#Question7

[vanga-bond-hds]

The Rebels of Gaia Season 1 plot-holes

This first season of sorts is a way to introduce the main wolf characters, and the story that revolves around them in the very long 1st season. Question 1- What were Athena's Motivations? After she was sad that Artemis took off, she got suspicious and broke into the castle thinking that there must be a clue somewhere. She was the one who gave a tip that Artemis and his friends may be somewhere else in the galaxy. And when she saw that her family was creating a device that uses Gaian Magic she pounced on it. Question 2- What was Athena's backstory? Truth be told I never came up with one, but one thing in the many redrafts of Season 1 is that she was an Ice wolf but was changed to be a normal one. However Athena's past is simple; she was raised to be the next Heir to her company as her mother was unable to have any more kids after her. She did grow up with Artemis and the other moonstones but she was in a different class as them despite being the same age. Question 3- What was the origin behind the marriage? Athena had had many suitors to try to marry her, however she was the one to notice the overshadowed moonstone and chose him. Her parents were trying to get her married with a potential grandson/daughter on the way and after persuading Onyx and Venus Moonstone with money and an alliance between the two families. Athena and her family chose Artemis as Jupiter was already with someone Solaris was far too well known and Jasper was too young. Question 4- What happens to Athena off screen? Eventually she makes it out of Jail two other rich families taking the place of the richest planet on Gaia. She ended up going to earth as her parents, ashamed of their daughter, went into hiding. She ended up with Bradley of all people. and fell in love and married as shockingly the two were a perfect fit. Question 5- What happens in the season finale of season 1? Athena now Mercedes had tried to destroy the planet by draining it's magic, but thanks to the wolves getting a magic boost and Artemis's newfound grass/healing powers it overpowers her. In the huge explosion of magic a new Gaian crystal was made with a new god of Gaia as well the 9th one for the Unity/Harmony kingdom. Question 6- What are the gods of Gaia? The Gods of Gaia are the beast forms of The Gaian Crystals stones that appeared right after the famed magic comet crashed on Gaia. They are guardians to the planet, making sure that the planet does not fall apart, and are protected by the Kings of each kingdom. However their powers were nullified during the magic fight at the end of season 1, and once the fight was over they were able to appear again. Question7- Is this end for the story? No not be a long shot, there are 5 other "seasons" with a movie plot as well Season one was only extended to be longer to allow more time for the plot to progress. Question 8- Are we going to learn about Solaris's back story? The Short Answer No, however things about his past will be revealed at some point. Question 9- Did Solaris know about Artemis's Motivations? Yes he did know, he acted like he was scared when his brother went missing. Question 10- When is the next "Season" coming out? Some time in February, it could be early february or late february Link to Season 1 (on Weasyl with the clean PDF format) : https://www.weasyl.com/submissions/vangabond?folderid=112409 Discord Server: https://discord.gg/5Zjfkb9zk5

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[thereluctantbadger]

Christmas countdown question7. Favourite Christmas drink, food/snacks?

Let me just state first and foremost that, in my very humble opinion, apple spice is a superior holiday flavor to pumpkin pie. Anyone who wants to argue can fight me.

Favorite snacks: I'm an absolute softy for any kind of cookie, especially if it has fun colors and shapes.

Favorite drinks: I can drink an entire crock pot of that kind of cider that you make with apple juice, spices, and those Red Hotz candies.

[thewul]

JAB Stacks, A different approach to storing data and computing

Data can be stored in binary form, in the shape of bytes, but still if we want to truly implement a rapid and reactive computing isn’t there another way to store it

How Much Data Can A QR Code Store?

QR Codes are made of multiple rows and columns. The combination of these rows and columns makes a grid of modules (squares). There can be a maximum of 177 rows and 177 columns which means the maximum possible number of modules is 31,329. With the naked eye these are just small squares and mean very little, but the exact arrangement of those modules allows the QR Code to encode its data. This means that unlike traditional barcodes which are 1 dimensional and use 1 row of lines, QR Codes use 2 dimensions which allows them to store a lot more data in the same area of space.

The QR Code standards don't allow you to create a QR Code with just any combination of rows and columns. There are 40 preset sizes that you must select from. These are referred to as versions.

Version 1 QR Codes will have 21 rows and 21 columns. Each version thereafter increases by 4 rows and 4 columns. The largest version is version 40 which has 177 rows and 177 columns and results in the 31,329 needed to encode 3kb of data.(1)

When a QR Code is being created, the QR Code generator assesses the amount of data you are trying to encode and from that it determines the version number that it needs to use. These levels allow the generator to encode a QR Code as efficiently as possible and means not every QR Code is forced to have 31,329 modules.

(1) qrcode.meetheed.com/question7.php

JAB code

JAB code (Just Another Barcode) is a color 2D matrix symbology made of color squares arranged in either square or rectangle grids. It was developed by Fraunhofer Institute SIT (Secure Information Technology).

The code contains one primary symbol and optionally multiple secondary symbols. The primary symbol contains four finder patterns located at the corners of the symbol.

The code uses either 4 or 8 colours.[96] The 4 basic colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) are the 4 primary colours of the subtractive CMYK color model which is the most widely used system in industry for colour printing on a white base such as paper. The other 4 colours (blue, red, green, white) are secondary colours of the CMYK model and originate as an equal mixture of a pair of basic colours.

The barcode is not subject to licensing and was submitted to ISO/IEC standardization as ISO/IEC 23634 expected to be approved at the beginning of 2021[97] and finalized in 2022. The software is open-source and published under the LGPL v2.1 license. The specification is freely available

Because the colour adds a third dimension to the two-dimensional matrix, a JAB code can contain more information in the same area compared to two-colour (black and white) codes – theoretically twice as much data for a 4 colour code and three times more for 8 colours assuming the same encoding algorithm. This can allow storage of an entire message in the barcode, rather than just storing partial data with a reference to a full message somewhere else (2)

(2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

JAB Stacks

And now we see that storing data not in the shape of bytes but as QR codes or JAB codes holds the immediate advantage of a very rapid interpretation of these codes and the information they contain vs a binary approach

These codes can thus be used to store not only modulated self patterns, and modulated self patterns averages and sequences but also the outputs that are result from these different patterns

The list of other data and metadata that can be stored in JAB codes is very extensive resulting overall in a computing approach that doesn’t read data in order to interpret it but rather interprets readable data

So what we have in the end are the exact same components, an encoder that encodes data into JAB codes and a decoder that interprets JAB codes

Where we have individual JAB codes, and JAB Stacks which can represent any amount of data that we want, its important because what we mean by Kyocera AI Dense Computing Datacenter may actually revolves around a supercomputer able to hold and rapidly interpret massive amounts of JAB Stacks

And where the initial version 40 177*177 matrix is only the stepping stone of future matrixes averaging tens of thousand times that size

Still if we look at these JAB Stacks from the disk space perspective we find them to be much less than the data they are holding

While if we want to reach the full extent of JAB computing we find that a byte presently represented as 8 bits or 2 exp 8 or 256 values, expressed in binary by 0 and 1, is conducive to the concept of a JAB byte or HEX byte, represented by 8 exp 8 colors or 16777216 values expressed in 8 hex colors

Conclusion

This leads us to conclude that in the future, data interpretation and analysis will not solely depend on the values expressed by this data after its interpretation, but can take place as a raw format through hex colors interpretation in search for patterns and similarities

So yes we interpret data and look for meanings, but there is meaning in how data is structured itself, which we may also call intelligence when we see that these same patterns and similarities reproduce themselves, in the works of an author or a painter or any contextual data sets that we compile

Whereas we like to think that data holds intelligence we find that intelligence produces data, that the abstract shape or abstraction of that intelligence in how it structures data can apply to other completely different data sets, and produce results

Basically structuring data to obtain replicable data patterns and similarities across different data sets is how artificial intelligence works, in doing so it compiles tens of different models sees what works here what doesn’t work based on the similarities that it sees, or if a combination of several known models yields something and a new model that it is going to keep

[l-tora-l-archived]

Part 2:

Funny, I have a very bad memory and suffer from memory loss even from time to time so I write to me often.

But ins this scenario probably who my best friends are, what clothes I look best in and everyone I hate plus telling me I'm good at math. This might be a lie but... maybe it works? 😭

Next question:

If you could live in another time period, which one would it be?

Honestly I waver from remembering fine details to being the most forgetful being on the planet it is extraordinarily a hassle-

Also I think that if you believe it- that’s a really huge chunk of being able to make it! So if you do think ur great at math then that’s making up for most of the journey! For instance I convinced myself I was hopeless at chemistry then that became a border I had to overcome a very difficult one for that but I’m thankful to my teacher for going above and beyond for me 😭😭😭

Well I have a very deep infatuation for the older days where there were kings and queens and royalty things 😭 webtoon rlly has a pull factor, but according to my webtoon research they are so judgemental back then and if I’m allergic to one thing it’s judgemental people😔 I just want to wear those fancy dresses 😭😭😭granted there is no way to make sure I’d get to wear those dresses because there were so many poorer classes made up of the majority of the population- in short I’d have a high probability of wearing rags instead- also think webtoon has over romanticised that era when it’s not too good at all because of the famines diseases from a logical viewpoint 😔 so I think the time period is live in (as boring as this sounds) is today😮‍💨

Question7: what is your favourite time of the day and why

[nikita-smith]

Survey - 18

This is the survey that I put together to determine what sort of price range we would be expecting ted to have based on our customers’ point of view and how sustainability can have an effect on that. 

Question 1:

How important is sustainable clothing to you?

A great deal – 37.50% (9/24)

A lot – 29.17% (7/24)

A moderate amount – 33.33% (8/24)

A little – 0.00%

Not at all – 0.00%

Question 2:

How much are you willing to spend on sustainable clothing? And why?

£30-50 Because I don’t want to spend too much on clothes

Up to £100. I usually spend less than this and buy second hand but if I am buying new clothing, I am willing to pay a lot for good quality items and fair wages for workers

If we said as a monthly budget, I'd look to buy at least 70% of my total spend

Just depends on how much I like the design. I'd spend whatever it costs.

Depends on the item but between 10 and 100. I don't mind paying more as I would feel the clothing would last longer

A little more than you pay on the high street

Yes, definitely as I feel they tend to be better made, not using cheap labour and better for the environment

Depends on the item, but I would say a medium amount, preferably no more than £70

Personally, willing to spend up to around £100 on average but can go above or below!

for a jacket I would be willing to pay £80.

Not more than £40. I also buy a lot from charity shops, so I usually don't spend too much!

It depends on the item, but I am definitely up for spending more on something. Sustainable, maybe £40-50 ish

£50 as it’s important to pay for quality and fairness in the supply chain but I’m also a student on a budget

£20

Anything I find suitable depending on the item of clothing

£50-60 per piece because this in my opinion is a little above average market cost and the money would be going towards a good cause

£150>

27 quid for a t-shirt that’s not made by slave labour anyway!

£1-60

£100 on an outfit so long as it lasts a long time

£40, more about the clothing than the sustainability

Depends on the item. A lot of the time I’d much rather buy sustainable clothing but can’t afford to. On average probably up to £30

Depends on the item. I’d be happy to spend £30 on a top for example if I knew it was good quality and long lasting

Willing to spend more because the quality is better, and the long-term benefits are better.

Question 3:

How important is the instore experience for you?

Extremely important – 13.04% (3/23)

Very important – 34.78% (8/23)

Somewhat important – 26.09% (6/23)

Not so important – 26.09% (6/23)

Not at all important – 0.00%

Question 4:

Does the importance of instore experience impact whether you buy from the store?

Not so much although it should always be on a high level

Yes, I have been persuaded into buying things because of friendly staff

Yes, if they are too pushy it’s a turn off and also how the clothing is styled and presented in terms of collections and a range is vital to get a feel for the overall look

Yes

Yes

Yes

Not usually unless they are really rude

Not particularly

MASSIVELY. It’s all about the vibe, the merchandising etc

not really

Not particularly!

To some extent, if the in-store experience is negative, I probably won’t stay long enough to consider buying anything

Not really

Not really

Yes

Yes

100%, if the employees are rude, I’ll leave pretty much straight away

Aye definitely. Don’t pester me, and help only if I want it

No not really

Not particularly

Yes

Yes definitely. If it’s unclean or staff are rude etc then I would not buy from there

If it’s unorganised

Not really but if it’s hot and loud or the sizes are limited then puts me off

Question 5:

What do you consider sustainable when it comes to clothing?

Zero waste – 20.83% (5/24)

Circular fashion – 0.00%

Recycle and reuse, close loop system – 25.00% (6/24)

Recycled materials – 8.33% (2/24)

Organic materials – 12.50% (3/24)

Fair labour – 12.50% (3/24)

Other – 20.83% (5/24)

1.     Organic and recycled materials

2.     All of the above

3.     All of the above

4.     All of the above

5.     All of the above criteria are important

Question 6:

A as Gen-Z, university student or person with a small budget, how much would you consider a decent price for sustainable clothing?

£30-50

£30

I think the price should be within the same parameters as high street fashion but maybe slightly more based on individual items

I wouldn’t expect less than H&M prices

Depending on the item, between £10-100

£80

Ooh anything under £30 I am willing to buy and I really lovely up to £40

Depends on the item, but probably around £40

As I say I’m willing to spend up to like £100 pounds but it’s dependant on the individual piece

Very important, I would buy more sustainably if I had money to

£20

Depends on the item but maybe £30-40

£50

£30-40

£20-60 depending on the item

£30 per piece

£90-100>

27 quid for a t shirt not made by slaves

About £25-30

Depends on the item. £25 for a t-shirt max

Sub £40

<£20

£30?

Depends on the item but usually £50 for larger things

Question7:

In your opinion should sustainable fashion be more expensive? Why?

I don't as I prefer not to go over budget when it comes to clothing

It should be exactly as expensive as it needs to be to be carbon neutral, zero waste and to pay workers fair wages while still making a profit. This means it will be more expensive than fast fashion items, but prices should still be kept as low as possible so that people with lower income can still make environmentally sound choices

Only if it has to be the aim should be to produce competitively priced garments that don't create havoc across the rest if the market driving retailers to seek out cheaper materials and labour to counter a value for money sustainable item

It should reflect a fair cost, the profit put on top shouldn't exploit the workers that made the garment, example the worker being paid £1 but the garment sells for £100

Yes. As more work and thought have usually gone into the item

No because it’s becoming more popular

Yes and no - the price they are is good and definitely should not be any lower but because fast fashion pieces are so cheap- I wish sustainable was a similar price as then lots more people would buy from sustainable sources instead of fast fashion- if that makes sense

Should be a bit more expensive to ensure workers are paid a decent wage and the material is sustainable, but not too expensive so that it is inaccessible

YES. It is not necessarily that sustainable clothing is expensive it is that fast fashion is far too cheap! We have got used to clothes being absurdly cheap

no. it puts people off buying sustainably

It probably should, to ensure all people involved in production are being paid fairly and the materials come from an ethical and sustainable place

It should be more expensive than fast fashion definitely, to ensure that the workers are paid a fair wage etc

It costs more TK be environmentally friendly and to make sure workers in supply chain are paid properly

No, it shouldn’t, if it wants to challenge fast fashion it has to be affordable

No, otherwise the non-sustainable brands have lower prices to their advantage

Yes (but not unaffordable) as the money is going to a good cause

No, I think it’s generally appropriately priced, although I suppose it depends on the retailer

Well inevitably it is more expensive, but eventually it doesn’t have to be, once the manufacture processes are refined

Yes, if it means all parties involved are paid fairly and the necessary precautions are taken to have little to no environmental impact. That being said, sustainable fashion can very easily be affordable

If higher quality products which last longer and can be reused more have a higher price, then yes

No, I wouldn’t pay more for clothing just because it’s sustainable...

No, I understand that it would be more difficult to produce however when it is more expensive people are less inclined to buy it hence, they will revert to non-sustainable clothing. It will be a continuous loop and no change will occur

More expensive than fast fashion as people should be paid for a fair wage. However, I also understand that it’s a privilege to be able to afford more expensive clothing so not everyone has the ability to shop sustainably if it’s more expensive

Yes, because it should be better quality to last longer which will mean more work

Question 8:

How much sustainable clothing do you buy compared to fast fashion?

A lot – 20.83% (5/24)

A fair amount – 37.50% (9/24)

Some – 33.33% (8/24)

A little – 4.17% (1/24)

None – 4.17% (1/24)

Question 9:

Why is this?

Sustainable fashion is too expensive – 33.33% (8/24)

Sustainable fashion is not accessible to me – 4.17% (1/24)

Fast fashion allows for more purchases – 12.50% (3/24)

Fast fashion has more diverse clothing – 4.17% (1/24)

Other – 45.83% (11/24)

1.     I try to buy sustainably as much as possible but there have been times, I have resorted to fast fashion due to lack of money and needing clothes for an event, interview, school, etc

2.     Trying to have longer lasting clothing

3.     Cause I love me charity shops and vintage bargains

4.      I buy no fast fashion, only shop second hand or sustainable or not at all

5.     all of the above

6.     I no longer buy fast fashion, but I would say expense is the main issue with sustainable clothing

7.     I buy what I like, whether it is sustainable or non-sustainable

8.     N/A (I buy second-hand clothing mostly)

9.     Fast fashion is really bad for the industry, so I just don’t buy it at all

10.   Charity shops

11.   I try not to buy fast fashion

Question 10:

Do you see your identity well represented in fashion stores and do you believe they need to be more diverse?

No, I think that we need more young designers or something fresh as a lot of fashion designs nowadays are repetitive and when they're not they're extremely overpriced

I have an idealised body type, so I have never found myself to be unrepresentative, but I believe they need to be more diverse on behalf of the rest of the population

More, more, more is the answer rather than quantity think quality of material, the materials story and route to market exclusive fashion has always been my go-to

I'm more of an online shopper but they could always be more diverse I'm sure

No

Yes

Yes! There are shops for everyone if you look around - although the shops on the high street tend to be quite similar styles that don’t suit me

Probably could be more diverse, seems many sustainable brands are catered to a similar audience

There is a massive need for fashion brands to become more diverse and represent more personality types, body types, cultures etc

Yes

I don’t! disabilities aren’t often represented in fashion brands and this is something i would like to see represented more

I am in the privileged position that my identity is well represented but there definitely needs to be more diversity with different body types etc

More diverse styles

My identity is represented in mainstream fashion stores, there should be diversity of style and expression

Well represented

They should be more diverse

I feel represented for the most part

Nothing wrong with the diversity, wear what you like

Well represented

Yes, I don’t need to be more diverse for my tastes

Yes, I don’t think they need to be more diverse

They need to be more diverse

I can easily find clothes on Depop, I think everyone deserves to have clothes that make them feel happy and comfortable. Everyone deserves to express themselves and certain brands exclude people from that

I think they are diverse enough

I find that for the most part this survey worked well and we were able to put together a price range that works with our brand, our garments, our customers and our values. 

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[mathsteacher01]

Number Systems Exercise 1.3 Q7 Mathematics Class 9 CBSE Number Systems Exercise 1.3 Question7 Mathematics Class 9 CBSE

[nicholasrossis]

This post was originally posted on the Azure Fire Publishing website.

Creating The Perfect Newsletter

For many authors, the Perfect Newsletter is like the alchemist’s philosophical stone: if we get it right, we can turn our books to gold! The newsletter is our way to reach our readers, create with them a long-standing relationship, make our books known, and even make some friends through the process. We authors love writing and connecting, and the newsletter combines both aspects in one. It should be considered one more hot trend to publishing!

So we spend time creating and putting together newsletters, and our hearts ache when someone unsubscribes. But just what is it that readers are looking for in a newsletter?

Jackie Weger of eNovel Authors At Work recently ran a survey looking for the answer to just that. She had hundreds of responses, and I had the opportunity to look at her data. So, here is what appeals to readers and what turns them off in a newsletter.

Things that appeal to the readers

Most of the things that appeal to readers in a newsletter have to do with newsletter content:

Keep a friendly tone and use your humor. Readers appreciate when an author is open, honest and friendly. A little humor goes a long way.

Talk about your new releases. Your new or upcoming book is by far what readers want mostly to know about. Provide some book updates, either about new books, work in progress, or information about your existing books.

Include offers, deals, or freebies. Try to include a good deal for your readers in every newsletter. According to the survey results, 73% of the subscribers prefer newsletters offering giveaways and 89% subscribe to Bookbub.

Ebook offers are the best. Only a tiny minority of people (about 1% of the participants) prefer free books to be hardcopy instead of e-books. They also asked for giveaways to be made available to readers outside the USA. Unfortunately, this is hardly feasible, for cost reasons as well as for legal ones.

Inform readers about signature events, ARCs, cover selection. Your most dedicated readers love to interact with you. The high participation in this survey proves it! So give them the opportunity to meet you or to get somehow involved in the edition of your next book.

Things that turn readers off

Things that turn people off in a newsletter have to do with how easy it is to read, like:

Too long and disorganized: This is the most important complain about newsletters. Readers receive many newsletters from a variety of sources and have limited time to read them (see figures). They appreciate a newsletter not longer than one page at maximum, clean and easy to read. So for each newsletter, focus on 2-3 themes. Also, consider that, although short excerpts, teasers, and sneak-peeks of upcoming books are appealing to readers, long ones have the opposite effect.

Too frequent newsletters: Anything more than one newsletter per week is considered overkill. Even a weekly newsletter is too much for most. While 98% of the survey participants are comfortable with receiving a newsletter once or twice a month, only 56% would feel comfortable with a weekly newsletter. Content repetition is also a pet-peeve for readers, which is connected to high frequency: they like a newsletter that they have not read before. So, if you want people to actually read your newsletter, make them wait for it and make it interesting.

Too pushy. Obviously, newsletter subscribers know that your newsletter is a marketing tool. However, they don’t appreciate when it’s “in their face”. They still expect a friendly, informational communication. Avoid being pushy with “BUY NOW” titles and don’t look too desperate to sell.

Small or weird fonts, bad grammar, too many CAPS, acronyms and !!!: People want to be able to read your newsletter. Don’t use small fonts to keep it short in size; reduce your text. Use readable, clean fonts and easy-to-the-eye colors. Avoid sensationalism.

Text only, not interesting and ugly layouts: readers will be discouraged by a long newsletter that is all text. Make your newsletter visually appealing by including a nice layout and some book-covers or an interesting photo. Make sure that the photos load quickly enough by optimizing them for web use.

Sex and profanity: Keep in mind that your readers will probably open their newsletter in an environment where other people will also be present. No-one wants to open a newsletter with naked models while taking a break at the office or in front of family members. Keep it clean.

Too many links and clicks: following a link is ok, but having to click on an endless list of links is too much. Keep your links under control and make sure they work.

Striking the right balance

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Image: Jackie Weger, #eNovAaW

Maybe the most important thing about your e-mail is finding the right balance on some important features of your newsletter:

The personal approach

A vast majority of readers love not only books, but their authors too. They are eager to hear about your life as a writer, your work in progress, what inspires you, and some personal information. Being friendly and providing some interesting backstage information figures among the top features that readers appreciate in a newsletter.

However, if you go overboard and provide too much information, you may turn this big “do” into a big “don’t”. So go ahead and write a short personal greeting, but:

Keep it short and pleasant.

Keep the personal life update (family and children) sparse.

Don’t brag about your achievements or your wonderful life. Avoid information that might be provocative to lower-income readers.

Never ever whine or rant about low sales, other authors being undeservedly successful, bad reviews etc. Keep your newsletter drama-free.

Opinions about photos of your pets are split – half love them and half hate them. So go ahead and include one from time to time, but not in every single newsletter.

Recommending other authors

Here is another fine balance to achieve. According to the survey results, 85% of the participants actually enjoy having an array of books by selected authors to choose from in a newsletter. Readers love when you recommend other authors because a) they see it as a sign of humility and fair play on your part, b) they like what you write so they trust that they will also like what you read.

However, there were also many complaints about recommending other authors:

Readers do want to know that you have read what you recommend. If you recommend too many books from other authors they consider it as advertisement and may not care about it.

Many don’t like it when you recommend too many titles, especially if they are outside of your genre.

Pricey books from other authors are not appreciated.

Yes to contests, but…

Although many readers like contests as a means to interact with you, they appreciate them less when participation rules are too complicated (e.g. You need to go on one site, two social media, click like and leave a comment). Again, keep it simple.

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[digimusicobs-blog]

beginning

Digital music is how people my age and younger know music as. To anyone older than us, that idea probably seems crazy considering how many albums they had on vinyl, CD, or on tape. In a lecture today, my professor explained to us how mixtapes were made back in the 80′s–you know, having to wait for hours for a radio station to play the specific song you want to record for a tape and then having to cut and edit the tape to your liking... this process could take months, while nowadays, you can make a playlist on Spotify in ten minutes. This is the difference between digital and analog music. Explained simply, digital music is created when numbers are converted to reflect the original sound wave, while analog music is a wave recorded in its original form that is not manipulated.  (you can read more about this here: (https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question7.htm)

Now, we are so used to digital everything that it seems out of this world to think about a time when music was all physical. I mean, it’s the same as thinking about the difference between using a textbook about marine biology and using a computer database to read about marine biology. Digital now seems more convenient. It’s faster and cheaper to attain music in modern times. But how does this affect the music industry? How does this affect how we view music as a whole versus how music was viewed in the 60′s? Many argue that digital music is sonically better technically, but analog music has a more likable sound to it. It’s arguable that acoustic music takes more talent to create than electronic music and it is better to listen to. Are artists experiencing the same amount of success now with digital platforms that they were before music was digitized? Stay tuned! I plan to dive into these topics full force and I’m just an undergrad and am definitely no expert so I too will be learning along the way. 

[writemein-blog]

Under what circumstances would you tell a lie?

Answer.

[lanamay1980]

No Fear, Except What’s Written Here

Worries. Worries. Worries. Too many worries often create irrational fears. Which is a shame because I’ve previously mentioned that my favorite quote by John Clease is all about how fears stymie creativity. 

Question 7: What am I worried about?

Answer: What am I not worried about? LOL! To be honest, I hate change of any kind, but my biggest fear is ever being in the same situation I was in when I was pregnant back in 2009. No job. No money. Bills were piling up, and the inability to keep anything together made those short months quite difficult. It was the worst and to top it off the worry didn’t help my blood pressure and the risk-factors associated with that pregnancy. So, there ya go! That's what I'm always worried about. So, now I work 2 jobs and over 50 hours a week, except for 3 months out of the year because I don't ever want to not have enough to survive another month. 

[briantaylor709-blog]

#Music #song #home #machinegunkelly #importantquestion1 #importantpoll1#questiontime #Questionbox #Poll #question7 #newquestion (at Southend-on-Sea)

[thejewofkansas]

#MovieoftheDay: Question 7 (1961) Movies I Want to See: 16/50 The National Board of Review may be my favorite film award group. Partially due to their longevity—founded in 1909, they've been publishing Top 10 lists since 1929 and awarding a Best Film since 1933—but also due to their taste, rather more daring than the Academy's; who else would have Yellow Submarine, The Day of the Dolphin, and Ben Stiller's Walter Mitty on a Top 10 list, especially at the time? In going over their lists, I noticed that there was one Best Film I'd never heard of—this one. It's the most obscure film they've given to the award to, having just 47 votes on the IMDb, less than half as many as the second-lowest. So what is it? It's the story of a musical prodigy (Christian de Bresson) in East Berlin, whose father, a minister (Michael Gwynn) faces repression from the Communist government. He wishes to attend a prestigious state-run academy, but to do so he will have to fill out an application, and to answer the titular seventh question would require him to deny his faith. Caught in a crisis of conscience, he finds an opportunity to make a stand when he is invited to take part in a cultural festival designed to give outsiders a false impression of the government's beneficence. The overtly religious subject isn't what interests me so much as my regard for the NBR (who clearly had a soft spot for Lutheranism—the 1953 Luther biopic made their list for that year) though I would hope it is at least a solid film in its own right. It can be obtained, at least, through a Christian media company. #Question7 #StuartRosenberg (best known for directing Cool Hand Luke) #MichaelGwynn #ChristiandeBresson #Christiancinema #ColdWarcinema

[lucyalldred]

Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?