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Posted on April 10, 2015 April 10, 2015 by Steve Murray Video Games
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Review: The Mummy Returns
As I finished up writing this review, I had to change the posting date of it. It read February 25th, 2015. I've had this review waiting to be written for a month-and-a-half. It's hard to motivate yourself to write a review for a game that does so little to motivate you to play it. Basically, this game is the game that nearly ended et geekera. I had to overcome the challenge and finish the review but I couldn't will myself to do it.
There are great games. There are terrible games. The worst thing that a game could be is perfectly average. Nothing particularly good. Nothing particularly bad. The only thing that it's great at is making you go "That was a game."
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the "sequel" to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, a game that is very well-regarded by gamers and critics. LCTOO is just a game. Nothing more, nothing less.
Let's get one thing out of the way first. This game might involve Lara Croft and be developed by Crystal Dynamics but LCTOO is not the same type of game as 2013's hit Tomb Raider reboot. While Tomb Raider was an action-adventure third-person shooter, Temple of Osiris is an isometric twin-stick shooter. While they're not completely diametrically opposed genres (that would be going from third-person shooter to a cow clicker), the differences in the games are kind of obvious from the start.
Well, I suppose that if the genre change didn't make the differences obvious, the tone of the games would do that too. Tomb Raider was like a serious version of an Indiana Jones movie. Granted, Indy never got the crap kicked out of him like Lara so it might not be the best comparison. So if Tomb Raider is Indiana Jones, then Temple of Osiris is closer to The Mummy. It's not just the Ancient Egyptian theme. It's the whole battle versus an evil Egyptian god and his hordes of minions created via supernatural, godlike means that screams The Mummy to me. Actually, that's a bit more The Mummy Returns but close enough. (I pretend the third one didn't happen.)
In Temple of Osiris, you are Lara Croft (or one of the other three people who your buddies/random strangers on Steam have to play as because you've taken Lara) whose daily tomb raid has gone horribly wrong when your colleague inadvertently awoke the evil Egyptian god Set and some other ancient Egyptian guardians have you help them reassemble a statue of Osiris so it will reanimate and put Set in his place. Basically, it's a B-movie plot that's very The Mummy. Unless you're a student of Ancient Egyptian mythology and know the origin story LCTOO is playing off.
The majority of the game is spent being a shooter. Waves of enemies line up to get mowed down by your array of weapons. You do battle with scarabs, skeletons, attack crocodiles, bi-pedal attack crocodiles and a bunch of boss monsters, among other creatures, attempting to murder you before you reassemble Osiris. It sounds tedious but new enemies are steadily introduced and older enemies get different abilities between areas in the sprawling Osiris temple complex.
That being said, combat does tend to feel fairly samesies apart from the boss battles. At the end of each main temple, there's usually a mini-boss or a chase sequence (more on that in a second) or a massive horde of enemies to mow through. There are a few big boss fights at the end of each section of the Osiris complex which were each fun and unique though the final boss fight was dull as dishwater. It was Crash 3-esque. The two Gods (or masks in Crash's case) battle while you avoid them and complete this other objective that's an afterthought to the on-screen action to actually do damage to the boss. In this case, run from the hordes to shoot three glowing orb things shielding the boss. It probably would have been better with more than one person but that doesn't earn you a reprieve.
What helps keep the game fresh is the inventory system. You can equip three different weapons to go along with the Staff of Osiris. Apart from the dual-pistols, they each deplete an ammo counter at different rates but have varying damage and fire rates to allow you to choose weapons you're comfortable with. The real prize weapon is the grenade which allows you to do some AOE damage, solve puzzles and take down big enemies without blowing all your ammo. That was the combat change of pace that this game needed to separate it from Tomb Raider.
I mentioned the camera off the top because there's a big problem with some of the gameplay thanks to the camera. For whatever reason, fast-paced escape sections are littered throughout the campaign and they involve a whole lot of platforming. And that's not including a bunch of jumping around the game has you do anyway.
Tomb Raider's blockbuster movie style of platforming that was borrowed liberally from Uncharted was intuitive enough through visual clues and general forgiveness to let you blister through platforming sections with a focus on the story and set pieces rather than cripplingly frustrating platforming.
The problem with LCTOO is that the platforming is done from that high-angle perspective which makes judging anything but the most simple jumps to be an exercise in frustration. Trying to jump onto little platforms most often ends in death because you can't really tell when you're actually on top of the platform. There's a bit of shadowing but nothing that's particularly easy to see when platforming. And if you have to turn shadows off, I doubt you'd have a prayer. It's a little nitpick but it was my biggest source of frustration.
What scares me a little is that I forgot this game had puzzles in it until I quickly thumbed through the Steam reviews to see if there was anything I missed. I'd say this was sub-Uncharted in terms of puzzles that aren't really puzzles because there's no challenge to them. At least there was some dialogue or story happening in Uncharted's puzzles. Here, they were so completely forgettable that I legitimately forgot they were there.
Loot was relegated to the end of the levels. You gathered gems for killing enemies and breaking vases. These gems could be used to open chests with random at the end of the levels. Most of these rewards were amulets which activated bonuses from shooting enemies long enough without taking damage. Occasionally, there'd be a weapon. Mostly, the loot was forgettable. Are you starting to see a pattern?
The one thing I can absolutely say good things about is the art style. As opposed to the gritty, dirty art styles of Tomb Raider and Uncharted, LCTOO was very colourful. Sure, there were sandy beiges all over the place but there were different seasons represented across the Osiris complex which gave the art team a chance to stretch their legs and design an Ancient Egyptian temple and mythical creatures in winter, jungle and underwater motifs. It's a little touch on paper but it's absolutely gorgeous in practice.
Helping was the fact that the lighting engine is beautiful too. While you're not close enough to get much detail of the characters, there are lighting effects everywhere from coloured light beams and torches lighting up you and the environment to shadow play to particle effects. Maybe when I think about $20 games, I don't have high hopes. However, graphics is the one thing I can sing the praises of when reviewing this game.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris was a game. At the end of the day, that's the most succinct way of summing it up. If you're a fan of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and haven't played Temple of Osiris, wait for it to go 75% off in a Steam sale and replay Guardian of Light if you get twitchy over waiting.
Maybe I'll take my own advice and grab Guardian of Light this summer during the Steam sale to see if it's any better. It's not like it's guaranteed to be better because Temple of Osiris isn't a bad game. It's just not a good one either.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris was reviewed on Windows PC but is also available on PlayStation Four and Xbox One. Your impressions of the game may differ depending on the platform played on, PC specs and whether you prefer your games inspired by Harrison Ford movies or Brendan Fraser movies.
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Salman Khan goes to jail with five-year sentence
Bollywood's second biggest star Salman Khan has been handed a prison term of five years by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Jodhpur in the black buck killing case after a 20-year trial.
The sentence implies that Salman Khan is most likely to spend at least one day in jail, before he applies for and gets bail from a higher court.
However, Salman Khan has already kept two people ready at the district courts to apply for bail. It remains to be seen if he gets bail and comes out today itself or whether he gets to spend some time under government hospitality for a few days or weeks.
He has been sent to the Jodhpur Central Jail. He will be kept in barrack no.2, where Asaram Bapu is also cooling his heels.
Khan has earlier spent several days in the same jail in related cases.
The CJM court had earlier let off four of his co-stars — Neelam, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre and Tabu — in the same case giving them the 'benefit of doubt'.
People in the desert state of Rajasthan tend to take the issue of conservation of nature seriously.
Black bucks are wild animals, but can be found roaming freely in many places. People do not touch the animal.
The case against Salman Khan and others were pursued earnestly by organizations related to the local Bishnoi community.
The prosecution had argued that all five, along with a local person, had set out to hunt wild animals and ended up killing a black buck, a protected animal.
While it was Khan who had pulled the trigger, said the court, all five were involved in the hunt, as well as their local guide Dushyant Singh.
The team was shooting for the film "Hum Saath Saath Hain" at the time.
The case, heard by CJM Dev Khatri, carried a maximum of six years and a minimum of three years imprisonment.
The defense pleaded for leniency, arguing that Khan is now a philanthropist and supports many children and poor people through his charitable ventures.
It was, the team argued, imperative that Khan return to society to continue the good work.
The conviction could impact the release of 'RACE 3', slotted for Eid this year.
Khan has faced several criminal cases, including one of hit and run and one under the Arms Act. However, he has successfully evaded conviction in all of them.
However, unlike those cases, in this one, there were almost no witnessed who turned hostile or who refused to stand by their earlier testimony.
Beside the cases of poaching of endangered antelopes under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, a case under sections 3/25 and 3/27 of the Arms Act was filed against Khan for allegedly keeping and using firearms with an expired licence in the poaching of blackbucks in Kankani near Jodhpur on October 1–2, 1998.
On 17 February 2006, Khan was sentenced to one year in prison for hunting the Chinkara, an endangered species. The sentence was stayed by a higher court during appeal.
On 10 April 2006, he was handed a five-year jail term and remanded to Jodhpur jail until 13 April when he was granted bail. On 24 July 2012, Rajasthan High Court finalized charges against Salman Khan and his other colleagues in the endangered blackbuck killing case, paving way for the start of the trial.
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Fallout 76 will definitely not be going free-to-play, according to the latest information from Bethesda's official Twitter account.
The simple and succinct response has come as result of recent speculation that Bethesda is preparing to re-release Fallout 76 as a fully-fledged free-to-play game, which they've shot down in a rather decisive manner.
Fallout 76 free-to-play won't be a thing, then, if you ask Bethesda. The response in question was posted when one user said what many have been thinking: "If @Fallout 76 goes Free-to-Play, I want my money back. Straight up. 500 Atoms ain't gonna cut it this time."
Shortly thereafter, the official Bethesda Twitter said that: "There is no truth to this rumor," which prompted the original poster to say that they're a big fan of Fallout 76, that it's a great game, and they're hoping that Bethesda will keep their word.
Amusingly, other Twitter users soon jumped in to contest two of the claims the user above made: that Fallout 76 is great, and that Fallout 76 is a game. The whole episode ended on a positive note, and now we know for a fact that Fallout 76 will not be free-to-play.


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If the honey has started to crystallize it easy to make it liquid again by gently heating the bottle in hot water or by putting it in the microwave for a short moment.


Between euthanasia and extensive therapy, there is a third way the principles of which were defined forty years ago in England: this is referred to as palliative care.
This term encompasses various initiatives to increase not the "quantity" of life of the patient – since we are here talking about persons in the terminal phase – but the "quality" of their lives.
First of all, it requires doing anything one can to relieve the physical pain. Thanks to specific medication (sedatives), this is possible in 95% of the cases.
It also means that the care of the patient must be regular: the washing of the patient must be done rigorously, to prevent bed sores (as they occur if a patient remains too long in their bed) waterbeds or air mattresses should be used; there should be water pulverizations of the mouth as it tends to become parched in many terminal cases; the use of a complementary source of oxygen should be made possible, and so forth.
But in addition to this physical aspect, palliative care includes all kinds of efforts to accompany the patient in order to spare him too great a moral distress as death draws closer. One must help the relatives and close friends to stay with the person if they so desire: a delicate task where attentiveness and availability are essential. Often it is volunteers, trained and backed by a psychologist, who can make themselves available to the patient and their family. Numerous examples show that, in these emotional moments, communication can be difficult: the presence of a third party might provide an emotional outlet for the patient who might not want to involve his family. Or, they might help the relatives take a break from their duties which can be exhausting.
A volunteer told us he had accompanied an elderly man who fell one day into a semi-comatose state. He went to the patient's bedside with the man's wife. Unaware whether he was conscious or not, the woman wanted to tell her husband, as the last proof of her love for him, what would become of her when he is gone: she would go back home and tend to their grandchildren and so on. The presence of a third party allowed her to keep talking which would not have been possible had she found herself alone with her unconscious husband.
In all cases, the patient who wishes to be informed about the physician's diagnosis should be told the truth: the person has the right to know where he or she stands. It should be noted that most people who have requested some kind of euthanasia before the palliative care is given have second thoughts about it once their moral or physical distress has been reduced.
The over-riding principle is to help the patient live their last days without unnecessary interference and to approach death as peacefully as possible. For the Christian, this escorting (accompaniment) can be a true preparation, with serenity and abandonment, to put one's life into God's hands and, in the end, to consider death as the last conscious act of one's life.


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25-year-old Shayla Taylor delivered her baby in the middle of the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013.
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Giving birth is stressful enough, but how about delivering your baby in the middle of a tornado? That's exactly what happened to 25-year-old Shayla Taylor, who became a new mother just as a deadly twister hit Moore, Oklahoma, claiming the lives of 24 people and injuring 212 others on May 20, 2013.
According to CNN, Taylor was already in labor at the Moore Medical Center as the tornado approached the city. She was so far along that evacuating her became impossible.
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"She couldn't move," said Alyson Heeke, nurse supervisor at Moore Medical Center. "She'd had an epidural anesthesia, which meant that it numbed her enough that she couldn't walk."
To protect Taylor from the impending tornado, the staff transported her to another room in the hospital that didn't have any windows. They then covered her with blankets, pillows, and, eventually, their own bodies.
"We actually were on the floor," said Heeke. "Bonny the scrub-tech was kind of leaned over her a little more. We had blankets and pillows all around her. We were holding onto each other — and the bed."
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The tornado hit the hospital directly. Taylor said she could feel the floor shaking.
Miraculously, everybody in the room survived. When the dust settled, there was debris everywhere, with equipment and lighting fixtures all over the floor. The outside wall of the operating room was ripped off.
Taylor's husband, Jerome, was hiding out in the hospital with the couple's four-year-old son. He eventually found his wife and helped transport her on a flat board through some debris and into an ambulance. Shayla was taken to a hospital in Norman and eventually gave birth to her son, Braeden.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) stands to be the next "digital wave" of technological advancement that needs to be addressed by government, according to members of the Government Business Executive Forum on why Internet of Things was chosen as the topic for the 2017 CES Government Conference.
West explained that, because the CES conference is small and focuses on executive-level members of government and industry, attendees are able to gain "lessons learned" from each other when it comes to implementing IoT. He added that executives are often looking at how technologies like IoT will fit into agency culture and business models.
Bozzelli, who has been going to the conference for many years, added that she often sees the topics of each conference coming up in the next year's news, making the theme of this year's conference indicative of how important IoT will be in future.
"I think you're going to see a huge change [in IoT] in the next three or four years," added West.
Another goal of the conference's small size is to foster a relationship between industry and the government decision-makers. According to West, the Internet of Things has many of the same qualities that cloud computing did when it was first introduced to government, and therefore requires a similar relationship and understanding with industry.
"What are the cost savings? That's where cloud really took off," said West.
"You have to put the Internet of Things into the context of the mission of the organization," said Bozzelli, adding that members of industry often come to the conference to learn where they can fit into government use of new technologies.
"I think there's going to be a lot of takeaways on how far things are progressing," said West.
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The majority union at the South African Revenue Service (Sars) on Friday said its members would down tools next week Thursday if their wage demands were not met.
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'We are on high alert': Berejiklian alarmed by new COVID-19 cases unlinked to Avalon cluster
By Lucy Cormack and Josh Dye
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Sydneysiders should be on high alert following new COVID-19 cases unlinked to the Avalon cluster, coupled with a collapse in testing numbers over the holiday weekend.
Ms Berejiklian on Tuesday said the threat in greater Sydney was now almost equal to the lower northern beaches, where locals could look forward to lockdown restrictions easing from Sunday.
Relief for the upper northern beaches is not expected until at least January 9.
A statewide police operation is being planned for New Year's Eve with large numbers of uniformed and specialist command officers across the city centre to stop large numbers of revellers congregating, leading to a potential super spreader event.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant address the Tuesday news conference. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
NSW recorded six new local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with three cases linked to the Avalon cluster. However, the Premier and health authorities were most concerned with three unlinked cases to the northern beaches, including a case from Wollongong, the inner west and Sydney's northern region.
"The risk in greater Sydney, in greater NSW, is almost as high as the southern tip of the northern beaches," Ms Berejiklian said.
"Until those links are established, all of us in greater Sydney have to be on high alert."
Until those links are established, all of us in greater Sydney have to be on high alert.
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Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said authorities were interviewing the three unlinked cases. Initial information indicated the Wollongong case had been in the Sydney central business district.
"This highlights how situations can change quite rapidly, and that's why we mentioned those cases, but those interviews are occurring as we speak," Dr Chant said.
Dr Chant said the rate of testing needed to be doubled as figures dipped over the holiday weekend with 16,300 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 8pm.
"Whilst many weeks ago I would have been happy with 16,320 tests in a 24-hour period, for me now I want to see those numbers pushed up, well over 20 to 30,000," she said.
Dr Chant again issued a plea to Sydneysiders to stay home this New Year's Eve.
"Limit your gatherings, only meet with those people that are essential to meet with. This will assist us if there are any undetected chains of transmission, to ensure that we don't have a super spreading event," she said.
From 5pm on Thursday, key fireworks vantage points in the CBD and lower north shore such as Circular Quay and Milsons Point will be accessible only to residents and those with bookings at restaurants or hotels under a permit system for areas that previously hosted hundreds of thousands of revellers.
North Sydney, Inner West, Hunters Hill and Woollahra councils have announced plans to close other popular vantage points outside of the permit zone.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing said the measures governing the harbour foreshore, city centre and greater Sydney on New Year's Eve would be strictly enforced.
"If you don't have a New Year's Eve pass do not try and get into the CBD green zone. Police officers will be equipped with powers under the health order to move people on, should they be congregating in numbers that are unsafe," he said.
Under the health order groups of up to 50 people can gather outdoors in greater Sydney.
Households in the upper northern beaches can gather with five visitors from the local area at home or outside, over the two-day period. Those south of Narrabeen Bridge can gather with up to 10 people, also only from their local area.
Assistant Commissioner Willing said police were continuing to investigate a wedding at the weekend which was attended by guests from the northern beaches, including the bride and groom, in breach of current health orders.
Police were called to the wedding at Doltone House in Pyrmont after receiving a tip-off. Twelve $1000 infringement notices were subsequently issued, however more are expected to be issued.
"That matter is currently under investigation... obviously the bride and groom were involved in it and that's subject to further investigation," he said.
Cricket officials in Sydney are yet to announce whether the city can hold on to this summer's Test, with Cricket Australia expected to make its decision on the fate of the New Year's fixture on Tuesday.
Ms Berejiklian said she had spoken with Cricket Australia, but despite the best efforts of the government and the sporting body, they remained the decision was "out of our hands."
"[Cricket Australia] has been very positive and very optimistic about the way in which we have been dealing with them... they did say they were concerned about the Queensland government's position and what that means for their players once they finish the test here," she said.
"We've certainly done the best we can do... but there are also issues beyond our control and I've said from the beginning that every state government makes its own decisions."
Ms Berejiklian said she would be "extremely disappointed" if Sydney missed out on the test due to stringent restrictions in Queensland.
Lucy Cormack
Lucy Cormack is a state political reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Ferdinando Gasparo Bertoni (ur. 15 sierpnia 1725 w Salò prowincja Brescia, zm. 1 grudnia 1813 w Desenzano nad jeziorem Garda) – włoski kompozytor, organista i kapelmistrz.

Życiorys
Muzyki uczył się w latach 1744-1745 u Giovanni Battiście Martiniego w Bolonii, gdzie w 1773 został przyjęty do . W 1745 przeniósł się do Wenecji i tam od 1752 był pierwszym organistą, a w latach 1785–1808 pierwszym dyrygentem w bazylice św. Marka. Równocześnie od 1757 pełnił funkcję chórmistrza (maestro di coro) w Conservatorio dei Mendicanti. W latach 1778–1780 i 1781–1783 wystawiał swoje opery w  w Londynie. Bertoni zaliczany jest do ważniejszych północnowłoskich kompozytorów przedklasycystycznych.

Kompozycje
 Six sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano-Forte... op. 1, (Londyn, ok. 1779)
 Six Qartettos for Two Violins, a Tenor, and Violone (Londyn, ok. 1783)
 49 oper, m.in. Orfeo ed Euridice, libretto: Ranieri de' Calzabigi (wyst. w Padwie, 1776)
 21 oratoriów
 13 kantat
 liczne msze, m.in. Messa da Requiem (1792) i Miserere concertato (1802)

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

Włoscy kompozytorzy
Włoscy kompozytorzy operowi
Artyści związani z Wenecją
Urodzeni w 1725
Zmarli w 1813

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Curiosidades. Google, modas y falsos entendidos.
Buscando en Google "music listening" aparecen estas imágenes.
Datos curiosos que me hacen pensar sobre como Google manipula resultados para ir acorde a intereses comerciales:
Nadie está escuchando realmente música en las imágenes, están conectados a un aparato y audífonos
No hay en la primer página de resultados un grupo musical, un músico, una orquesta, un cantante ni una sala de conciertos o espacio similar, nada que realmente y de primera mano cree o esté ligado a la creación de música.
Todos, todos solo tienen audífonos.
Seguramente solo suspicacias de mi parte pero me pareció peculiar.
Escuchar música no es escuchar audífonos y ni un Hi-Fi en casa o auto es estar en vivo frente a la música misma, lo otro es escuchar Hi-Fi o audio
Publicado miércoles, enero 31, 2018 No hay comentarios: Enlaces a este tema
Espero poder traducirlo en breve, me parece concreto y muy informativo.
El artículo original en: http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/EARS.htm
Music and The Human Ear
This section contains information on the softest and loudest sounds we can hear, the range of frequencies we can hear, subjective vs. objective loudness, how we locate the source of a sound, and sound distortion. This section focuses mainly on the ear itself, but the brain is an integral part of the human hearing system. A separate section considers the function of the brain in more detail.
The human ear is a truly remarkable instrument. At one point in my life I designed Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) systems for the U. S. military. The primary function of an ECM system is to detect an enemy before he (it's rarely a she) detects you, for self-defense. It is interesting to compare the characteristics of a good ECM system and human hearing:
Comparison of characteristics
Good ECM system
Human hearing
Directional coverage
Source location accuracy
Within 1-5 degrees
About 5-degrees
Ratio of highest to lowest frequency (bigger the better)
1000 : 1
Ratio of strongest signal to weakest (the bigger the better)
Million : one
32 trillion : one
Human hearing is a superior defensive system in every respect except source location accuracy. Note: Jourdain (page 23) states that human accuracy is 1-2 degrees in azimuth.
In contrast, a military system designed for communications (rather than detection) would typically have a much smaller ratio of highest-to-lowest frequency, no source location capability, and often a narrow directional coverage. For human communication a frequency ratio of 10:1 and a ratio of strongest to weakest signal of 10,000:1 would suffice. The far larger actual ratios strongly imply a purpose other than communication.
All of this tells me that the ear evolved primarily for self-defense (or perhaps hunting, as one reader pointed out), and language and enjoyment of music are delightful evolutionary by-products. A defensive purpose also suggests some direct hard-wiring between the ears and primitive parts of the brain, which may account for the powerful emotional impact of music - and its virtual universality among human cultures. A few years after writing this paragraph I found the very interesting book This is Your Brain on Music which confirms the speculation on wiring to primitive parts of the brain, but argues that music has a definite evolutionary function.
Back to the top.
Soft Sounds and Loud Sounds
Acknowledgment: a good part of the material in the remainder of this section is derived from an excellent book The Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Alton Everest, and from the chapter he contributed to the Handbook for Sound Engineers. See references. These sources also contain much additional interesting material. David Worrall has posted his course notes of Physics and Psychophysics of Music on the web, which includes an informative section on the physiology of hearing. A series of tutorial papers on hearing and other related topics has also been posted by HeadWize.
Sound pressure level (SPL) is given in dB SPL. This is a scale that is defined such that the threshold of hearing is close to 0 dB. The threshold of pain is about 135 dB. This is a logarithmic scale where power doubles for each 3 dB increase; the 135 dB difference between the thresholds of hearing and pain means the power doubles about 45 times - an increase of 32 trillion (32x1012) in the power level. This is an incredible dynamic range, and totally blows away anything human engineers are capable of creating. (Actually in a Dec 99 Newsgroup post Dick Pierce states that B&K 4138 microphones have a dynamic range of 140 dB, so I was underrating human engineers). At the low end of the range the ears lose function due to background noise. At 0 dB SPL noise created by blood flow in the ear is one source. It is shown elsewhere that the noise of molecules colliding with the eardrum is not far below this level. At the threshold sound level of 0 dB SPL Everest states that the eardrum moves a distance smaller than the diameter of a hydrogen molecule! (Correction! it is the stereocilia in the inner ear that move this much, not the eardrum). At first I was incredulous when I read this, but it is consistent with the change in diameter of the balloon example used in the previous section. For a 0 dB SPL the change in balloon diameter is 6x10-10 inches, which is about 1/10 of the diameter of a hydrogen atom. The sensitivity of the ear is truly mind-boggling.
Pressure is an objective physical parameter. The relationship of SPL to the subjective sensitivity to sound is discussed below. The human ear is most sensitive in a band from about 2,000-5,000 Hz. This is an important region for understanding speech, and could be construed to imply that hearing evolved to match speech. However, did the ear evolve to be sensitive to the speech frequency band, or did human speech evolve to match the band where the ear is most sensitive? (I read somewhere that babies cry in the frequency band where the ear is most sensitive). As measured by Voss and Allen, a typical eardrum absorbs about 75% of the incident sound energy at 5 kHz. The sensitivity vs. frequency behavior has a fair resemblance to the response of a piston load matched to the impedance of air, as shown in the physics section. Music levels vary from about 50 dB for quiet background music to maybe 120 dB for a very loud rock band. Subjectively, a 2-3 dB change in sound level is barely perceptible; if someone asks you to "turn up the volume a little," you will probably increase the sound by at least 3 dB. (Note that if you have a 100-Watt amplifier and it doesn't play loud enough, you need a 200-Watt amplifier to turn up the volume 3 dB. This can get very expensive very quickly). Interestingly there were some ABX test results on the web which indicate that a 0.3 dB difference in level can be detected (link no longer exists). However the test procedure allows switching between the two levels as much as you want before making a decision, and the test used pink noise for the sound. You can hear what a 3 dB difference sounds like yourself with sound files in the sound demo section.
A full orchestra can also hit a sound level of 110 dB and more, and then play a quiet passage at 20-30 dB. To reproduce this faithfully requires a recorded sound source capable of covering this 80+ dB dynamic range. (Everest quotes one researcher who claims a 118 dB range is required). A vinyl record is good for about 50-70 dB; a standard compact disc with 16-bit encoding can cover a 96 dB range, and the 24-bit DVD disk format a 144 dB range - in theory. Real D/A converters tend to be noise limited to a somewhat lower range.
A problematic aspect of music for a sound system designer is that there are brief transients ("spikes") in sound level that far exceed average power levels. Usually people talk about average, or root-mean-square (RMS) power. RMS power is really only important with respect to the generation of heat. In my opinion, peak power is far more important, since this is when a speaker could be driven into a non-linear region, and when an amplifier would clip. These two effects are major causes of distortion. Using Cool Edit 96, I recorded 10-20 second segments from Talking Heads "Burning Down the House," Diana Krall "All or Nothing at All," and Shostakovich Symphony #5. I then processed the cuts in Matlab, to generate the outputs of a 3-way crossover. The crossover frequencies are 300 and 3000 Hz. Both 1st order Butterworth and 4th order Linkwitz-Riley filters were modeled. Finally I calculated the average and peak power in each driver band, with results as shown in the tables below.
Average Power
4th order
All powers are shown as a percentage of the same quantity in the unfiltered music. Note that the average power for the Butterworth adds to 100%, but the Linkwitz-Riley adds to less than 100%. The voltage output of a Linkwitz-Riley coherently adds to unity, but the power addition is less than unity. The peak power is obtained by computing the time-domain waveform of the signal output by the crossover. Then the peak value is found. Typically the peaks occur at different times for the tweeter, midrange, and woofer, so there is no physical significance to the sum of the three powers in this case. The startling result is that by far the greatest demands on peak power are in the midrange for the Krall and Shostakovich. The 4th order reduces the demands in the high and low bands, but there is little difference in the mid-band. Only the Talking Heads cut has a greater demand in the bass. It is also quite significant that even though the average tweeter power is low, the peak tweeter power is not all that much lower than other bands, and in fact is greater than the woofer in some cases!
When I play the Talking Heads cut, my CLIO sound measurement system shows a peak sound level of 100 dB SPL in the room, and an average of around 95 dB. Judging from the oscilloscope connected to the amp outputs, the average amplifier output power appears to be about 17 watts. The ratio of peak power to RMS power was 40:1, 40:1 and 30:1 for the Talking Heads, Diana Krall, and Shostakovich cuts respectively. Therefore, for 17 watt RMS, the peak power demands are on the order of 700 Watts. This indicates that either my amps can put out peaks much higher than their rated power (possible, but I'm not sure), or they are clipping. There are demo files In the sound demo section which simulate clipping by tube and solid-state amplifiers. For more on this subject see the section on amplifier distortion.
Jourdain (page 41) states that an orchestra produces 67 watts of acoustic power at full blast. Loudspeakers have efficiencies on the order of 0.5 to 2% converting electrical power to acoustic power. Even at 2% efficiency this implies that well over 3,000 watts of electrical power would be required to duplicate this sound level. Of course an orchestra plays in a large auditorium, and no doubt less power is needed for a small room. This still indicates that power requirements should not be underestimated.
The Audio Spectrum
A major criterion of a good sound system is its frequency response. The usual frequency range considered "hi-fi" is 20-20,000 Hz. These sample tones are audible with good loudspeakers or headphones, but many computer speakers will not reproduce them at all: a 100 Hz tone, (12 kb wav file) and a 10,000 Hz tone (44 kb wav file). Yesterday I did a test using the very accurate signal generator built into my CLIO system. I can clearly hear, and certainly can feel, a 10 Hz tone. My sound system totally poops out below 10 Hz, so I can't test any lower than that. The lowest notes on organs and pianos are 16.4 and 24.5 Hz respectively. Testing at the other extreme, as a 61 year-old male (when I originally wrote this) I can hear a 13,500 Hz tone, but no higher. (It is generally agreed that women are more sensitive to high frequencies). However, good high frequency response is required to produce sharp transients, such as a snap of the fingers. I performed a test using a Ry Cooder CD, "Talking Timbuktu." Track 10 on this disk has some very sharp transients that just leap out at you from a good sound system. My pre-amp has a filter that cuts off frequencies above 12,000 Hz. With this filter in, the transients limp out rather than leap out. This shows that even though I cannot hear a pure tone in most of the range of frequencies cut out by the filter, I can clearly hear the difference in the sound quality of the transients. I repeated this test recently (at age 67) with a segment of this cut recorded as a .wav file, and digitally processed with a 12kHz filter. This time the test was a double-blind ABX test, and I can't reliably detect any difference (I can still hear a 13,000 Hz tone). I now doubt the validity of the earlier test. See the discussion on high frequency tests in the section on sound demos.
James Boyk at Caltech has posted an interesting paper on the frequencies generated by musical instruments between 20kHz and 102 kHz! He also cites a paper that states that people react to sounds above 26 kHz even when they cannot consciously hear the sound. Jourdain (page 42) states that sound can be heard up to 40 kHz if sufficiently loud (A knowledgeable reviewer of the book is skeptical about this claim. Unfortunately the link to the review no longer works).
The ear tends to combine the sound within critical bandwidths, which are about 1/6 octave wide (historically thought to be 1/3 octave). This has led to the practice of averaging frequency response over 1/3 octave bands to produce beautiful-looking frequency response curves. In my opinion this is misleading. Suppose a loudspeaker has a bad dropout (very weak response) over a narrow frequency range; the dropout will be totally obscured by averaging. But when a musical instrument plays a note that just happens to fall in the dropout notch, you will not be able to hear the note. See the example of a warts-and-all response (28.2 kb) vs. a 1/3 octave smoothed response (24.5 kb) from my final system measurements section. Since we can barely hear a 2-dB difference in sound level, it is reasonable to accept ±2 dB as an excellent level of performance for frequency response. In fact this is impossible to achieve in the real world, due to room acoustics. (see the section on room acoustics). Personally I would say a more-or-less practical goal for a sound system installed in a room is a frequency response ±5 dB from 200-20,000 Hz, and maybe ±10 dB from 10-200 Hz. It is also worth noting that the ear itself has a quite variable frequency response, as shown by measured data on head-related transfer functions, and as discussed in the next section.
What is the minimum audible change in frequency? I created two .wav files: case #1 was a series of 1/2 second tone bursts, all at a frequency of 800 Hz; for case #2 the bursts alternated between 800 and 805 Hz. I can reliably distinguish between these two cases in a double-blind test. This difference in frequency is less than 1/100 of an octave. I could also distinguish between 400 and 402 Hz. According to Jourdain (page 18) this is about normal for a young person; at age 61 I'm not supposed to be able to detect a difference of less than about 8 Hz at 400 Hz. But I can. (I repeated this test at age 67, and I still can do it). Sample files are described in the sound demo section. An interesting detail is that tone bursts that start and stop abruptly are easier to discriminate than bursts with a fade-in fade-out. I don't know if this is simply a timing issue, or if the brain is making use of the higher Fourier transform sidelobes that occur for a square window (the spectrum for a tapered burst is extremely narrow, the square burst spectrum has extensive sidelobes about 40 dB below the peak).
For music the audio spectrum is divided into discrete notes. A brief discussion of the interesting subject of musical scales is given in a separate section.
Subjective vs. Objective Sound Levels
SPL is an objective measurement of sound pressure, or power in watts, and is independent of frequency. In 1933 Fletcher and Munson of Bell Labs did a study that showed that subjective sound levels varied significantly from the SPL level. That is, when two tones were played at the exactly the same SPL level, one sounded louder than the other. And the results were very dependent on how loud the tones were to begin with. This is illustrated by the set of Fletcher-Munson curves [102 Kb]. The vertical axis is the objective SPL sound level. Each of the curves in the graph represents a constant subjective sound level, which are in units called "phones." The lowest curve is the minimum audible level of sound. As noted above, the ear is most sensitive around 2-5 kHz. To be audible at this minimum level, a sound at 20Hz must be 80 dB (100 million times!) more powerful than a sound at 3 kHz.
Near the top, the curve at 100 phones is a fairly loud level. To sound equally loud at this level the sound at 20 Hz must be about 40 dB more powerful. This change in subjective level for different loudness levels means that music played softly will seem to be lacking in bass. For years pre-amps have come equipped with "loudness" controls to compensate for this. For me, part of "Hi-fidelity" means playing music at the same level it was originally played, so this is all academic - but interesting none the less.
Source Location
An important characteristic of a sound system is the "sound image." An ideal system would create a vivid illusion of the location of each musical instrument. In designing a system it is important to understand, as well as current knowledge permits, how we locate the source of a sound. One thing that is clear is that the brain processes several different types of data to extract directional information. The data include:
shape of the sound spectrum at the eardrum
difference in sound intensity between the left and right ears
difference in time-of-arrival between the left and right ears
difference in time-of-arrival between reflections from the ear itself
A remarkable fact is that the pinna, the cartilage-filled structure surrounding the ear canal (commonly simply called the "ear"), is a vital part of direction sensing. Test subjects can be trained to locate sound using only one ear. But when the ridges of the pinna are gradually filled in, the ability is lost, in proportion to the filled in area. Apparently the brain uses reflections from the ridges of the pinna (19.4 kb) to determine direction. The head and pinna have a major effect on the sound that arrives at the ear. This effect is mathematically represented by a head-related transfer function (HRTF). There are files in the sound demo section where a monophonic sound source is processed with HRTFs to synthesize sound arriving from various directions. The full HRTFs contain both the difference in sound intensity, and difference in time-of-arrival. There are two other demo files where only one of these two differences are retained. When I listen to these files I perceive the apparent direction almost equally well with all three files, indicating that the brain has a remarkable capability of making good use of whatever information it gets.
The significance of the pinna reflection experiments for a sound system designer is that time delays on the order of 0.1 millisecond can effect sound imaging. Time delays between the left and right ear are on the order of 0.5 milliseconds, and are quite important. On the other hand, researchers have found that echoes in the range of 1 to 50 milliseconds are lumped together by the brain with the direct sound, so they are not actually heard as distinct echoes. Delays greater than 50 milliseconds are heard as echoes. My own echo research is described in the sound demo section, and you can listen to the results yourself. Echoes in the range of 25 to 100 milliseconds give a "cavernous" quality to the sound. What is commonly called an "echo," a distinct repetition of the original sound, only occurs for echoes of 400 milliseconds or longer. Echoes in the range of 0.1 to 2 milliseconds do cause changes in the apparent direction of the source.
A regular CD sampled at 44.1 kHz is theoretically capable of reproducing frequencies up to 22 kHz, which corresponds to a transient duration of .05 milliseconds. However, as discussed in a recent paper by Mike Story (e-mail mstory@dcsltd.co.uk to request a copy) the anti-aliasing filters required to record within this band cause the transients to be blurred, in effect smearing the ability of our ears to distinguish direction. Mike reports that in listening tests 96 kHz recordings provide notably better spatial resolution. In the Handbook for Sound Engineers Steve Dove says anti-aliasing filters "....exhibit serious frequency dependent delay and convoluted frequency/phase characteristics... leaving mangled audio in their wake". He also advocates sampling around 100 kHz, and says the result is a more open and spacious sound. Humans perceive left-right direction more accurately than up-down direction. Presumably this is due to the fact that we generally move in two dimensions along a more-or-less level surface. All of this information is important for the sound system designer, particularly regarding the control of sound diffraction and reflection, both of which can muddle the sound image.
Distortion is a commonly accepted criterion for evaluating high-fidelity sound equipment. It is usually understood to mean the tones in the reproduced sound that were not present in the original sound. An ideal sound system component has a perfectly linear response. This means that the ratio of the output and the input signal magnitude is always exactly the same, and the relative phase is constant, regardless of the strength of the signal. For a non-linear response (anything other than a linear response), distortion will occur. It is commonly categorized as total harmonic distortion (THD) and intermodulation distortion. Harmonic distortion means that a pure 1000 Hz input tone results in spurious outputs at 2000 Hz, 3000 Hz, and other integer multiples of the input frequency. Intermodulation distortion means two input tones at 1000 Hz and 100 Hz result in spurious outputs at 900 Hz, and 1100 Hz, among others.
The audibility of phase distortion is controversial. Some loudspeaker manufacturers, such as Dunlavy (apparently now out of business), cite flat phase response as a significant feature of their products. There is no question that under some artificial circumstances phase distortion is audible. Further discussion on the interesting topic of phase audibility can be found here.
So called "Doppler" distortion is produced by the motion of the loudspeaker cone itself. This creates some harmonic distortion, but the most significant effect is intermodulation distortion. This class of distortion can only be reduced by reducing the cone motion. A large surface, such as the membrane of an electrostatic speaker, will produce very little Doppler distortion. See the analysis for a piston in a tube for technical details.
Also see the discussion above on "clipping."
Everest quotes research indicating that amplitude distortion has to reach a level of 3% to be audible. However this varies greatly depending on the distortion harmonic products, and on the sound source. More on this below. Good CD players, amplifiers and pre-amplifiers typically have distortion levels of 0.1% or less. (Tube amps typically have higher distortion). Loudspeakers are the weak link regarding distortion. It is hard to even get information on loudspeaker distortion since it looks embarrassing compared to the values advertised for electronics. I measured 2nd and 3rd harmonic distortion of my sound system end-to-end using my CLIO sound measuring system. Since speaker distortion dominates, this is essentially a measurement of speaker distortion. The measurement was made using one speaker; with two speakers the distortion would be the same, but the SPL levels would increase 6 dB for the two lower frequency bands, and 3 dB for the upper bands. The entire measured distortion curve at the higher power level is shown in the section on final system measurements.
Measured harmonic distortion
100 - 200 Hz
1000 - 5000 Hz
5 - 10 kHz
Distortion is universally considered to be bad, and it is perhaps not generally realized that musical instruments introduce overtones that have similarities to distortion. I imagine most music lovers are aware that all musical instruments produce a fundamental tone (the "note"), and a series of overtones. The overtones are at frequencies higher than the fundamental tone, and give the sound a rich quality not possessed by a pure tone. Overtones are generally harmonics (integer multiples) of the fundamental frequency. The relative strength of the various harmonics gives the instrument its characteristic sound. You can hear a comparison of a real piano note [42kb] and a tone {42kb] with the same fundamental frequency, but lacking in overtones. There is also additional description of the spectrum of this note.
The ear is not perfectly linear and produces distortion. A short discussion of the non-linear behavior of the ear can be found in a separate section. Finally, air itself is non-linear, and harmonic distortion grows steadily as a wave propagates (see plane waves in the physics section). This is usually a very small effect, but can be significant in the throat of a horn speaker.
The subject of sound quality is not at all clear-cut. Even though tube amplifiers have higher measured distortion, a lot of knowledgeable people swear that they sound better. I finally dove into this subject in August 2006. I can clearly hear THD at 0.5% for a pure 440 Hz tone and the type of harmonics produced by a typical solid-state amp; for the type of harmonics produced by a single-ended triode amp I could not detect distortion until it reached a level of 10%. This amazing difference is covered in detail in the section on amplifier distortion. For music samples the difference is not quite as big, but is still quite significant. Many people have come to the conclusion that THD is a terrible way to judge amplifier quality, and I totally agree. Norman Koren, an advocate of tube amplifiers, has posted a very interesting commentary on the subject of distortion and the effect of feedback.
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'Annie' soundtrack fails to stand on it's own
Annie was universally panned by critics upon it's release.
Evan Davies, Staff Writer
Sometimes bad movies are successful and good movies are not. The same is true for music albums.
"Annie" is a 2014 film adaptation of a broadway musical, not to be confused with the 1982 version by the same name. As a musical, the "Annie" soundtrack is featured heavily in the movie, and the album sold very well in the United States.
It is not unusual for the soundtrack of a good movie to achieve individual success, but "Annie" was not a good movie.
"Annie" currently holds a 27% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 33% rating on Metacritic. Clearly the film was not received very positively. However, this did not seem to affect the album's sales.
A musical lives and dies based on the quality of it's songs, and this soundtrack certainly could have contributed to the movie's poor reviews.
This soundtrack is very poorly made with awkward lyrics and underwhelming vocal performances from Jaime Fox and Quvenzhané Wallis. This may be due to the fact that many of the songs on this album are sung by people who are actors first and vocalists second.
Some songs made for movies can work well even without visual accompaniment. "Annie" contains no such songs. Almost all of the music on this album features a character from the film singing about their current situation, causing the lyrics to make little sense out of context.
The songs also have no common theme or style to connect them. Each song has a completely different topic and tone, making them feel disjointed as if they do not belong together.
None of this album's content needs to be sung either; the songs don't explore complex themes or emotions. They just state facts that could just as easily have been conveyed through dialogue.
I do not know why "Annie" achieved any success. It fails both as a movie soundtrack and a stand-alone album.
This album has no redeeming qualities. Even if you liked the movie, I would still recommend that you do not buy it."
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That particular match is now the subject of an ongoing inquiry by the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACU) of world cricket's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC). The roles of the two rival captains, Wasim Akram and Mohammed Azharuddin, are under scrutiny. A host of other Pakistani players—including Saleem Malik—are being examined for "under-performance" by the ACU. In its confidential correspondence with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the ACU has suggested that the match was 'fixed' by Delhi-based punter, Ratan Mehta. ACU chief Sir Paul Condon, who sent "classified" letters to the PCB early last year, pointedly refers to the role of Mehta in "arranging the under-performance" of the Pakistani cricketers. In the match under question, Akram was out after scoring 12 runs while Malik was leg before wicket, scoring just 6 runs. Though India never made it to the semi-finals, the 'convincing win' was met with much celebration back home in India.
Mehta, whose name had cropped up during the cbi's four-month-long investigation into match-fixing in 2000, was in close touch with several cricketers, including Ajay Jadeja. As a big-time punter, Mehta was also extremely close to the entire Pakistani team, who have often visited his restaurant Mini Mahal in New Delhi's posh Vasant Vihar. Interestingly, his sister Mona was arrested by the police in Delhi while betting during the '99 World Cup.
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Multisite platform for a vibrant fine arts college
Helping the University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts and transform eight separate sites into a cohesive family.
The University of Illinois College of Fine & Applied Arts offers renowned programs in multiple art and design disciplines. When the college marketing team came to Pixo, they were hindered by several standalone sites for each program that were hard to navigate, hard to update, and inconsistent with the university brand. We equipped them with a multisite platform that makes content and site maintenance much easier, as well as a new design for each program website to better connect with prospective students.
College of Fine and Applied Arts
The challenge: Eight websites going solo
To create a strategy for eight separate websites (the college + seven academic unit sites), Pixo conducted discovery research to understand the college's and each unit's unique audiences and struggles. Activities included:
Audience interviews to define clear use cases for every feature we build
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The seven programs suffered from the same challenges: every site was built with different technology, making content authoring and tech support a headache — and there was no visual or brand consistency between them, a missed opportunity for the college.
Our research revealed that every academic unit had similar content needs, including degree information, faculty bios, research, news, and events. They also had the same primary goal: to appeal to prospective students. But just as the schools and departments vary widely in subject matter — from design to dance to architecture — so do their audiences. And as an arts college, they placed a high value on the individual expression of each discipline.
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Think of it like a family — all sites share a core set of DNA, but each member has its own individual characteristics. The multisite allows each department site to have a unique visual design, while still adhering to overarching university brand guidelines and accessibility best practices.
Each site has access to the same core set of design elements
Each site has access to the same core set of design elements, but we worked with each unit to customize the look and feel to reflect their personality and reach their unique audiences.
The multisite approach meant the budget was spent wisely because we didn't have to reinvent the wheel for each site. While the look of page types, such as landing pages and listing pages and content components, might be styled differently, the code is largely the same.
Five unique landing pages using different combinations of the same same brand elements.
The college will continue to see efficiency in the long term
The college will continue to see efficiency in the long term with the standard user roles and shared codebase, which empowers them to spend fewer resources on staff training and tech support, and more time creating content that showcases their programs and connects with their audiences.
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I started this diary last year on my 47th birthday. Tomorrow marks the passing cycle of another 365 days.
And what have I learned in this time?
I've learned that when you dwell in fear you will lose what you were AFRAID of losing. The things that you were afraid might happen, happen. And the opportunities you were afraid would never come your way, never do.
The flip side of the coin? When you have Faith, when you BELIEVE beyond a shadow of a doubt – you can move mountains.
Now, I am certainly not interested in changing the topography of the world. But I am interested in changing MY world.
My world starts with me. Over the next 365 days I will put my Faith in my abilities and talents to be a better and clearer expression of who I am. I will listen to that inner voice that says you are loved and you are beautiful in every way.
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Title II And The Return of the "Gore Tax." Or, The Debate We Should Be Having.
Harold December 18, 2014 - 6:59 am December 18, 2014 Series of Tubes, Tales of the Sausage Factory fcc, net neutrality, network neutrality, PPI, Progressive Policy Institute, Title II, universal service fund, usf
Hal Singer and Robert Litan over at Progressive Policy Institute caused some stir recently with this paper claiming that if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassifies broadband as a Title II telecommunications service, it will tack on over $15 billion in new state taxes, fees and federal universal service charges. As Free Press already pointed out, (a) Congress extending the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) in the recent "CRomnibus" funding bill" takes the state tax issue off the table; and (b) even without ITFA, the PPI Report made a lot of questionable assumptions to reach their high number.
Update: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), one of the drafters of the IFTA extension, has this short but forceful statement about the claims that reclassifying broadband as Title II will allow states to tax broadband access despite IFTA. "Baloney."
Happily, the ITFA extension lets us blow past the debate about whether states even use the FCC definition of "telecommunications" for revenue services (many don't, see, e.g., this tax letter from Tennessee as an example). We can cut right to the chase on the big thing ITFA doesn't cover — Universal Service Fund (USF). Here again, I want to blow past the question of the numbers used by PPI (which rely on a set of assumptions that amount to what we call in the trade a SWAG ("scientific wild ass guess")) and focus on the debate we should be having — do we still believe in Universal Service or not?
If we no longer believe in Universal Service as a fundamental principle, fine. Lets own that and end the program. If we do believe in the principle of universal service, and we agree that broadband is the critical communications medium of the 21st Century, it makes no sense to play tax arbitrage games with definitions. The FCC continues to play silly, complicated games with the Connect America Fund (CAF) because everyone wants to redirect USF support to broadband but nobody wants to include broadband in the contribution base. As a result, an increasingly smaller base of voice services is supporting an increasingly larger set of overall services. This makes no sense and is inherently unsustainable.
As I explain below, this isn't the first time we've debated the importance of universal service and whether we care enough about it to pay for it. Nor will reclassification trigger some sort of "sticker shock," as the PPI paper suggests. Instead, as I explain below, reclassification is the prelude to the real debate we need to have on whether we still believe in the fundamental principle of service to all Americans, or not.


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TONGA AGENCY UPHOLDS PUBLISHER'S COMPLAINT
NUKUALOFA, Tonga (Maganti Tonga, June 19) - Tonga's Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet has ignored a request by Tonga's Complaints Commissioner to apologize to a Tongan magazine publisher for failing to respond to the publisher's complaints about her office.
Tonga's Commissioner for Public Relations, Mr Siaosi 'Aho, in June decided to release to the press full details of his inquiry into the case, because the Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet, 'Eseta Fusitu'a, had not followed his recommendations and had not apologized.
Pesi Fonua, the publisher of the Matangi Tonga Online magazine, lodged a complaint to the Commissioner for Public Relations that the Media laws gazetted on 27 November 2003 had not been made public until after 24 December 2004.
The Commissioner said that in December 2003 Mr Fonua went to great pain to acquire his copies of the media laws gazetted on 27 November 2003 with no satisfactory results from both the printing department and the Information Unit of the Prime Minister's Office.
"He did not receive his copies of the Acts until 29 December 2003. His online release of 4 February 2004 was attacked by [the government] press release of 12 February 2004 as incorrect and when his supporting evidence was submitted to the Information Unit it was ignored," said the Commissioner, who noted that senior government officers had not been given authority to release the Acts.
The Commissioner for Public Relations, confirmed his preliminary finding of 21 April that, "Mr Fonua's complaint is very genuine and can be sustained."
Mr 'Aho said Mr Fonua's complaint could be sustained for the reasons that the Information Unit's action taken was based wholly or partly on a mistake of law or fact, and it was unreasonable and improperly discriminatory.
Although the Commissioner recommended to the Chief Secretary on 21 April 2004 that, "a letter of apology was in order for the failure of your office staff in their duty as public servants to be responsive and accountable for their action in performing their service delivery to the public," Mrs Fusitu'a had made no attempt to apologize to Mr Fonua.
Later on May 3, the Commissioner told her that, "your letter in trying to maintain your stance has failed to address the issue, which is simply - 'were the media laws made public on 27th November 2003 or not?' Your letter does not shed any new evidence on my preliminary view, rather it confirms my finding that there is a serious systemic problem within your office which requires urgently looking into."
The Commissioner said that the Chief Secretary had confirmed that communication was made with senior officers of her office, well after the date of gazetting because the Acts had not been released to the public.
He did not accept Mrs Fusitu'a's unnecessary deviation from the issue.
The Commissioner recommended to the Chief Secretary to, "seriously look at the communication system within your office to ensure that senior officers are au fait with policies and procedures and also what decisions they can take to avoid the buck-passing unfolded by the exercise; and, "that you should immediately look at establishing as soon as possible a complaints unit to ensure that the delay shown by this exercise can be eliminated."
The recommendations made by the Commissioner followed several weeks of investigation into the complaints lodged by Pesi Fonua on 8 March 2004.
During the investigation the Commissioner told the Chief Secretary that, "I am most disturbed by the sense of apathy in reply", and reminded her that his office was established because of the Prince Regent Tupouto'a's concern at, and wish to eliminate from government departments and organizations, "the high-handed and aloof attitude of public servants in carrying out their duties to the public".
"The matter in our view could have been resolved very simply if someone in your office was prepared or authorized to take a decision instead of awaiting your direction or return from overseas."
The Commissioner also pointed out that a Senior Communication Counsel's Internal Memo to the Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet on 18 March 2004 had said, "If Pesi's claims are correct, that the Printing department withheld the Acts, then the [government] press release dated 12 February 2004 is incorrect and remedial action must be taken."
The Commissioner declared, "that, the Information Unit did not address the serious issue Mr Fonua had raised, of withholding legislation from the public from the date of gazetting on 27 November 2003 to the date it was released and 'made public' on 24 December 2003, can be sustained".
Pesi Fonua confirmed on 18 June he had never received a letter of apology from the Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet.
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Q: When headline breaks in second line, the body text does not overflow clip correct If I have a long headline, which breaks into two lines depending on length of the String, the body text is not clipping correct inside the Container widget

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          maxLines: 2,
          overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
        ),
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        Expanded(
         child: Text(
           'here some long body text over more lines, which is cut wrong when the headline is two lines',
           overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
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           maxLines: 5,
           textAlign: TextAlign.left,
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A: I believe some widget wrapping your Text widgets, is limiting the amount of space they have, hence the clipping.  Without the full widget tree, it's not possible to be sure which.
Your containing Container widget has a height specified.  If you remove this, do your text widgets still clip?
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Also, perhaps this package might be interesting: AutoSizeText.

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