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Friday, April 27, 2012
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Britney Spears' Fiance Granted Legal Control Of Singer
Jason Trawick is a co-conservator of the pop star along with her dad, Jamie Spears.
By Kara Warner
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/spears_britney/artist.jhtml">Britney Spears</a>' fiancé, Jason Trawick, has been granted his wish to become her co-conservator. The talent agent's request was approved by a Los Angeles judge Wednesday (April 25). </P><P> </P><P>Spears' former agent-turned-paramour <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1682699/britney-spears-fiance-legal-control.jhtml">petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this month</a> to become the pop star's co-conservator. He will share the responsibility with Spears' father, Jamie Spears, who has maintained legal control of his daughter since February 2008. </P><P> </P><P>According to <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20590448,00.html" target="_blank"><i>People</i> magazine</a>, Spears' father is delighted with the court's decision. "Jamie's thrilled," attorney Geraldine Wyle told reporters following the hearing, referring to Spears' father. "It's all in the family." </P><P> </P><P>Wyle also made a point to clarify the fact that the request to add Trawick as co-conservator came at Britney's request, not her father's. The 41-year-old will not have control of Spears' multimillion-dollar estate or career but will share responsibility with Jamie Spears for the singer's "general well-being," including decisions regarding food, clothing and medical care. </P><P> </P><P>Jamie Spears took steps to <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20175487,00.html" target="_blank">gain legal control</a> over his daughter's affairs in 2008 following a spate of increasingly erratic behavior that culminated in Britney's brief stay at UCLA Medical Center. In the years since, Spears has appeared to get her life solidly back on track, releasing two multiplatinum albums, launching two successful world tours and regaining custody of her young sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James. </P><P> </P><P>The current status of Spears' conservatorship is reportedly more of a "formality" than anything else. </P><P> </P><P>Trawick, Spears' former agent and co-star in her "Criminal" video, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1676248/britney-spears-engagement-ring.jhtml">proposed to Spears</a> in December on his 40th birthday with a four-carat diamond ring designed by Neil Lane. </P><P> </P><P><center><a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1617615"><img src="http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/s/spotted/banner/spotted.jpg"></a></center></p>
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Ask AC: Taking screenshots on the Transformer Prime and HTC Vivid
Kinghthawk321 asks in the Android forums,
OK, folks, one thing I really don't know how to do is snagging a screen shot, either on my Transformer Prime or my Vivid. I appreciate all help in bringing me up to speed on these techniques. Thank you, very much.
You're welcome, and we're glad you asked! Android is an open platform, which means manufacturers can implement things however they like -- including the ability to capture the screen. Of course, that means they all do it differently. Both the Transformer Prime and the HTC Vivid have the utility built in, and it's fairly easy.
On the Prime, just press and hold the multitasking button. After about a second and a half it will grab the screen and save it to the device internal storage. If yours isn't doing it, make sure this is turned on in the settings. Open the settings and choose ASUS customized setting and it is the second item in the list/
On the HTC Vivid, you press and hold the power button then tap the Home soft key. A screen capture will be saved to the device. This is pretty standard across all newer HTC phones.
Of course, there is the old fashioned way of using the Android SDK for screen capture. After installing the SDK, the USB driver for the device (if you're using Windows) and the Java JDK you can use the bundled ddms tool to capture the display. Thank goodness for the easy way, right?
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Rap Fire Starter Joe Cool Just Wants The 'Fame'
The Vernon Parish, Louisiana, MC didn't have Lil Wayne or Boosie connections, so he made his own way.
By Rob Markman
Joe Cool
Photo: MTV News
Fire Starter: Joe Cool
There weren't any local rap heroes for Vernon Parish, Louisiana, MC Joe Cool to pattern himself after, but that didn't deter the 23-year-old upstart. He was too far from New Orleans to have any Cash Money connection, and hip-hop hot spot Baton Rouge wasn't exactly nearby, so Joe just looked to his close buddies for support. And now it is all starting to pay off.
"I started rapping when I was like 15. All my friends rapped — I was just chillin' in the background. I used to make funny songs and stuff," Joe told Mixtape Daily during a February interview.
It was those "funny" little songs that then turned into hooks for more-developed local rappers. But at the urging of a friend, Mr. Cool decided to take his craft a bit more seriously. "I just kept going, and by the time I hit high school, I was like, this is something I want to pursue," he said.
Joey dropped his first project, Mixtape for No F---in' Reason, in March 2011 and then followed up with his most recent, Cooley Hi, at the top of this year. The majority of the tape is self-produced, a skill that JC picked up by necessity at a young age.
"By the time I hit 16, I really couldn't find all of the beats that I wanted to go over, so I just started trying to make my own beats," he explained.
The rap rookie is still climbing up the hip-hop ranks — he performed a few sets at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, last month — but he still has a way to go. On "Fame," one of the tracks off of Cooley Hi, the Young MC ponders the money and recognition that awaits him. It's not that he is trying to be a prima donna, he just believes in himself that much.
" 'Fame' was pretty much me feeling like I just know I'm supposed to be here. It's waiting for me," he said.
For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines.
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Propellerhead Balance
You could say the market for USB audio interfaces is pretty saturated. Many of the most-popular models have been around for years, with fewer significant product introductions as of late. That makes it even more bold for Propellerhead?traditionally a software vendor?to step into the hardware ring. Fortunately, its new Balance interface ($449 direct) is worthy of the cause, as it looks like no other recording system out there. It turns out the Balance's execution stands up as well, although it's a bit pricey for what you get.
Design, Connections, and Front Panel
The chunky Balance measures 2.76 by 5.12 by 7.56 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.25 pounds. ?Its design is one of the Balance's best attributes, with its rubberized housing, cantered front panel, and extra-large, easy-to-read controls. The back panel contains two XLR microphone inputs, each with switchable 48-volt phantom power. You can also bypass those and use one of the three quarter-inch TRS input jacks corresponding to each channel, for Line 1, Line 2, Guitar, and a pad switch for taming hot signals. There are no stereo RCA or 3.5mm inputs or outputs; this is purely a professional-level interface.
For monitoring, a pair of quarter-inch output jacks let you hook up the Balance to an amplifier or a set of active studio monitor speakers. A quarter-inch headphone jack sits on the right side of the unit, right near the front?two headphone jacks would have been welcome at this price. And despite the Balance's good compliment of analog connectivity, there are no digital inputs, and no MIDI in or out, either.
The front panel is dominated by two massive volume knobs?one for the main outs, and one for the single headphone jack. Above that is a direct monitoring switch, which lets you monitor incoming recordings from a mic, guitar, or other instrument with zero latency. Two smaller knobs handle input levels for the left and right inputs; oddly, they click to specific settings, which shouldn't pose a problem in most cases, but doesn't afford as much granular control as I would have expected. There's also a clip safe light, and a useful, built-in meter and tuner button which pops up an appropriate window in Reason Essentials (more about that later). Two sets of three LEDs indicate signal, clipping status, recording status, and whether 48V phantom power is switched on. All controls and buttons engage and move with a precision feel.
Across the right side of the panel are two extra rows of four buttons, used to select the input mode for the jacks on the rear. This is strange, because typically you don't get this option, with all inputs being live as needed,?or software is used to make these adjustments. Propellerhead's design means you can hook up several pieces of gear to all of those rear-mounted inputs, such as two microphones, a guitar, a bass guitar, and a couple of synthesizers, and then switch between them using the front panel buttons. But even so, this is purely a two-channel recording interface, which is what makes it bizarre. There's no way to record signal from more than any two of those inputs simultaneously. This makes the Balance a rather expensive proposition, and puts it within just $150 of the incredible sounding (if Mac-only) two-channel Apogee Duet 2, as well as in the same ballpark as numerous interfaces that record four or even eight simultaneous channels?enough to record an entire band at once.
Reason Essentials Setup and Virtual Synths
With the Balance, Propellerhead bundles Reason Essentials, a cut-down version of the company's flagship Reason recording software that still provides most of the program's best features. The package works on either Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (including 64-bit mode in Vista and 7), as well as on any multi-core Mac running OS X 10.6.3 or later. For this review, I tested the Balance and Reason Essentials on a 2.93GHz quad-core Mac Pro with 6GB RAM and OS X 10.7 (Lion).
Installation is fairly simple. I inserted the DVD, dragged the Reason Essentials folder onto the Mac, and then plugged the interface into a free USB port. When I fired up the Reason icon, it turns out it wasn't done yet, as it popped up a warning about installing Ignition Key software. It then began copying sound banks over from the DVD. While the full version of Reason now employs a USB dongle, Reason Essentials uses the Balance as the dongle?disconnect the interface, and you can no longer use the software.
If you're willing to get a little creative, Reason Essentials includes enough power to handle many recording needs. It still gives you unlimited audio and instrument tracks, the new ReGroove mixer, and 1.45GB (rather than 2.5GB) of sound bank content. You get Propellerhead's venerable Subtractor synth and NN-XT sampler, but not the Malstrom, Neptune, or Thor synthesizers. On top of those, you still get a live sampling editor and ID-8 songwriter's toolbox, the Matrix pattern sequencer, the Combinator, the MClass mastering suite and master bus compressor, and a variety of basic effects boxes, including a reverb, Line 6-powered guitar and bass amps, a chorus and flanger, a digital delay, and the Scream 4 distortion box.
The new arrange window is a little tough to work with. It's not as flexible as a digital audio workstation like Pro Tools, because it's still designed like a vertically scrolling equipment rack. In today's world of widescreen desktop monitors with fewer vertical pixels, the UI looks oddly stretched out, with little room to see the virtual gear once the arrange and mixer windows are in place.
Testing, Sound Quality, and Conclusions
In a series of recording and playback tests, I had problems with the Balance. The headphone jack sounded full, warm, and loud, and recordings came through reasonably clean using a Rode NT-1A large condenser microphone, with the Balance's 48-volt phantom power engaged. Using the default settings, I experienced 8ms latency on the way in, and 6ms on the way out, which was fine for playing drum tracks live using an M-Audio Keystation 49e keyboard. I was also able to flip on a reverb and record vocals while hearing it; in doing so, I heard some minor comb filtering, but it was easily usable?and this was without direct monitoring, which you can always engage for zero latency monitoring.
The default sound banks are versatile across the board, with plenty of synth pads, leads, multitimbral workstation-like sounds, and even dozens of sampled reverbs. If you keep in mind that many of these sound modules date back to the first version of Reason from more than 10 years ago, it's still a good sound set, and more than you'd ever get with, say, a workstation keyboard synthesizer from Korg or Roland 10 years ago.
Propellerhead is targeting a niche customer with the Balance: One who wants ultra-clean sound quality, plenty of connections, and tight integration with Reason, but that also doesn't need to record, say, more than one musician simultaneously most of the time. If that's you, it's tough to go wrong with the Balance. But if you want an interface with a lower price and a smaller footprint, the M-Audio Fast Track ($149.99, 4 stars) will get you most of the way there for less than half the cost, although you're giving up all of the extra connectivity and separate main and headphone volume knobs. Otherwise, a number of interfaces with eight microphone inputs, such as the 16-channel/4-out Tascam US-1800 ($399.99), give you more flexible recording power for the same or less money than the Balance.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Himalayan glaciers could be growing, new study finds
A new study published in Nature Geoscience has discovered Himalayan glaciers that are not shrinking at all. They could be getting larger.
Glaciers and sea ice around the world are melting at unprecedented rates, but new data indicates that this phenomenon may be lopsided. It seems that some areas of the Himalayan mountain range are melting faster than others, which aren't melting at all, a new study indicates.
Skip to next paragraphSpecifically, the Karakoram mountain range is holding steady, and may even be growing in size, the study, published in the April 2012 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests.
"The rest of the glaciers in the Himalayas are mostly melting, in that they have negative mass balance, here we found that glaciers aren't," study researcher Julie Gardelle, of CNRS-Universit? Grenoble, France, told LiveScience. "This is an anomalous behavior."
Karakoram mountains
The Karakoram mountain range spans the India-China-Pakistan border. It is home to the world's second highest peak, K2, and has the highest concentration of peaks over 5 miles (8 kilometers) high in the world. It is home to about half of the volume of the Himalayan glaciers.
The researchers used satellite photos to analyze the extent of the ice in about a quarter of the total range ? about 2,167 square miles (5,615 square kilometers). The photos were taken in 1999 and 2008. The researchers used two computer models to translate the images, revealing the elevation of the glaciers and estimating the extent of the ice.
They found that the glaciers are holding steady and based on the numbers might actually be gaining mass. But Gardelle warns this doesn't mean global warming and glacier melt isn't happening elsewhere.
"We don't want this study to be seen as questioning the planet's global warming," she told LiveScience. "With global warming we can get higher precipitation at high altitudes and latitudes, so thickening isn't out of the question." [10 Global Warming Myths Busted]
Glacier growth
Glaciers grow and shrink based on how much snow falls and the temperatures in the area. Why this area isn't showing the melt seen in other areas is still a mystery. "For now we don't have any explanation," Gardelle said. "There's been a study reporting an increase in winter precipitation, this could maybe be a reason for the equilibrium, but that's just a guess."
Because of its location and physical characteristics of the glaciers themselves, it was been exceptionally difficult to study the glaciers in this region. Usually satellite photos are combined with physical readings of the ice extent, and Gardelle says they'd like to get the physical data in the future to validate their findings.
Previous estimates had suggested the Himalayan mountain range as a whole was contributing about 0.04 millimeters per year to sea-level rise. These numbers now need to be adjusted to account for the anomaly of the Karakoram region, and are probably more like negative 0.006 millimeters per year, the researchers say.
"Evidently, extrapolation and analogy have failed in this significant region," Graham Cogley, a researcher from Trent University, in Canada, who wasn't involved in the study wrote in an accompanying essay in the same issue of Nature Geoscience.
"It seems that, by a quirk of the atmospheric general circulation that is not understood, more snow is being delivered to the mountain range at present and less heat," Cogley wrote. "Gardelle and colleagues have demonstrated that the mass balance of Karakoram glaciers is indeed anomalous compared with the global average."
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