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What Are the Hardest Things to Animate?
Good animation requires a solid budget, a large dedicated team, things to animate defined creators’ vision, and the high skill of all team members. And even if there is none of this, but there is a fantastic story that begs to be shown on the screen, you are welcome to find your animators at Explain Ninja and get the work done in no time. Here we know the animation is complex and are ready for any motion graphic production challenges.
How difficult is animation?
Is animation hard? Yes, it is. Animation is quite a complex process that includes applying a variety of techniques, various styles, and approaches, and each may go with its benefits and drawbacks, depending on the project type and complexity. How you animate the website elements and how you do an anime will dramatically differ.
However, a professional animator may admit that it’s not so much that it’s difficult as it is that it takes much time and patience to create awesome animation. A 5-minute long video might take up to many painstaking months to develop if you really need it to look especially spectacular.
Like any other creative art form, working on animation can be as easy or hard depending on what you want it to become in the end. With 2D animation, all you need to get started is a pencil and some basic animation design software. If you’re looking to create beautiful animated cartoons, doodles, etc., the best first step will be hiring a designer that can handle work with static drawing skills. Sometimes video templates come in handy.
5 Hardest things to animate
What is the hardest thing to draw? Well, depending on the project, it may be anything in it. Here are the most complicated things to animate, its elements or even the process phases that any professional motion designer may admit.
1) Website animation
To accomplish a professional animation for the website, you need to see how it works and get the elements that it consists of to assemble. So ideally it may be GIF or video + animation objects in the form of images (illustration). For example:
Sometimes, instead of the full video, static images of at least three motion states are also enough: initial, intermediate, and final + descriptions of transitions and effects. Here, as with the designer, developers agree that if something epic is planned there, then it is better to see it in dynamics and understand it better. An example of an app animation:
It often seems that even experienced programmers, who made more than a dozen complex sites, sometimes even very creative and beautiful ones, never dealt with complex animations that are written on the canvas. Despite the fact, technically, they can figure out how to do that in no time, get layouts in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. from the designers and implement it for the website layout. And what should it look like? The hardest part here will be to make designers and coders align with what they see and how they think it should look and function at the end.
2) Character design
When it comes to character design and creating a person animated and their bodies moving, this is the first thing to admit hard because it’s actually where the animation starts. To make sure that every element, no matter how small it is, looks really believable, from size and movement to some facial expressions, breathing, and personalities what Disney was trying to do back in the years when he actually introduced his animation techniques to the world. They are still a basis in animation.
3) Fight scenes
It turned out to be more difficult to animate fights and walk cycles. Here the motion designers may blow their minds at endless phase creations, while they create walks, phase it, revise, redo clumsy movements as you gradually progress, phase, again phase, revise the cycle, redo clumsy pieces again, understand that it will not get better, and move on to the next piece.
According to Designbuzz: ‘liquids are one of the most difficult things to animate, as the designers must consider texture, movement, and how it reacts with other objects.’
Agree that working with hard objects may be exhausting and turns out the hardest everything. Not mentioning fluids and liquids and similar, which motion physics is extremely hard to imitate. For instance, animated waves require a better artistic understanding of form, often color and shades, and light, and knowing how these elements should work together to create realistic water or at least imitate its natural movements.
Finalization of the story is the most difficult thing because you may need to watch the finished work every day numerous times and review the general assembly in order to search for the flaws, both plot and motion graphics. After the first 5 stable views, the eye gets blurred both for the animator and the screenwriters, and for everyone who is involved in the checkout process. However, professionals make the plot originally adjusted for multiple revisions in search of numerous details scattered throughout the length of the animate cartoon so it won’t be as painful as it seems.
Why is animation so expensive?
The truth is that the average movie animation may cost 15-25,000 USD. A 2D animation studio may give you a quote for a 60-second video that may cost anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 USD. However, much depends on the project, which is always quite individual.
So, animation design is expensive primarily because of the skilled human resource. Professional animators involved in postproduction or movies or work for big computer animation projects are highly skilled. They undergo extensive training, polish their skill, and make much effort to bring creative ideas to the table. And this is why the lion’s share of the animation budget goes into the hardest things to animate and the remuneration of animators who can do that.
Is animating hard? It may be both. Good animation requires a great animator, a solid budget, a large dedicated team, and at least a good idea worth time and effort, other animation things to create even the hardest things to draw and turn into a masterpiece. To draw the most challenging elements, hire highly skilled creators and a dedicated team with years of expertise. And if you need to produce awesome animated explainer videos for your business, feel free with your ideas in no time here!

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UK Natural Stone: Back to ExCeL
The UK Stone Show returns to ExCeL, London. The 9th edition of the fair will take place from 15-17 March 2011.
According to the organizers ExCeL offers a world class facility for visitors and exhibitors alike. The recent completion of its £165 million phase 2 expansion, new on-site hotels and significantly enhanced transport links all underline the level of investment going into this part of London as it gears up for the 2012 Olympic games.
Now entering its 17th year, the Natural Stone Show is the only UK event to exclusively focus on natural stone and directly related products and services. Exhibits will include a vast range of stone from all over the world - granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, travertine and slate for use in all types of work - flooring, cladding, hard landscaping, kitchens, bathrooms, roofing, fireplaces, memorials and sculpture together with fixing systems, sealants, adhesives, cleaning, materials, stone working machinery and tools. Conferences and specialist advice areas will be part of the fair, too.
The natural stone market in the UK has grown over the past decade as architects, designers and clients have made stone the material of choice for all kinds of construction, hard landscaping and interior design. Furthermore there's still much in demand for conservation and restoration work, and even memorials.
For more information on the Natural Stone Show visit www.stoneshow.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 115 945 3889.

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EIGHT of Tamworth’s most talented young water polo players are spreading their wings across the Tasman and down to Adelaide for two major tournaments.
Katie Salter, Jayden Gimbergh, Jackson Sharpe, Kate Farquhar and Pat Hofman are in New Zealand for the Pan Pacs Youth Water Polo festival, while Chelsea Lehman, Lachlan Wheeler and Isaac Moxon are headed down to Adelaide to play in the East Coast Challenge.
They’ll be representing the NSW Waratahs 14s while Salter, Farquhar and Gimbergh will play for the Country 16s and Hofman will take to the water for the NSW CHS 15s.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Hofman said.
He’s had a few months to look forward to it, with the side selected back in March.
The Pan Pacs is regarded as the southern hemisphere’s largest water polo event and started in Auckland on Saturday and runs until next Wednesday.
The 16s division, which the Tamworth contingent is contesting, will finish tomorrow.
At 14, Hofman is one of the youngest in the team.
He can play in either a shooting or defensive role, and has also on occasion played in goal.
The CHS sides have done fairly well over the years but will be up against it playing up an age division.
“We have a little bit of an expectation that the other sides will be very strong,” Hofman said.
“They are 16.”
However the games pan out it’ll certainly be a good learning experience, with the tour for him to continue after the Pan Pacs.
“We’re going to Rotorua and will play some club sides there,” he said.
He is also part of the inaugural Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) water polo squad, as are Lehman, Gimbergh, Sharpe and Salter.
Salter is the baby of the Country side and, like Hofman, can’t wait.
“Absolutely (looking forward to it),” she said.
It’ll be her first time visiting New Zealand but it won’t be her first taste of international competition.
“I went to Hawaii a couple of years ago for the Hawaiian International,” Salter said.
That was with the Hunter Academy.
Last year she played in the East Coast Challenge.
She’s had to travel as far away as Canberra to attend training, but they have come together pretty well.
“We’re working really well together,” Salter said.
“We’ve all found our positions and where we sit.”
They’ve got three Kiwi teams – North Harbour A, Marist Blue and Rotorua – as well as Canberra A in their pool.
There are four pools all up.
She said it would be good to learn about how other teams play.
“They told us to expect some really hard games, and strong competitors and physical games,” Salter said.
The East Coast Challenge starts tomorrow and runs until Sunday.

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The Beyoncé Effect: Artists Who’ve Dropped New Albums Out of Nowhere
Bad Bunny's been a busy bunny.
The Puerto Rican superstar born Benito Martínez shocked fans on Nov.
27 when he released a new album, El Último Tour del Mundo, entirely out of the blue.
Written and recorded during the Covid-19 quarantine, the 16-track LP marked Bad Bunny's third collection of new tunes to drop in the same calendar year.
And all of them arrived with an element of surprise. While releasing three albums in one year is a feat of superhuman artistic strength, the practice of dropping them with zero promotion is nothing new.
The strategy was made popular by Beyoncé when she released her self-titled fifth studio album in December 2013 out of thin air, shocking fans and...


Frank Gehry, and his firm, Gehry Partners, have beat out the other finalists for the new Eisenhower Memorial, which will sit near the National Mall. The other finalists included Rogers Marvel Architects, Berkeley-based landscape architect Peter Walker and Partners, and the Chicago firm Krueck & Sexton Architects. (Interestingly, only one landscape architecture firm was among the finalists. However, EDAW is part of the Gehry team’s winning proposal).
According to The L.A. Times, the Eisenhower Memorial will be a 4-acre site across Independence Avenue from the National Air and Space Museum, the most-visited museum on the Mall. “It’s a landscape and urban design project as much as an architectural one. Featuring a number of covered outdoor displays but no permanent museum, it is projected to cost between USD 90 million and 120 million.”
Unfortunately, no details (or photos) of the Gehry plans have been revealed because the selection remains ‘preliminary.’ The L.A. Times also sees a L.A. connection between the commission and Gehry’s selection. “The General Services Administration in Washington, which administered the competition, stresses that it remains preliminary — the architect’s selection has given the project a decided Los Angeles flavor. The chairman of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission is Rocco C. Siciliano, who has held leading trustee positions at the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.”


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East meets south: Brian Ruckle, a fellow member of the Rocky Top Brigade (of which I’m indeed a proud member, for the record) voluntarily lives in and blogs from China, e-mailed me to share his surprise that Vanderbilt’s mens basketball team (and now, by the way, women’s team also) has made it to the Sweet 16. (I don’t know whether to be more pleased that my rare sports item was noticed or that the rexblog is read in China.) Brian also was kind enough to send me a link to danwei.org, a weblog about media and advertising in the People’s Republic of China. Check out the site’s magazine section which is sort of like what I do on the rexblog, except that it’s about magazines in China. I must admit that I’m totally clueless about magazines in China, despite spending some time on a couple of ocassions with some delightful magazine people from that part of the world. After looking at danwei’s magazine page, I feel even more clueless. But also impressed, perplexed, stunned and amused.


Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story is an eyewitness account of the film’s production from visual effects supervisor and coproducer Rob Bredow. The book gives readers an intimate glimpse into the journey that Solo took from pre-production, production, and post-production, fully documenting how this film came to the big screen.
Making Solo gives a chronological overview of how this multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects company created new worlds, aliens, droids, and vehicles for a galaxy far, far away, including insights into how the train heist on Vandor, L3-37, the Kessel Run, and the reimagined Millennium Falcon were brought to life. A must-have for Star Wars fans, this authorized, all-access book will be an indispensable work for all movie fans and devotees of popular culture.
“From pre-production concept art, to behind-the-scenes photos from filming, and eventually insight into how ILM’s post-production work helped bring the galaxy far, far away to life once again, Making Solo offers a glimpse into what went into bringing this pivotal chapter in the life of one of Star Wars’ most beloved heroes to the big screen.”Gizmodo


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The human history is marred with recurrent cases of violence, deceits and cover-ups. But still there are some dates, and especially some events, which are impossible to forget. As some of the most inhumane acts were committed, in broad daylight, on these dates while the civil society silently and helpless watched all this from a distance.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Like any other year, 1984 probably started on a happy note. We Indians were thrilled on the 2nd of April when Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
The terrorism in the North-Western Indian state of Punjab and the demand for Khalistan prompted the then Indian government to launch Operation Blue Star on the 1st of June. On the 4th of June Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar to capture and kill the terrorists hiding inside it.
The aftermath of Operation Blue Star
On 31st of October the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh security guards. Her son Rajiv Gandhi succeeded her as the Prime Minister of India.
“When a big tree falls, earth shakes.” – Rajiv Gandhi
Between 31st October and 3rd November an estimated 2,700 to 10,000 Sikhs were killed during the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other areas. The mobs looted and damaged several Sikh homes, businesses and Gurdwaras in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
An Industrial disaster, of epic proportions
On 3rd December one of the worst industrial disasters took place in Bhopal. A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, killed more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries).
The winter of 1984 was a period of mass genocide and massive government cover-ups. These were some of the darkest months in the history of Independent India. Probably the only expectation that the Indian people had from 1985 was a hope, that their country still remains democratic and that their fundamental rights aren’t violated once again.
It has been decades, yet the victims of the anti-Sikh riots and Bhopal gas tragedy still haven’t received any justice – but they still haven’t lost hope.

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Late last year, Sam Shepherd, the man behind the Floating Points moniker, released his opus to-date, Elaenia. The UK producer led and toured with his 16-piece ensemble to realize the full-length, adding myriad instrumental complexities to his coveted electronics. Today Shepherd announced the critically acclaimed record’s follow-up, Kuiper.
Shepherd had this to say of the upcoming EP:
“Since starting a band to realise the music from my LP, it has sparked a deep interest in the band itself, and so Kuiper is the result of playing with Leo, Alex and Susumu. Each time we play it, its completely different. We set the scene with electronics, and some drum machines that form the foundation to allow the unfurling of the rest of the track. The version on this EP – believe it or not – was recorded at 8am!
The other side – “For Marmish Part II” – is carbon dated by my singing voice. I can’t get that high anymore! It was recorded way before “For Marmish” on the album but the two tracks happened to be written around the same time.
I want to share them because both sides reflect in two tracks where I was right at the start of the Elaenia project, right up to now post-LP release, playing live and going on the road with a band. I hope, like I feel, people will find a common strand in the hypnotic nature of both tracks.“
Shepherd shared the album’s title track and a live video in conjunction with the announcement. Here, too, you can hear (and see) the live instruments coalesce with Floating Points’ slow-grown, analog-driven electronica. “Kuiper” deals in purgative apotheoses—as much of Shepherd’s compositions do—in waves of full-bodied soundscapes. The artful video provides a window into the creative processes behind his song construction. Check it out above.
Kuiper arrives on July 22 via Luaka Bop in the US and on Shepherd’s imprint PLUTO in the UK.
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In this study, we present a novel ranking model based on learning the nearest neighbor relationships embedded in the index space. Given a query point, a conventional nearest neighbor search approach calculates the distances to the cluster centroids, before ranking the clusters from near to far based on the distances. The data indexed in the top-ranked clusters are retrieved and treated as the nearest neighbor candidates for the query. However, the loss of quantization between the data and cluster centroids will inevitably harm the search accuracy. To address this problem, the proposed model ranks clusters based on their nearest neighbor probabilities rather than the query-centroid distances to the query. The nearest neighbor probabilities are estimated by employing neural networks to characterize the neighborhood relationships as a nonlinear function, i.e., the density distribution of nearest neighbors with respect to the query. The proposed probability-based ranking model can replace the conventional distance-based ranking model as a coarse filter for candidate clusters, and the nearest neighbor probability can be used to determine the data quantity to be retrieved from the candidate cluster. Our experimental results demonstrated that implementation of the proposed ranking model for two state-of-the-art nearest neighbor quantization and search methods could boost the search performance effectively in billion-scale datasets.READ FULL TEXT
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The Golden State Warriors have lost eight straight road games while extending their home winning streak to seven games with their comeback win in overtime against the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday.
“Championship stuff,” Steve Kerr said of how the Warriors closed out the game. “That’s the team that won four titles. They know how to do it. They did it tonight against probably the best team in the league.”
The Warriors had a 13-point lead in the third quarter but squandered it and lost by eight with two minutes left in the fourth.
“It’s the challenge of bringing execution and focus,” Curry said. “Even when things don’t go your way — the fourth quarter when they’re up by eight points — and you slowly wear them down, that’s the belief you have to have that we can do it.”

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Primate Conservation, Incorporated (PCI) is a not-for-profit foundation founded to fund field research that supports conservation programs for wild populations of primates. Priority will be given to projects that study, in their natural habitat, the least known and most endangered species. The involvement of citizens from the country in which the primates are found will be a plus. The intent is to provide support for original research that can be used to formulate and to implement conservation plans for the species studied.
Primate Conservation, Inc. will grant seed monies or provide matching grants for graduate students, qualified conservationists and primatologists to study rare and endangered primates and their conservation in their natural habitat. Grants have averaged approximately $2,500, with a maximum grant of $5,000. We do not support conferences, travel to scientific meetings, legal actions, tuitions or salaries at institutions, and overhead costs.

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July celebrity inspiration: Priyanka Chopra
There's always that one celebrity whose look perfectly matches yours and mine is Priyanka Chopra! For those of you who don't know her, she is the main star of the ABC show, Quantico. She is a former Bollywood actress making a splash in Hollywood. She is also in the new Baywatch movie :) I have been a fan of Priyanka Chopra most of my life (even though I didn't watch too many Bollywood movies, I made sure to watch the ones she was in). That is why I am kicking off my celebrity inspiration series with Priyanka Chopra (that and I have been told a few times I look a bit like her)!
I absolutely adore all of Priyanka Chopra's looks because her makeup is very similar to mine! I keep my eye makeup simple but go big on the bold lips. Most of Priyanka's looks are just mascara with a bold lip color (very rarely does she rock a nude or lighter lip). I have always admired some of her bolder looks such as the purple dress with purple lips monochromatic look. Not many people would try to pull this off but I fell in love when I saw this look and knew I had to try it with my purple dress :) Keep reading to see all the looks I re-created along with product details on how to achieve these looks at an affordable price!

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Photoinduced Electron Transfer within Porphyrin-Containing Poly(amide) Dendrimers
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The synthesis and photophysical characterization of a series of free base porphyrin-containing polyamide dendrimers terminated with anthraquinone groups (FbP-Ga-AQn, a = 1−3, n = 12, 36, 108) are described. Substantial quenching (58−75%) of the porphyrin fluorescence of FbP-Ga-AQn is observed when compared to the analogous ethyl-terminated dendrimers (FbP-Ga-Etn) in steady-state fluorescence experiments and is attributed to intramolecular electron transfer. Time-resolved fluorescence experiments were fit to 2−3 exponentials, indicating multiple orientations for electron transfer, consistent with the flexible nature of these dendrimers.


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Sales at Flying Brands continue to free-fall following the divestment of its retail brands. The company, which completed the sale of its Garden Bird Supplies, Garden Centre Online and Listen2 business earlier this month, reports that orders for the three month period to 31st March were down 35 percent from £10.8 million last year to £7 million, comprising £3.2 million for the sold businesses. Poor weather, the uncertain economic climate and the abolition of low-value consignment relief for Channel Islands businesses are to blame, said a company statement.
Beauty products etailer Feelunique.com is planning a website revamp to extend its worldwide offering over the coming months. The retailer will roll out on-site search and navigation and merchandising tools that will allow shoppers around the world to find items faster and benefit from a more enjoyable user experience. Feelunique intends to have all the developments, delivered by ecommerce technology company Fredhopper, in place by September. In the year ending March 2012 Feelunique.com’s turnover increased 63 percent to £26.7m.
The Direct Selling Association (DSA) has released new figures showing a significant rise in the number of people turning to direct selling as a way to earn additional income. There are now 395,000 direct sellers in the UK, 20,000 more than the 2009 figures. The rise in direct sellers mirrors the recent unemployment figures, which saw self-employment rise by 89,000 to a record high of 4.16 million. In addition to an increase in sellers, DSA members—companies such as Avon, Kleeneze and The Pampered Chef—have reported a 120 percent increase in revenues generated via party sales between 2009 and 2011. Home selling parties now account for 27.8 percent of the DSA’s member companies’ £1.4 billion revenue, and are worth £390 million to the UK economy annually. By comparison in 2009, home selling parties accounted for 14 percent of the £1.2 billion industry at the time.
To help UK retailers better meet the delivery needs of the growing number of online shoppers from Australia, Royal Mail has extended its international tracked service, Airsure to the area, flying into four major gateways to ensure fast delivery across the country. The news follows statistics released by HM Revenue and Customs that show the UK’s non-EU exports rose by 16 percent (£1.9 billion) between March 2011 and March 2012. The export levels are the highest since the figures were first published in 1993, demonstrating that businesses are expanding their global reach.
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HTC plans to 'fully defend itself' against Apple's patent suit
- John Cook
HTC no longer wants to get kicked around by Apple, which earlier this month broadsided the mobile handset maker with a patent infringement suit alleging the HTC violated some 20 patents related to the iPhone's basic functionality. Today, HTC -- maker of the Nexus One and several Windows Mobile and T-Mobile devices -- issued a statement on Apple's suit.
Peter Chou, chief executive officer HTC, noted in the release that the company was out in front of Apple when it comes to touch-screen capabilities. The company unveiled the first color screen touch device in 2002, well ahead of Apple's introduction of the iPhone. Here's a portion of Chou's statement:
“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible. From day one, HTC has focused on creating cutting-edge innovations that deliver unique value for people looking for a smartphone."
HTC's U.S. operations are located in Bellevue, and Jason Mackenzie, vice president of HTC America, offered this statement:
“HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative approach to business. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software, Internet and wireless technology companies in the industry as well as the top U.S., European and Asian mobile operators. It is through these relationships that we have been able to deliver the world’s most diverse series of smartphones to an even more diverse group of people around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”
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I probably would've liked it more if I'd read the first one first. But it's taking the library forever to get it to me, so I went ahead with the second. It's got some good information, but there's more of the author's own opinions and commentaries than I would've liked. i.e. It's okay to sway from pure C.M. teachings in this area but not in others. But all in all I got some useful information from it.
A sad, yet thoughtful and inspirational read. Holly, a fourteen-year-old care-babe (foster child) finds her alter ego "Solace" when she tries on a wig she finds at her new London foster home and decides to set out to find her Mother in Ireland. The resulting road trip shows her the road to her future and clarifies the past as well in this bittersweet final novel by Dowd. Getting into the heads of her characters and making me feel like I'm there too is what makes Dowd's books resonate. My favorite character other than Holly/Solace was the vegan truck driver.


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This movie is America's animation ,But quite famous in Japan.
Any way this movie supreme unique. For the all car racing animation,and even the Need for speed are massiveless for this movie. This movie are contains Racing, Corrupctions(between before the races), and fighting actions, friend helpings.
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In this notebook you have all the space you need to give wings to your imagination, just choose where to start! You have 80 sheets to express yourself, the double spiral makes it much easier to write on both sides of the sheets and it has the advantage of being very lightweight so you can easily take it wherever you want.
Metamorphosis is inspired in African nature and patterns. Beautiful little creatures fly over flourishing flora and geometric batik backgrounds. This collection celebrates great flights, nomadic lifestyles and eco-friendly habitats. Colors were born of natural pigments and were baptized with names of african butterflies: Larvae green, Emperor yellow, Admiral orange, Monarch black and Albatross white.
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Get ready for cow cess shocker in power bills
The government has asked all municipal corporations, municipal councils and other civic bodies to pass resolutions for using electricity bills to collect the cow-protection cess.punjab Updated: Jan 20, 2016 11:30 IST
The government has asked all municipal corporations, municipal councils and other civic bodies to pass resolutions for using electricity bills to collect the cow-protection cess.
The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has been asked to levy 2 paise on each unit of electricity consumed, as the government expects to generate crores of rupees for the welfare of bovines in the state.
Local bodies minister Anil Joshi told HT the government was also adopting other methods to collect the cow-protection cess, such as imposing Rs 10 on oil tankers coming to the Bathinda refinery for transposing petrol and diesel.
Director of the local bodies department, Priyank Bharti, told HT that about 60% of all 165 local civic bodies in the state had passed the resolution.
The Bathinda municipal corporation, which was the first to adopt the resolution last year, still remains the only one to implement it and collects an average rs 20 lakh per month.
“Those who have not done are being again told to implement it,” Bharti said.
Bharti said the cow-protection cess will be used to build gaushalas and carry out other activities for rehabilitation of cows, adding civic bodies had been asked to draw out a plan.
The state has nearly 500 cow shelters, but thousands of bovines still roam around on roads. The state decided to imposed the cow cess under Section 7 of the Punjab Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955, last year.
A portion of the cess would also contribute in the functioning of the cow protection board.
The PSPCL, which has also been told to collect water and sewage charges from the residents of urban areas, already charges a 13% electricity duty on the sale of power to consumers besides 11 paise per unit as octroi.
Padamjit Singh, a power sector expert, however, slammed the government’s action, asking why PSPCL was being made to function as a “collection agent” for different departments.
“Just because a household can’t run without electricity, we can’t fleece people and force them to pay water charges, cow cess and octroi,” he said. “In this scenario, I fear more such taxes will follow and they will also be attached to power bills.”
First Published: Jan 20, 2016 11:22 IST


For more than a year, the federal government has surrounded Big Tech and its business practices. On Wednesday, members of the House of Representatives will unfold evidence their staff has found and put direct pressure on some of the world’s top executives.
Four of the most prominent CEOs of technology: Sundar Pichai, of the parent company of Google Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,
, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN,
, Tim Cook of Apple Inc. AAPL,
and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc. FB,
– They are programmed to answer legislators’ questions about their business practices and their enormous influence on the economy and daily life of Americans. (The hearing, originally scheduled for Monday, was delayed until Wednesday due to plans for the late Representative John Lewis to remain in the state on the United States Capitol.)
Appearing via video links, the quartet, whose companies have a collective value of $ 5 billion, should expect queries and withering statements from the House Judiciary Antimonopoly Subcommittee as investigations of its business practices by the party deepen. from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Attendees of the high-ranking subcommittee made a call with members of the media on Thursday and described their planned approach.
Armed with 1.3 million documents collected from companies and third-party sources, the subcommittee will be “laser focused” on the competition and whether current law can adequately control its power, attendees said. A line of questions they mentioned will deal with the mountains of personal data collected and used by companies to build their formidable market share. A report based on CEO testimony is due later this year, as late as the summer.
“Since last June, the Subcommittee has been investigating the mastery of a small number of digital platforms and the adequacy of existing antitrust laws and their enforcement. Given the central role these corporations play in the lives of the American people, it is critical that their CEOs be forthcoming. As we’ve said from the beginning, your testimony is essential for us to complete this investigation, “said Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., and Chairman of the antitrust subcommittee, David Cicilline, DR.I., in a joint statement on Saturday.
Amazon declined to comment. Facebook, Apple and Alphabet did not respond to emails seeking comment.
Bezos and his corporate brothers are under the regulatory microscope for the considerable influence they have in multiple markets, from shopping (through Amazon and Google), to entertainment (Apple and Google’s YouTube), news and tutorials (Google search), and socializing (Facebook). The strong rise of Big Tech, which is fueling a resurgent stock market despite a deepening pandemic, underscores the enduring power of the industry as consumption increases in a work-from-home economy.
Read more: Tech stocks drop when US finally admits it’s investigating Big Tech for antitrust
“It will not be a condemnation as much as part of an ongoing investigation,” said Matt Stoller, research director for the United States Economic Liberties Project and author of “Goliath: Hundred Years’ War between monopoly power and democracy. “He told MarketWatch in an interview telephone. “Committee members are trying to understand their business models, where their income comes from and how they operate.”
Facing Wednesday’s virtual showdown, the four companies have different and different antitrust issues, and each is taking steps to minimize their influence. Last week, Apple released a third-party economic investigation showing that the fees it collects from developers are in line with those charged by other digital platforms, a possible preview of Cook’s testimony.
The company’s app store, which raises about $ 15 billion in annual revenue according to analysts, gets a 30% cut in sales and strongly influences the way developers market and price apps. Because it is the only app store available on more than 900 iPhones worldwide, it collects roughly double the sales of its largest rival, Google Play Store. Apple says it collects a portion of sales from a small percentage of the nearly 2 million apps available in the store, which doesn’t make it a monopoly.
Read more: Big Tech’s latest calculation approaches as it continues to accumulate record valuations
Zuckerberg’s case may depend on his fierce competition, particularly with Alphabet and Amazon for advertising, and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
, Snap Inc. SNAP,
and TikTok on social networks. Facebook has consistently called for government regulation in areas where it has been criticized: electoral integrity, privacy, and harmful content.
Meanwhile, Bezos is expected to explain how small sellers on his third-party marketplace platform continue to “thrive despite Amazon competition” and the online shopping options available to consumers. Their argument, in essence, is that the pandemic has fueled e-commerce in general, including that of large retail rivals such as Walmart Inc. WMT,
, according to a Reuters report.
It is unclear what Alphabet will say, although it may face the fiercest reception. The company, which reportedly hopes to avoid an EU antitrust investigation into its planned $ 2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit Inc. FIT,
By promising that he will not use Fitbit’s health data to help him target ads, the Justice Department could sue him in the coming months for alleged abuse of power in the advertising technology and search products market. The government is also examining allegations that Google abused its domain in search, according to published reports.
“Excessive regulatory scrutiny” remains a constant source of anxiety for Wall Street with Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook, which are expected to be the targets of “political football” between now and the November elections, the Wedbush analyst said. Securities Dan Ives in a statement. research note on Thursday.
Ultimately, what conclusions federal lawmakers draw from Wednesday’s hearing could be summed up in one simple question, monopoly expert Stoller said.
“It really comes down to this: How do you get super powerful without responding to anyone?” he said.


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MOSCOW—Russian law enforcement opened criminal investigations into reports of widespread prisoner abuse and several officials in the penitentiary system were fired in cases that human-rights advocates say point to systematic torture in prisons across the country.
The probes come after prison activist group Gulagu.net posted footage it says depicts abuse, humiliation and beatings in prison facilities, part of a trove of more than 1,000 videos that the organization has been leaked. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t independently confirm the veracity of the videos.
While human-rights observers have often reported instances of torture and abuse in Russian prisons, some of which have led to public trials, the new leak appears to be one of the largest yet, analysts said.
The videos “prove that grave and especially violent crimes were regularly committed against prisoners, which were carefully concealed,”
who runs Gulagu.net, a human-rights project focused on the Russian prison system, wrote on Facebook Wednesday. Mr. Osechkin didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Russia’s prison service said Wednesday that it fired four officers, including the head of a prison hospital in the southwestern city of Saratov, following the torture reports. The Kremlin said that if the videos were confirmed, it would lead to a serious probe.
The Investigative Committee, the nation’s main investigations agency, said it had opened seven criminal probes, including into sexual assault and abuse of power in Saratov’s prison system. The committee said it was investigating crimes against four convicts in Saratov between January 2020 and May 2021.
One of the videos published this week appears to show a man, tied to a bed, being abused with a long red stick as he screams in pain. Another video shows a man tied up on the ground as uniformed officers urinate on his face.
In another video, a man appears to be laying facedown with his hands tied behind him, as a guard pushes his boot into his shoulders and asks him “Who are you in life?” The prisoner replies, “Nobody, a tramp.”
Human-rights observers said that the videos reflect the horrific reality in Russia’s prison system and are consistent with previous leaks and torture cases. Gulagu.net said that the footage is part of a video archive that a source, who had worked for five years in Russia’s penitentiary system, managed to smuggle out of Russia. The source is currently outside of the country and is seeking political asylum in Europe, the organization said.
“These videos are immensely horrendous and authorities need to investigate these shocking allegations promptly and effectively,” said
Moscow-based associate director at Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division. She said her organization wasn’t in a position to verify the videos but they are “clearly reminiscent of previous documented cases of torture.”
“It is crystal clear that this isn’t just about some random incidents, the problem of torture in Russian prisons is very acute,” she said. “It’s an epidemic.”
She added that besides investigating the prison officials, the victims, some of whom were exposed in the videos, have to urgently be shielded from further abuse, including by fellow inmates.
The depictions in the leaked videos add to a growing body of evidence of systematic abuse in Russia carried out by prison staff or other inmates, human-rights watchers say. In 2018, footage of alleged torture in a prison in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, shocked the country and led to a trial where over a dozen officials were found guilty and handed jail sentences. Russian authorities pledged inspections of all detention facilities at the time.
The same year, United Nations human-rights investigators said that there was reliable information that torture was practiced widely in the country. Russian authorities have said they are reforming the system, amending legislation to better protect detainees and punishing those who abuse their position and break the law.
Analysts said that the videos could add pressure on President
government, which is already facing growing public discontent amid stagnating living standards and limited personal freedoms.
“It is very serious, especially taking into account the general negative context, the growing public displeasure with the authorities,” said
a Moscow-based political consultant and former speechwriter for Mr. Putin. “It’s very hard to deny what you see with your own eyes. Denying them would lead to losing the rest of public trust—even among the most loyal supporters.”
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In case you’ve never noticed, car makers like to make the most of what they have. To that end, Chrysler made their K-car into every shape and form this side of a carne asada burrito, and not far behind them in line at the Xerox machine was Ford with their Fox platform.
The Fox, a fresh rethink of the mid-size platform came to market for the first time in 1977 underpinning the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr. These cars were, at the time, amazing in their advancement from their Falcon predecessors, featuring slick rack and pinion steering, a coil sprung rear end in place of the cart springs of yore, and the ability to be comfortably slid in under pretty much any number of bodies, which is exactly what Ford did.
So well conceived was the Fox platform that its front suspension, while a simple and effective McPherson strut design, had its coils springs not around the struts in a traditional fashion, but lower and separate. This allowed for a vastly wider engine compartment, allowing Fox derivatives the luxury of holding engines from the Pinto four all the way up to the mighty (well, not in the ’70s) 302 V8, and without the need to pull a wheel just to change the spark plugs!
Considering the fact that the Fox platform underpinned not just the Fairmont and Zephyr tins, but the Mustang for decades, the aero T-bird, Lincoln Mark VII, and many, many others, this go-to basis seems to me to be Ford’s greatest in history. Do you agree?
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Well, he made the first recordings of Enrico Caruso, the only recordings of Adelina Patti and Allesandro Moreschi, the last active Castrato, he recorded Nellie Melba and Feodor Chaliapin and discovered John McCormack, surely he has a place here. Oh, yes. Attention Beatles fans: Fred Gaisberg constructed the first building in England designed specifically for recording, in London, St. John’s Wood at #3 Abbey Road. Abbey Road Studios.
Gaisberg was the first record producer, although he never used the term. In fact for most of his career he had no title at all – he simply did whatever was needed until he became nearly indispensable.
A director of his company wrote: “He was very, very, intelligent .. His instincts in regard to artists were very nearly infallible … he summed up, and very rapidly, whether in addition to their musical talents they possessed the good health and determination to sustain a great career, and furthermore whether they would create by some means a widespread interest in their activities … Once he had made up his mind he acted with great speed.”
It became common for a young singer, conductor, or pianist to be approached after a concert and hear the words: “My name’s Gaisberg. Don’t sign any contracts. I’ll call you in the morning.”
Unlike later record producers (Walter Legge or Mitch Miller) he didn’t consider it his job to influence the way artists performed. He signed the best people he could find and faithfully captured their performance on disc in the best possible sound. He told a colleague that he saw his task simply as one of “making as many sound photographs or gramophone disc sides as possible during each recording session.”
Frederick William Gaisberg (1873 – 1951) was born on New Years Day in Washington, DC.
His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1854. His mother taught young Fred to sing and to play the piano. As a child, he not only sang in the church choir but in the chorus of the United States Marine Band led by John Philip Sousa. “I attended rehearsals in (Sousa’s) modest home in the Navy Yard in South Washington. He patted me on the head and made quite a pet of me… I was one of those music-mad youngsters who hovered by his podium and never missed a concert.”
Fred was music-mad and could play the piano in many styles. In 1891 he worked for Charles Tainter, who was recording Edison cylinders in preparation to be sold in arcades at the Chicago World’s Fair. Gaisberg found new singers, set up the studio, ran the recording machines, accompanied vocalists on the piano, and delivered the cylinders to the arcades. In those days, the records were single-sided with a playing time of two minutes or less and a fee of two or three dollars per song was paid to the singers. Royalties were undreamed of.
While he was still in high school, Fred went to work playing piano for the Columbia Phonograph Company who manufactured Edison’s cylinders. They needed someone who could play the piano loud and clear to accompany whoever they chose to record. So “Professor Gaisberg” accompanied whistlers, singers, and even Sousa’s Band.
Those recordings were made on the Edison system using small hollow cylinders of wax, where a needle moved gradually in a lateral way etching the grooves that represented the sound waves into the wax. In the beginning, records could not be mass produced. Multiple machines had to be set up and the recordings were repeated until enough cylinders had been made. In 1894 Fred met Emile Berliner who had developed a system for recording on flat disks using a horizontal tracking system which enabled the stylus to record a superior sound. Gaisberg left Columbia and moved to Philadelphia to open and manage the very first Gramaphone retail store.
Berliner sent him to London as The Berliner Company’s first recording engineer. “My baggage consisted of a complete recording outfit plus a twenty-five dollar bicycle with pneumatic tyres, and a notebook stuffed with receipts addresses and advice…”
The studio was based in the basement of a dingy old hotel. “Yes, grimy was the word for it. The smoking room of the Old Coburn Hotel was our improvised studio. There stood the recording machine on a high stand; from this projected a long, thin trumpet into which the artist sang. Close by on a high movable platform, was an upright piano.”
Before any recordings could be made he needed to purchase all the necessary materials and chemicals. “A gallon of coal oil, Jars and pitchers of earthenware and glass, A soldering iron,
Fred was enthusiastic about all kinds of music and quickly became a friend to major singers and musicians all over Europe. In 1900 he was in Milan. “Arriving at the Hotel Milan about 9 o’clock we entered and were lucky enough to see the great composer Verdi. Fine-looking maestro now bent with age, yet with a distinguished look. He must be about 86 years old … one could sit at the Café Biffi (and see) Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano .. as they sauntered through the throng.”
He traveled through Russia that year and, while he was unable to sign the great Feodor Chaliapin, he did record an absolutely marvelous Ukranian soprano Salomea Krusceniski.
In 1902 he supervised the only records ever made by a castrato singer (Alessandro Moreschi, director of the Sistine Chapel choir in the Vatican) and he recorded 10 songs and arias by a young tenor named Enrico Caruso. Caruso demanded 100 English pounds for singing 10 songs and arias. Gaisberg said that his company was initially unwilling to agree to Caruso’s terms, but he went ahead, intending to pay the sum out of his own pocket if they would not.
The recordings became a sensation. Berliner merged with the Victor Talking Machine Company and the recordings were issued Victor’s new premium Red Seal line. Caruso recorded exclusively for Victor for the rest of his life and once said, “My Victor records will be my biography.” Caruso’s success changed everything.
With Caruso’s success, other great artists decided that the gramaphone was not simply a toy. The French bass, Pol Plancon, baritones Antonio Scotti and David Bispham, and the French opera star Emma Calve all agreed to record and soon other great artists followed.
Fred met a mechanic, Eldridge Johnson, who showed him how clockwork machinery intended for sewing machines could work to rotate gramophone discs at a steady rate which led to the standardization of disc speeds at 78 rpm and made Johnson a wealthy man.
Probably the supreme triumph of Gaisberg’s career (other than recording Caruso) occurred the next year when he was able to persuade the legendary soprano Adelina Patti to grace the humble gramaphone with her recorded voice for a series of 10 disks. It wasn’t easy and the negotiations were complex. All recording equipment had to be brought to her castle in Wales and the operator must wait there from day to day until Patti was willing to sing.
Patti was 63 years old and had recently retired. She entertained the group sumptuously but seemed in no hurry to begin, venturing carefully into the room that would serve as a studio and peeping at the recording machine. She served champagne to Gaisberg and his crew at dinner and sang excerpts from Tristan for them, but she took two entire days to gain the courage to begin recording.
She stood on a platform and when she hit a loud high note, Gaisberg had to pull the platform back from the recording horn. She was quite irritated but soon became accustomed to the inconvenience. Her first recorded song was Mozart’s “Voi che sapete.” She had never heard her own voice and begged to be allowed to hear it played back. This meant that the soft wax on master disk would be rendered unusable afterwards but she agreed to record the aria again and her wish was granted. She even allowed Gaisberg to return again in 1905 and record another series of disks.
The Gramaphone company wanted new markets and Fred soon found himself traveling to Calcutta where he recorded an Indian Fakir, and Tokyo where he recorded the Imperial Household Band and then to Shanghai. Altogether he made nearly 400 records on that trip, none of which were saleable in the Western world, but which did serve to open up a market in the East.
In 1904 Gaisberg received a telephone call from the manager of Edison’s London office concerning a young man who sang Irish songs. The lad had been singing along the London waterfront for pennies and he wanted to make records. His name was John McCormack. He asked to be paid 10 English pounds. Gaisberg agreed to pay half that amount.
“He struck me as over-grown, under-fed, … pale faced, very bad teeth .. And he was drinking too much … his eyes were piercingly dark .. He had little to say , but that little showed him decidedly confident of himself – almost aggressive.”
By 1907 the Gramaphone company had merged with EMI records and McCormack had gone to Italy for study, had his teeth fixed, and was newly married. He had also signed with the Odeon Company to make records and it cost Gaisberg 4,000 pounds to buy his contract from Odeon in 1909. It turned out to be well worth the price.
Gaisberg had been pursuing the world’s leading prima donna, Dame Nellie Melba, to record for a long time but while the imperious Melba did agree to make a test recording in early 1904, it was several more months before she finally signed a contract. Which specified that she would be paid 1,000 pounds immediately, a royalty of 5 shillings per disc, all her records must have a specially colored label, and they would be sold for no less than one guinea each – higher than the price of discs by any other artist on the label. The entire first pressing was sold out within a week.
In 1907 Luisa Tetrazzini made her London debut in “La Traviata” and was a sensation. Her first discs for the Gramaphone Company were supervised by Fred’s brother Will Gaisberg (Fred was in Italy.) When Fred returned to England he quickly became a close and trusted confidant of Tetrazzini. His honesty, integrity, and lack of conceit led her to trust his judgement so implicitly that in 1920 she even asked him to help write her memoirs and promised him a share of the book’s proceeds.
Gaisberg’s secretary wrote: “No matter how temperamental an artist may prove, Fred Gaisherg has the invaluable gift of recognizing the real cause of any trouble … on countless occasions a highly charged atmosphere has been miraculously cleared by one of his quick shafts of wit.”
As early as 1900 on his first trip to St. Petersburg in Russia, Gaisberg had tried to record Feodor Chaliapin but it would be three years before the basso finally agreed to make a recording and then only on a short-term agreement. Chaliapin came to trust Gaisberg and value his opinion sufficiently that they worked together making tests of voice placement and tone color. Finally in 1910, a ten year contract was negotiated giving Chaliapin a 3,000 pound advance for 15 records. Gaisberg asked if a particular conductor would be satisfactory and Chaliapin replied, “Yes, yes, anyone will do for it is I who will direct.”
When Chaliapin left Russia for the West in 1921 he was penniless at the age of 50 and literally dressed in rags. He turned to Gaisberg to act as his interpreter, help him with his business affairs, and also help prepare the concerts that would rebuild his fortune. Chaliapin refused to sail for America for a series of concerts unless Gaisberg accompanied him.
After the introduction of electrical recording, Gaisberg studied electrical engineering and became one of the few experienced recording engineers able to cope with the new system. It was Gaisberg who produced the first electrical recordings of a live opera, from the stage of Covent Garden, starring Chaliapin in Boito’s “Mefistofele.”
In 1918, a 28 year old tenor named Beniamino Gigli made his first records for Gaisberg while he was still serving (in uniform) in the Italian infantry. Gigli would remain signed with Gaisberg and EMI for all of his life.
Gaisberg’s seemingly endless list of discoveries continued. He made the first recordings of violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifitz, Fritz Kreisler, and Jan Paderewski. In Prague he recorded the Dvorak cello concerto with Pablo Casals. And in 1928 he persuaded the pianist Arthur Rubinstein to make a few test recordings. Rubinstein had heard piano recordings using the acoustic process which he said made the piano sound like a banjo and he hated the results of the few recordings he had already made. When he heard the results of Gaisberg’s new electrical recordings, Rubinstein said he had tears in his eyes.
Fred had a few romances but never married. He lived in West Hampstead, London for most of his life in a small house he had bought there. His sister Carrie managed his home, fed and entertained his guests, and helped manage his life. After a supper for 12 or 14 people there would be music. Tetrazzini or Chaliapin might sing, the conductor John Barbirolli might play the cello, or Fred might play the piano.
The great pianist Arthur Schnabel felt that it would be impossible for a machine to reproduce the dynamics of his playing faithfully. In 1930 Gaisberg was able to convince him otherwise and (assisted by a large guarantee) signed Schnabel to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Schnabel was extremely nervous in the studio but Fred eventually supervised 200 recordings sessions, joking, occasionally teasing him, even doing a comic dance to break the tension..
In 1931 he began his last great project, recording the works of the English composer, Sir Edward Elgar, who was then 74 years old. The Duke & Duchess of York were in the studio for the first session (Elgar’s “Nursery Suite”) as was Bernard Shaw. At the next session Elgar conducted his “Falstaff’ and the event was filmed. When the Elgar violin concerto was to be recorded, Gaisberg selected a “promising”
young soloist named Yehudi Menuhin who he quickly signed to a contract.
At the age of sixty-six, having refused a directorship in EMI, Gaisberg retired. He stayed on with the company as a consultant where he urged a reluctant board of directors to adopt both the new long-play records (LP’s) and stereophonic recordings.
Fred Gaisberg retired in 1939. He died in his sleep in 1951 at age 78.
Fred Gaisberg was probably the most important person (other than Edison and Berliner) in the creation of the recording industry. His initial recordings of Enrico Caruso were the catalyst that led to acceptance of the recording medium by all major operatic and orchestral artists. He created the role of record producer, defining and expanding the functions and characteristics of the job. His absolute integrity and willingness to stand by his decisions gained him the trust of everyone he came in contact with. And his judgement in those decisions proved correct nearly one hundred percent of the time.

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