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The Pimm's is chilling. The silver set has been dusted off. Now all Shannon Appell has to do is wait 31 days before she can host her own party of the year.
Appell, 47, has already planned a bash to celebrate the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton — and she's not even English. "I was talking about the wedding with friends, and it became a good excuse to have a party," says Appell, an American stylist who lives on the Upper East Side, about her garden fete.
"We will be serving Pimm's Cup [a British summer cocktail], and I've been searching for crumpets and some English high tea things. Hopefully William and Kate will make a go of it and bring back the fabulousness of the monarchy."
With exactly one month to go before the big day, royal wedding fever has gripped New York City on a scale not seen since Diana and Prince Charles got hitched three decades ago, with hundreds of locals organizing bashes to toast Will and Kate.
American novelist and screenwriter Heywood Gould, 68, is throwing a brunch party at his apartment in Battery Park on the morning of the wedding, which falls a day before the publication of his new book, "The Serial Killer's Daughter."
"I'll be asking my guests, '[Who] is the hottest royal in the history of the monarchy?' " he jokes. "I hope nobody says Anne Boleyn!" he quips about the beheaded queen.
New Yorkers are also traveling to London to get a piece of the action. An estimated 10 to 20 percent more US tourists are planning to visit Britain's capital during the last weekend of April compared with the same of April compared with the same time last year.
"We have seen an unprecedented level of interest around the wedding," says Karen Clarkson, North American VP for VisitBritain, the UK tourism board.
"The response we've had has far, far exceeded anything we anticipated. Diana was held very dear to Americans' hearts, and there's a natural kind of inquisitiveness in terms of what her son is getting up to. Also, Kate and William are doing things their way, which I think Americans respect."
For Brits based in NYC, the wedding provides more than a cause for cheer — it's a commercial lifeline. Nicky Perry, owner of Brit restaurant Tea & Sympathy in the West Village, says the event injected a spike in business after lean months following the closure of nearby St. Vincent's Hospital last year.
"I thought I was going to go out of business a few months ago," she says.
"The royal wedding has saved my ass."
Since the engagement announcement, Perry, 51, has sold a king's ransom worth of wedding merchandise — including tea mugs emblazoned with Middleton's face.
"There is no one that hasn't called me about everything from bath bags to condoms," Perry says. "I've been inundated with phone calls about china and tea towels." Satirist Stephen Colbert even showed up at her emporium two weeks ago dressed as a British huntsman with royal biographer Hugo Vickers in tow to record a segment for his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report."
Meanwhile, many English expats here are throwing breakfast parties and sleepovers to toast the royal couple. Mark Dorosz, who moved to NYC from London eight years ago, will host a brunch for English pals at his Upper East Side apartment.
"Since I'm now over here, going out of my way to toast William and Kate seems
the least I could do," says Dorosz, 31, who runs new media company SparcPoint.
Best-selling historian Andrew Roberts, who lives on the Upper West Side and will cover the wedding for NBC, says he's not surprised New Yorkers are swept up in the royal romance.
"It's going to be as big as the Super Bowl," says Roberts, 48. "It is reckoned that 50 million Americans are going to watch the wedding."
He adds, "I really do think that Americans have an emotional connection with the British royal family that they don't have with the Belgian … or the Danish royal family. It takes our royal family to do this to them."
Euan Rellie, a Manhattan-based English banker and socialite, says people can more easily relate to William and Kate than to previous royal unions.
"Expat 30- and 40-somethings can identify with them because they're our generation," says Rellie, 43.
"It's a grander version of our university friends getting married. So it's half celebrity culture and half the England we remember fondly."
The fact that William is marrying a "commoner" is a key reason for the mania surrounding the union, adds Roberts. "The English see this as the closing of the Diana chapter on the royal story and the opening of a brand-new chapter which is a very hopeful one," he says. "They have a positive sense that Catherine Middleton comes from the striving, entrepreneurial middle classes, and that is revolutionary with regard to royal weddings. So they're excited by both the individuals and personalities, but also by the newness of what this means to the royal family."
But not every Brit in the city is royal wedding-crazy. "I'm not interested in it at all," says writer Anthony Haden-Guest. "I don't know either of them. I'm not sure the monarchy will last."
Still, as royal wedding fever continues to surge in the Big Apple, Perry claims the hype is justified. "The future king and queen are actually getting married!" she says. "This is never going to happen again in our lifetime. Not unless the whole f – – king royal family gets wiped out."
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Poppy de Villeneuve, a Manhattan-based British filmmaker and socialite, describes the royal wedding as "like the English Oscars. It will be a lot of fun."
And as with the Academy Awards, plenty of New York parties are being planned for the big day, April 29, even though the ceremony starts at 6 a.m. our time. Here are some of the other events being planned across the city . . .
* Tea & Sympathy in the West Village is throwing a "rehearsal dinner" on the eve of the wedding and a weekend of "royal" food, including Coronation Chicken. Putting historical enmity between England and France to one side, the British eatery is also joining forces with French restaurant Lyon, its neighbor on Greenwich Avenue, to host a block party complete with a royal wedding cake created by dessert designer Margaret Braun.
* The highest concentration of VIPs will be at an invite-only breakfast thrown by the British embassy in New York, which looks after royalty when its members visit the city.
* The level of enthusiasm I have already seen in the city is incredible," Sir Alan Collins, Her Majesty's consul-general in New York, tells The Post. "Prince William and Miss Middleton hope that their wedding day will be an enjoyable day for as many people as possible, not only in the UK, but also around the world, including right here in New York."
* The St. George's Society, which organizes events for patriotic Brits, will host a "wedding bash" the evening of April 29 at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square. Live entertainment and an auction will be featured, along with footage of the royal wedding, presumably as a reminder for any intoxicated Brits who might have forgotten what happened that morning.
* Big Apple Brits, an expat UK networking group, is allying with the DUMBO Improvement District to hold a celebration April 29 from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. The wedding will be shown on a jumbo screen at the archway under the Manhattan Bridge. Outdoor access is free, but an all-day pass inside the DUMBO Lofts costs $50. Organizers are billing the event as "The Biggest Party of the Century, So Far!"


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Distinguished Women in Chemistry / Chemical EngineeringActivity by Janet Bryant | added on May 14, 2011 | United States
Sponsor(s): American Chemical Society Challenge Grant
The symposium is planned for August 2, 2011 at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Puerto Rico, and will also inlcude the award presentation to the 23 Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, and a public event, a re-enactment play of Marie Curie by professional actress, Susan Frontczak.
"Distinguished Women in Chemistry / Chemical Engineering" project, supported by an ACS Challenge Grant, will:
1) host a day-long symposium at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress featuring internationally-prominent chemists speaking to the topic, "Are women still underrepresented in science?";
2) recognize the recipients of the honor, "Distinguished Women in Chemistry / Chemical Engineering", an award to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists/chemical engineers worldwide;
3) publish web-based interviews with these Distinguished Chemists/Chemical Engineers to share their research and roles as chemists/chemical engineers in their respective countries;
4) host a public event at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress - a play re-enactment of Marie Curie by professional actress, Susan M. Frontczak. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8921sci2.html
Prof. Ingrid Montes, Principal Investigator; Janet Bryant, Co-organizer; Judith Cohen, Core Project Team Member
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The August 2, 2011 Symposium, to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress will be an exciting and thought-provoking event. See the attached pdf file for the distinguished speakers and the abstracts of their talks.
This is very interesting and nice too. Being in India i miss the synposium. Hoever i am reading the material by everyone.
i have written an article on Women in Science... However it is in my native language - Telugu and in my blog - January 2011.
however, i have cited several references in English and their links too.
i wish someone will read them. i am translating the article. i shall put it soon
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Only in the modern day would McLovin get laid and not a beating. In years past, playing Dungeons & Dragons was as bad as smoking crack on the after-school special scale of things; today, we're in the middle of a board game renaissance. In the '80s, we had the panty- and tech-obsessed flies-on-the-wall in Sixteen Candles who couldn't imagine talking to a girl; the '90s gave us Office Space's Milton Waddams and his stutterous Swingline obsession. On TV, geeks were the butt of the joke—Minkus and Urkel set the standard. Now we've got Big Bang Theory topping the charts (bad as it is) and Community's Abed getting the girl. But it's all in jeopardy. There's a sweaty, lonely, sexist underbelly at the grassroots of geekery—the nerds of the nerds—that's threatening the cool we've spent decades cultivating. And thanks to digital interconnectivity, the trolls at the geek fringe are more of a danger to society than they get credit for.
This digital interconnectivity, lauded for its ability to let us group around big issues and cultural petit-fours alike, also gives us anorexia encouragement, cannibalism, Buzzfeed, and guys who get off by climbing naked onto man-sized balloons (seriously, that's a thing). Web communities become echo chambers where prejudices amplify. It's like getting all your news from Fox or StormFront—stay long enough and you start believing that white people are just better. Tim Burke, a professor of History at Swarthmore University who studies virtual worlds, says that the Internet gives movements the "ability to snowball with tremendous speed. The emotional feedback is intense."
Travel to any nerd-dominated forum—SomethingAwful or Life, the Universe, and Everything on GameFaqs—and witness this snowball in action over the "plight" of the nice guy. They listen to their female friends' problems, going out of their way to be compassionate and are rewarded with friendship instead of sex. Then they get on the Internet and rail against their love interests. Says one Redditor, "Like many of you, I'm just another fucking nice guy. People walk all over me, girls only acknowledge me for favors, and I never ask for anything in return. … I can't be that asshole that girls like." "Why," asks one 'nice guy' user, "do girls arbitrarily decide what guy to fuck? Instead of going 'This guy is funny, smart, and a great person. I think I'll fuck him,' they usually decide to fuck some random douchebag with no redeeming qualities instead." "Smaller brains," replies one user. "Women are so stupid," adds another. A third contends that "what it boils down to is the girl is very immature and insecure, among other things … that's why the feminist movement exists."
Some fraction of these dudes will "man up" and click over to a Pick-Up-Artist site where they can learn tricks that will totally trick girls into sleeping with them. You might remember how ridiculous the show on VH1 was, but PUA has an army of adherents. On Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com, one user says he was "hanging out with a HB7 [Hot Babe, 7 out of 10]" and as she's talking, he begins "wiping [his] face near [his] mouth and looking at her in bewilderment." When she asks what's up, he implies that she's been spitting on him. Why? "Women can't help but feel embarrassed if they were spitting on you while talking, so technically we are performing a DLV [display low value] on her to make her feel like shit …[it] works wonders." That's objectification at its geekiest—as long as you've studied, inputs will equal putting out. It's an attitude that, in these male-dominated corners of the Internet, develops into full-blown misogyny.
Commenters on practically any message board are liable to respond to women with "tits or get the fuck out," denigrate gays, and video game competitors joke about raping their female opponents during fighting game tournaments and then contend that sort of language is just part of the scene. According to Burke, the justifications are standardized—"they say 'it's not really sexist, it's just the way we talk,' and that 'gay doesn't really refer to homosexuals or imply homophobia.'" Some of that may be true, he says, but the misogyny is undeniable. "You can see it in the intensity of reaction to female voices. That's real." When an impressionable loner-geek mixes PUA's disordered approach to women with the feminist hate and lady-bashing, we lose him and get a Men's Rights Activist. It's such a problem that lady nerds launched whole projects just to shed some light on it. Anita Sarkeesian Kickstarted a web-series on misogyny in videogames, and the reaction was so rabidly, vehemently antagonistic that she was able to give a TedxWomen talk about online harrassment, cyber-mobs, and rape culture group-think just based on the experience. Traditional feminists, for their part, haven't started a counter to the Men's Rights Movement, because that's what they've been fighting all along.
Geeks may go the other way and join a community of alienation, like ALonelyLife, where a meme about being forever alone meets reality. RealDoll enthusiasts have built up a fraternity wherein it's acceptable to marry silicone simulacra. Bronies are grown men who love and bond over the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in large part because of how friendly and accepting the pony characters are, how welcoming their world is. Brony communities invented 'bronyspeak' and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that 'nopony' has to suffer social rejection. Anime 'waifu' adherents have rejected the "impurity" of 3D love for the 2D variety. None of these folks are necessarily hurting anyone, but they're messing with nerdom's social fabric, pushing it farther away from society at large and making it more repugnant all around.
The corruption of whole swathes of male geekdom is distressing for every nerd with a job and a life who doesn't need comic book or video game characters to rock a double-D endowment, who's uncomfortable with widespread mistreatment of women on the web, who knows that right now, the biggest entertainment industry by far is games, and that the coolest job anyone can have is at Google. We had gotten to the point where we could be openly geeky without being stereotyped as neckbearded, sweaty basement-dwellers, but those anime-pillow-loving guys are holding us back.
As the Internet ages, Burke says, we'll get "people choosing to associate in smaller communities with smaller and more particular cultural or social interests." The upshot of folks becoming basement-trolls is the loss of their social capital—when contingents of geeks break off from greater nerdery and cloister themselves into increasingly antisocial, niche cliques, they lose the tools to live in society at large, to communicate collectively, and to affect social and political institutions. Burke says that the loss of social capital across a society is the "classic fear among social thinkers," but it also presents a problem when it's just chunks of a social demographic. Nerds writ large lose some of their power when factions act poorly (the power that lets us stop bills like CISPA) but that could be the least of their troubles.
What if some of the worst trends of nerdom run amok? Look at Japan—from the groping that's so endemic in its public spaces that authorities have given up enforcement (they've created male/female subways) to vending machines that dispense soiled women's underwear, something's gone terribly wrong. They have a pandemic of hikikomori, guys who feel so divorced from the social scene that they leave it altogether for the solitude of their rooms and computers, all born of the same alienation that our nerds engage in. Japanese men are having sex and kids in smaller numbers than they ever have—one in four Japanese men in their 30s are virgins, and have given up on real relationships for videogame women or pillow wives—so much so that it's a national crisis. Men in the United States have taken a different route, frustrated opprobrium rather than apathy, but the land of the rising sun is proof positive that, whether or not you care if geek is cool, trends like ours can go South like a carpetbagger.


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ANDERSON, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology opened its Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference men's basketball season with a 66-50 victory at Anderson University on Wednesday night.
Senior Julian Strickland (Indianapolis/Pike) scored a game-high 22 points on 13-15 from the free throw line with nine rebounds to lead the Fightin' Engineer effort. Junior Corey Povaleri (Deputy, Ind./Madison) came off the bench with a career-high 10 points to balance the attack.
Sophomore Jimmy Miller (Indianapolis/North Central) pitched in with nine points. Seniors Alec Houpt (Chesterton) and Jordy Martin (New Albany) also contributed eight points each.
Scott Schwieterman led the Anderson offense with 15 points and seven rebounds. Max Mollaun added 12 points for the Ravens.
Rose-Hulman shot 49% from the field for the game, hit six three-pointers and finished 20-27 on the free throw line in the victory.
The Engineers relied on a 7-2 run to take a 12-6 edge on a basket from Miller with 12:52 left in the opening half. Strickland pushed the lead to eight points at 18-10 on a three-pointer at the 9:18 mark.
Rose-Hulman's edge reached double figures at 22-11 on a score by Houpt with 5:09 remaining in the first half. After Anderson closed to within five, Povaleri capped a 10-0 run with a three-pointer with 1:30 left, helping the Engineers build a 33-18 halftime lead.
Anderson trimmed the margin to 11 points at 33-20 on a score by Brett Anderson with 19:15 remaining. The Ravens continued to battle, closing within 40-33 with 12:15 left.
Another 7-0 run pushed Rose-Hulman's lead back to 48-34 on a layup from Strickland with 9:08 left. Anderson closed within 12 points on one occasion, but the Fightin' Engineers withstood the rally to win the conference opener.
Rose-Hulman improved to 3-2 overall and 1-0 in HCAC play, while Anderson dropped to 0-7 and 0-1 in league play. The Fightin' Engineers travel to HCAC foe Transylvania University on Saturday.


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"Line in Guimard, just as in the Japanese guides, is a living incarnation of natural laws. Thus, in an old Japanese manual, there is a catalogue of eighteen different types of line, with such descriptions as 'floating silk threads' ropes' water lines' or 'bent metal wire.' This latter was particularly subtly used by Guimard, who had an inborn sense of the inner tension of line." - Dore Ashton in Le Monde, 22 May 1970:
French architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942) realized the decorative possibilities of glazed lava, a substance made from mixing pulverized lava with clay when he built a villa for Louis Coillot, (1898-1900) a ceramics manufacturer in Lille who monopolised the distribution of the material. Guimard sided the entire facade of Maison Coilliot in lava stone.
Guimard also used glazed lava to great effect in the nameplate for Castel Henriette (built 1899 - demolished 1969), as well as for his famous signs for the Paris Metro. He designed the graphics for his signs, and here we can see him introduce geometric elements that tend toward asbtraction. The outline of the letters and their rhythm give added emphasis and harmonize the pinks and yellows he used.
In a twist of fate, a largely forgotten Guimard died in New York City in 1942, after fleeing Paris to ensure the safety of his Jewish wife.
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- In 1915, the United States undertook a military occupation of Haiti to preempt any European intervention, to establish order out of civil strife, and to stabilize Haitian finances. During the nineteen-year occupation, U.S. military and civilian officials, numbering less than 2500 for the most part, supervised the collection of taxes and the disbursement of revenues, maintained public order, and initiated a program of public works. The Haitian government remained in place, but was subject to U.S. guidance. The Haitian people benefitted from the end of endemic political violence and from the construction of roads, bridges, and ports as well as from improved access to health care. The U.S. occupation was, nonetheless, deeply resented throughout Haitian society, and many of its accomplishments did not long endure its termination in 1934.
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- Background to the Overthrow of President Aristide
- This report provides background information on the violent and authoritarian traditions that have characterized Haiti's political dynamics since Haiti attained independence in 1804. It examines Haiti's difficult path toward democracy after the fall of the Duvalier regime, from numerous short-lived governments until the election of Aristide. Finally, the report also surveys Aristide's rule and his subsequent overthrow by the Haitian military.
- Haiti: Efforts to Restore President Aristide, 1991-1994
- This report tracks the efforts to restore to office President Aristide of Haiti between the years 1991-1994. During this period, the main U.S. foreign policy concern was the restoration of the democratic process to Haiti. Closely related to this was the issue of Haitians attempting to flee to the United States by boat. Congressional concerns focused on human rights, Haitian migration, socioeconomic conditions, and drug trafficking.


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Can you believe it's freakin' spring already? Holy cow, it seems like it was only a few weeks ago that I was calling attention to the winter solstice and here we are at the vernal equinox. My, how time flies.
Despite the relentless passing of time, sexual concerns are perennial.
Name: pete
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Location: florida
I have been notice that some of the skin on my dick is starting to wear away from me masturbating…there is no blood or anything like that. Just the skin turning light in color around head of my dick. I think its my grip. Is there a way the color will come back or have i rubbed the skin cells to death. I masturbate about 3-4 times a week. Im not in a relationship and prefer that over random sex.
Your dick skin is wearing away??? Really? How are you handling your unit, darlin', with sandpaper?
You say you think it's your grip. Ya think? Hey Pete, are you using lube when you stroke? Or are you just yanking away down there with wild abandon? If you're not using a good jack off cream like, Elbow Grease, Original 15 oz (G003) then ya better start! This stuff is not for use with condoms, but you don't have to worry about that if all you're doing is pullin' your pud.
As to the rather sudden coloration change on your dick, I'd be willing to guess that it has nothing to do with jerkin' off, even if you're doin it like a maniac. More likely it's a genetic condition known as vitiligo. And the coloration change is actually a loss of pigment. This is not a health concern, really! Nor is it contagious. So you don't have to worry about it in that regard. If it is indeed vitiligo, there's nothing you can do about it. It's irreversible, but it can and does spread.
Here's a relatively easy way to self-diagnose this pesky, but benign condition. While naked as a jay-bird, squat over a mirror. If you have vitiligo, you will also see the same kind of color changes (loss of pigment) around your asshole. You may also notice it on your elbows and knees. If you are fair-skinned, the loss of pigment will be less noticeable then if you have a darker complexion.
If it's not vitiligo, you might consider a visit with your physician. But I pretty much can guarantee you that unless you are absolutely ruthless in your masturbation technique, manhandling yourself as you do, is not the cause of the color change on your joystick.
Name: heater
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Location: USA
I have been Married for 10 years I have told my Husband 6 years ago i not physical attracted to him anymore I stopped wanting Sex from him he just turned me off no matter what he did he cleaned cooked run me a bath eat me and so on but nothing works I start to get wet and as soon as he gets started i try up like a prune what should i do i have not had good sex in a long time
Well, if you're not attracted to him anymore, you're not attracted to him anymore…plain and simple. But what I don't get is, how come after six years you're old man still hangs in there? Is he some kind of glutton for punishment?
If I was your long-suffering hubby and I was doin all this stuff, including cooking, cleaning and eatin' out your pussy, I'd sure as hell demand an explanation for your attitude change. Of course, maybe he likes being the doormat. Some men really get off on being dominated and treated like shit. Is that why you are no longer into him?
Or is there something else he's done that has put you off? Did he gain weight? Does he not attend to his personal hygiene? Did he become a Republican? Ya know, things like that. If it is something he's done or failed to do and he can change his behavior to better suit you, maybe you oughta clue him in on this.
If however, it's not something he's done or failed to do, but it's you. Then he needs to know that too. You did say that you dry up like a prune. Perhaps it's your libido that's gone south, not his relative attractiveness? Sometimes women get these two things confused.
Do you have sexual fantasies? Do you masturbate? Are horny for anyone else — either real or imagined? How's your health? Are you on birth control? Are you depressed? Sleep deprived? Are you putting on the pounds? Could you be experiencing early-onset menopause? As you can see, there are innumerable reasons for a decrease in libido.
At any rate, Heater, you really need to get to the bottom of this, and soon, six years is a mighty long time to live like this. I'd look for a sex-positive therapist to connect with, if I were you. Clearly, you've been unable, in six years, to discern the cause of your attitude change on your own. It's irresponsible to continue to drift with the status quo.
Name: Scott
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Location: Kansas
I am a 20 year old virgin who has never even had phone- or cybersex. The reason for this is that when I am complimented in a sexual or sensual manner — for example "your voice is sexy" or "your intelligence is a major turn on" or even something as simple as "you're cute (or adorable or whatever)" — I am aroused but I also have a very negative reaction. I have a cold, sinking feeling in my stomach, become slightly dizzy and even occasionally nauseous. I've been having these reactions since 7th grade which was the first time I was propositioned. When I find the woman of my dreams I want to be able to satisfy her every want and need, but I won't be able to if I continue to have these reactions. Can you help me get rid of this or at least give me an idea of where it comes from or what is causing it?
Sounds to me, pup, like you got yourself a bad case of sexphobia; an irrational fear of sex. This is classic: "I am aroused but I also have a very negative reaction. I have a cold, sinking feeling in my stomach, become slightly dizzy and even occasionally nauseous." You should also know that this isn't a particularly uncommon problem.
There's probably a good reason why you're experiencing this phobia. If you and I were working together I'd want to take a look at the incident that you report happened to you in the 7th grade. You said you were propositioned. What does that mean? You were 12 and someone came on to you? A peer? Someone older? Was it someone inappropriate; a family member, a clergy person, a teacher? Why such a negative response?
That being said, getting over a phobia, of whatever kind — fear of flying, snakes, spiders, public speaking, or sex — can be accomplished without dredging up the past. Try this:
- Identify the specifics of your fear as they play themselves out in your life now. What precisely frightens you about sex and/or intimacy?
- Create a plan to take the edge off your fear in small steps. For example, start out with holding hands, move to embracing, then kissing. What behaviors push the panic button for you?
- Address each and every thing that hampers your progress. For example, why does kissing push your buttons and holding hands and/or cuddling doesn't?
- Be firm in your resolve to push past your discomfort and stretch your limits. Sinking to the lowest common denominator will not do.
- Address the emotional response you have to each aspect of your phobia before moving on to the next one. Build on your successes.
This is kinda hard to do on one's one, but it's not impossible. There are loads of books and programs on the market that help an individual move through a phobia. You might want to look online, look for something like: overcoming a phobia.
Some people have success with visualization techniques, for others hypnotherapy works. Basically, it's simply a matter of desensitization — defusing the feared thing, and doing it incrementally.
Name: afeisha
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Location: pennsylvania
i usually have orgasms when i masturbate, but why when im having sex its so hard to arrive at an orgasm? even when the sex is great.
Women suffer from performance anxiety too, ya know.
While performance anxiety is mostly talked about in terms of men and their erection problems, the guys don't have a monopoly on the annoying issue.
I'd be willing to guess, my dear, that you've got some performance anxiety goin on yourself, possibly even big time. Sad to say, this difficulty often plagues younger women the most. Young women tend to have less self-esteem. And if they are new to sex, they may not know what they are doing, which can be disturbing and distracting. On the other hand, if a young woman is not a sexual novice and she appears too knowledgeable about sex, she runs the risk of being labeled a slut. So basically, young women can't win for losing. Regrettable, but there ya have it.
So let's see if we can get to the bottom of this, as it were. Let me ask you a few questions. First and foremost, where is your mind when you are having sex with a partner? Is it on the pleasure you are giving and receiving? Or is it, like so many people, on something other than that?
- If your mind is busy with how you look, or how you smell, or if you are wondering if that birthmark is too obvious. Or if you're worried about how accomplished you are at performing a particular sex act, or if you're concerned about your partner feelings for you. Then you may have performance anxiety.
- If you anxious about what your partner is thinking of you, of if he/she is turned on by you, or loves you, or is just bangin' away at you like a slab of beef. Then you may have performance anxiety.
- If you're afraid to let go and have a screamin' meme of an orgasm, because it might not look lady-like, or you're not sure you can trust the person who's bumpin' you enough to just relax and enjoy the ride. Then you may have performance anxiety.
However, performance anxiety is only one explanation for the problem you experience in partnered sex. Many women report that their partnered sex is not as satisfying as their solo sex, because they're not able to stimulate themselves in the same fashion in partnered sex as you do when they're jillin' off on their own. If you are self-conscious about showing your partner the particulars of gettin yourself off, or too intimidated to incorporate a vibrator in your love making, you might not be getting what you need when you need it. Thus you might be aroused, but not to the point of lettin' one loose…if ya catch my drift.
Finally, one of the easiest solutions to this problem is to simply have a frank discussion with your partner(s) about what gets you off before the fuck-fest begins. That will clear the air of unnecessary anticipation and you both will be able to relax more into the event itself, rather than being distracted by the externals.
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The Advanced Forensics Format (AFF) is an extensible open format for the storage of disk images and related forensic metadata. It was originally developed by Simson Garfinkel and Basis Technology. The last version of AFF is implemented in the AFFLIBv3 library, which can be found on github. AFF4 builds upon many of the concepts developed in AFF. AFF4 was developed by Michael Cohen, Simson Garfinkel and Bradley Schatz. That version can be downloaded from Google Code.
Sleuthkit, Autopsy , OSFMount, Xmount, FTK Imager and FTK support the AFFv3 image format.
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AFF is an open and extensible file format to store disk images and associated metadata. Using AFF, the user is not locked into a proprietary format that may limit how he or she may analyze it. An open standard enables investigators to quickly and efficiently use their preferred tools to solve crimes, gather intelligence, and resolve security incidents.
Use of proprietary file formats means converting from one format to another to use multiple tools. Converting between formats risks data corruption if the formats are not well understood. Metadata may be lost if all formats do not support the same forms of metadata.
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Use AFF to store any type of metadata such as GPS coordinates, chain of custody information, or any other user-defined data.
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Patient Success Story: BMT Patient Turns Senior Research Specialist
Everything happened so quickly—the trip to the emergency room, the diagnosis of immunoblastic large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, surgery to partially remove the very large tumor in his chest cavity, multiple courses of chemotherapy. When doctors at Roswell Park recommended a blood or marrow transplant (BMT) as the next step, "I really didn't have time to think about it," says Andrew Bouquard. He was just 19 years old at the time, unaware that the transplant would change his life in more ways than he could imagine.
As part of his medical plan, Andrew chose to enroll in a clinical research study (clinical trial) of a new and promising pre-transplant treatment that was being evaluated in patients for the first time. First he received a combination of high-dose chemotherapy and full-body radiation therapy, followed by infusions of both marrow and stem cells.
Although the transplant process was difficult, support from the BMT team "got me through," recalls Andrew. "They become part of your family." Today, 18 years later, he remains healthy and is monitored every year in Roswell Park's BMT Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic.
His transplant transformed him in other ways, too. At the time of his diagnosis, he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life. But during and after treatment, his BMT doctors at Roswell Park "encouraged me to go back to school," he says. Inspired by "how I was touched here," he enrolled at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology.
Today Andrew serves as Senior Research Subject Protection Specialist at Roswell Park, helping ensure the safety of patients who are enrolled in clinical studies. He encourages patients who are eligible for a clinical study to "give it serious consideration. The reason I'm here today is because somebody before me went through a clinical trial. And I believe that everything I went through has made things a lot better for other patients over the past 18 years." He's helping to "make things better" in other ways, too, especially in his work with various committees that focus on helping patients and families cope with and understand their cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Andrew says his life has "changed 100% from when I was diagnosed with cancer." Now married, with a six-year-old son, he's outspoken in his belief that "survivorship starts at diagnosis. Too many people focus on survivorship as post-treatment, but you're surviving before, during, and after treatment. It's all survivorship." Thinking of yourself as a survivor from the very beginning, he adds, can "give you hope and inspiration."


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Palestinian-American talks about Mideast beating
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old Palestinian-American from Florida who was taken into custody by Israeli security forces during a family visit to the Middle East says he was beaten and kicked so much he lost consciousness after the slaying of a cousin living there.
Tampa teenager Tariq Abu Khdeir flew home last week after his ordeal, which included nine days of house arrest by Israeli authorities. He told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday from his home in Tampa that the trip to see relatives had begun with a lot of "fun" in June.
"They took my cousin, my best friend ... they took him and they killed him," Tariq said during the interview, seated on a couch beside his mother.
Three days after the teen was detained, Israeli authorities released the teen and sentenced him to the nine days of house arrest while they investigated what they said was his participation in violent protests over the death of his cousin — 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian living near Jerusalem.
On Sunday, the Florida teen denied any part in rock-throwing protests, saying of the Israeli authorities, "I didn't do anything to them to do this to me."
He said he was only watching and listening to the commotion as a crowd had formed after the disappearance of his cousin when suddenly Israeli forces began shooting rubber bullets and tear gas. He said he saw people running and screaming for help. Right behind them were three soldiers, he added. Everyone scattered and ran. Tariq said he tried to jump a gate but fell, adding he felt the sting of a rubber bullet on his heel.
"I was running because I didn't know why they (Israeli authorities) were running after me," he said.
Tariq said he was seized and slammed down, head first. He added that his hands were tied with a plastic tie behind his back and he was kicked in the face, stomach and ribs and also went unconscious for a time. Tariq said he was then taken to a jail, where he was blindfolded.
After his release, Tariq said, he watched a video that someone had taken of his beating. He said he felt the hits all over again watching the video, which family credit with helping save his life.
"I couldn't believe it. All the stuff I went through," Tariq said of the video, adding it only captured the last few minutes of a 15-minute beating. "I was getting hit so much, I couldn't even say words. They beat on me like ... there was no problem."
At the time, the family was on what was planned as a six-week summer visit.
Tariq said in the interview that he and Mohammed had become close friends after his arrival. They visited sacred sites including the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. They had fun, joked and played games. He said they also helped others in their neighborhood — setting up lights in neighbor's homes before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"He took me to as many places as he could," Tariq said.
Mohammed was killed the fifth week of that visit, Tariq said, adding that the tenor of the trip immediately changed when his cousin was found dead.
"There was no next day," Tariq said, recalling how he had come back from a quick trip to a bakery to learn the cousin had gone missing.
On Sunday, the teen showed no visible injuries. Yet his mother, Suha Khdeir, said Tariq has visited the hospital since and noted he needed stitches earlier from the beating and was bruised.
Tariq, who returns to school in coming weeks, said he hopes he'll eventually be able to visit the region again — but without incident.
"If I want to see my family members I hope I can," he said, adding "I don't want to have any problems with anybody."
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PRESS RELEASE - Gold Diggers Teaser - Gamistry
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AMSTERDAM – Feb. 08 2013 – Gamistry announces upcoming game Gold Diggers and releases its first Teaser Trailer.
This endless runner will be set in the goldrush setting. Gamistry is aiming to release Gold Diggers for a spring 2013 release and will be available on IOS and Android.
Gold Diggers will put the player in Alaska, where a bunch of money grubbing cowboys will use their awesome, stylistic, inventive mole-like digging machines to sift through all layers of the earth in search of some gold. The game will play like an endless runner but will feature special events like crazy lava streams you have to dodge, Indiana Jones style minecart tracks and dark creatures roaming the depths of the earth.
Instead of running you'll be digging your way to the highscores. Sort of like a combo between Jetpack Joyride and Mega Worm!
Features in a nutshell:
- Endless digging with exciting encounters
- Crazy digging machines with changeable drills.
- Different Gold Diggers with unique skills.
- Fully animated characters.
- An intuitive and polished steering mechanic! (no tilt)
- Multiple objectives
- Achievements and Leaderboards with Gamecenter.
We are revealing the first teaser trailer of Gold Diggers and will soon begin Beta-testing the game.
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Other games from Gamistry are Munch Time, which was featured as game of the week on the US iOS store and Scrap Tank, which was released, Christmas 2012.
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Funeral services for retired teacher and artist Joseph Gatto, found shot to death in his Silver Lake home last week, are scheduled for Monday in Los Feliz.
The public mass for Gatto, father of state Assemblyman Mike Gatto, will take place at Our Mother of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 10 a.m., with a private reception and graveside burial for family and close friends to follow, his son's office has announced.
The services are being planned as police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
Gatto was found by his daughter slumped over a stool in his home Wednesday night around 8:15 p.m. Coroner's investigators confirmed Friday that he died of a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. It's not clear exactly when he was killed.
Police are looking into the killing, but few details have been made available, and no suspect has been named. Early reports speculated Gatto may have been the victim of a home invasion or may have interrupted a robbery.
Detectives have not disclosed what, if anything, was taken from the home. They are also looking into a possible connection to a reported attempted car break-in nearby.
In that incident, a man allegedly pointed a gun at neighbors who attempted to deter him from breaking into cars on a street in the hills above Gatto's home. In a note widely circulated among neighbors both via email and social media describing the incident, a woman reported that the man aimed a gun and then asked, "Do you want to die tonight?" before fleeing down a staircase leading closer to Gatto's house.
Gatto retired in 2002 after more than 45 years as an educator. He was the founder and department chairman of the visual arts department at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and taught courses at Pierce College, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Los Angeles, Otis College of Art and Design and the Art Center during his long tenure. After retirement, he focused on his artwork and a jewelry design business.
In lieu of flowers, the Gatto family has asked for donations be made to one of his three favorite charities: Historic Italian Hall Foundation, Los Angeles Community Garden Council or, through the Tuition Magician, the Joe Gatto Arts Scholarship.


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Silhouette of Grace
Jane M 9/30/2006 10:07:58 AMWanted to be the first to post. THIS IS MY FAVORITE. A winner in my humble opinion! #531872
Sandy Landon 9/30/2006 11:41:12 AMThey are all incredibly jaw dropping beautiful!!!!!! #3390741
Megan p 9/30/2006 1:06:35 PMReally spectacular!!! your composition,the conversion, the lighting.... #3390967
Lavone Vannoy 9/30/2006 9:44:58 PMI could NOT put in to words JUST how stunning this is Tiff! SERIOUSLY *WOW*!!!
I would like to place an order for a 16x20 of this for my wall! :) I just can't stop looking a it girl!!! :) #3392303
Sherry S. Boles 9/30/2006 11:16:16 PMGorgeous, Tiffani! Wonderful tones, pose...Just all-around WONDERFUL!! #3392444
LENA U. FRIEDMAN 9/30/2006 11:59:06 PMA beautiful maternity session ever!!!! Absolutely amazing! I am jealous, I was never hat graceful when I was pregnant!!! More like falling down instead of flowing and graceful..LOL... A wonderful job, my friend. #3392496
Tiffani S. LaNeave 10/1/2006 11:41:27 AMThank you all so very much for you comments!!!!
Lena...you made me laugh!!;-) #3394523
William88 10/26/2006 1:33:47 PMCongratulations on your finalist! #3501486
Lavone Vannoy 10/26/2006 1:34:03 PMCONGRATULATIONS girlfriend!!!!! #3501489
Elizabeth Beaudoin 10/26/2006 1:35:08 PMSeriously, how did I miss this....hello...absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations!!!! #3501496
Kimberly J. Whipps 10/26/2006 1:56:08 PMYeah Tiffani! This should go all the way. #3501631
Laura E. OConnor 10/26/2006 2:11:40 PMYAAAAY! Way to go Tiff!!! Can't wait to see it again!!! :) #3501773
Sandy Landon 10/26/2006 2:19:54 PMCONGRATS GIRLIE!!!!!! #3501871
Megan p 10/26/2006 2:25:00 PMI am so happy to see at least one of these recognized, they are all soooo stunning!! Congratulations!! #3501944
Hayley J. Hamlin 10/26/2006 2:55:58 PMTiff I am so glad to see this here...they could certainly all be here as far as that goes!! This is such a great series!! Awesome Finalist!! Congrats!! #3502332
Kay E. Mahoney 10/26/2006 3:25:30 PMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist. Good luck in the next round. #3502664
Chastity Abbott 10/26/2006 4:46:29 PMGirlfriend......I agree totally...all of these images winners to me!!!! Stunning and even more with the stamp!!! You are a talented person and your work is just beautiful!!!!! Congrats on this awesome capture!!!! #3503386
Datha Y. Thompson 10/26/2006 5:40:31 PMCONGRATULATIONS!!! This is soooo Beautiful :0) #3503783
Sherry S. Boles 10/26/2006 5:59:51 PMCongrats on this wonderful finalist, Tiffani! #3503934
LENA U. FRIEDMAN 10/26/2006 6:48:23 PMI am extremely excited to see this one as a finalists! You created a beautiful series! This one is my FAV and I hope to see this one go all the way!
Laura S. Brophy 10/26/2006 7:27:52 PMA beautiful finalist. Congratulations! #3504835
Sandra Freyler 10/27/2006 4:24:31 AMCongratulations Tiffani! :) YOu go girlfriend.......... #3507203
Lynn Crawford 10/27/2006 9:31:50 AMCongrats Tiffani on being a Finalist with this beautiful image :) #3509199
Candy Avera 10/27/2006 9:37:46 AMCongratulations on this beautiful finalist! #3509261
Sue L. Cullumber 10/27/2006 11:38:08 AMTiffani, Wow! Congrats - well done! Love the title! #3509854
Tiffani S. LaNeave 10/27/2006 3:57:46 PMThanks sooooooooo much everyone!!! I'm very excited one of these maternity images made finalist!;-) #3510961
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 10/27/2006 4:39:27 PMReally great image!! Congratulations!!! #3511065
Trisha Moe 10/28/2006 10:18:54 AMTIffani - I absolutely love this image. You have capture "true grace" Congrats on a well deserved finalist and I am sure "to be" winner! #3514327
Alison Greenwood 10/28/2006 11:30:34 AMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist Tiff. This really is a unique maternity photograph. #3514689
She-She Killough 10/28/2006 3:49:00 PMSOOO Gorgeous Tiffani!! No wonder it is a winner!! HUGE CONGRATS!! #3515283
Jane M 10/29/2006 5:06:13 AMWell you know I'm pleased! Well done for finalist Tiffani! (I think it should have gone further!) #3517416
Brianne Norgaard 10/30/2006 9:26:18 PMYou rocked it in this whole session! This was one (of many...) of my faves. Fantastic work - as always... :-) #3525652
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With gratitude and appreciation, the Maltz Museum invites our Members and Donors to join us in celebration of two exciting events: the opening of our new exhibition Hardship to Hope: African American Art from the Karamu Workshop (in collaboration with Cleveland State University) and the Campaign For Our Future. Remarks at 6:15pm; hors d'oeuvres will be served.
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SONY DSC-RX100 SteadyShot Modes
Posted 30 October 2012 - 02:25 AM
Hope this helps
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 09:09 AM
Posted 30 October 2012 - 11:54 AM
Can you try to walk and shoot video with the RX100 and see if you get the same result? One of the comments there is that the HX9v has smaller sensor hence it's faster/easier to do the image stabilization part of the Steadyshot.
Posted 30 October 2012 - 12:07 PM
I have done the walking test and the active mode is definitely worth it
If I manage I will do some tests in the pool with the zoom
Posted 30 October 2012 - 12:28 PM
Posted 30 October 2012 - 12:53 PM
The RX100 is a camera with a small zoom high picture quality and good lens I don't see the comparison really
Posted 30 October 2012 - 01:28 PM
To me video stabilization is the first priority, combine with price and the ease of use of the camera for video purpose. If you're talking about still photo, yes it's not fare to compare RX100 to the HX series, When come to video, just like what you explain in your blog, if one have to do more post processing and at the expense of cropping/lost pixel, I would rather take a more stable video that has less detail, then take a shaky high detail video, stabilize by cropping then blow it up to meet the resolution requirement.
I don't know what software you use to stabilize your video. I use VirtualDub and Deshaker. The way the Deshaker plugin work is, it analyze the pixels frame by frame. To stabilize the video, it adjust/rotate the frame by frame image, then you have two options: 1) have black border around the video, or 2.) Crop the overall video. I normally choose 2. But my final output still needs to be 720p (I shot 720p to begin with), so DeShaker has to stretch the video to get to 720p. So the pixel is no longer 1:1, and result in a softer video image.
Here is a sample clip taken with the HX200V (the first 50sec):
The quality is way better than the Xacti, how is it compare to the RX100? I have no idea, but if there is any better quality video that that level, I don't think my eye can tell much different, unless you display it in a 100" screen.
Posted 30 October 2012 - 01:52 PM
Any software stabilisation either done in camera or in editing crops the picture, what I meant in the blog is that by using the steady shot active mode you can do it in camera. I would not expect to stabilise the clips further in editing again as this would introduce a warping effect as the various algorithms try to make sense of the footage
I would not capture footage at 720p but always at the highest resolution so that the cropping still results in a fairly defined image
I guess all is relative however if you dive in low light a lens with F3.5 is not going to help and noise will creep in as the camera pumps the ISO up like it happens in your lost blue hole bahamas video, however if all you do is diving in the caribbean or warm atlantic maybe that is fine too
Your videos look good and it seems that the key ingredient of buoyancy control is there, I think you will do fine with the RX100 but is going to be difficult to extrapolate without directly testing
A question though why do you leave all the bubble noise? Is it intentional or what?
Posted 30 October 2012 - 02:18 PM
Based on your suggestion about importance of sensor size and image quality, I think the Canon G1X is better suit for that need as it's 50% larger than the RX100, and 1080 60p is not that critical. The price of the G1X is the same as the RX100, I don't mine a little bulk compare to the DSLR.
The reason I go after Sony line of product is because of its great image stabilization, which I later found out it's only great in the HX line, and yet to be confirm for the RX or the NEX line.
Call me a whim, I only dive in tropical water these days, he he. I have dove in flooded mine that's 50F water, let's just say I don't enjoy the dive. I was wearing 7mm but seeing other people are having problem with dry suit, I'm not that interested in dry suite. I heard that Galapagos require dry suit so I may make exception.
But back to low light environment. I will get into strobe set up soon so may be slower lens may not be that much of an issue in the future.
Posted 30 October 2012 - 03:00 PM
The RX100 is a better choice for sure anyway let me go and take some footage and we will see!
Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:37 PM
Oh, as far as leaving the breathing noise for my video, initially I try to put music in, you can see my 2010 Sipadan diving video. 4 out of 5 times, youtube come back and complain about copyright music used as sountrack. frustrated with repeat mixing, publish and upload then get rejected, I decided to leave out music. How do you guys get away using pop music soundtrack by the way?
Posted 30 October 2012 - 06:56 PM
I'm trying to edit RX100 clips for the first time and the high bit rate and AVCHD files are making the process slower than usual. Actually I have lost the files of half of my trip that were backed up to a HDD and spent half a day just to recover them. Lucky that I got them back and so far I have only managed to repackage them into m4v format, imported into iMovie and trying editing them in both iMovie and FCPX. However my 2 years old iMac is a bit under-powered for the RX100 clips.
During my trip I did not pay much attention to the SteadyShot mode. I think I had it on Standard in the beginning and changed to Active halfway in the trip. I did notice the cropping but have not compared the effects between the 2. I'll pay attention to it when I get down to working on editing and give more comments later. Overall I don't think it's at the same level as my previous camera which was a Panasonic DC, but that was a much smaller sensor and 720p only. I was doing 1080 50p all the time in this trip.
There were quite a few times when I pressed the Menu button thinking it as the Record button, and I missed the moment when 2 thresher sharks were swimming towards and very close to me. My biggest regret in this trip!
Let me know if you have any question and I'll try to answer as best I can.
Posted 30 October 2012 - 11:33 PM
The G1x is fixed lens, 28mm to 112mm. It however has lower burst rate, which is not that big deal. Video mode wise, Canon is using mpeg-4 avc while sony is avchd. have to reaseach on that one. The big issue now is, I can buy the G1x for $510!!!! For that price and 50% bigger sensor than the rx100, it is tempting to just buy it. But I think I better sleep over it, then do more research.
Oh, as far as leaving the breathing noise for my video, initially I try to put music in, you can see my 2010 Sipadan diving video. 4 out of 5 times, youtube come back and complain about copyright music used as sountrack. frustrated with repeat mixing, publish and upload then get rejected, I decided to leave out music. How do you guys get away using pop music soundtrack by the way?
My bad on the G1X however the focus issue remain, for what concerns encoding both cameras use H264 for video in AVC format, however the canon wraps this into a mov file whilst the Sony uses AVCHD.
Going a level deeper the canon encodes at 24 frames per second that is the universal mode to encode films and is compatible with both NTSC and PAL. It will be easy to manipulate those files into any editor. The Sony uses the latest AVCHD incarnation with 1080p50 or 1080p60 and AC3 audio, those files are heavy to digest and get converted anyway by youtune and similar that only support 24,25,30 frames per second anyway. Most editors for mac including imovie, final cut pro will not be able to read those files, but they will only see the lower quality format 1080i50 an interlaced format that they will convert. Sony vegas will instead process those files fine
For what concerns music you do get the issue that the video was blocked in certain countries, the only alternative is to replace it with songs that are free to use, youtube does a good job, however you loose all your editing efforts! To my knowledge vimeo is less restrictive up to now
I guess I'm in the minority whom have actually done a diving trip with the RX100 so let me chip in a bit here. I have only shared my stills so far as you can see from my post. I have not uploaded any video I have taken yet as it takes time to edit them. I usually make a video as highlights of my trip and rarely upload individual clips unedited. Let me try to upload a few FYR. I'm trying to edit RX100 clips for the first time and the high bit rate and AVCHD files are making the process slower than usual. Actually I have lost the files of half of my trip that were backed up to a HDD and spent half a day just to recover them. Lucky that I got them back and so far I have only managed to repackage them into m4v format, imported into iMovie and trying editing them in both iMovie and FCPX. However my 2 years old iMac is a bit under-powered for the RX100 clips.
Albatross not sure what is the latest workflow you use but just yesterday I cracked the nut and now I have a procedure with imovie and two other free programs that imports in a instant in imovie. Maybe I should put it in my next blog?
Posted 31 October 2012 - 01:14 AM
Posted 31 October 2012 - 01:20 AM
I am still using iVI to repackage into m4v and then straight import into iMovie. Once in iMovie I can open the events in FCPX too. So it's quite simple also.
Why is it taking time then? Is iMovie converting into apple AIC?
Edited by Interceptor121, 31 October 2012 - 01:21 AM.
Posted 31 October 2012 - 04:45 AM
Posted 31 October 2012 - 06:02 AM
Note that when you import a clip this will always be converted in AIC
Posted 31 October 2012 - 06:38 AM
Looks like Canon is going down hill. I guess I will patiently wait until I can play with a RX100 in my hand, or hoping that a RX200 will be around the corner by next October before my big trip.
Posted 31 October 2012 - 07:12 AM
Canon usually has AF and AE lock which is essential
Posted 31 October 2012 - 06:37 PM
You don't want to do that. The stabilizer of FCPX or iMovie is not better than the one inside the camera so you should let the clips as they are without any conversion
Note that when you import a clip this will always be converted in AIC
No I still think it's worth it to use stabilization in FCPX to reduce movement for more comfortable viewing. As I said the SteadyShot of RX100 is not that effective, IMO.
Here're 4 videos I've uploaded. If I remember correctly the blue ring and thresher were on standard mode and the frog fish and nudi were on active mode. Can't see on info screen to check this setting after importing. I guess the only way to check is to copy the whole folder back onto a SD card and put it back into the RX100 to see.
http://s138.beta.pho...ry/RX100 Videos
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