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Today's computers give us the power to split audio into hundreds or even thousands of bands and give each one a different effect treatment. At the simplest level, you could alter the static output level of each band, giving you an extremely flexible EQ, or alter these levels dynamically to create gating, compression or expansion effects in the spectral domain. These can provide far more radical results than the more typical multi-band dynamics plug-in or, alternatively, more refined ones, depending on personal taste!
If a second audio file can be loaded into your plug-in, for even more advanced effects you could statically compare the EQ of your audio signal with it and attempt to match the two (aka 'EQ ripping'), or do this dynamically for vocoding or morphing effects that contain characteristics of both signals, such as 'talking' pianos or 'singing' drums. Once in the frequency domain, you can also mathematically manipulate each band, at which point the results start to get really intriguing.The sonic ground covered by multi-band spectral plug-ins is quite considerable, ranging from delicate transformations and subtle effects all the way through to sonic mangling of the most extreme and unexpected kind. Audio quality can also vary considerably, but there's plenty of choice, varying from freeware effects to complex commercial products; let's have a look at what's on offer.
Once you have sufficient bands in an EQ, you can move beyond the peak and shelf responses of more traditional designs to generate any frequency-response curve you can imagine. This opens up a lot of possibilities, including surgically removing small details related to specific frequencies in an audio file, such as hums and buzzes that may each involve several harmonic components, but for most people it's the ability to 'learn' the frequency response of an incoming sound and subsequently apply this to another audio file that's most intriguing.
With up to 4096 bands of EQ, you can apply complex response curves (as shown above with Voxengo's Curve EQ) to simulate the foibles of hardware devices, learn the response of one file and apply it to another, or draw in your own exotic responses for special effect purposes (as demonstrated by Delaydots' Spectral Shaper).
A very popular pastime is so-called EQ ripping, where you modify the frequency response of one of your own tracks to match that of a well-polished commercial offering. This technique can undoubtedly benefit some songs with similar arrangements and instrumentation, but it's not the panacea that some musicians think. For instance, you don't want every response ripple of the target track to be faithfully re-created in your destination track, particularly if the songs are in different keys, since peaks belonging to specific notes in one track will never correspond to those in the other one.
Nevertheless, EQ ripping is certainly educational, especially since it can also be used to 'learn' the response curves of other hardware/software EQs, or indeed the frequency-response foibles of other hardware such as microphones, tube amps or tape machines.
One of the first of these EQs to appear was Steinberg's 30-band Freefilter (later incorporated into the Mastering Edition bundle, but now discontinued), featuring a variety of drawing tools, a learn mode and a spectrum analyser to display what's happening. A few more recent plug-ins with spectrum-matching EQ functions include Roger Nichols Digital's Frequal-izer (previously Elemental Systems' Firium), and Voxengo's Curve EQ (with up to 60 bands, built-in harmonic generation and saturation processing for that analogue/tube sound, plus 'GearMatch', which allows you to superimpose the frequency-response ripples for up to two different devices on your curves). Izotope's Ozone mastering plug-in also includes a paragraphic EQ with up to 16,000 bands and soft saturation modelling.
One simpler plug-in that nevertheless offers lots of creative potential is Delaydots' Spectral Shaper, an FFT-based 4096-band EQ that lets you convert a WAV file into a frequency response to apply to your audio signals, or you can draw in your own from scratch using a pencil tool. To eradicate minor response wiggles there's a Smooth control, while using the Sharp control further accentuates them. This plug-in was originally designed for such tasks as making vocals sound as if they were coming through a telephone or intercom, but I've found it even more effective for extreme hand-drawn responses: by restricting the output to a few narrow frequency spikes you can turn drum loops into pulsing chords, drones, comb-filters and the like.
Soundhack's Morphfilter (one of four plug-ins in Tom Erbe's Spectral Shapers bundle) takes this approach several stages further, with two filter shapes that you can either learn from an audio file or draw in using the mouse. You can then morph between the two, using MIDI automation or an integral LFO that you can sync to the host application. The Filter Depth control has a nominal 1.0 setting, but you can exaggerate the response if you increase the setting to 2.0, reduce it to a flat response at 0.0, and generate an inverse response shape as you reduce it still further to -2.0. There's also an overall Tilt EQ control to balance highs and lows either side of 1kHz.
While this plug-in positively encourages special effects use with slowly morphing responses or pulsing changes, it can also be used in more subtle ways, such as reducing unwanted characteristics in a sound by learning the shape of the unwanted frequencies and then using a lower Filter Depth setting to reduce prominent peaks. If you have recorded tracks in a room that has 'honky' acoustics, you could also try recording some white noise in the same room, capturing its response and then using an inverse Filter depth setting on your tracks to automatically reduce the peaks.
By measuring the amplitude in each spectral band and subjecting it to various rules, you can create unique dynamics processors. A simple, yet powerful example is spectral gating. Unlike a standard noise gate that lets no signal through until it reaches a certain threshold, and then lets everything through, a spectral gate only ever lets frequency bands through whose level exceeds the threshold.
Soundhack Spectral Compand. Simple spectral gating using a plug-in like Shiny FX's Spectral Monkeyage is useful for noise reduction or special effects, while the more sophisticated Soundhack Spectral Compand (above) can also increase harmonics and ambience, and flatten frequency response.Shiny FX's Spectral Monkeyage has up to 4096 individual gates, one for each of its frequency bands, but a single slider to set the global threshold level. At low settings you can use it to remove unwanted background noise or low-level harmonics, while at higher settings it progressively removes all but the strongest frequency components, for unusual special effects. It also lets you move the band contents sideways, for crude pitch-shifting, and provides a spectral 'blurring' feedback control for ringing and freezing effects. It's not a subtle plug-in, but is surprisingly versatile for a freeware offering.
Rather more sophisticated is the Soundhack Spectral Gate, featuring a set of more traditional dynamic controls with good calibration and metering. The threshold settings of its 512 bands can be further moulded by 'learning' the spectrum of an incoming signal, or you can directly draw the desired response on its spectrum display, with a further global Tilt control to balance the low- and high-frequency threshold settings. Even better, you can switch it between Gate and Duck modes, the latter being useful for reducing prominent frequencies by reducing their gain above the threshold setting. You need to spend some time with it for best results, but it's well worth the effort.
As its name suggests, Soundhack's Spectral Compand takes things further, with a similar set of controls, except that Gain is replaced by Ratio, for compression/expansion effects, and the simple Learn button of the gate is also replaced by Learn Peak and Learn Average buttons, for setting the threshold spectrum according to the incoming signal. An Invert button lets you hear the difference between input and output signals, which in expansion mode is very useful for noise-reduction duties, since you can adjust the other controls to only remove unwanted sounds, without interfering with the desired portion. In compression mode, you can use this plug-in to flatten the spectrum, which generally increases harmonics and ambience, or dynamically reshape it for special effects.
Voxengo's Soniformer has some aspects in common with Spectral Compand, in that it offers spectral compression, but it also aims to smooth out the spectral curve using both compression and expansion across 32 bands. Each of its main controls (Threshold, Attack, Release, Ratio, Wet Mix, Out Gain, Stereo Link, Width and Pan) can be altered across the spectrum by clicking and dragging control points in their individual parameter envelope windows. This is sophistication indeed, and makes Soniformer very useful at the mastering stage.
The jargon used by many spectral plug-ins can be initially baffling. If you just want to use the presets, you don't need to understand it, but if you want to make your own sounds, understanding the basics can help a great deal.
Time Domain: analysing how the amplitude of a signal such as a digital audio stream changes over time.
Frequency Domain: analysing a signal in terms of its frequency components.
Sonogram: also known as a Spectrogram, this graph displays frequency content in one direction and how it varies over time across the other, while the brightness of each pixel indicates the strength of each frequency band.
Transform: an alternative mathematical representation of a signal.
Fourier Transform: a mathematical algorithm that converts an incoming time-domain digital audio signal into its spectral components, so that they can be treated in the frequency domain. Once this has been done the signals are passed to a corresponding inverse Fourier Transform to convert the data back into its original form.
Bands/Window Size: digital audio is transformed one small FFT block or 'window' at a time, each consisting of a number of samples, and the number of resulting frequency bands is always half this figure. A larger window size therefore increases the frequency resolution, since it results in more frequency bands, but it will also increase the overall latency of the effect. Many spectral plug-ins default to 512 FFT/Analysis bands, and thus divide the audio into 256 frequency bands, which is generally the lowest 'clean' setting. Settings of 128 or 256 result in 'grainy' or otherwise coarser sounds with high-frequency distortion (useful for robotic and metallic effects), while higher values of 1024 or 2048 (if available) won't increase CPU overhead and may clean up the output still further. However, they may also change the tonality of the effect and will significantly increase its overall latency.
Window Shape: there's often a selection of Window shapes for the spectrum analysis, since the simplest Rectangular option will produce regular audible glitches as each block of treated data is joined back together, resulting in nasty-sounding artifacts/distortion. The default 'Hanning' window generally gives the cleanest results, and unless you want to experiment you can leave this parameter alone. However, others may give interesting harmonic colouration if this is what you're after.
Overlap: since a large window size increases frequency resolution (see above) but also increases latency, you can improve matters by overlapping successive windows — for instance, grabbing a window 512 samples wide every 128 samples (4x overlap). A lower overlap setting provides faster processing and lower latency but lowers resynthesis quality, while a larger overlap results in smoother transitions between blocks and much lower distortion levels, but lots more CPU power consumption. The amount of overlap is the most critical parameter for CPU overhead, so unless you're looking for special effects it's generally better to leave it at its default setting, or keep a close eye on your CPU meter.
While EQ-ripping plug-ins let you learn the static frequency response of one sample or track and impose this on your own material, other plug-ins let you apply the spectral characteristics of one sound to another in real time. This is often referred to as 'morphing'. For instance, MP3some's Shapee is a simple plug-in that takes two mono audio signals and creates one mono output signal derived from the amplitude of one and the frequency distribution of the other. Although this twin-mono restriction is initially frustrating, it avoids routing complications with the ever-popular Cubase (which still doesn't support plug-in side-chaining, to let one stereo signal control another), and with a little care the results are surprisingly controllable and effective for a freeware plug-in.
A classic vocoder such as Prosoniq's Orange Vocoder, shown here, can make guitars talk and turn drum loops into a choir.
Waves' Morphoder adds formant shifting, so you can change the gender of the voice.Other spectral morphing plug-ins offer stereo in/out capability but avoid side-chaining issues by letting you load in a separate stereo 'target' file that loops in the background while treating your real-time stereo input. For instance, Delaydots' Spectral Morpher (part of their Spectral Suite) offers both twin-mono and target file options, plus eleven morphing modes, including spectral convolution, various mutations and spectral vocoding. This is definitely one for the special effects enthusiast.
While a separate looping target file of continuous sounds such as choirs, organ chords or synth pads works well when morphed with rhythmic sounds such as drum tracks, if you choose a rhythmic sound for your target, such as a drum loop, the morphing effect will freewheel and not stay in sync with the input signal. To overcome this limitation, Delaydots' Spectrumworx provides the option to retrigger the target sample via MIDI notes, while Izotope's Spectron provides level-sensitive envelope triggering and LFOs syncable to the host sequencer, to a similar end. I'll be covering these in more depth in the next section, since they both qualify as spectral multi-effects.
Vocoding (a contraction of 'Voice' and 'Encoder') is essentially a specialised form of multi-band morphing that can give instruments a more realistic, vocal-like articulation, by adding the 'unvoiced' or plosive sounds such as 'S' or 'T' via a high-pass filter, or generating them internally using a built-in noise generator. In vocoder jargon, the morphing 'target' sound is known as the 'carrier signal, while the voice or guitar that articulates the carrier is the 'modulator' signal.
Early hardware channel-vocoders were analogue devices using between 10 and 24 band-pass filters with extremely steep slopes (typically between 60dB/octave and 96dB/octave, compared with the 12dB/octave or 24dB/octave employed in most synthesizer filters). To achieve this steepness, extremely low-tolerance components need to be used, which is the main reason why analogue vocoders tended to be so expensive, and why they often sounded different from each other.
Fortunately, there are now quite a few vocoder plug-ins available, ranging from simple freeware to complex commercial products and employing a variety of design approaches. Some developers simulate traditional analogue designs, such as Prosoniq with their 24-band Orange Vocoder plug-in, 'for a warm and transparent sound', although it nevertheless incorporates an 8-voice digital synth with on-screen keyboard as one carrier option. Waves use a similar 8-voice synth in Morphoder, and this plug-in also features formant-shifting technology, so you can change the character of your voice and simulate guitar Talkbox effects (where the sound is directed into the performer's mouth, so that it can be articulated).
Whereas channel vocoders deal with amplitude information, various other developers use phase vocoder algorithms that split the incoming signal into many more bands (typically 512 or more) and analyse both amplitude and phase information for each band, so they can use the phase information from one channel and apply to it the spectral envelope from the other channel. Examples can be found in Propellerheads' Reason (up to 512 bands) and NI's Vokator (1024 bands). Vokator is also unusual in that it incorporates a sampler with granular synthesis features as well as the more normal integrated synth, and even supplies a set of spectral effects for each channel, like those of Spektral Delay (see next section). Although this versatility can be daunting to the newcomer, Vokator is capable of a huge range of treatments.
To finish this section I should point out that in the film world morphing is now generally regarded as gradually changing one object into another (as famously featured in the film Terminator 2) so, strictly speaking, audio morphing should gradually change one sound into another. To do this properly requires rather more sophisticated techniques than offered by the morphers/vocoders above. However, if true morphing is the effect you're after, take a look at Prosoniq's Morph, which uses artificial neural networks for pattern recognition to create the in-between shapes.
As I was researching this feature I found links to various unusual and experimental freeware VST spectral plug-ins. Their graphic interfaces may be primitive (or even non-existent) and they are supplied 'as is' with no guarantees, so some may not be fully stable under all conditions. However, most VST plug-ins comprise a single DLL file that you drop into your VST plug-ins folder, and if you hit any problems you can quickly and easily remove them. I enjoyed MP3Some's Wavethresh and Ether; the Sp3ctr3 FFT-based audio-mangling plug-in; Thaw, by Cormac Daly; and Twisted Lemon's FFTfun.
Once you've gone to the trouble of converting an input signal into its spectral components for treatment, it's little more trouble to subject these to several serial effects than to a single one, before converting back to the original time-domain version. But because even a simple mathematical transformation in the spectral domain can result in radical changes to sounds, we now enter the 'outer limits' of plug-in effects.
One of the first spectral multi-effects to be released, and still one of the most sophisticated, NI's Spektral Delay is a treat for ears and eyes.
One of the first developers to enter this previously uncharted territory was Native Instruments, with their very ambitious Spektral Delay. It has an extremely elegant graphic interface featuring twin stereo sonogram displays for input and output, and the signals pass through up to four effect stages. The first is Input Modulation, offering your choice of one of 13 spectral insert effects that can transform the sound in radical ways. Some can be found in other plug-ins, while others are unique, offering exotic spectral comb and bandpass filtering, random frequency re-ordering, smearing or scrambling of the magnitude and phase information, or time-shifting or enveloping of the incoming data blocks. Yummy!Next up is is a spectral filter into which you can draw your own exotic response shapes, and then we come to the two effect blocks that give Spektral Delay its name: you can define different delay times and feedback amounts for each up to 1024 available frequency bands simply by drawing an on-screen shape with your mouse. The possibilities are jaw-dropping, but the 'draw your own' matrix boxes keep things very manageable, especially with their quantise options for easily making some frequency-band delays multiples of others using the snap-to-grid option, and the external temp sync options. Spektral Delay is loved by its many users and is incredibly versatile, although sadly it's let down by one of the most confusing preset management systems ever devised. Capable of morphing, spectral filtering, panning, and delays, Izotope's Spectron is another spectral tour de force with great potential.Darrell Tam's Block FX (DtBlkFx) is a plug-in with a colourful graphic display featuring two spectrograms to let you see how your signals are being altered in the spectral domain, and with up to four effect slots into which you can insert any combination of 29 spectral treatments chosen from the drop-down list. The effects include a radical EQ, spectral compander and clipper, mirror (swapping frequency bands), resampling over a +/-3 octave range, four pitch shifters, two harmonic pitch shifters, two comb filters, five that change the harmonic envelope in various pre-defined ways, six masks that let you apply other effects to the harmonics of a particular note, a vocoder, and two harmonic matching vocoders. The scope for radical transformations is vast, and if this plug-in had a more sophisticated graphic interface it could sell for serious money, so snap it up while it's still freeware!
Izotope's Spectron has an elegant, sophisticated graphic interface offering real-time spectrum analysis, and comprises four series-connected spectral modules, plus a more traditional 'Smear' section featuring four 'analogue' modulated delays for phase/flange/echo effects. I've already mentioned its very tweakable Morph module, and the other three are Filter, Pan and Delay, which all benefit from a clever system of four 'nodes' that you can drag to define frequency bands and create exotic pass-band shapes and harmonic series. These nodes can be further manipulated via advanced LFO and envelope modulation.
For those prepared to boldly go where no one has gone before, the 16-slot rack and 45 modules of Delaydots' Spectrumworx provide huge potential for effect transformations both subtle and extreme.You can use the Spectron modules to define different delays for frequency bands, move different parts of the spectrum to different positions and subject them to radical EQ treatments, all with real-time movement. Although the many supplied presets illustrate its sophisticated 'musical' potential, it's also capable of plenty of more outlandish effects that will appeal to spectral experimenters.
Finally we come to Delaydots' Spectrumworx, the most free-form offering of all. Its modular 'rack' interface provides no fewer than 16 effect slots, into which you can insert any combination of a staggering total of 45 modules. Some of the many treatments on offer include pitch-shifting, mathematical operators and vocoding, plus exotica such as spectral interpolation, phase vocoding, transient extraction and slew limiting, while many modules offer the option of morphing or otherwise combining the input signal in some way with a modulation sample. This free-form approach does have its disadvantages, since it's easy to stray towards the two extremes of anarchy and distortion or total silence, but loads of presets are included for the more casual user. However, you don't need to understand what each module does when creating your own presets: just explore and see what happens. Spectrumworx can transform an audio track in a multitude of ways, and moving just one of the module controls in real time can also often result in jaw-dropping transformations that you can automate using MIDI controllers. This plug-in won't be for everybody, and it would really benefit from some LFOs, but if you're after completely unique sounds it's the bee's knees!


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Communication begins with understanding. If you want to build a better relationship with your dog, you can start by working to understand the meaning and causes behind some of her most common dog behaviors.
Despite what popular culture would have you believe, it is actually possible for dogs and cats to live in harmony even if they have completely different temperaments, lifestyles and behaviors.
Should I sleep with my Dog ?
Good news, dog lovers: Letting your four-legged friend into the bedroom does not worsen your sleep, according to a new study and it may actually help you rest easier. But before you cuddle up too close, know this: Researchers still caution against snoozing in the same bed.
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Having a warm, purring cat or two in bed with you is calming and a stress releaser. It promotes bonding with your pets and can help you fall asleep.
Can I feed my pet with raw food ?
Why feed raw? A BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods) diet is about feeding dogs, cats and other animals properly.
The goal of BARF is to optimise the health, quality of life and reproductive capacity of animals and by so doing, minimising the need for medical intervention.
Some cats spend as much as 80% of their lives sleeping, so it is worth providing them with a comfortable bed.
We are proud to present you the new luxury cat beds and scratching furniture from the brand MYKOTTY.
Cats are fascinating but sometimes mysterious creatures. Cats communicate in a variety of different ways, and to properly understand cats it is vital to appreciate how and why they communicate.
Why does my cat crave for warmth ?
Cats are mammals which means they use a certain amount of fuel to heat their bodies. Almost a third of their fuel is used to maintain their skin and fur.
You will often see a cat snoozing in a sunbeam, laying down by a heater, curled up on your lap in a warm bun, or cuddling on your face when you're in bed - especially when the ambient temperature is cool. Face it, cats like heat.
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Dutch is spoken by practically all inhabitants of the Netherlands and Flanders, the northern half of Belgium.
Dutch is spoken as a mother tongue by about 60% of the population in Suriname, most of them being bilingual with Sranan Tongo and other ethnic languages (2005, Nederlandse Taalunie: , in Dutch).
The Dutch alphabet has 26 or 27 letters (always considered 26 by Dutch native speakers, though), five or six of which are vowels.
The alphabet used for the Dutch language is based on the Latin alphabet.
As a further example, the famous Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff can be rendered as either "Johan Cruyff" (as he is abroad) or "Johan Cruijff" (as he is in the Netherlands and many other states).
Dutch is spoken by almost all inhabitants of the Netherlands and Flanders (the northern half of Belgium); in Flanders, it is often referred to by the dialect name Vlaams (Flemish).
Dutch does have a relatively close genetic relationship to the descendants of Middle English (such as Modern English and Scots), since both belong to the West Germanic language family and both lack most or all of the High German consonant shift that characterizes the descendants of Middle High German (such as Modern German and Yiddish).
Dutch and Afrikaans are to a large extent mutually intelligible, though both have separate spelling standards and dictionaries and have separate language regulators.
Dutch is often noted for the prominent use of velar fricatives (pronounced in the back of the mouth) something which is often a poignant source of amusement or even satire.
Dutch is grammatically similar to German, such as in syntax and verb morphology (for a comparison of verb morphology in English, Dutch and German, see Germanic weak verb and Germanic strong verb).
Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken by some 21 million people mostly in the Netherlands (Holland) and the northern half of Belgium (Flanders, including Belgium's capital Brussels).
Dutch is spoken by practically all inhabitants of the Netherlands and parts of Belgium, as well as in the northernmost part of France where it is called Vlaams (Flemish).
Dutch is considered to be a Category I language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
Dutch is spoken in Suriname, and there are some speakers of Dutch in Indonesia.
For the record: German and Dutch are not the same language, although they may sound the same.
There the G is pronounced softer, almost like an H. Some words of Dutch origin: yacht (comes from jacht), coleslaw (comes from kool which is cabbage and sla which means salad or lettuce), mannequin comes from manneken (little man or puppet).
Another thing the Dutch apparently are famous for is their tightness with money, as demonstrated in sayings in the English language.
Dutch is also used as the language of administration in the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname.
Dutch was made the official language of the northern part of Belgium in the late 1930s.
Afrikaans, a derivative of Dutch, is one of the official languages of South Africa.
For example, the Dutch word gans (goose) is derived from Germanic ganta, a word recorded by the Roman author Pliny the Elder.
To sum up: Dutch is derived from Franconian and Saxonian, languages that were not affected by the High German consonant shift and the North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law.
Dutch was influenced, though, and the Dutch /g/ became a voiced affricate /y/ that is similar to the /ch/ in Swiss German.
Dutch is the language of government, education, and, to varying extents, daily life in Flanders, the Northern part of Belgium.
Because the Dutch still regard ij as one letter, they always capitalize both I and J if they occur at the beginning of a sentence or a proper name.
The letter "y" is also the only letter in the Dutch alphabet that is called by its name: "Griekse y (Greek y)" or ypsilon (after the Greek letter).
In Dutch, Y appears only in loanwords and names and is usually pronounced [i].
It is often left out of the Dutch alphabet and replaced with the "letter IJ".
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [y] corresponds to the close front rounded vowel, and [ʏ;] corresponds to the near-close near-front rounded vowel.
If you are new to Dutch, Phrasebase is ideal to help you learn the basics and build to an intermediate level.
The Phrasebase website is the ultimate environment allowing you to read an Dutch Alphabet based phonetic spelling of common and useful everyday phrases in effort to memorize it and it's meaning.
Dutch Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
Dutch language are similar to English and German (mostly German).
Dutch people prefer to call their country "Netherlands".
A lot of words in Dutch are similar to English and German words, mainly to German.
The Dutch Alphabet has either 26 or 27 letters (the Dutch consider it to have 26) five or six of these are vowels.
Dutch is written using the Latin alphabet and has 26 or 27 letters (always considered 26 by Dutch native speakers) 5 or six of which are vowels.
Dutch Alphabet, Letters, Dutch Vowels, Consonants, Dutch Pronunciation, How to write in Dutch.
Dutch is spoken by 20 million speakers mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium, some small Dutch-speaking communities in northern France.
Below are the Dutch Alphabet with has some slightly different pronunciation and an additional letter.
Alphabet Flash Cards helps parents teach the alphabet to their children by removing all unnecessary distractions and by focusing on the main task at hand.
Alphabet Rhyme Time is a captivating program for teaching the alphabet to young children, using familiar music, entertaining graphics, and an original poem.
The Dutch alphabet (equally for the Netherlands and Belgium; there is only one standard language and one alphabet) has 26 letters.
In many Dutch primary schools they are taught as x ij z, and the y, when spelling, is called "Griekse y" (= "Greek y"), but pronounced "Griekse ei", or just "ij".
When I bought the WNT (Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal - Dictionary of the Dutch Language) on CD-rom, it made me doubt even more: historically, there is clearly a connection between y and ij, where y was often used as a substitute for what is now officially always ij.
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
There are other systems of writing such as logosyllabic writing, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word or a syllable or places the word within a category, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable.
Note: Examples of alphabets include the Roman alphabet, the Greek alphabet, the Morse Code, and the 128 characters of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) [IA No. 5].
In the early 17th century, Dutch adventurers arrived on the shores of Taiwan, drove out other European colonists, developed virgin land, built settlements, planted sugar cane, engaged in trade and worked to convert natives to Christianity.
Through the Dutch East Indies Company, Holland came to rule Taiwan, using the island primarily as a hub for trading with the rest of the region.
The Dutch built Fort Zeelandia in Anping near what is Tainan City today, where the Sinkang tribe of aboriginals lived and which became a major commercial hub for the Dutch.
Dutch Now!'s unique methodology results in full comprehension of Dutch.
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This is a terrific way to see your progress and watch your Dutch language skills improve every day.
Dutch: Spoken in the Netherlands and in certain regions of Belgium, France, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Suriname, and Indonesia.
Dutch Orthography: Language roots go back to 700 AD and related to language group of Frisian, Faeroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Afrikaans.
Dutch language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Bear in mind that these two alphabets shown, basically can only provide a general idea.
To really do any transcribing-work properly, one has to take a deeper dive into the extremely complex world of old Dutch handwriting.
A Dutch organization, The Netherlands Association for the Elderly Migrants (NISBO), has sent a letter to the government and Prime Minister Kan Peter Balkenende requesting that Turkish letters be officially included in the Dutch alphabet.
NISBO has also asked the Dutch government, which will take over the E.U.’s term presidency in the second half of 2004, to take up the issue at the E.U. level.
NISBO’s statement elaborated that by not including Turkish letters in the alphabet many Turkish names were misspelt with missing letters and therefore, pronounced wrong.
Just after you can take your first steps into the grammar, but it's just an overview, if you want to take it more seriously, you'll have to study many years.
The Dutch literature is another interesting source of information, as well as Dutch slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets.
And if you're a teacher, please visit our Dutch Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites built specially for you.
We studied Dutch as a family during the school year 2002/2003.
This language study was done along with a culture study of The Netherlands.
We didn't study Dutch to become fluent in the language, but to gain an awareness of the language and to be able to pronounce Dutch words.
The Dutch alphabet order is the same as English except for ij instead of y and that the Alpahabetical order disregards prefixes such as 's, 't, de, der, ten, ter, van, van de, van den, van der.
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You must learn the combination by heart: If two consecutive vowels are not a fixed vowel combination, the vowels constitute two different syllables (along with a couple of consonants).
The Dutch vowel combinations are: aai, ae, ai, au, eeu(w), ei, eu, ie, ieu(w), ij, oe, ou, oi, ooi, oei, and ui.
Note: The single letter IJ, traditionally placed between X and Z in the Dutch alphabet, is increasingly omitted from Dutch dictionaries.
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D. Puckert, U. Rist: Transition downstream of an isolated cylindrical roughness element on a flat plate boundary layer. In: A. Dillmann, G. Heller, E. Krämer, C. Wagner, S. Bansmer, R. Radespiel, R. Semaan (Eds): New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics XI, Contributions to the 20th STAB/DGLR Symposium Braunschweig, Germany, 2016, Springer, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design 136, 2017, pp. 295-304.
N.R. Losse, R. King, M. Zengl, U. Rist, B.R. Noack: "Control of Tollmien-Schlichting instabilities by finite distributed wall actuation", Theoret. Comput. Fluid Dynamics, 25 (2011), 167-178.
Schafhitzel, K. Baysal, M. Vaaraniemi, U. Rist, D. Weiskopf: "Visualizing the Evolution and Interaction of Coherent Structures in Time-Dependent 3D Flow", Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17 (4), April 2011, 412-425.
Probst, R. Radespiel, U. Rist: "Linear-stability-based transition modeling for aerodynamic flow simulations with a near-wall Reynolds-stress model", AIAA Journal, 2011, vol. 50, no. 2, 416-428.
Schmidt, U. Rist: "Linear stability of compressible flow in a streamwise corner", J. Fluid Mech. (2011), vol. 688, pp. 569-590.
Marxen, O., Lang, M., Rist, U.: Discrete linear local eigenmodes in a separating laminar boundary layer, Journal of Fluid Mechanics Volume 711, November 2012, pp 1 - 26 doi: 10.1017/jfm.2012.263 Published Online on 27th September 2012.
P. Wassermann, M. Kloker, U. Rist, S. Wagner: "DNS of laminar-turbulent transition in a 3-D aerodynamics boundary-layer flow", in: E. Krause and W. Jäger (Eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2000, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2001, 275 - 289.
A. Pagella, U. Rist, S. Wagner: "Numerical Investigations of Transitional Flat-Plate Boundary Layers with Impinging Shock Waves". In: D.E. Zeitoun, J. Periaux, J.A. Desideri, M. Marini (eds.): Proc. W.E.H.S.F.F. Conference, Marseille, France, April 22-26, 2002, CIMNE (Barcelona, Spain), pp. 377 - 384.
A. Wörner, U. Rist, S. Wagner: "Investigation of the Flow in the Vicinity of an Isolated 3D Surface Roughness".
D. Meyer, U. Rist, M. Kloker: "Investigation of the flow randomization process in a transitional boundary layer.".
O. Marxen, U. Rist: "DNS and LES of the transition process in a laminar separation bubble".
U. Rist: "Instability and Transition Mechanisms in Laminar Separation Bubbles".
U. Rist, K. Augustin: "Control of Laminar Separation Bubbles".
A. Fezer, M. Kloker, A. Pagella, U. Rist, S. Wagner: "DNS of laminar-turbulent transition in the low hypersonic regime." In: D. Jacob, G. Sachs, S. Wagner (Eds.): Basic Research and Technologies for Two-Stage-to-Orbit Vehicles}. Final report of the DFG collaborative research centers 253, 255, 259, Wiley-VCH, 2005, pp. 124-147.
C. Gmelin, U. Rist, S. Wagner: "Investigations of active control of wave packets and comparable disturbances in a Blasius boundary layer by DNS", in: W. Nitsche, H.J. Heinemann, R. Hilbig (Eds.): New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics II, NNFM Vol. 72, (Proc. 11th STAB/DGLR-Symposium, Berlin, Nov. 10-12, 1998), Vieweg, 1999, 194 - 201.
U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Numerische Untersuchung der räumlichen, dreidimensionalen Störungsentwicklung beim Grenzschichtumschlag", ZAMM 71 (5), T497 - T499 (1991).
U. Rist, H. Bestek: "Examples of the use of supercomputers in the numerical simulation of laminar-turbulent transition", Proc. 3rd European Exhibition and Conference on High-Performance Computing "Supercomputing Europe '91", Feb. 6-8, 1991, Messe Stuttgart (1991).
U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Spatial three-dimensional numerical simulation of laminar-turbulent transition in a flat-plate boundary layer", Proc. Boundary Layer Transition and Control, The Royal Aeronautical Society, April 8-12, 1991, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK. U. Rist: "An accurate and efficient code for the direct numerical simulation of transition to turbulence", in: M. Durand and F. El Dabaghi (Eds.): Proc. High-Performance Computing II, Montpellier, France, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 467 - 478 (1991).
U. Rist: "Visualisierung numerisch berechneter, dreidimensionaler, instationärer Strömungsfelder", Informatik Forsch. Entw. 7, 126 - 132 (1992). U. Rist: "Anwendung einer schnellen Visualisierungstechnik bei der Interpretation dreidimensionaler Strömungsfelder", GI-Workshop: Visualisierung - Rolle von Interaktivität und Echtzeit, 2.-3. Juni 1992, GMD, St. Augustin (1992).
U. Rist: "Blue Waves: A movie of boundary-layer transition as seen by the computer", in: H. Reed: Gallery of Fluid Motion, Phys. Fluids A, 4 (9), Sept. 1992, 1869 - 1881 (1992). U. Rist, M. Kloker, H. Bestek: "Direct numerical simulation of transition to turbulence", Cray-Channels, Winter 1992, 29 - 30 (1992).
U. Rist: "Visualization of volumetric flow-field data", in: M. Göbel, J.C. Teixeira (Eds.): Graphics Modeling and Visualization in Science and Technology, Beiträge zur graphischen Datenverarbeitung, Springer-Verlag, 85 - 93 (1993).
U. Rist: "Nonlinear Effects of 2-D and 3-D disturbances on laminar separation bubbles", in: S.P. Lin, W.R.C. Phillips, D.T. Valentine (Eds.): Proc. IUTAM-Symp. Nonlin. Instab. of Nonpar. Flows, Potsdam, NY/USA 1993, Springer-Verlag, 330 - 339 (1994).
U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Direct numerical simulation of controlled transition in a flat-plate boundary layer", J. Fluid Mech. 298, 211 - 248 (1995).
U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Numerische Simulation dreidimensionaler periodischer Störungen in der ebenen Poiseuille-Strömung", ZAMM 66 (4), T259 - T261 (1986). U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Secondary instability in transition of plane Poiseuille flow ("flowers of the sea")", in: H. Reed: Gallery of Fluid Motion, Phys. Fluids 29 (9), Sept. 1986, 2769 - 2780 (1986).
U. Konzelmann, U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Erzeugung dreidimensionaler, räumlich angefachter Störwellen durch periodisches Ausblasen und Absaugen in einer Plattengrenzschichtströmung", ZAMM 67 (5), T298 - T300 (1987).
H. Fasel, U. Rist, U. Konzelmann: "Numerical investigation of the three-dimensional development in boundary layer transition", AIAA-87-1203 (1987).
F.R. Hama, U. Rist, U. Konzelmann, E. Laurien, F. Meyer: "Vorticity field structure associated with the 3-D Tollmien-Schlichting waves", Sadhana, Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Indian Academy of Science 10 (3 & 4), Aug. 1987, 321 - 347 (1987).
Auch in: R. Narasimha, A. Abdul Kalam: Developments in Space Technology and Fluid Mechanics 1 - 27 (1988).
U. Konzelmann, U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Numerische Simulation der subharmonischen Resonanz beim Umschlagvorgang in einer Plattengrenzschichtströmung", ZAMM 68 (5), T307 - T309 (1988).
U. Rist, U. Konzelmann, H. Fasel: "Numerische Simulation des Grenzschichtumschlags im Bereich der Sekundärinstabilität", ZAMM 68 (5), T341 - T343 (1988).
U. Rist, U. Konzelmann, H. Fasel: "Numerical investigation of boundary-layer transition", Proc. 20th Turb. Symp., July 27-29, 1988, Tokio, Japan, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, 283 - 290 (1988).
U. Konzelmann, U. Rist, H. Fasel: "Numerical investigation of the effects of longitudinal vortices on the onset of transition in a flat-plate boundary-layer", AGARD-CP-438 Fluid Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Shear Flows and Transition, Oct. 3-6, 1988 Cesme, Turkey, 7-1 - 7-13 (1988).
H. Fasel, U. Rist, U. Konzelmann: "Numerical simulation of later stages of transition in a growing boundary layer", The Fourth Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Aug. 21-25, 1989, Hong Kong, F195 - F198.
P. Herchuelz, U. Rist: "Use of animated images for the visualization of computational results", Proc. XXXVIe Colloque d'Aérodynamique Appliquée, AAAF, Paper no. 22 (1989).
H. Fasel, U. Rist, U. Konzelmann: "Numerical investigation of the three-dimensional development in boundary layer transition", AIAA Journal 28 (1), 29 - 37 (1990).

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War of the Rebellion: Serial 028 Page 0016 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XXXI.
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I received a report last night that the railroad bridge across the Little Cacapon, near Cumberland, was destroyed by 1,500 of Stuart's cavalry on the night previous, and that the same party had capture a company of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel McReynolds, with two regiments of our cavalry, was there, or in the immediate vicinity, as also General Kelley, for the express purpose of preventing such raids. I ordered Colonel Averell last night to proceed rapidly from Williamsport, with four regiments of cavalry and a horse battery, to that section, and to use his utmost endeavors to chastise Stuart's party. He will act vigorously, and I confidently anticipate some good, results.
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Men of faith: Reverend Mark Whitlock, Dr. Varun Soni and Reverend Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray prepare to speak at the “Twice Tested by Fire” reception at the USC Doheny Memorial Library. Photo: Alec Faulkner www.alecfaulkner.com.
Dr. Murray has been known as a hero in the Los Angeles community for decades and has a name that has been attached to many titles and awards, but USC President Dr. Max Nikias stressed that “these titles don’t tell the whole story.” After being introduced by Dr. Nikias and USC Dean of Religious Life Dr. Varun Soni, who pointed out that October 2 was also the birthday of legendary Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Murray deflected the praise and attention he received and pointed out that his struggle is part of a larger human struggle.
“Understanding (that) we are family is the challenge of the 21st century. The pain is not going to go away. The fire is not going to go away. The truth is we are not saved from the fire: we are saved in the midst of the fire,” said Dr. Murray in an analogy to his near-death experience which occurred when his Air Force jet caught on fire in 1957.
Community Catalyst: Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray receives a proclamation in honor of his community service and 83rd birthday from City of Los Angeles Community Services Officer Josefina Salvador on behalf of LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Photo: Alec Faulkner www.alecfaulkner.com.
Despite being praised by members of the USC community and being recognized with a proclamation from the City of Los Angeles for his efforts thus far, Dr. Murray refused to focus on his awards and instead chose to discuss the dire need for social justice for South Los Angeles and other underserved communities around the world.
While also focusing on the future, Dr. Murray referenced the 1992 riots that swept across South LA and other underserved communities in Southern California and pointed out the set of root causes first highlighted by Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Poverty, racism and war were the combination that caused not only the 1992 riots, but the 1965 riots in Los Angeles as well. The poverty rate in underserved black communities is double the national rate,” said Dr. Murray, who recently celebrated his 83rd birthday and was inspired by the 1992 riots to create social justice for communities of color.
Civic engagement within South LA, which has been spurred by organizations such as Community Coalition South Los Angeles, was highlighted as a key component of the solution to social ills during the final moments of Dr. Murray’s speech.
“We have enough resources to change our neighborhoods. We have an obligation to rise to the occasion,” said. Dr. Murray.
This event was hosted by USC Spectrum.


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text: Hi i am an 21 year old QTPOC Artist from New York City. I am a freelance illustrator and painter. Oh and I'm obsessed with flowers. Many of my prints and art subjects will reflect my analysis of human nature and botany through fantastical narratives and i believe will reflect an alternative way to develop conversation around humanities and what we see or what we hope to see in current conversations about human activity.

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BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants? CALDERON: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?
BLITZER: So in other words, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America, through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job…CALDERON: No, no.
At one point in my life I worked in advertising, which is all about something called "branding." Truly successful branding is that which clearly defines a particular product or service so clearly that the consumer thinks about that product or service by its brand name above all other considerations. For example, most Americans say "Kleenex" with realizing that they're really referring to a paper tissue that could be called anything.
Last Thursday, Mexican president Felipe Calderon came to our "home court" and had the unmitigated gall to criticize Arizonans--as well as a substantial majority Americans nationwide--for their attempts to stop the flood of illegal aliens coming into the United States. Illegals coming from, or coming through, Mr. Calderon's home country. Democrats stood up and applauded Mr. Calderon's speech, including Homeland Security Czar Janet Napolitano and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, both of whom recently admitted they haven't even read the Arizona statute.
Are Democrats the political party you want representing American interests in Washington, D.C. after the November election?
It's a commercial that ought to be made--and then run every day of the week in every state from now until election day. Subsequent commercial spin-offs should include Barack Obama's above quote, and quotes from Mr. Calderon's schizophrenic double-standard regarding immigration law, as evidenced by the above remarks he made in his interview on CNN. In fact, some judicious juxtaposition of Calderon's House remarks and those made at CNN--along with a comparison of Mexican and U.S. immigration laws--would make it stunningly clear how contemptuous the American left, their ruling elites, and their fellow world travelers are of ordinary Americans.
It would also demonstrate the breath-taking hypocrisy of liberals who support Mexico's immigration laws, despite the irrefutable fact they are far harsher than those for which the same liberals are hammering Arizonans.
As for president Barack Obama: we are defined by our borders, sir. If we weren't, there would be no need whatsoever for millions of law-breakers to cross them. And in case you hadn't noticed, Europe is learning a terrible lesson about attempting to substitute faux "bonds" for genuine "borders." Bureaucratic one-worlders, with a conceit quite similar to your own, believed they could paper over--literally, with a currency--vast differences in language, customs, and culture. They, like so many leftists across the globe, believe people are nothing more than cannon fodder for the collectivist ambitions of the self-anointed elite. These elitists are utterly contemptuous of individual wants and needs, or anything else that might interfere with their grandiose scheme.
What scheme? The same old scheme that's been attempted innumerable times throughout the course of history: the accumulation of elitist power, wealth and prestige at the expense of everyone else.
Whether liberals like it or not, there is an "us," and there is a "them." While we may share common bonds as members of the same species, virtually everything else is defined by the nature of a particular national ethos. It is worth remembering that the North American continent and the South American continent were discovered and built by the same groups of people at the same time. It is also worth remembering that Old World civilizations in Europe and Asia had a "head start" of several hundreds of years over the Americas.
If borders are inconsequential, then how in hell did the United States leap to the head of the pack in less than two hundred and fifty years? Why aren't all the other countries who share similar "bonds" as successful as we are? Could it be that American exceptionalism--nowhere better embodied than in those we call the Founding Fathers--makes the ultimate difference?
You bet it does. And leftist Democrats--along with some addled RINOS--would toss it aside for "fairness" sake.
It's truly amazing how many Americans, egged on by a media which long ago gave up even the slightest pretense of fealty to this country, don't understand the marvel of American exceptionalism. Note the first part that word: exceptional. Synonyms include "better than average," or "superior." The American left, as evidenced by the president himself, believes our exceptionalism is not only unimportant, ("I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism"--Obama) but something for which we owe the world an apology.
"For postmodernists, whereby everything has to be related to something else and nothing is truly exceptional, it's a disgusting concept that America could stand above and away from the normal ruck of history. And of course, it also feeds in very much to European anti-Americanism, especially at this time of the war against terror."
"America is not like any other country. It wasn't born like other countries. It didn't come to prominence like other countries. It's not holding its imperium like other countries….It probably won't lose its supremacy like other countries. And so in that sense it is completely exceptional."
In a better world, Mr Obama, et al, would be apologizing to Americans for their abject cluelessness.
leftists, he won't enforce the law because he doesn't like it. He should be fired--like anyone else who refuses to his job.
The mid-term election upcoming in November is about many issues, mostly related to economics. But Americans should never forget it is also a choice between populating government with people who believe this is the finest country in the world--warts and all--and those who think we are a fundamentally damaged nation requiring a wholesale make-over. Between those who believe in American exceptionalism and those who have contempt for it. Between those who believe in individual freedom, ambition and prosperity, and those who want government to choose winners and losers. Between those who see Americans as the vibrant, dynamic people history has proven us to be, and those who consider us too stupid to run our own lives without their "enlightened" interference.
Those are the real stakes in November. Here's hoping a semi-articulate Republican party knows a branding opportunity when they see one.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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The sweat that the first Lemmings produced on your brow may not be there, but die-hard Lemmings fanatics may still get a kick out of this new edition.
Long ago, when the original Lemmings entered the computer gaming circuit, game enthusiasts were enthralled by a new morbid, yet somehow cute game. Lemmings - where the object was to guide a relentlessly marching troop of otherwise suicidal creatures to safety - was an addicting title that actually required the player to exercise mind-racking ingenuity on the fly. Many sequels to this original title have since been released by Psygnosis, the latest having been Lemmings 3D, which expanded upon the linear puzzles found in previous Lemmings titles by adding a new dimension to the action. Lemmings Paintball, Psygnosis' most recent pledge in the Lemmings brotherhood, takes quite a different approach to our favorite self-abusive creatures. The sweat that the first Lemmings produced on your brow may not be there, but die-hard Lemmings fanatics may still get a kick out of this new edition.
Unlike previous Lemmings scenarios, the levels in Paintball are rendered in three-quarter perspective. You begin with anywhere from one to four Lemmings, controlled separately or as a group (a la Syndicate). Armed with paintball guns, these guys have to wander through each level, be-splattering any enemies who cross their paths, their goal being to capture one or more flags that lie in some area of the map. Tricks and traps such as collapsing floors, paint-mines, and lava pits befall the pint-sized adventurers in their travels. You must carefully utilize elevators, keys, and balloons to overcome these obstacles, and in some instances, one of your lemmings may have to activate a lever to free his lemming comrades who are trapped elsewhere in the level. The strategic element, while not always brilliant, is still present, and this time around, if you get tired of playing one of the 100 or so levels, you can always play Paintball over the network.
Sadly, I had a lot of problems with Lemmings Paintball, and two things that saved this game for me were the soundtrack and the fact that Psygnosis included two of the classic Lemmings titles as a bonus. The problem is, while the graphics are pretty good and some of the levels may be challenging, the game ends up leaving a great deal to be desired. The lemmings still move to your beck and call, proceeding from point A to point B even if danger lies in between. So, while the puzzles aren't terribly difficult in themselves, the difficulty in having to navigate these dumb creatures around the precipitous terrain of each level can quickly become frustrating. Again, although veteran Lemmings-heads will probably derive some satisfaction from Lemmings Paintball, the title's bizarre gameplay makes it hard to compare this game to its predecessors. Hopefully, the next installment in the Lemmings infinology will contain some of the craftiness of the original Lemmings. Perhaps a Lemmings-Doom clone is in order. Can you picture lemmings in body armor?

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Why do the Everest Base Camp Hike? Answer: Because it’s there.
When Sir Edmund Hillary was asked why he climbed Everest, he simply replied “…because it was there.” In a nutshell, this sums up the spirit of most adventurous travelers…especially those hell bent on completing the Everest Base Camp hike. On the surface of this idea is the uncomplicated logic of “well, why not?” In reality, most adventurous travelers venture to far off and exotic places because when they’re off the beaten path they always find a deeper experience than “why not.” You find the kind of experience that occurs few other places in the world. The struggles that occur within those adventurous experiences nearly always become enjoyable (especially in hindsight) they teach lessons about who you truly are and the world around in a ways that you were never aware of before. At the end of the day, the “bad idea” and “why not” nature of many adventures is a bittersweet drug that forces you to be “in the moment” in an addictive way that few other experiences in life offer these days. So, why do the Everest Base Camp hike? Why walk the 38.58 miles through bitter cold with burning lungs in a third world country…just to view the top of a mountain from afar? Because it’s there. And because the experience offers something vacant in the daily lives of most…the adventure of a lifetime.
The venture from Kathmandu, Nepal to Everest Base Camp is a walk through the harsh territory of the Himalayas dotted with extravagant culture (the Sherpas) pristine and beautiful territory (the Khumbu) culminating with a view of the highest point on earth (Mount Everest). Along the way, through rocky paths and thinning air, you are tested physically and rewarded with raw, unmolested, and utterly intimidating natural beauty. This is a story about experiencing the Everest Base Camp Trek.
As I sat back in Dallas, Texas wrapping up some work on a tech startup based in Austin and finishing up some freelance work. One day, I set aside some time to sit down and do something I call a “Lifestyle Design” exercise. In this exercise, which I do every year, I ask myself, “if you could have, be, or do anything I wanted in the world…what would ‘it’ be?” This time the list was long but doable. Some things could be done now (learning to Salsa dance…again), some things could be done later (buying a house on the beach) and some things, needed to be accomplished while I was still young (running with the Bulls…again). I’m a traveler and adventurer at heart… as I have always been one. So, on my “lifestyle design” worksheet, the top experiences I listed were riding a motorcycle on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam and completing the Everest Base Camp hike to see the tallest peak on the planet with my own two eyes.
Sipping my happy Margarita at the Farmer’s Market, I looked around and thought “what, here in Dallas, is worth delaying my life for? What couldn’t be postponed six months in order to realize my dreams?” The answer I realized: nothing. Nothing was worth delaying my purpose in life…or my dreams…or the things I wanted to live for. Some people live for their careers. Some live for their children. Fame for some. Money and extravagance for others. I don’t fault anyone for any of those…in fact I respect any person that pursues their unique purpose in life with intensity and passion, and anyone that does what drives them. Personally, I live to experience the world. The thought sank in that nothing, at that point in life, was worth postponing my dreams for a second longer. So, I did what any sane millennial would do…I had three more Margaritas, struck up a conversation with the table next to me, and enjoyed the rest of my afternoon. That evening, I walked home, opened my laptop, and booked a one-way flight to Bangkok.
My goal? Travel Asia from “Sea to Sky”. Touch the water off the coast of Vietnam in Ha Long Bay, home of the floating islands, and then buy a motorbike and ride as far as I could west, making my way to Kathmandu to hike to Everest Base Camp and see the tallest point on earth with my own eyes. I would venture through Southeast Asia in search of amazing people and experiences until October, when winter breaks and the sky is clearest in the Himalayas. But until then I would meander from Sea to Sky and absorb everything in between.
One month after a flight purchase fueled by Margarita courage, everything I owned was in a storage unit as I sat enjoying a beer at DFW International airport…on a one-way flight to Bangkok. I wasn’t nervous. I wasn’t scared. Just relaxed, yet eager. That mood foreshadowed the next four months filled with amazing “why nots” and the kinds of escapades that would make any restless cubicle prisoner grin ear to ear.
Pre-flight takeoffs are always great before checking off bucket list items…right?
I joined a motorcycle gang (or more accurately, a “motor scooter gang”) dubbed the “Sons of Pai” as I traveled through Thailand.
I explored Vietnam as I learned what Communism is really like, absorbed a different view of how wars can affect a country, and realized how resilient and amazing human beings can be. The experience was a stark contrast to my time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and had me questioning my opinions on war in general.
I bought a motorbike named Delilah and road her through the mountainous and rural north of Vietnam, briefly “sneaking” into China before starting the even more adventurous (and enriching) exploration of Laos from the seat of a Detech Win Vietnamese motorbike.
I trotted through Cambodia, experiencing the truly third world, learning about what the aftermath of genocide looks like (the Khmer Rouge) and how the remnants remain pronounced and clear even decades later. I witnessed the impressive Angkor Wat, an ancient palace complex and justifiable wonder of the world. In between, I questioned the dichotomy of how a land could produce such an undying legacy as Angkor Wat but be so fragile as to nearly erase its own culture from the map.
I traveled to Myanmar during a civil war verging on genocide as the Rohingya fled for their lives. But I was still able to explore the highly underrated temple city of Bagan and to trek to the impressive floating city of Inle Lake, all the while questioning how I could enjoy so much while incomprehensible atrocities waged on hours away.
But Really, why would anyone fly 8,000 miles just to trek to Everest Base Camp?
The idea of hiking 38.58 miles and ascending over 8,000 ft to a place where there is 25% less oxygen in the air than at my home in California sounds exciting, to some, adventurous to others, and crazy to many. So why do it? For the beauty, the struggle & the pain, the validation, and…the beauty.
Much of the value of adventures lies in their struggle, and we all look fondly on the struggle when we return to civilization. Taking more risks than average creates innovators like Elon Musk. Enduring more pain that average creates superhumans like Navy Seals. Persisting through the discomfort and quiet of solitude creates people with the patience and insight of Buddhist monks. What’s the point? Embrace the struggle, as the struggle of breathing and putting one foot in front of the other for the duration of the EBC trek is a portion of the adventure that you will look back on fondly, immediately after the trip and into old age.
First, notice how peaceful and beautiful the view is. There won’t be a single manmade structure in sight, just epic creations of nature…and you arrived here under your own power and tenacity.
Second, notice there is little other life. There may be a small mouse that feeds on the candy bars that hikers leave behind, and a puppy may follow you from the tiny town of Gorak Shep 1,000 ft below, but nothing lives here. Eagles don’t fly here. Mountain cats and Leopards are nowhere to be seen…but you walked here under your own power.
These two facts, along with the fact that you are now acclimatized and function on less oxygen, will have you feeling like a super hero. You are existing in a place with little to no life and in view of the “top of the world”. That is validation worth adventuring for.
Traveling through Southeast Asia I met too many amazing people. The locals were both cordial and terse, charming and crass, intriguing and…. well, intriguing. All the same, the travelers I met were of the same brand. It takes a special type of traveler to leave the comforts of the western world and venture out into rural Asia. Appropriately enough, among these “interesting travelers” were a handful of people that had recently completed the Everest Trek, in May, when most teams attempt to summit Everest. The stories they told of how beautiful the place was, how charming the people were, and how entertaining the hardships (breathing, freezing, and eating “Dahl Bhat” for days on end) made this sound like the type of adventure that one couldn’t leave Asia without doing, unless regret is something you crave.
Now that I had my reasons pinned down to as to why heading for Everest was a must (beauty, struggle, validation, and FOMO), it was time to close the chapter on the first portion of my trip (Southeast Asia) and begin the second chapter, to Everest. After spending a great bit of time with a handful of crass Brits, an Italian, a couple Americans, and some very nice Burmese peeps in Inle, I bought my ticket to Kathmandu. After a 3AM bus for 7 hours to Mandalay airport and a cup of coffee to get my brain going, I sat on a plane and began decoding a handful of notes scrawled on napkins and index cards from EBC Trek veterans I had passed throughout Southeast Asia. It was October 1. Four months after I wrote “see Everest” on a piece of paper blotted with Margarita stains, I was flying from Mandalay to Kathmandu to check another item off of my bucket list. To complete the Everest Base Camp hike and see Mount Everest with my own two eyes.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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The Cafe occupies the storefront of our building. While the primary focus of the Prayer Room is ministering to the Lord, the primary purpose of Cafe Shine is ministering to people and shining the light of Jesus into our city.
Cafe Shine is open Tuesday through Saturday 8am-4pm serving espresso, tea and homemade baked goods.

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Jørem offers Atlantic salmon fishing on the famous river Namsen, with both self serviced accommondation and meal services. At Jørem you can also do activities as hunting, down hill- and cross country skiing, hiking and mountain biking.
You will find peace and comfort in a traditional, restored and cosy house, which is part of a working farm, situated only 800 metres from the river Namsen, and within a short distance of forest paths and to the surrounding mountains.
The house has 5 bedrooms with 10 beds in total, one modern bathroom, separate toilet and a large living room filled with atmosphere and history. There is broadband TV and wireless internet in the house.
All the meals are cooked from scratch, with local raw materials, and in a small bake house with a wood-fired oven, it is baked pizza and bread.
Welcome to salmon fishing and holidays at Jørem!


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The Commission heard from the RDC Kasese Lt. Col. James Mwesigye that despite efforts by government to stop encroachers from settling on the mines’ land, the place has become habitat for humanity.
He told the Commission that the matter is before court but its delayed judgment has given locals opportunity to continue grabbing it and erecting permanent structures.
Mwesigye revealed that some leaders are among the grabbers citing the Kasese district chairperson Godfrey Sibendire Bigogo whom he reported to the commission to have erected a permanent residential house on the contested land.

industry_corpus2: Mining


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Healthcare | Park View, D.C.
Medical Marijuana on Georgia Avenue?
One of the more interesting topics to be discussed at Wednesday’s (9/8/10) ANC1A meeting in a while was that of medical marijuana and the question of a dispensary on Georgia Avenue.
According to information shared at the meeting, ANC1A08 Commissioner Cliff Valenti was contacted a few weeks ago by an individual seeking feedback on the appropriateness of a dispensary for medical marijuana located on Lower Georgia Avenue. Most 1A commissioners indicated that they had not been monitoring this issue closely prior to this contact. Valenti additionally indicated that the caller seemed to be feeling out the neighborhood’s response as a result of Takoma Park’s resistance to a dispensary in their community.


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(AP) Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind,” died on Monday following ongoing heath issues, his family said. He was 82.
Cernan was surrounded by relatives when he died at a Houston hospital, family spokeswoman Melissa Wren told The Associated Press. His family said his passion for lunar exploration never waned.
“Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation’s leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon,” his family said in a statement released by NASA.
Cernan’s death leaves six survivors among the 12 men who walked on the moon: Buzz Aldrin (86), Alan Bean (84), David Scott (84), John W. Young (86), Charles Duke (81), and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt (81), who flew with Cernan on Apollo 17.
Cernan was commander of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission and on his third space flight when set foot on the lunar surface in December 1972. He became the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon on Dec. 14, 1972 — tracing his only child’s initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. It was a moment that forever defined him in both the public eye and his own.
Decades later, Cernan tried to ensure he wasn’t the last person to walk on the moon, testifying before Congress to push for a return. But as the years went by he realized he wouldn’t live to witness someone follow in his footsteps — still visible on the moon more than 40 years later.
Cernan’s death comes just five weeks after the death of former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
On Dec. 11, 1972, Cernan guided the lander, named Challenger, into a lunar valley called Taurus-Littrow, with Harrison “Jack” Schmitt at his side. He recalled the silence after the lunar lander’s engine shut down.
“That’s where you experience the most quiet moment a human being can experience in his lifetime,” Cernan said in 2007. “There’s no vibration. There’s no noise. The ground quit talking. Your partner is mesmerized. He can’t say anything.
Three days earlier, Cernan, Schmitt and Ronald Evans had blasted off atop a Saturn rocket in the first manned nighttime launch from Kennedy Space Center. Evans remained behind as pilot of the command module that orbited the moon while the other two landed on the moon’s surface. Cernan and Schmitt, a geologist, spent more than three days on the moon, including more than 22 hours outside the lander, and collected 249 pounds of lunar samples.
“We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind,” Cernan said.
He later acknowledged that he had grasped for words to leave behind, knowing how the world remembered Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” on stepping on the moon in 1969.
He had been a Navy attack pilot and earned a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering when NASA selected him in October 1963 as one of 14 members of its third astronaut class.
Cernan had the looks of an astronaut from central casting. “He’s your classic sort of handsome debonair flyboy,” said space historian Roger Launius, associate director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Cernan’s sweat so much he lost 13 pounds. The space agency was forced to go back to the drawing board.
With the Apollo program under way, Cernan flew on Apollo 10 in May 1969. It was a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing on the next flight and took Cernan and Stafford, aboard the lunar module Snoopy, to within 91/2 miles of the moon’s surface.
A documentary about his life, “The Last Man on the Moon” was released in 2016.
Teresa was Cernan’s only child with his wife Barbara. The couple married in 1961 and divorced 20 years later. In 1987, he married again, to Jan Nanna, and they lived in Houston.
In all, Cernan logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space, more than 73 hours of them on the moon’s surface.
Mississippi Press staff writer Warren Kulo contributed to this report.


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(Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Mousa Dembele has been ruled out until the New Year after sustaining ligament damage to his right ankle, the Premier League club said on Thursday.
The 31-year-old Belgium international was forced off in the first half of Tottenham's 3-2 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers and missed Tuesday's 2-1 Champions League victory over Dutch side PSV Eindhoven.
Dembele, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has made 13 appearance for Spurs this campaign.
Midfielders Victor Wanyama and Eric Dier are back in training after knee and thigh injuries, but defenders Jan Vertonghen (hamstring) and Danny Rose (groin) will miss Saturday's Premier League trip to Crystal Palace.