1, Ok as these things go, this is pretty awesome.
2. New communist leader of United Nations says voting conservative is “a virus”
Anti-terrorist police were searching for a masked gunman overnight after at least one woman, believed to be a nun, was murdered at a home for retired missionary monks in the south of France.
The bloodbath unfolded at the Green Oaks care home in the village of Montferrier-sur-Lez, north of Montpellier, soon after 9.30pm.
Shots were heard as the unidentified intruder attacked member of staff and members of an elderly religious community belonging to the Society of African Missions.
(The media is doing its best so far to hide any possible tardish connection to this event. This DM article has some information though. As the murder victim was an elderly nun, its unlikely her killer was a jilted lover or any of the other variations used to try and remove heat from Islam. Like the case of the probable-muslim who dragged one of his wives around a large block behind his car by the neck after stabbing her twice, once in the heart. All the media is hiding his religion except one YT vid which referred to his other three wives, and the video was quickly pulled down. Here is the ABC link on the German story.)
4. Amsterdam mosque leaders linked to terrorism: Report.
Two leaders of the Arrayan mosque in Amsterdam Noord are being watched by the Dutch authorities because they are suspected of radicalization and jihadism, the Telegraaf reports based on “secret documents”.
According to the newspaper, there is a wiretap on chairman Aziz Oilkadi’s phone. He is suspected of having contact with “many radical figures”. The other leader is suspected of being part of the so-called Hofstad terrorist group. The group is centered around Mohammed B. the extremist who killed Theo van Gogh n 2004.
Oilkadi denies the accusations to the newspaper and insists that he is not radicalized. “I graduated from the Vrije Universiteit and have been a dutiful Muslim since my 18th birthday. Do I know jihadists? We know so many people, that means nothing.” He added that the other board member is also back on the right path.
Austria has suffered a sharp uptick in the number of criminal complaints made against migrants over the last year, latest figures from the interior ministry show.
Vienna saw the highest number of complaints made against migrants, with 960 criminal complaints made against Afghanis in the city between January and August of this year, up from 730 for the whole of 2015.
Thank you Sassy, M., Wrath of Khan, NorseRadish, Richard Yucki, and many more.
Musically, thisTrump-Farage duet is more annoying than pleasant to listen to, but fortunately it lasts only 45 seconds. What is remarkable is the effort that must have gone into its making. The wording seems to be actual phrase-by-phrase clips from public speeches, but how did the creator of this video get the speakers to sing on pitch (by speeding up or slowing down the recording?)? Were any vocal impersonators used? The phrase “castles in the sky” is uncommon, so maybe that is what determined the particular song to adopt. At 0:33, both Farage and Trump seem to be saying “castles” (Farage with the broad-a British pronunciation “cahs’ls” and Trump with the flat-a American pronunciation “cass’ls”, but maybe I’m just imagining Trump’s pronunciation).
From my point of view, it was an amazing effort to go through that much footage to find the words he needed from both gents.
I believe there is a device/software that adjusts pitch easily. I have software that does this but not like that, what I hear often now in music and in these “mashups” is a specific piece of software or a firmware device based on the old vocoder idea where you put a voice through a keyboard and hit the note you want that voice to be at that time.
I liked it.
As a saxophonist, the musical choice was acceptable. That said, instrumental and vocal pitch-shifting technology has been around for decades.
I must agree with all others that the painstaking process of locating all of the precise words (and finding examples where they were not run together with bracketing utterances) was clearly a labor of love.
This piece is the audio-visual equivalent of an old-fashioned hostage note.
Incidentally, the quality and precision of even intermediate-grade video editing software is such that a deft-handed individual could obtain “castles” by taking the leading edge of the word, “can” and splicing it to the tail-end of “hassles”. Pitch correction and amplitude smoothing does all the rest.
As a Portuguese I can say Guterres is a mediocre man. He resigned in shame, halfway through his second mandate, as an incompetent prime minister and led the country to the verge of bankruptcy in 2002 (which another corrupt socialist would complete in 2011) with its government plagued by corruption.