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Logic in the Wild: How These 5 Artists Integrate Logic Pro in Their Work
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A large component of our course, Making Music in Logic Pro X, consists of covering the fundamentals of working within the DAW and learning to maximize one's efficiency and workflow as a producer. But since every working producer will likely have their own unique routines, quirks, preferences, and tricks, we thought we'd ask some professionals in the Soundfly community what they love about Logic in particular, and for their advice on how to get the most out of it.
Here are some excerpts from our conversations with sound designer for theater Enrico de Trizio, songwriter Will Marshall, producer and engineer John Hull, sound designer for film, TV, and radio Kate Bilinski, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Martin D. Fowler. To view the full conversations, and the rest of the course, head here.
Sound Design for Theater – Enrico de Trizio
Enrico de Trizio is a Grammy- and Emmy-Award winning Composer, Producer, Sound Designer, and Music Programmer/Playback Tech for Broadway shows like Finding Neverland, Dear Evan Hansen, and more. He tells us he uses Logic Pro X for scoring to picture and theater, for sound design, and for recording and producing "90% of the music" he works on.
Logic is very cheap compared to its competitors which makes it very popular. It comes with a ton of hi-end sample libraries, and it's stable and reliable. Every update brings improvements and new features to explore.
I also love the ability to create Track Stacks. When you're on a deadline or in tech rehearsal and everybody is waiting for you to change something, the last thing you want is to get overwhelmed a million little regions on your screen. Track Stacks help me collapse all the parts from individual songs to a single track so I can collapse or expand them as needed. This is one of those features that I don't see too many people using, but it helps me all the time.
I also find the compressor to be extremely versatile. Alchemy has a huge sound library — I end up using some of those sounds over [a third-party plugin sampler] Omnisphere.
All the people I work with use Logic to write. Again, I think the popularity is due to its lower price-point. Additionally, I don't like Live's summing bus, but I do use Live for its primary purpose, which is live performances and shows. Pro Tools didn't have offline bounce until recently, needs an iLock, and needed its own interface when I was first getting started. Compared to Logic, Pro Tools is like a needy friend, and Logic is more like an easy-going buddy.
Songwriting – Will Marshall
Will Marshall is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer, and currently the driving force behind Brooklyn-based art-rock project noise. Will is also the instructor of Soundfly's online mentored course, Songwriting for Producers. Will uses Logic at several stages of his process: for recording, for composing and orchestrating, and for mixing. He typically uses Logic alongside Ableton Live, which he tends to reach for when he's doing electronic music or early-stage sketching but maintains that "Logic is where everything ends up."
Logic appeals to me because it has the capabilities of a heavy-duty, industry-oriented DAW like Pro Tools, but with a modern, more elegant, less quirky interface. It also has a nice suite of creative tools. I'm a fan of Logic's excellent built-in effects and instruments, and its powerful MIDI handling, so it's great for composing as well as recording and mixing. Many of Logic's built-in instruments and effects are as good as any third-party plugins, so I find myself using tools like Alchemy, Space Designer and their built-in EQs frequently.
It's easy to put together a song, and it's easy to keep track of everything that's going on compositionally, which, for more ambitious tracks, can get tricky. Historically, composers worked mostly on the piano and notated everything using sheet music. For me, Logic takes the place of sheet music and gives me a central location to notate a track, using both MIDI and recordings. Since the stock instruments and effects are so good, Logic also makes it quite easy to put together more impressive demos.
Mixing & Producing – John Hull
John Hull mixes film scores and popular music, and also produces music for artists and commercials. He most recently produced the debut record for composer Bryan Senti's artist moniker Ex Mykah, and collaborates with Senti in the film composition and popular music realms to make things sound more emotionally intense and exciting. John is the instructor of Soundfly's free online course series, Making Realistic MIDI Strings.
Particularly in the last few years, it feels endless in terms of what you can do with Logic. They've refined some tasks like replacing drums, slicing beats, using true-stereo panners, and other things that I used to turn to other programs for. I don't really think there's anything else out there with more powerful and diverse built-in effects.
There's this Native American Flute sound that I stumbled across during a project once. I ran it through one of the amp simulators and it became my "go-to mellotron thing" for when I was doing more commercial stuff. I also wind up often using staccato clarinets too. They're great for subtle organic textures. The Drummer Track has become one of my favorite new features. I'm a tinkerer by nature, and being able to just start a track quickly with the right drums for a genre helps me focus on making music and not spending the first two hours of every project designing drums.
My key commands have always been really similar to Pro Tools, because I still have to do projects in that environment from time to time. If I ever update them, I export them and email myself a copy so I can download them on other computers when I'm working in other spaces.
Whenever my sessions start getting bigger with higher track counts, I use Bounce In Place to help turn a software instrument into audio. Then, I deactivate and hide the software instrument track right next to it in case I need to redo anything. In the end, this winds up helping me stay organized and also saves time because my computer crashes less!
Sound Design for Film, TV, and Radio – Kate Bilinski
Kate Bilinski is a sound designer and re-recording mixer for film and podcasts, with notable credits including the podcasts Serial and Reply All. She also does sound design for Emmy Award-winning documentaries such as We Could Be King and The Armor of Light. She most often uses Logic when she is bringing MIDI instrumentation into her in-depth sound design and when she's called to do voice-over or mix work. She also plays bass (obviously).
Audio is a slow art by nature. You take every fraction of a second and scrutinize them, sometimes for hours, before moving on. Logic's customizable key commands let me easily switch from one DAW to another with a minimal adjustment period, almost as if I were to switch from speaking from English to Spanish and suddenly found most of the words were the same. It allows me to set functions I use all the time, such as "Forward by Transient" or "Nudging by SMPTE Frame."
This may fall in the category of both editing and mixing, but I want to stress the convenience of the Channel Strip presets. These allow me to get through tedious session building incredibly quickly so I can get to the fun part. I know the plugins I'm going to want to manipulate when I'm working with particular instruments, but using a Channel Strip preset means I don't have to go through the process of instantiating and setting each effect every time I need a new one. This can even be applicable to your audio sound effects or dialogue tracks, especially if you are working on a series with the same hosts, to bring you closer to a rough mix instantaneously.
I find that its workflow with MIDI is awesome. I really appreciate the easy access to tools within the Piano Roll, including velocity and automation curves, as well as the MIDI transformation tools. Logic has a very similar layout and workflow to what I'm used to in Pro Tools, so making busses and auxiliary tracks, grouping and hiding tracks, fades, automation, even key commands all still feel like second nature.
This is a bit of an oddball, but as a sound designer, I love the fact that you can group files in the region bin. Often when I'm looking to build a scene or know that I'm going to be dealing with a lot of similar elements throughout a film, I'll do a big pull of sound effects before I start working so I have a palette already in my DAW.
For example, I've worked on a lot of sports documentaries and there are always tons of crowds — some interior, some exterior, with varying sizes. In many DAWs, this gets thrown into one bin with everything else and you rely on searching file names or sorting by date. But in Logic, I can group similar sounds into folders so I can keep track of everything I've pulled and easily sample and build with them.
Composing Underscore for Film, TV, and Radio – Martin D. Fowler
Martin D. Fowler composes and produces music for commercial, educational, and artistic media using Logic Pro X, and records and performs internationally with many NYC-based artists such as VÉRITÉ, Arthur Moon, and others. He also produces original music and remixes as WNNR. Martin is also well known for his compositions featured in multiple #1 podcasts such as Limetown, The Wilderness, and This American Life. He is the instructor of Making Music in Logic Pro X.
Many instruments I use frequently come packed with functionality for expression, modulation, sustain, aftertouch, and extensive pitch-bend modulation. I love how easy it is to write these things, perform them, and edit them later so that they perfectly accommodate the moment I'm trying to illustrate, emotionally. While I try to get the best performance I can right out of the gate, I know I'm almost always going to want or need to change something later on. I do a lot of velocity manipulation through the MIDI transform function, and I'm a frequent user of the Humanization setup in that window, as well.
The same goes for the extensive automation capabilities of Logic, which I think of and use in very much the same way, whether it's opening up a low-pass filter's frequency knob, automating the wet/dry balance of a reverb, or increasing the depth of a distortion plugin, all of which I do frequently.
The ratio of ease-of-use to cost is just incredible. I've used Logic for nearly all of my major composition, production, and scoring projects for the last decade. The built-in samples and instruments are world-class, and I use them all the time. Alchemy's patches, in particular, are so powerful and brilliant right out of the box, but it's is such an incredibly versatile and customizable synth, I haven't tired of it yet.
There are some key commands I've become so accustomed to, I barely recall where to find the functions in menu trees — it's just muscle memory and second nature. Also, I've spent so much time developing my own custom set of commands that make sense to me, I'm almost useless on anyone else's system, or with the built-in key commands. It's my own custom rig at this point. I love it and can't live without it!
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Interrupting and Resuming via Checkpoints
=========================================

It is important to be able to interrupt optimization and continue right from
where you left off. Reasons include scheduling on shared resources, branching
the optimization with different settings or securing yourself against crashes
in long-running processes.

.. note:: Currently, this is not supported by all optimizers. It is the case for gradient
          descent, rmsprop, adadelta and rprop.

Climin makes this in parts possible and leaves the responsibility to the user in
other parts. More specifically, the user has to take over the serialization of
the parameter vector (i.e. ``wrt``), the objective function and its derivatives
(e.g. ``fprime``) and the data (i.e. ``args``). The reason for this is that
one cannot build a generic procedure for this. The data might be depending
on an open file descriptor and only a subset of Python functions can be
serialized, which is those that are defined at the top level.

Saving the state to disk (or somewhere else)
--------------------------------------------

The idea is that the ``info`` dictionary which is the result of each
optimization step carries all the information necesseray to resume. Thus a
recipe to write your state to disk is as follows.

.. code-block:: python

   import numpy as np
   import cPickle
   from climin.gd import Gradient Descent

   pars = make_pars()
   fprime = make_fprime()
   data = make_data()
   opt = GradientDescent(pars, fprime, args=data)
   for info in opt:
       with open('state.pkl', 'w') as fp:
           cPickle.dump(info, fp)
       np.savetxt('parameters.csv', pars)

This snippet first generates the necessery quantities from library functions
which we assume given. We then create a ``GradientDescent`` object over which we
iterate to optimize. In each iteration, we pickle the info dictionary to disk.

.. note:: Pickling an info dictionary directly to disk might be a bad idea in
          many cases. E.g. it will contain the current data element or a gnumpy
          array, which is not picklable. It is the users's responsibility to
          take care of that.

Loading the state from disk
---------------------------

We will now load the info dictionary from file, create an optimizer object an
initialize it with values from the info dictionary.

.. code-block:: python

   import numpy as np
   import cPickle
   from climin.gd import Gradient Descent

   pars = np.loadtxt('parameters.csv')
   fprime = make_fprime()
   data = make_data()
   with open('state.pkl') as fp:
       info = cPickle.load(fp)

   opt = GradientDescent(pars, fprime, args=data)
   opt.set_from_info(info)

We can continue optimization right from where we left off.

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Q: why does css @media print not work on some div i have problem with this html code,

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Contents of #div1

    <button id="btn1">Go to #div2</button>

Contents of #div2

    <button id="btn2">Go to #div1</button>

    <button id="btn3">Print</button>

Contents of #div3

let me tell you what i wish to happen with this code, so, when the page load, it just shows #div1, when i click the #btn1 it hides #div1 and shows #div2, when i click #btn2 it hides #div2 and shows #div1, when i click the #btn3 it prints the page, and it should just show #div3 in the print preview page, but, the problem here is, in the print preview page, it shows #div2 and #div3, i don't know why, i just want to show the #div3 in the print preview page, anyone can help me with this?

A: jquery fadein and fadeout calls changed the precedence of display property so they also appeared ,
add important in your css to override .
Ref: CSS @media print not working at all
Change your styles like below:

@media print {
#div1 {display:none !important;}
#div2 {display:none !important;}
#div3 {display:block;}
}`

A: This should also work:
 @media print {
    #div1 {visibility:hidden; height:0; width:0}
    #div2 {visibility:hidden; height:0; width:0}
    #div3 {display:block;}
    }

$(document).ready(function() {
      $("#btn1").on("click",function() {
        $("#div1").fadeOut("fast");
        $("#div2").fadeIn("fast");
      });
      $("#btn2").on("click",function() {
        $("#div2").fadeOut("fast");
        $("#div1").fadeIn("fast");
      });
      $("#btn3").on("click",function() {
        window.print();
      });
    });
 #div1 {position:fixed;}
    #div2 {display:none;}
    #div3 {display:none;}

    @media print {
    #div1 {visibility:hidden; height:0; width:0}
    #div2 {visibility:hidden; height:0; width:0}
    #div3 {display:block;}
    }

Contents of #div1

    <button id="btn1">Go to #div2</button>

Contents of #div2

    <button id="btn2">Go to #div1</button>

    <button id="btn3">Print</button>

Contents of #div3

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Q: Regular Expressions only digits I have this code that I'm trying to get to work with Regex but I'm new to this and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I'm trying to get anything that is between paralash and ?trk now that will not work because of the ?. If I remove the ? out the code then I get the numbers with ? and that is not what I need. I only need the numbers. Any help
/paralash/1229857?trk=vsrp_companies_res_name
(?<=paralash/).*(?=?trk=) ---- I get nothing
(?<=paralash/).*(?=trk=) ----- I get 1229857? <-- I don't want the ?

How can I fix it?

A: You have a few ways to go here, some better than others but all depending on your needs.
The first, using your current regex, is to simply escape the ? which has a special meaning in regex of "may or may not exist":
(?<=paralash/).*(?=\?trk=)

However, you can improve this by changing the greedy match into a "digits only" match by using \d+:
(?<=paralash/)\d+(?=\?trk=)

Also, if you're doing groupings and not just matching you can remove the lookbehind and make it a prefix instead:
paraslash/(\d+)\?trk=

A: Escape the ?:
(?<=paralash/).*?(?=\?trk=)
//           here __^

A: use this:
(?<=paralash\/).*(?=\?trk=)

demo here : http://regex101.com/r/kK2nC1/1

A: i think it's perl compatible syntax.
it's better to group what you want instead of looking backwards and forwards:
\/paralash\/(\d+)\?trk=

then use \1 or $1 to capture the result.
i escaped / because i assumed / is your delimiter.
looking backwards and forwards is a tradeoff that slower down the regex but gain more power. in your case, it could speed up without them.


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Q: Iphone app that launches a website without url bar I need to make a simple app for iOS. After opening it, i want it to open up safari with a certain website and that the address bar wouldn't show.
I'm completely new to iOS apps and I couldn't find anything similar from google. Maybe somebody has done it and can share the code or point me to somewhere where I can find it?

A: You can simply use a UIWebView, which by default doesn't include any controls or an address bar.
Class documentation here
Here is a small example of usage:
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"www.google.ie"]]];
[self.view addSubview:webView];

This will effectively give you a browser view inside your application, without invoking Safari itself.
You can embed this UIWebView in a UINavigationController, or use it anywhere else in your applications view hierarchy.
One final point, the UIWebView class has many delegate methods which you can implement, these methods will be called by the system when a given event happens (URL loads, has errors, etc).


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I believe that there is no issue on Armstrong, Neighbour and Forrest...The rest has to be political concerns.
You probably hit the answer on the non-call. Team Canada has asserted themselves in both international events, finishing as top two....quite a statement so far....so what happens to the three who are cut?????
Changing of the 2006 Guard?????
The training squad is likely to remain at 8, and to keep the other 3 intested, they will be assured that they still have a shot at 2010. And indeed they may.
The 2009 Worlds may be used as a training exercise in preparation for 2010, and if so, it would seem sensible to give Sobkowicz and Yizek a look to see how they cope in that environment, even if the present intention is not to play either in 2010. This assumes that Armstrong, Neighbour and Forrest have secured their spots.
Your logic seems accurate...your observations or discussions with the CCA?????
Your comments suggest you know what is up.
All I have to say is SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!
As for the other non selected 3....we may want to ask our selves what about other players which may develop into those spots. What about returning players like Daw. What about new players which we they find or other players which could get dropped in like Armstrong did.
With the removal of most of the 2006 squad who is to ay Gerry or Jim don't find a bunch of "disabled - AB" players to fill the team up and we have that happen!
Is your comment factual or an educated guess?
Your suggestion is far-fetched. All players HAVE to be approved by the WCF medical assessor (only ONE for the sport). Armstrong has been assessed.
Well, it is a little of both!
But it all together....What do you get.
System where is serves a select few with NO opportunity for the old or the new?
How does anyone crack the clan of the few Gerry/ now Jim/ Joe select.
The old players or pool people like Daw or Roy or Gregory have no chance. New players or non-pool players like Rees have no chance.
Don't say anythin or do anything to Piss the select few off or your done in this sport with no chance of ever getting a chance or for those few getting another chance.
Why did they delay...because they can or where they afraid that players would not show up. I know I wouldn't.
The system for selecting this team has alwasy been faulty and always will be as long as the favours kepp following in to the buddy of the govenor!
Although Team Canada coaches have been assiduously accumulating statistics (fact), team selection involves more than mathematics (opinion).
Obvious non-mathematical criteria such as who performs in the clutch, who freezes when the pressure's on, who relaxes the team and makes them play better as a unit, will surely be part of the equation.
Then there are the overtly political considerations: is it healthy for the development of the sport to have the entire team and the coach reside in BC? With plausible candidates outside of BC, that answer may change.
My personal conviction, expressed many times in my writing, is that while team selection by external coaches may satisfy the demands of funders, and arguably produce the most competent team in the short run, it is disaster for the long term growth of the sport in Canada.
At present the ONLY consideration in the minds of the selectors is winning gold in Vancouver, which is why I suspect once again achievement at the Worlds will be discounted as mere preparation for 2010.
It can be argued that Team Canada success is a separate issue from grassroots development. The excuse is Own The Podium funding. If you read the OTP wheelchair curling advisory reports you'll see why quads like Chris Rees, Frank LaBounty and Whitney Warren were never likely to make the team.
I am trying to encourage more openness and discussion of these issues. Accusations of bad faith are unhelpful and unlikely to produce better information. I believe that people like Gerry Peckham are doing what the feel is best for the sport, even when I disagree with their approach. It's easy to criticise behind an anonymous post. It is a little more helpful to put your name to constructive suggestions.
A selected team is always a political problem. However, our numbers at this point are simply too small to field an internationally competitive team through any other means.
Funding through Own the Podium, etc. are geared to a purposeful international result. It would also appear that maintaining the "status quo" regarding team selection is unlikely. This suggests that the coaches are open to constructive change. I don't see anyone questioning Armstrong, Neighbour and Forrest as making the team. The reality is that there is only one starting spot and the alternate still available.
Like the system or not, I can't see a stronger team, but would love to hear other suggested line-ups including people outside of the present 8.
A select team is a fact of life until we get the numbers well above present situation. Don't know how there can even be an argument.
I'll bet that Jim Armstrong would agree that his National champion team wold not do well internationally. In fact, I doubt he will even win B.C. this season.
Armstrong is playing with his B.C. team from last year out of obligation, and good on him. I still think he wil win B.C. Guess we will se ethe impact of one player.
I think everyone should take a breath, and focus on the most likely way to maximize Canada's medal chances. On that basis, who should we send?
Who is Daw, I am new to wheelchair curling and not sure who he is?
Has anyone ever looked at what Chris Daw has done?
I am new to the sport, I asked who he was and did a little research.
And he has done alot, not just in curling but other sports as well. I asked the CPC who he was and they said he had been around for over 3o years in paralympic sport.With a run in over 5 different sports.
Does anyone know why he left wheelchair curling, or if he will be back? I emailed him, and am awaiting a response. Seems very odd that a person like him with that kind of talent not to speak of a gold medal would just leave.
Eric, do you know why at all??? Does he do anything in the curl world now?
Chris Daw is a multi-sport Paralympian who was one of the original wheelchair users recruited to curl for Canada at the 2002 World Championships.
In 2006 he skipped the Canadian team that won the very first gold medal awarded for wheelchair curling at the Torino Paralympics.
He continued as Canada's first and only skip until suddenly leaving the program in December 2007 under circumstances not yet fully publicly explained.
Chris recently broke his hip in an ATV accident, a severe injury that is likely to take a considerable time to rehabilitate, so suggestions that he rejoin the national team are at present moot.
You can read a note from Chris concerning his injury at this link.
Seems to bad for the sport to have him leave.....a loss I guess.


Saab's GlobalEye has achieved a number of significant milestones in 2018, commencing with the rollout of the first aircraft in February 2018. At the Farnborough International Airshow Saab explained the achievements being delivered with this newest addition to its airborne surveillance system family.
GlobalEye is an Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft that is a true swing role multi-mission solution. It combines multiple sensors and sophisticated data fusion into an intuitive mission system on the Bombardier Global 6000 jet with fully networked communications. This capability gives excellent flexibility across the full mission spectrum in peacetime to warfighting, and particularly benefits joint force commanders managing combined air, sea and land operations.
To deliver this unique capability Saab's head of Airborne Surveillance Systems, Lars Tossman from the business area Surveillance, talked about the highlights so far.
Saab's collective in-house sensors, command and control, aircraft design, manufacturing and system integration capabilities are integral to delivering such an advanced capability as GlobalEye. It also reflect the decades of experience with the Erieye AEW&C system in-service around the world on a variety of jet and turbo-prop platforms.
The development and production contract for GlobalEye was awarded at the Dubai Air Show November 2015 by the United Arab Emirates with an initial order for two systems. An additional order by the UAE for a third system was announced in 2017. GlobalEye brings extended detection range, endurance and the ability to perform multiple roles with one solution, including tasks such as search & rescue, border surveillance and military operations.


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Q: How to evaluate single integrals of multivariate functions with Python's scipy.integrate.quad? There is a function I am trying to integrate in Python using scipy.integrate.quad.  This particular function takes two arguments.  There is only one argument I want to integrate over.  An example is shown below.
from scipy import integrate as integrate
def f(x,a):  #a is a parameter, x is the variable I want to integrate over
    return a*x

result = integrate.quad(f,0,1)

This example doesn't work (as is likely clear to you) since, as Python reminds me when I try it:
TypeError: f() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

I am wondering how to use integrate.quad() to integrate in a single variable sense when the function given is, in general, a multi-variable function, with the extra variables providing parameters to the function.

A: Use the args argument (see the scipy documentation):
result = integrate.quad(f,0,1, args=(a,))

The comma in args=(a,) is required because a tuple must be passed.

A: Found the answer in the scipy documentation.
You can do the following:
from scipy import integrate as integrate
def f(x,a):  #a is a parameter, x is the variable I want to integrate over
    return a*x

result = integrate.quad(f,0,1,args=(1,))

The args=(1,) argument in the quad method will make a=1 for the integral evalution.
This can also be carried to functions with more than two variables:
from scipy import integrate as integrate
def f(x,a,b,c):  #a is a parameter, x is the variable I want to integrate over
    return a*x + b + c

result = integrate.quad(f,0,1,args=(1,2,3))

This will make a=1, b=2, c=3 for the integral evaluation.
The important thing to remember for the function you want to integrate this way is to make the variable you want to integrate over the first argument to the function.


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Q: The variable punkte (points) return 0 at the end of the program. What am I doing wrong and what can I do to make it come out as the actual score? punkte = int()
print("Do you want to answer a quiz?")
z = input()
a = str(z)
if a == "Yes":
    print("Question?")
    z = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 1
    elif a != "Answer":
        print("Question?")
        z = input()
        if a == "Answer":
            punkte = punkte + 1
        elif a != "Answer":
            print("Question?")
            z = input()
            if a == "Answer":
                punkte = punkte +2
            elif a != "Answer":
                print("Question?")
                z = input()
                if a == "Answer":
                    punkte = punkte + 2
                elif a != "Answer":
                    print("Question?")
                    z = input()
                    if a == "Answer":
                        punkte = punkte + 3
                    elif a != "Answer":
                        print("That was the last question.You have reached",punkte,"points")

This asks the user if he wants to answer a quiz.If he answers "yes" he will be asked a few questions.The variable "punkte" is supposed to change and store points based on the answer. At the end it still comes out as 0.

A: The issue is that you only keep asking questions as long as the user gives an answer that is not "Yes" (except for the initial question). Only then will you print the score, which obviously is 0 (since only answers with "Yes" are counted). As soon as "Yes" is given as answer you increase the number of points from 0 to 1 and don't do anything else.
First you should make sure you test the actual answer that was given (z) and don't keep testing the first answer again and again (a).
Secondly, the elif kind of statements are breaking the chain: they prevent the program from continuing with the chain of questions when a right answer has been given. NB: the condition a != "Answer" is useless, as at that point that is always implied (true).
It will work better without those elif and without z -- use a all the way:
punkte = 0
print("Do you want to answer a quiz?")
a = input()
if a == "Yes":
    print("Question?")
    a = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 1
    print("Question?")
    a = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 1
    print("Question?")
    a = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 2
    print("Question?")
    a = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 2
    print("Question?")
    a = input()
    if a == "Answer":
        punkte = punkte + 3
    print("That was the last question.You have reached",punkte,"points")

You should look into using a list structure for your questions, correct answers and points to gain for them, and then loop over them. That will make your program shorter, more flexible and easier to maintain.
For instance:
punkte = 0
quiz = [{
        "question": "1. What is the capital of France?",
        "answer": "Paris",
        "score": 1
    }, {
        "question": "2. How many keys does a standard piano have?",
        "answer": "88",
        "score": 3
    }, {
        "question": "3. Which day of the week is also called the Sabbath?",
        "answer": "Saturday",
        "score": 1
    }, {
        "question": "4. Which is name of the brightest star as seen from the Earth?",
        "answer": "Sirius",
        "score": 3
    }]
print("Do you want to answer a quiz?")
a = input()
if a == "Yes":
    for q in quiz:
        print(q["question"])
        a = input()
        if a == q["answer"]:
            punkte = punkte + q["score"]
    print("That was the last question. You earned",punkte,"points")


An Acquired Taste of Japan – Unagipai!
UNAGI. PIE. Sounds like eel pie, doesn't it? Maybe even like the eel pie and mash found in London shops. But nope. Because unagi pie is an awesome Japanese sweet treat!
What is unagipai? It's a sweet butter cookie made with dried, powdered eel as one of the ingredients. This treat is a popular omiyage, or Japanese souvenir, and has a well-documented history.
Unagipai is a special pastry originating in Shizuoka Prefecture, near Lake Hamana. Lake Hamana is a freshwater lake renowned for its eel, which is found in a variety of local cuisine. A resident of the area, and a president of a pastry and wagashi shop called Shunkado, Mr. Koichi Yamazaki realized that all over Japan, the eel from Lake Hamana was famous. He was inspired to make a special treat in his shop, and package it so that it could be a unique souvenir that travelers to Shizuoka Prefecture could give to loved ones. So, in 1961, unagipai was born.
Unagipai is a delicately crispy, oblong-shaped butter and sugar cookie inspired by palmier, a type of French pastry. The classic cookie is made using eel powder for a subtle yet complex taste, along with a bit of garlic powder, to counterbalance any fishy smell from the eel powder. Other flavors include unagipai with nuts and unagipai V.S.O.P, which contains brandy and macadamia nuts.
The cookie is famously considered a nighttime snack, and in Japan, that means something really fun! Mr. Yamazaki wanted to market unagipai as a "nighttime snack" because he thought people would enjoy them in the evening with their family when they got back from their travels. But there's a double meaning! Back in the 60's, the Hamamatsu area was known as a party area, with lots of nightlife. Combine that with the idea that unagi, or eel, enhances male prowess, many buyers assumed that unagipai was to be eaten at night as an aphrodisiac!
At Shunkado, unagipai is made in a factory by Unagipai Artisans. It can take up to ten years to be recognized as an Unagipai Artisan, and as part of their training, these chefs learn how to make the cookies while taking into account the quality of the ingredients, the outside temperature and humidity, and even how much pressure to place on the rolling pins to roll out the cookies for optimal crispiness. Artisans prepare the dough and then the cookies are baked in industrial-sized ovens. Packaging is automated, although workers are involved to ensure quality control. Visitors to the Shunkado shop can get a guided tour of the factory and of course, sample the goodies!
Unagipai is so beloved that it's used as part of other desserts, sometimes filled with cream and fruit, and other times dipped in warm, melted chocolate.
No matter what, if you're in Japan, definitely check out this unique food!
An Acquired Taste of Japan – Monjayaki!
Cold weather. Short days. The perfect time for delicious warm foods and drinks, especially when they include monjayaki, our Acquired Taste selection for November.
Monjayaki, or monja for short, is a regional dish, primarily found in Tokyo. At its heart, monjayaki is a slightly ugly pancake made with a few simple ingredients. But when it comes to good food, it really hits the spot, especially when you eat it with an ice-cold beer!
Monjayaki has a long history in Japan. It is thought to have originated in the area now known as Tokyo during the Meiji Period (1868-1912) as a snack called mojiyaki. Mojiyaki, made with a simple water and flour batter, was sold at snack shops called dagashiya, which specialized in candy and snacks for children. When children would come to buy their treat, they would practice their letters in the gooey mojiyaki batter that was cooked on a griddle in front of the shop, leading to the name mojiyaki which means "grilled letters". Around the time of World War II, the dish evolved into its modern form, monjayaki, which is similar to okonomiyaki in many ways. The base batter for monjayaki is made with dashi and wheat flour, to which is added any combination of cabbage, meat, seafood, cheese, mochi and green onions. But the way monjayaki is prepared and eaten is unique and wonderful, all on its own!
The flour and dashi are combined into a smooth, liquidy batter, and served in a large bowl. Drier toppings are layered into the bowl, starting with shredded green cabbage. Various ingredients are then added on top of the cabbage, depending on the diner's preference. Mochimentai, a combination of mochi and spicy cod roe, is popular, as are combinations of curry powder and cheese, seafood and green onions and fatty pork and kimchi. All of the layers from the cabbage up are cooked first, usually on an oiled pan, and when eaten at a monjayaki restaurant, at a tableside teppan grill. The dry ingredients are chopped and sautéed, chopped and sautéed, chopped and sautéed, using large, sharp-edged metal spatulas, until they are cut up into very fine pieces. The cooked dry ingredients are then formed into a large donut shape on the grill, with the cooked ingredients forming a "wall" for the goodness to come. The flour and dashi batter is then poured into the empty center and allowed to boil and thicken. Once the bubbling starts, all of the ingredients are mixed together on the grill and cooked until the bottom of the monja starts to brown.
Turn down the heat, and the monja is ready to eat! RIGHT. OFF. THE. GRILL. While it's hot and delicious. Monjayaki is eaten with tiny spatulas called hagashi, which are used to scoop up bites right off the griddle. As the monja is being eaten, the bottom level crisps up while the top remains so gooey it melts in your mouth. The okoge, or the crisped-up bottom part, is even great to crunch on while drinking beer.
So beloved is monjayaki that there is an entire street in Tokyo dedicated to monjayaki restaurants! Tsukishima Monjadori is packed with monjayaki specialty restaurants, and each restaurant carries unique menus and different variations of monjayaki so you can discover your favorite.
Have you tried it? Is it one of your favorite winter dishes? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
An Acquired Taste of Japan – Shirasu!
In Japanese cuisine, sometimes the simplest dishes, like perfectly cooked white rice, are the most elegant and beloved.
Our unique food this month is one such dish.
Shirasu is a simple seafood dish, consisting of either raw or boiled, salted and dried juvenile white fish, usually anchovies (katakuchi-iwashi), sardines (ma-iwashi) or round herring (urume-iwashi). These tiny fish are abundant in the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan and are predominantly harvested in spring and fall. They are a rich food source, full of calcium and Vitamin D and beneficial oils like DHA.
Kanagawa Prefecture is famous for shirasu-don, a simple dish of white rice, shirasu and grated daikon radish. In Kanagawa Prefecture, coastal towns like Kamakura, Shonan and Enoshima are culinary destinations, where those who love this dish swear by the sublime experience of eating it just after it's been caught. Shirasu-don is available at roadside stalls and fancy restaurants, eaten as a single, solitary dish or with loads of fresh appetizers and side dishes. No matter how it's enjoyed, it's delectable!
When the fish are raw, they are called shirasu, and when they are boiled they are called kamaage shirasu. Boiled, salted and dried fish yield a dish called chirimen jako or shirasuboshi. Each incarnation has its own flavor and texture. Raw shirasu is delicately chewy and is scented with the ocean especially when it's just caught before coming to your plate. Kamaage shirasu is fluffier and saltier, and chirimen jako or shirasuboshi is savory and has jerky-like texture.
While you can enjoy shirasu very simply with grated ginger, chopped scallions and a dash of soy sauce, Japanese cooks have come up with lovely variations. When combined with drained and crumbled tofu, it makes a lovely tofu hamburg steak. And when sautéed with tomatoes and garlic, it creates a light and savory pasta sauce. Shirasu can also be combined with garlic used to infuse olive oil, which makes an umami-filled dressing for vegetables and bread. Stir-fry chirimen jako with takuan (Japanese pickled radish) for a wonderful accompaniment to rice.
No matter how you enjoy it, we hope you try out this wonderful traditional Japanese food! Let us know what you think in the comments below!
An Acquired Taste of Japan – Nukazuke!
They're a quintessential part of Japanese cuisine, and along with rice it's always served as a part of the traditional Japanese ichiju sansai meals, which roughly translates "one soup, three dishes." They're the sour-tart-sweet-savory tsukemono to accompany a meal. They're the crunchy side for soft rice, savory fish and warm soup.
The variety of produce used for pickling and the methods for pickling them is astounding! Vegetables like daikon radish, carrots, cucumbers, cabbage and many others are perfectly pickled in soy sauce, vinegar, sake and uniquely, rice bran.
Rice bran pickled vegetables, called nukazuke, are richly flavored pickles that are made using a cultured and fermented rice bran pickling starter called nukadoko. Rice bran pickling is said to have been developed during the 17th century, when machine-milled white rice became the standard. Since milling rice also stripped it of some of its vitamin B content, deficiencies were found among the population often associated with an illness called beriberi. Rice bran pickling was introduced to prevent beriberi and reintroduce thiamine (or Vitamin B1) back into the Japanese diet. Vegetables pickled in a nukadoko absorb thiamine from the rice bran. Today, nukazuke pickles are well-known as providing both thiamine and gut-friendly probiotics. Pickling in this style is similar to making sauerkraut and yogurt, where bacteria ferments the vegetables over the long term.
The nukadoko pickling bed is the most important element to making nukazake pickles. Nukadoko, at its most essential, is a combination of rice bran, salt, kombu, chili peppers, water and vegetable scraps.
Each component of the nukadoko bed serves a purpose. The rice bran serves as the base of the nukadoko. Using fresh, unprocessed rice bran–traditionally obtained at a rice mill–makes the best nukadoko, but in modern kitchens, high-quality rice bran purchased from a grocery store can be an equally good base. Between 13%-15% of high-quality salt, such as sea salt or kosher salt, is added to the rice bran. Kombu seaweed is added to incorporate umami flavors into the mix, and chili peppers are added to prevent molding. Fresh, distilled or filtered water, with any chemicals used to clean the water removed, is added to keep everything moist and alive. Finally, vegetable scraps such as cabbage wedges are added to the mixture to begin the growth of beneficial yeast and lactobacillus bacteria, which then ferments the pickles. The resulting mix resembles wet sand with a few lumps in it!
Once the basic mixture is created, it is cultured in a non-reactive container made of enameled metal, glass or wood between 68°F and 77°F. The pickling starter is aerated by mixing it with clean hands one to two times a day, until it smells clean and slightly sour. At this point, the vegetable scraps are removed and the nukadoko is ready to use for pickling vegetables!
Nukadoko are highly prized and cared for. Some starters are passed down for generations, over decades. Pickling fanatics even take their nukadoko with them when they travel in order to maintain the freshness of the beds! The more cultivated the nukadoko is, the more complex the flavor of the resulting nukazuke pickles. As vegetables are pickled and removed from the nukadoko, the pickling bed is replenished with rice bran, salt, water and seasonings.
Apple and yuzu peels are sometimes added to the nukadoko to infuse sweet and fruity aromas into the pickles. Vegetables such as radishes, carrots, cucumbers and eggplant are delicious when pickled in the nukadoko!
Have you ever tasted nukazuke pickles? What did you think? Be sure to share your favorites with us below!


The Australian Communications and Media Authority has revealed that telecommunications carriers' compliance with electromagnetic energy (EME) emission standards when installing small cell base stations will face heightened scrutiny during FY20.
Australia's telcos have used small cell base stations to provide mobile services to address coverage gaps or offer coverage in remote areas that would otherwise not have access to cellular services. Small cells are set to play an increasingly important role, however, as telcos seek to deliver new 5G services using high-frequency ('mmWave') spectrum.
Creina Chapman, the ACMA's deputy chair and CEO, today told the CommsDay Summit in Sydney that ensuring small cells meet emission standards, as well as making sure carriers carry out adequate consultation processes before deployment, is one of five broad priority areas of compliance enforcement for the regulator over the next year.
"While these low-powered mobile base stations are used to deliver 4G services, this deployment will exponentially increase with the roll-out of 5G," Chapman said.
Chapman said the ACMA will be considering whether small cells comply with EME standards set by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, including through a future audit program.
The ACMA will also be monitoring carriers' compliance with the Mobile Base Station Deployment Code, she told the conference.
The regulator has discovered instances where TPG subsidiary PIPE Networks failed to meet its obligations under the code (TPG recently ditched its mobile network rollout). "We made compliance directions that carry the prospect of stronger action for any future non-compliance," Chapman said.
Optus recently called for a rethink of the rules governing telco infrastructure deployment, with the telco pushing in particular for new rules to better facilitate small cell rollouts.
The other 2019-20 compliance priorities for the ACMA include telco consumer safeguards, unsolicited communications, monitoring commercial influence in broadcast news, gambling, and interference and licencing compliance.


I currently have a small server and I would like to upgrade my dedicated server that can serve as a Bungeecord Server so I can string multiple game modes together.
Please suggest me the right configuration for this requirement.
In this response, we hope that to use BungeeCord, you must know it takes at least three servers to make it useful otherwise it is just more effort for your users to get to one server.
This server is the one that will run the BungeeCord server JAR file. You would also be advertising the IP of this server to your friends.
This server you would like to have a robust configuration because when the users connect to the BungeeCord proxy server's IP, it will re-route those users to this server.
This is the "main" server in your network and this is where you would put all your portals to go to your other servers in the BungeeCord network.
This configuration is strong enough to provide the right environment for the gamers. You must always choose SSD over SATA hard drives as they offer lesser latency on file access read offering faster data access.
Once you have at least one server running the proxy and one as the hub, any other servers will be considered extra servers that you can teleport to from the hub. This can have the similar configuration as the proxy server.
If you have other specific requirements then you can write to us at sales@psychz.net.


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Branson and Gore launch $25 million Carbon Capture reward
A 2006 study, led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, N.Y., who is a member of the new Branson/Gore reward committee, along with scientists from other organizations concludes that, because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels in the current interglacial period, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. An "interglacial period" is a time in the Earth's history when the area of Earth covered by glaciers was similar or smaller than at the present time. Recent warming is forcing species of plants and animals to move toward the north and south poles.
This color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures from 1880 to 2005, the warmest ranked year on record. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. Photo: NASA
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson together with former US vice-president Al Gore today launched a reward for scientists to find a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
The so-called Earth Challenge Prize rewards are valued at $25 million in total.
Sir Richard said his wife Joan had come up with the idea of the prize after he mentioned that Gaia Theory inventor James Lovelock had suggested the world may already have crossed a "tipping point".
Branson said: "The earth cannot wait 60 years. We need everybody capable of discovering an answer to put their minds to it today.
"My wife Joan is a down-to-earth, practical Glaswegian. When I told her that Lovelock believed we may already be doomed, she responded by saying 'There are a lot of brilliant minds out there. Surely one of them would be able to come up with a solution'."
Overseeing the innovations are James Hansen, the noted climate scientist and head of the Nasa Institute for Space Studies, the inventor of Gaia theory James Lovelock, UK environmentalist Sir Crispin Tickell and Australian mammologist and palaeontologist Tim Flannery.
Al Gore, the former presidential candidate turned environmental campaigner, joined the Virgin boss.
He said: "It's a challenge to the moral imagination of humankind to actually accept the reality of the situation we are now facing.
"We're not used to thinking of a planetary emergency, and there's nothing in our prior history as a species that equips us to imagine that we, as human beings, could actually be in the process of destroying the habitability of the planet for ourselves."
His recent film, An Inconvenient Truth, focused on global warming.
Carbon capture and storage is already a key area of research.
BP defers decision on carbon capture plant
The Financial Times reports today that oil giant BP has deferred a decision on building one of the world's first "zero emissions" power plants in Scotland because of doubts over the government's willingness to subsidise the -technology.
The plant would convert natural gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, using the former to generate 475 megawatts of electricity to power 750,000 homes, while the latter would be piped underground for long-term storage, to avoid it reaching the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.
It would be one of the first plants to demonstrate carbon capture and storage technology on a large scale, although several are planned for the UK by other companies. The technology, which is still in the early stages of development, has been hailed as essential to allowing the world to carry on using fossil fuels without adding catastrophically to greenhouse gas concentrations.
The FT says that BP has invested tens of millions of pounds in the proposed plant in Peterhead, on which it has been working for almost two years with Scottish and Southern Energy, but said it would require subsidy to go ahead.
"If the government or society put a value on carbon dioxide, then that value will make projects like this work," the oil company said.
BP said it would postpone the decision on whether to proceed with the Peterhead works until the end of this year or early next year.
However, Mike Childs, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth, the environmental group, said oil companies should not receive such subsidies: "Carbon capture is simply a way for fossil fuel companies to make their businesses more sustainable. If [such] companies are not willing to invest in cleaner technology, they should be regulated to make them."
Source: World Institute
The World Coal Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies allow emissions of carbon dioxide to be 'captured' and 'stored' � preventing them from entering the atmosphere. CCS presents one of the most promising options for large-scale reductions in CO2 emissions from energy use.
CO2 capture is possible from fossil fuel power stations or from other large CO2 sources, such as the chemical, steel or cement industries or from natural gas production. CO2 can be stored in geological formations such as saline aquifers or expired oil and gas reservoirs.
The technologies for geological CCS are all proven and there are a number of large-scale CCS projects in operation today. Current projects include Sleipner in Norway, Weyburn in Canada and In Salah in Algeria.
Further projects are under development around the world, the largest of which is Gorgon in Australia, a joint initiative between ChevronTexaco, Shell and ExxonMobil. The Gorgon Project will store around 2-3 Mt of CO2 per year and plans to be operational by 2010.
Markets News Wednesday: Stocks deep in red ink across the globe: Asia-Pacific and Europe slump following grim day in New York
Apple launches MacBook Air - the world�s thinnest notebook
Europe suffered a slowdown in labour productivity in 2007; Rich countries face struggle to achieve rises in living standards
Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories
Intel reports 51% rise in Q4 2007 net income but cautious outlook for 2008 sends shares plunging 14% in after-hours trading
Markets News Afternoon: Citi rains heavily on markets in Europe and US - Dublin plunges almost 4%
US retail sales fell in December signalling that consumer spending is under strain; Producer/Wholesale prices rose 6.3% in 2007 - the highest since 1981
Citigroup reported Q4 2007 loss of $9.83 billion; Write-downs and increased credit costs were a massive $22.2 billion
Markets News Tuesday: Citi bad news awaited; Markets fall in Asia-Pacific and Europe; Dollar up from near record low against Euro; Gold price over $900
Hong Kong and Singapore again head Index of Economic Freedom; Ireland gets third ranking
Tuesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories
US Hedge Fund Index shows return of 11.15% in 2007 - More than double the S&P 500 performance
Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in US and Europe boosted by positive fourth quarter data from IBM and SAP
IBM reports strong fourth quarter preliminary earnings boosted by Asia, Europe and Emerging Countries
Markets News Monday: Start of US fourth quarter earnings season has investors worried about how banks and brokerages have performed
Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories
US study says Environmental Factors shaping New Global Economy
Markets News Afternoon: Report say Merrill Lynch will announce $15bn loss next week; Stocks down in US and Europe - Dublin market up; Gold tops $900
US trade deficit increased to $63.1 billion in November
OECD Composite Leading Indicators signal a downswing in all major OECD economies


One of the most popular items we premiered at New York Comic Con is now available in our Rewards Zone — the Paper Girls enamel pin set! Based on the best-selling Paper Girls series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, this pin set features the mascots of the American Newspaper Delivery Guild!
Available as an exclusive fundraiser for the CBLDF, these pins come as a set, or as part of a package featuring Paper Girls Volume 1, signed by artist Cliff Chiang!


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Confirmation of Coventry City departure expected
Sky Blues boss Mark Robins is due to issue a retained list after sitting down with each member of his squad
Coventry City are expected to confirm the departure of centre-half Tom Davies.
CoventryLive understands that the popular defender will part company with the Sky Blues this week after a two year spell at the Ricoh Arena.
The 27-year-old was signed by manager Mark Robins in the summer of 2017, joining from Portsmouth and making 26 senior appearances in his first season, helping City push for the League Two play-offs.
He earned rave reviews from fans for his no-nonsense, body on the line approach to defending as well as being a huge character in the dressing room.
But the defender's game time was limited to 25 games in his second season at the club, resulting in Davies becoming increasingly frustrated.
Popular defender Tom Davies is expected to leave Coventry City this week
Robins revealed after the last home game of the season against Shrewsbury Town that the club planned to triggger an option in the player's contract to extend his two year deal by a further 12 months.
But in an interview after that match Davies suggested that the situation was not as simple as that, hinting that he was disappointed not to have been offered a longer deal and saying that the issue of his future might "show its head again" in the coming weeks.
And a week later the centre-half was conspicuous by his absence at Doncaster Rovers.
Asked if he was injured, Robins said after the 2-0 last day defeat at the Keepmoat Stadium: "No, I left Tom out.
"Tom, umm... Look, I made a decision based on wanting to play Jordan Willis today, Dom Hyam and to get some of the younger players on the bench and that was the decision I made."
Pressed further about rumours that he could be leaving the club, he replied: "I have seen something on social media.
"I have got absolutely nothing to say on it because I'll do the business in the right way and let people know what's happening with individuals as and when.
Coventry City boss Mark Robins is due to announce his retained list
"And then if people want to ask me questions after that then I have got no problem with answering them."
Robins is due to sit down with each member of his squad for one to one feedback meetings early this week when he will also inform players whether or not they figure in his plans, before issuing a retained list.
Davies is expected to be one of a number of players parting company with the club this week, with fellow centre-back Jordan Willis also set to leave as his contract expires, the player keen to test himself in the Championship.
Robins would like to keep him but the 24-year-old has long held ambitions to play at a higher level and has been strongly linked with a move to newly-promoted Luton Town.
Goalkeeper Lee Burge is another out of contract senior who is expected to be leaving this summer as well as right-back Jack Grimmer, who has endured a frustrating season playing understudy to Chelsea loan man Dujon Sterling.
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Letters to the editor: Community colleges, legalize drugs, credit cards, Cheney
Updated: Mar. 27, 2019, 12:05 a.m. | Published: May. 23, 2009, 12:00 a.m.
By Letters to the editor | The Oregonian
Print publication: Saturday, May 23, 2009
Paper industry defends green tax credit
The forest products industry has long been a good steward of the environment. The paper industry is a national leader in clean, renewable energy, generating more energy from renewable biomass than all the solar, wind and geothermal energy nationwide.
That's enough to power 2.7 million homes. We at International Paper are very proud that we are one of the leading producers and users of renewable biomass energy in the nation.
Congress and the Obama administration are seeking to encourage more of this kind of renewable energy in order to improve our environment and increase our energy security. At the same time, however, some in Congress have discussed making changes to the tax code that would discriminate against existing renewable energy producers like International Paper's Springfield mill. Taking away renewable energy tax credits from those who have been generating renewable energy for decades in order to give a break for a select few is patently unfair.
Contrary to what has been reported about the credit, the Springfield mill has decreased its use of fossil fuels as a result of our qualification for the tax credit. We are now generating 90,000 pounds per hour of steam using a biofuel called black liquor instead of using natural gas. We are saving 2.16 billion BTUs per day of natural gas, which is equivalent to 15,000 gallons of diesel fuel. The energy tax credit is doing exactly what it was intended for here at Springfield, which is to displace fossil fuel use with environmentally friendly biofuels.
Sen. Ron Wyden recently pledged to support and encourage our ongoing environmental stewardship, which is a testimony to both his commitment to our industry and his understanding of manufacturing.
Congress should allow the tax provision to remain in place throughout 2009 in the interest of fairness to the forest products industry. As Congress evaluates public policies in this area, renewable power generated by our industry deserves equal treatment and consideration with other environmentally beneficial energy sources.
KENNETH M. HILL
Mill Manager
Development recovery slow
The Portland Development Commission appears to be left scratching its head or scurrying around trying to put Band-Aids on an enormous wound that will take years to heal ("The 'D' in PDC seems to stand for delay," May 19).
With an oversupply of housing, bankers stung on construction loans are not going to shell out to buyers on projects that the mayor may sell. Waiting lists and multiple offers have dried up. A combination of no jobs, no taxes, no loans, no selling or buying adds up to no building. The PDC's business model appears to be frozen. Thawing will take time.
It was easy to drown out the naysayers who whispered that our easy credit was not realistic and not sustainable. We hear what we want to hear.
It may be a mistake to call our economic crash a "setback." What we need is permanent, steady growth with controlled safeguards built into the system.
SUZANNE FLOOD
Support community colleges
As the Joint Ways and Means Committee considers decreasing the state budget by approximately 15 percent from the 2007-09 level, it is time to urge our legislators to financially support Oregon's community colleges.
We must tell them what would happen to current Mt. Hood Community College and Portland Community College students if services were reduced and/or classes were cut due to lack of funding.
They must also be reminded that, according to the American Association of Community Colleges, 59 percent of new nurses and the majority of new health care workers are educated at community colleges; 80 percent of firefighters, law-enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians are credentialed at community colleges; and 39 percent of all international students are at community colleges, bringing money into Oregon and the country.
In fact, 44 percent of all undergraduates in the U.S. are at community colleges and 73 percent of all undergraduates have attended a community at some point in their college career. Half of all science, technology, engineering and math graduates with four-year degrees started at community colleges. In the Pacific region, that number is 65 percent.
The future begins at a community college.
DIANE CHAFFIN
Step up to help caregivers
I was distressed to read the article about John Wesley Myers and the implication that the reason he shot and killed his daughter Kim Mackintosh was due to his grandson, who has severe autism ("Judge weighs dementia, age in where to put 93-year-old," May 20).
In July 2008, the Autism Society of Oregon granted Mackintosh the opportunity to use the program "Take a Break on ASO." A county agency contacted us to ask if we would pay for three nights at a Motel 6 for Mackintosh and her son to stay at while her home was being improved and retrofitted for her son's needs.
Obviously, Mackintosh was working to improve her situation at home for both herself and her child. The real tragedy here is that a woman had to care for both a child with extreme autism challenges and an aging parent.
One of these tasks alone would drain the energy, spirit and finances of even the most Herculean mother or daughter.
Why weren't more family members involved and helping with the care of the father? Perhaps if family had stepped forward, none of this would have happened.
As services continue to fall short for people with disabilities in Oregon, this story should be a call out to family members: Step in and pitch in.
GENEVIEVE ATHENS
Autism Society of Oregon
Same old spending tune
Golly Miss Molly, the state of Oregon's 2009-11 budget is only 5.5 percent more than the 2007-09 budget. Doom and gloom! Oh, mighty politicians, hasten to enact more new taxes, fees, surcharges and so on, to save us from the "blight" of revenue shortfall.
What these folks really need is a permanent furlough and some real fresh air to enhance their sense of fiscal reality. Haven't they noticed that our economy is "in the tank" and unemployment at an all-time high? Yet, they continue to play and march to that same old tune: "Spend, spend, spend."
ROBERT S. FURRER
Legalize drugs to fix budget
There is a fix to this budget problem: The legalization, taxation and regulation of drugs.
Fact: There is no winning the drug war. What we are doing is incarcerating our youth, funding the cartels that are moving in from Mexico and funding the gangs.
Drug addiction is a medical problem and a psychological problem. Incarceration leads to bigger and better criminals. How is this productive? It isn't.
The billions spent on incarceration would be better spent on treatment. The taxes on marijuana alone would bail us out of this mess.
I would suggest that the billions going to the cartels would be better going to us, the taxpayers.
COLLEEN P. WILLIAMS
Offer bus line to college
On March 18, hundreds of students from Lewis & Clark College boarded TriMet buses to demonstrate that we believe it makes economical and environmental sense for TriMet to create a direct line between downtown Portland and the Lewis & Clark campus.
The Lewis & Clark administration has proposed to purchase TriMet bus passes for its 4,000 students, staff and faculty to help make the direct bus line from downtown to the campus financially feasible.
The students of Lewis & Clark would like to ask TriMet to consider the proposal offered by Lewis & Clark College and to work collaboratively together to create a direct bus line from the downtown area to the campus.
It is our hope that TriMet does not miss
this opportunity to increase ridership, to create a financially feasible bus line and offer a sustainable transportation alternative to connect students and community members to one another.
HOLLY SHUMWAY
Student Representative
Preserve local rights
Haven't Oregonians learned from giving away to the state our local school funding options?
Now in the same fashion, legislators are planning to restrict local jurisdictions from raising money for transportation projects ("Road package limits local taxes, May 21).
Thus, once again we'd be at the mercy of state lawmakers for future funding. Allocate state funds to transportation, but don't remove local officials' and voters' rights to decide whether to increase funding at the local level beyond what the state will provide.
JUDY ROUMPF
Lyrical tax wisdom
Alvin Lee said it best in the early 1970s: "Tax the rich and feed the poor 'til there are no rich no more."
Economic problems solved!
MARILYN PETERSON
Credit consequences
The Oregonian's editorial says social justice requires penalizing those who pay promptly ("Waking up to the price of plastic," May 21).
As one of those prudent pariahs from profligacy pilloried in your piece on plastic, I protest!
No one has ever been forced to accept a credit card nor -- once obtained -- has he been forced to use it.
Somewhere in the distant past, we apparently lost the ability to recognize that actions have consequences. Credit and debt are synonymous. Using a credit card is identical to going to the bank and taking out a loan. The solution to a debt problem is repayment, not to punish some guy who pays his bills or legislation to forgive the debt of someone who doesn't.
Borrowers create consumer debt. Borrowers without accountability used to be called scofflaws.
DON NEWELL
Limit interest rates
We need real reform from the banks on credit cards. We must limit the interest rates to something reasonable and not let the banks make up for poor mortgage lending practices on the backs of credit card customers.
GARRY WEIL
Invitation to Cheney
I have just finished watching former Vice President Dick Cheney on television scrambling to try to justify the use of torture.
As a Vietnam veteran who has actually been in combat, I would be most happy to subject Cheney to about an hour of waterboarding. I will personally guarantee that he will confess to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby after this method of enhanced interrogation is used on him.
T. MIKE MATTINGLY
Justice system available
The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Among those prisoners are several "terrorists" whom have been incarcerated and quite successfully kept out of society.
Why then, do our leaders lack confidence in our ability to try, convict and incarcerate the criminals housed at Guantanamo?
Clearly the system of military tribunals is flawed at best. The criminal justice system in this country is one of the most robust systems of its kind in the world. It is the proper venue for bringing the people at Guantanamo to the justice they deserve and would deliver the closure that we as citizens expect.
Revise senior tax deduction
This is a critical time in the budget pro
cess to find revenue to meet the many needs in our state of Oregon, such as services for our most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities.
The Elders in Action Commission believes that the proposed House Bill 2069, which addresses the senior medical deduction, offers positive ways to find new, reasonable and balanced sources of revenue for Oregon. This bill offers progressive and fair ways to obtain critically needed revenue to support senior programs like Oregon Project Independence and Long Term Care Services. The age wave is upon us and the fastest growing demographic is people 85 and older. We want to ensure that our elders and people with disabilities live safe and independent lives in living situations of their choices.
With the advent of Oregon Project Independence in 1975 Oregon's model of community based care for seniors and people with disabilities was born. The model provided maximum care at minimum cost to allow low-income Oregonians to "age in place."
The senior medical deduction for Oregon would be changed so that those at annual income levels above $80,000 for individuals or $160,000 for couples can still take their federal deduction allowances but not on a state level anymore. That would save our state an estimated $50 million over the next two years. Those with annual income below $50,000 and who are age 65 or older would be given the allowance to deduct their medical costs at various levels and funnel the saved $84 million into senior programs.
It is time to address the need for revenue in Oregon and be fair throughout the process. Revising this tax deduction and applying the savings back into proven cost effective programs that provide dignifying options for seniors and people with disabilities is fair, progressive and above all a long term solution to a growing population.
LORRAINE GRIFFEY
Chair, Elders in Action Commission
Remembering Jaqua
With the recent death of John E. Jaqua, a Eugene attorney who helped found Nike, this state lost one who truly fit the standard of "the greatest generation" though his contribution was certainly not limited to his World War II service as a Navy Cross-awarded Marine Corps fighter pilot in the War in the Pacific.
In his civic and professional life, Jaqua was a mentor to a truly lucky very few and an effective and well-regarded leader and problem-solver. Among others, he was Bill Bowerman's close friend and personal attorney.
Jaqua's quiet generosity is witnessed throughout this state and beyond. He clearly earned the classic tribute: "He gave without remembering and he received without forgetting." I know. I was one of the lucky few.
ROBERT D. LOWRY


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Q. I missed switching over to the new version of Google that separates different categories of messages. Is it too late to get set up like that? The number of emails I get is overwhelming.
A. Even if you declined Google's invitation to revamp your Gmail mailbox structure with the company's "priority inbox" system when the pop-up offer occurred, you can change your mind. Just log into your Gmail account on the web, click on the gear-shaped Settings icon on the right side of the window and select Configure Inbox from the menu.
In the Configure Inbox screen, you can enable up to five tabs that automatically sort incoming mail into separate categories: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. Once you have selected your preferred tabs, click the Save button in the box.
To organize your incoming messages into categories, visit the Inbox tab in the Gmail settings.
Gmail classifies Primary messages as one-to-one conversations with correspondents that do not fall into another category, like Facebook updates.
Facebook updates themselves traditionally get sorted into the Social tab, which also collects automatic email notifications from LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and other social-networking sites. The Promotions tab is where marketing messages, special offers, sale announcements and other deal advertisements are grouped.
Mail containing reservations, confirmations, bills, account statements and other automatically generated transaction messages fall under the Updates tab in the full Gmail Priority Inbox setup. If you choose to show the Forums tab, click it to see messages from mailing lists, discussion forums and other online groups with which you engage.
Gmail Priority Inbox has been around in some form since 2010. In addition to dividing your mailbox into tidy categories, you can have Gmail add "importance markers" — little attention-getting yellow flags next to the names of frequent correspondents — to incoming messages.
To do so, click on the gear-shaped Settings icon in the mail Gmail window, choose Settings and then the Inbox tab. On the next screen, click the button next to Importance Markers and decide if you want Google to use your past interactions to determine who earns an importance marker. Click the Save Changes button when you are finished.


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Becoming One Family
October 2008, Feature
by Teddy Burch
Edmond residents Ashley and Wiley Cunningham were a long way from home. Standing in an Ethiopian courtroom on a hot summer day in 2007, Ashley's attention was divided between the judges whose ruling would alter the Cunningham's lives forever and the broken, sobbing woman across the room from her. Ashley crossed the room and stopped the woman's tears. With a promise.
In 2006 the Cunninghams, a family's family if ever there was one, received devastating news. Having future children was a biological impossibility. Wanting desperately to add siblings to their already impressive brood of six, the Cunninghams turned to adoption to grow their family. More specifically, they turned to adopting foreign children – those with the greatest need and the least opportunities.
Their first foray into the tangled, bureaucratic world of foreign adoption was taxing, but the payoff was tremendous. The next member of the Cunningham family was a beautiful baby girl, Gabrielle. "The moment we saw her, we knew this was our baby girl," says Ashley.
The Cunningham family has a lot of love to go around, and they had no intention of stopping there. They geared up to do battle with the mountains of adoption paperwork they knew so well and started searching for new family members.
To their surprise, their next children came to them.
"In June of 2007 I received an e-mail about five siblings in Ethiopia," says Ashley, "There was a nationwide call out to adoption agencies to find a way to keep them together. There was a picture attached, and when I opened it, I just knew these were our children."
Wiley was wary. "I wasn't sure," he says, "I thought we'd have possibly one or two more, but this was unexpected. As a family, everyone came together and discussed the changes we'd have to make. We decided this was the best thing to do and we made the leap of faith."
Within weeks Ashley and Wiley found themselves on a flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The long flight gave them time to contemplate their latest surprise. "On the Friday before we left," says Ashley, "we got a call telling us
there were six siblings, not five."
The Cunninghams found themselves in an Ethiopian court to face the first legal challenge to the adoption. "The courts stated they didn't want us to adopt," says Wiley, "There's a law stating that you can't adopt more than three children, but you also can't break up a sibling group. Something had to give."
The second, unexpected legal challenge was more complex. In Ethiopia birth records are, at best, spotty. And Ethiopian law grants adulthood at fifteen years of age. The age of the sixth sibling, in the care of his aunt, was undetermined and the law gave the aunt the power to deny his adoption.
After lengthy legal wrangling, the court conceded on the first issue. The Cunninghams were free to adopt the first five siblings. But it took more than any court could offer to make the adoption of the sixth a reality. It took a promise from the heart.
"The courts gave us their blessing," says Ashley, "and the poor aunt was there, knowing it was best for the kids but still feeling the pain. I looked her in the eyes and, through the interpreter, assured her that these children would learn in a university. They would become something great. She broke down. Somebody literally had to hold her up. But I promised this would happen."
The solemn promise won over the aunt, and the Cunninghams made the return flight to Oklahoma with six new family members.
The Cunninghams are now one very big, happy family, but half of them are still overcoming culture shock. The family's six Ethiopian members are adjusting quickly to America, but still find wonder in things most Americans take for granted.
"When they first got here, they had never seen a washing machine, used an electric toothbrush or tasted ketchup," says Wiley, "Everything was a first. Sometimes in the middle of the night I'd hear one of them upstairs flushing the toilet just because it amazed them."
Feeding a family this size is a challenge. An average dinner might be four chickens, dozens of rolls, 15 twice-baked potatoes and a large salad. "Each day we go through a gallon milk, at least one loaf of bread and countless bananas and grapes. Fortunately, there's Sam's. We're there quite often," laughs Ashley.
Recalling a recent trip to McDonald's, Wiley says, "We ordered nine Happy Meals and 15 hamburgers from the dollar menu. It was $56 for lunch and all that was left were the wrappers. Not only do the kids now live like Americans, they eat like them, too."
All six children love American schools and all are learning English at rocket-like speeds. They're not so crazy about homework, but every page of it is a small step toward keeping the promise that Ashley made to their aunt. It's a promise the Cunninghams will never stop striving to fulfill. It's a promise that kept one family together and made a larger one a reality.
October 2008, Uncategorized
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I Want to be a Grandmother!
When I was a child my greatest desire in life was to become a mother. Not a nurse or flight attendant like my peers. Just "Mommy." After my kids grew up I longed for another title—Grandmother. My oldest son, however, did not see "grand-motherhood" as a worthy goal. But when Aaron married a sweet, Catholic...