The environment one grows up in is undoubtedly hugely influential in a person's life. Pianist Romain Collins grew up just stone's throw from the site of the Antibes Jazz Festival, and his exposure to some of the greats of jazz there as a youngster may have had a lot to do with his later decision to leave France and pursue jazz studies in America. Eight years after arriving in New York Collin released his debut recording as leader, the beautiful and impressionist The Rise and Fall of Pipokhun (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2009) to widespread critical approval. Public Radio hailed Collin as "a visionary composer" and the Boston Globe described him as "among the leading lights of a new breed of jazz players." A new star, it seemed was in the ascendancy.
Drop a song onto a deck in Mixxx to kick off your next mix. Each deck features a scratchable, scrolling waveform that marks beats and cue points, along with a whole-song waveform overview for quick seeking.
Time Stretch and Vinyl Emulation
Speed up and slow down songs without changing their pitch with time stretching. Our high-quality interpolator can also reproduce classic vinyl sounds like backspins.
Beat Looping
Found a sweet loop or need to extend your mix while you prep the next track? Instantly loop a 4, 8, or 16 beat segment with the click of a button.
Hotcues
Four hotcue points can be dropped or triggered with ease. Our playback engine is finely tuned for accurate, rapid fire hotcue triggering so you can mash and remix as hard as you want to without a hiccup.
I’m not a huge fan of this method, but sometimes brute force is required. Rote memorization involves pounding information into your brain by repeating it continually. Works best when the information is arbitrary and fact-based, so applications won’t go beyond simple memory.
Set aside 20 minutes in the morning when you first wake up to write down your stream of consciousness. Write down anything that comes to mind, and continue to write until you’ve filled up three pages. At first, you might feel silly. But, as you continue to do this morning after morning, you’ll see a huge difference in how it impacts your day.
It formed the centrepiece, however, of a somewhat variable Prom. The opening and closing works were Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, respectively. Mena conducted both with an expansive nobility, which proved admirable in the Sibelius, but less so in the Strauss, where a couple of passages – the prayers of the religious, the scientific fugue – can, and did, hang fire a bit when taken slowly. The low point came, however, with Strauss's Four Last Songs, finely conducted by Mena and played with great authority, but alarmingly sung by Anne Schwanewilms. Underpowered throughout, her tone was threadbare, and there was no dynamic shading to speak of. The words came and went. In Beim Schlafengehen, she lost her way completely at one point before crooning one crucial phrase an octave down. Very, very worrying.
Imgv is a unique and feature rich Image Viewer. It is released as free software with full source code. Imgv is portable and can run on Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX, and other operating systems. Features include a GUI that doesn't get in the way of viewing your images, a file browser, slideshows, zooming, rotating, on-the-fly Exif viewing, histograms, fullscreen support, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, playlists, view and download images from Web sites, movie playing, file searching/filtering, multiple directory loading, transitional effects, image hiding and more.
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python + wxPython + PIL. It doesn't pretend to be complete, fast, or even useful, but I like it and it is the viewer I use on both Linux and Windows. It has been inspired by the famous Windows-only ACDSee.
When smoking a cigar, take the band off. If you are smoking an expensive cigar, there is no need to broadcast this fact, and if you are smoking a cheap cigar, you should keep it to yourself anyway.
To balance our ability to remain competitive with the need to invest in people who have high-demand skills, there will not be a broad-based salary program in GTS in 2012. Instead, we will target the 2012 investment to skill groups or focus areas as identified by each GTS line of business, based on local market needs. These decisions do not affect the significant investments IBM makes each year in talent in addition to salary, including bonus programs, recognition, promotions, and skill development.
Social identification, not obedience, might motivate unspeakable acts
What makes soldiers abuse prisoners? How could Nazi officials condemn thousands of Jews to gas chamber deaths? What's going on when underlings help cover up a financial swindle? For years, researchers have tried to identify the factors that drive people to commit cruel and brutal acts and perhaps no one has contributed more to this knowledge than psychological scientist Stanley Milgram.
Just over 50 years ago, Milgram embarked on what were to become some of the most famous studies in psychology. In these studies, which ostensibly examined the effects of punishment on learning, participants were assigned the role of "teacher" and were required to administer shocks to a "learner" that increased in intensity each time the learner gave an incorrect answer. As Milgram famously found, participants were willing to deliver supposedly lethal shocks to a stranger, just because they were asked to do so.
Researchers have offered many possible explanations for the participants' behavior and the take-home conclusion that seems to have emerged is that people cannot help but obey the orders of those in authority, even when those orders go to the extremes.
This obedience explanation, however, fails to account for a very important aspect of the studies: why, and under what conditions, people did not obey the experimenter.
In a new article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers Stephen Reicher of the University of St. Andrews and Alexander Haslam and Joanne Smith of the University of Exeter propose a new way of looking at Milgram's findings.
The researchers hypothesized that, rather than obedience to authority, the participants' behavior might be better explained by their patterns of social identification. They surmised that conditions that encouraged identification with the experimenter (and, by extension, the scientific community) led participants to follow the experimenters' orders, while conditions that encouraged identification with the learner (and the general community) led participants to defy the experimenters' orders.
'I'm trying another drawing. The outlines of the model are normal, but now those of my drawing are not. The outline of my hand is going weird too. It's not a very good drawing is it? I give up - I'll try again...'
Admit it: You want to be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it. I'm here to tell you that you're not out of touch with reality—you can do it. Sure, you'll take a few hits, and I'm not saying there won't be some sweaty flashbacks later on, but you'll make it. You'll sit up in your hospital bed and meet the press. Refreshingly, you will keep God out of your public comments, knowing that it's unfair to sing His praises when all of your dead fellow-passengers have no platform from which to offer an alternative view.
Let's say your jet blows apart at 35,000 feet. You exit the aircraft, and you begin to descend independently. Now what?
My partner of three months recently broke up with me. His reason? He said he had feelings for his ex, and that we couldn’t be together anymore because he didn’t want to hurt my feelings. Well, I am pretty hurt regardless and I firmly believe the whole ex excuse was some lie to cover up the true reason.
I tried to continue in keeping myself in contact with him to figure out more details on why our relationship ended so abruptly, but I never received a response from him. He just closed the doors on me. Are you familiar with these type of break-up situations?
I just don’t understand. My parents accepted and adored him. We gave him everything. It was the perfect relationship, and I could tell he sincerely loved me.
Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of Plato who in turn studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.
As a prolific writer and polymath, Aristotle radically transformed most, if not all, areas of knowledge he touched. It is no wonder that Aquinas referred to him simply as “The Philosopher.” In his lifetime, Aristotle wrote as many as 200 treatises, of which only 31 survive. Unfortunately for us, these works are in the form of lecture notes and draft manuscripts never intended for general readership, so they do not demonstrate his reputed polished prose style which attracted many great followers, including the Roman Cicero. Aristotle was the first to classify areas of human knowledge into distinct disciplines such as mathematics, biology, and ethics. Some of these classifications are still used today.
As the father of the field of logic, he was the first to develop a formalized system for reasoning. Aristotle observed that the validity of any argument can be determined by its structure rather than its content. A classic example of a valid argument is his syllogism: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. Given the structure of this argument, as long as the premises are true, then the conclusion is also guaranteed to be true. Aristotle’s brand of logic dominated this area of thought until the rise of modern propositional logic and predicate logic 2000 years later.
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person's life. Pianist Romain Collins grew up just stone's throw from
the site of the Antibes Jazz Festival, and his exposure to some of the
greats of jazz there as a youngster may have had a lot to do with his
later decision to leave France and pursue jazz studies in America. Eight
years after arriving in New York Collin released his debut recording as
leader, the beautiful and impressionist The Rise and Fall of Pipokhun (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2009) to widespread critical approval. Public Radio hailed Collin as "a visionary composer" and the Boston Globe described him as "among the leading lights of a new breed of jazz players." A new star, it seemed was in the ascendancy.
Dual Decks, Advanced Controls
Drop a song onto a deck in Mixxx to kick off your next mix. Each
deck features a scratchable, scrolling waveform that marks beats and cue
points, along with a whole-song waveform overview for quick seeking.
Time Stretch and Vinyl Emulation
Speed up and slow down songs without changing their pitch with time
stretching. Our high-quality interpolator can also reproduce classic
vinyl sounds like backspins.
Beat Looping
Found a sweet loop or need to extend your mix while you prep the
next track? Instantly loop a 4, 8, or 16 beat segment with the click of a
button.
Hotcues
Four hotcue points can be dropped or triggered with ease. Our
playback engine is finely tuned for accurate, rapid fire hotcue
triggering so you can mash and remix as hard as you want to without a
hiccup.
I’m not a huge fan of this method, but sometimes brute force is
required. Rote memorization involves pounding information into your
brain by repeating it continually. Works best when the information is
arbitrary and fact-based, so applications won’t go beyond simple memory.
your stream of consciousness. Write down anything that comes to mind,
and continue to write until you’ve filled up three pages. At first, you
might feel silly. But, as you continue to do this morning after morning,
you’ll see a huge difference in how it impacts your day.
Seventh Symphony, respectively. Mena conducted both with an expansive
nobility, which proved admirable in the Sibelius, but less so in the
Strauss, where a couple of passages – the prayers of the religious, the
scientific fugue – can, and did, hang fire a bit when taken slowly. The
low point came, however, with Strauss's Four Last Songs, finely conducted by Mena and played with great authority, but alarmingly sung by Anne Schwanewilms.
Underpowered throughout, her tone was threadbare, and there was no
dynamic shading to speak of. The words came and went. In Beim
Schlafengehen, she lost her way completely at one point before crooning
one crucial phrase an octave down. Very, very worrying.
Imgv
is a unique and feature rich Image Viewer. It is released as free
software with full source code. Imgv is portable and can run on Windows,
Linux, BSD, OSX, and other operating systems. Features include a GUI
that doesn't get in the way of viewing your images, a file browser,
slideshows, zooming, rotating, on-the-fly Exif viewing, histograms,
fullscreen support, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on
the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, playlists, view and
download images from Web sites, movie playing, file searching/filtering,
multiple directory loading, transitional effects, image hiding and
more.
Cornice
is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python + wxPython + PIL. It
doesn't pretend to be complete, fast, or even useful, but I like it and
it is the viewer I use on both Linux and Windows. It has been inspired
by the famous Windows-only ACDSee.
expensive cigar, there is no need to broadcast this fact, and if you are
smoking a cheap cigar, you should keep it to yourself anyway.
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Social identification, not obedience, might motivate unspeakable acts
What makes soldiers abuse prisoners? How could Nazi officials
condemn thousands of Jews to gas chamber deaths? What's going on when
underlings help cover up a financial swindle? For years, researchers
have tried to identify the factors that drive people to commit cruel and
brutal acts and perhaps no one has contributed more to this knowledge
than psychological scientist Stanley Milgram.
Just over 50 years ago, Milgram embarked on what were to become some
of the most famous studies in psychology. In these studies, which
ostensibly examined the effects of punishment on learning, participants
were assigned the role of "teacher" and were required to administer
shocks to a "learner" that increased in intensity each time the learner
gave an incorrect answer. As Milgram famously found, participants were
willing to deliver supposedly lethal shocks to a stranger, just because
they were asked to do so.
Researchers have offered many possible explanations for the
participants' behavior and the take-home conclusion that seems to have
emerged is that people cannot help but obey the orders of those in
authority, even when those orders go to the extremes.
This obedience explanation, however, fails to account for a very
important aspect of the studies: why, and under what conditions, people
did not obey the experimenter.
In a new article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science,
a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers
Stephen Reicher of the University of St. Andrews and Alexander Haslam
and Joanne Smith of the University of Exeter propose a new way of
looking at Milgram's findings.
The researchers hypothesized that, rather than obedience to
authority, the participants' behavior might be better explained by their
patterns of social identification. They surmised that conditions that
encouraged identification with the experimenter (and, by extension, the
scientific community) led participants to follow the experimenters'
orders, while conditions that encouraged identification with the learner
(and the general community) led participants to defy the experimenters'
orders.
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Did spam text kill a Russian suicide bomber?
be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a
disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it.
I'm here to tell you that you're not out of touch with reality—you can
do it. Sure, you'll take a few hits, and I'm not saying there won't be
some sweaty flashbacks later on, but you'll make it. You'll sit up in
your hospital bed and meet the press. Refreshingly, you will keep God
out of your public comments, knowing that it's unfair to sing His
praises when all of your dead fellow-passengers have no platform from
which to offer an alternative view.
Let's say your jet blows apart at 35,000 feet. You exit the aircraft, and you begin to descend independently. Now what?
His reason? He said he had feelings for his ex, and that we couldn’t be
together anymore because he didn’t want to hurt my feelings. Well, I am
pretty hurt regardless and I firmly believe the whole ex excuse was
some lie to cover up the true reason.
I tried to continue in keeping myself in contact with him to
figure out more details on why our relationship ended so abruptly, but I
never received a response from him. He just closed the doors on me. Are
you familiar with these type of break-up situations?
I just don’t understand. My parents accepted and adored him.
We gave him everything. It was the perfect relationship, and I could
tell he sincerely loved me.
who in turn studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than
Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.
As a prolific writer and polymath, Aristotle radically transformed
most, if not all, areas of knowledge he touched. It is no wonder that Aquinas
referred to him simply as “The Philosopher.” In his lifetime, Aristotle
wrote as many as 200 treatises, of which only 31 survive. Unfortunately
for us, these works are in the form of lecture notes and draft
manuscripts never intended for general readership, so they do not
demonstrate his reputed polished prose style which attracted many great
followers, including the Roman Cicero.
Aristotle was the first to classify areas of human knowledge into
distinct disciplines such as mathematics, biology, and ethics. Some of
these classifications are still used today.
As the father of the field of logic, he was the first to develop a
formalized system for reasoning. Aristotle observed that the validity
of any argument can be determined by its structure rather than its
content. A classic example of a valid argument is his syllogism: All men
are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. Given the
structure of this argument, as long as the premises are true, then the
conclusion is also guaranteed to be true. Aristotle’s brand of logic
dominated this area of thought until the rise of modern propositional logic and predicate logic 2000 years later.