herself. The phone number the salesperson was using was not one that could receive incoming calls, it's alleged.
The hospital has not divulged the identities of the now-former employees, the lawsuit alleges.
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As a kid, I can still remember getting that gold NES Legend of Zelda cartridge and popping in the game for the first time. It was the start of Link's journey—and the start of mine. I'm willing to bet, I wasn't alone.
Link is not only one of Nintendo's most iconic characters; he's also one of gaming's. Fans love him—they love dressing up as him, little green hat and all.
Here, on Who Wore It Best?, we try to suss out who pulled off the best Link. Think of this being like a dinner party at which two people showed up in the same outfit. Here, they showed up as the same character: Link.
So who wore Link the best? Have a look through the gallery, filled with Links and links to their websites.
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exporting a list of functions for use in a C function
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg44346] exporting a list of functions for use in a C function
- From: Nathan Moore <nmoore at physics.umn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:02:11 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I've composed a large list of functions in Mathematica that I'd like to have a c function evaluate. To my knowledge c and C++ reject the convention x^2 and prefer either x*x or pow(x,2). The functions are integer powers of a single variable. I'm using the command, Export["function_list.txt", Table[gflist[p], {p, 2, 5}], "CSV"] where "gflist[n]" generates the said set of functions for the case "n". The output file then looks like: [winesap:~] nmoore% cat function_list.txt 1/(8*d*l^3*Pi) 1/(8*l^3*Pi),-(-3 + d)/(16*d*l^3*Pi) (8 - 3*d)/(64*l^3*Pi),(-4 + d)^2/(64*d*l^3*Pi) -(-5 + d^2)/(64*l^3*Pi),(-5 + 30*d - 15*d^2 + 2*d^3)/(192*d*l^3*Pi),-(-5 + d)^3/(384*d*l^3*Pi) I don't mind pasting in the "case" statement required by c, but I don't have the free two days required to re-express all the carats (^). How can I have Mathematica express x^15 as x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x (the highest power of the polynomial is "n", I'd like to export the set of functions n=2 to n=30 or so - far too much typing for me) NT Moore University of Minnesota Physics


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Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a great weekend and a good start to your week. It's been busy around here...so much so that I have not been given proper computer time. *sighs*
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Liberal Christian Allegedly Sent Deadly Ricin to Obama, Judge, Senator
Liberal Christian Allegedly Sent Deadly Ricin to Obama, Judge, Senator
Paul Kevin Curtis, the Elvis Presley impersonator arrested by the FBI in connection with the lethal poison ricin sent in letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a judge, is also a self-professed liberal Christian.
"Never been a bench warming church going judgmental hypocrite (ouch...that left a stain on a few I've met in northeast, Ms). I pray daily, treat others how I wish to be treated, lead by example, am always willing to learn & better myself daily," Curtis, 45, notes about his faith on his Facebook page.
"I do my best to help others in need daily. I am sad for the ignorant of the world & pray double for them. A Christian to me...is one who is always willing to admit one's short comings to themself & to God...one who opens his or her own heart up to the "light" that is so seldom shown in this world today. One who strives to be a better, more caring and giving person each day & one who takes steps every day to make the world a better place for our children," he laments.
The Corinth, Miss., resident who has been charged with sending a threat to the president, according to CNN, also notes that he is an Independent voter. In a Facebook photo posted on April 15, however, he happily poses in front of a bumper sticker that reads, "Christian and a Democrat."
In a brief hearing before Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander reported on Friday, Curtis was remanded in custody until a grand jury issues an indictment and preliminary detention hearing on April 29.
The criminal complaint against Curtis charges him with "knowingly depositing for conveyance in the mail and for delivery from any post office any letter, paper, writing or document containing threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States." It also charges him with sending "communications addressed to other persons, and containing a threat to injure the person of others."
Christi McCoy, the Elvis impersonator's attorney, told CNN in an e-mail, however, that "Mr. Curtis vehemently denies the allegations against him."
An affidavit supporting of the criminal complaint against Curtis highlights the mailing of envelopes containing typewritten letters and "a suspicious granular substance" to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), President Obama and Justice Court judge in Lee County, Miss., Sadie Holland.
All three letters were reportedly typed on yellow paper and had the message below.
"No one wanted to listen to me before.
There are still 'Missing Pieces'
Maybe I have your attention now
Even if that means someone must die.
This must stop.
To see a wrong and not expose it,
is to become a silent partner to its continuance
I am KC and I approve this message"


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Michael Gandolfi has written works for the London Sinfonietta, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, Parnassus, Speculum Musicae, Sonor, Boston Musica Viva, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Orpheus, Los Angeles, and St. Paul chamber orchestras.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed Gandolfi's Points of Departure, written for Orpheus, and excerpts from his suite The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. He received the first Paul Jacobs Memorial Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center in 1987, and has also received commissions and grants from the Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Guggenheim foundations and the NEA, among others. Gandolfi has received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Charles E. Ives and Academy-Institute awards.
In 2008, a recording of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation was released on Telarc in a performance by its first interpreter, Robert Spano leading the Atlanta Symphony. The recording received a Grammy Award nomination. In 2009 Boston Modern Orchestra Project released a recording of Y2K Compliant, the outcome of several concerts in which Gandolfi's music has been performed.
B.M., M.M. with honors in composition, NEC. Studies with Oliver Knussen, William Thomas McKinley, and John Heiss. Former faculty of Harvard University. Director of Compositional Activities, Tanglewood Music Center.


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Hey all, okay 2 topics here first one is lightening, wondering if anyone has any suggestion on how to go about making lightening strike to light up a room. Im wondering if it is as simple as wiring the light into a train transformer and just flickering the light really bright when it strikes, then in post production I can add the bolt? Any suggestions?
second topic is a fireplace: how can I go about lighting a room with a fireplace and glow, is this something that also a transformer would be good for, so the light is not consistant? Has anyone used tissue paper or anything to replicate flames?
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I added a lightening strike into a test shot for the film 'Sinbad the Fifth Voyage' and I did it just as you described. On camera I varied the light from an additional light source for 3 or 4 frames so that there was light cast on the puppet. In post production I painted the lightening bolt in Photoshop.
I just uploaded this clip to Youtube for you to see. This clip is also in the preview for the film but, I figured it's easier for you to examine if it's just posted by itself. Here's the link...
As for fire lighting, I did that in my short for Harryhausen's 90th Birthday. I placed lights on either side of the set that were behind cardboard cut-out spirals. I turned the spirals frame by frame with the lights shining through the side of the spiral that was rising. That cast strips of light on the set that appeared to be rising. It's a very subtle effect but it really helped the lighting marry the flames coming out of the cauldron behind Medusa.
I've never done fire on set, I've animated fire a few times but, I've always added it in post production. In the Medusa scene, I used a looping clip of real fire. and in another film I animated it in Photoshop by painting in the flames and then stretching them around with the 'Liquify' tool.
Here's the Medusa short...
And here's the film (John Hankins 'The 3rd Necessity') in which I used painted and stretched flames...
Wow, that's a good one Ron, I've never heard of the cardboard spiral thing.
Another technique that's been used is to have something like a wheel in front of your light source - imagine a bicycle wheel with the axle mounted vertically, so the wheel itself is parallel to the floor and ceiling. Now attach pieces of colored plastic or tissue paper to the wheel hanging under it so the light has to shine through two layers of it before getting to the set. You can double and triple up layers etc in places, maybe use something more opaque here and there to block light more thoroughly, and you just slowly turn the wheel frame by frame.
I also remember reading somewhere that to really get a realistic flirelight effect you need to have at least 3 different light sources close to each other and be able to dim and brighten each independently, to the extent of being able to switch one or two off completely from time to time so the light seems to be moving around a bit.
I do the same with lightening - first some extra light on the set, then paint in the lightning bolt over 3 or 4 frames. I use TV Paint, but Photoshop does the same thing.
For a fire, I have a hole in the set floor, and a pinspot (30 watt, 6 volt halogen used in discos to hit the mirror ball with a tight bright beam) under it, pointing up at the fire. There are layers of cellophane or lighting gel crumpled up, with some black-dyed sawdust sprinkled on. I put different bits of lighting gel on the light under the set, to vary it frame to frame. Turning a wheel would have been much easier but would have to be rigged first. I actually have a motorized thing that used to be in a music box, that slows the rotation right down with a series of gears, and I thought I might use that to drive the wheel next time. It would be completely random where the wheel would be when I took the frame, which is what you want, and I could just leave it running to look after itself.
I like to paint a little bit of flame in post, with some bright yellow/orange/white spots on another layer, and a smearing tool in (TVP or PS) to draw it up into flame shapes. Just checked to see if it's called "liquify" in Photoshop CS ... no, it's the Smudge tool and looks like a pointing finger.
Nick, the 'Liquify' tool is different from the 'Smudge' tool, 'Smudge' tends to blend and smear the colors together much more than 'Liquify' does. 'Liquify' is more like being able to stretch and pull the image around as if it had been printed on gum or taffy.
Here's a sample I just made. ↓ As you can see that if you use Smudge, you'll just continue to mix and blur the image but Liquify pulls the image as if it were clay.
Liquify is a filter - you find it in the filters pane or list or whatever it's called.
Heh - kinda weird if you think about it - liquifying flames!
Yeah, I suppose when you Liquify an image of a flame it should make a "Pssssssss" sound. And yes you're correct, Liquify is a filter not a 'tool'.
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Yeah, I suppose when you Liquify an image of a flame it should make a "Pssssssss" sound.
Ha! Either that or just flare up massively.. lighter fluid is a liquid too ya know!
I just went through the whole drop-down filters list, and in each category, but I couldn't find Liquify. I'm using Photoshop Extended CS 5. If it's a filter, does it still work by doing a brushstroke like a tool, or do you have to select an area, type in numbers, and apply it?
The actual tool I use, Shift in TV Paint, is near enough the Smudge tool by a different name.
Naa, You just use it like any other brush tool, but it appears in a separate window so, you can't see it on top of other layers. You need to do your animation of that element separately... it's the only filter I know of that works that way in Photoshop.
Here's a screen shot of what that screen looks like when you use Liquify...
In Elements go to the Filters dropdown menu and then Distort - it's listed there. Not sure if CS5 is the same or not.
I looked in Distort, it's not there. Doesn't matter, I'm happy with what I use. I had Elements 6 for a while but removed it when I got the educational Adobe Suite.