If you want an English language idea of what is going on in Israel, Shir recommended this to me some time ago.
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There has also been a case I've lost my link to where some people were peacefully protesting the increasing gender segratation in Israel, were not violating any law, but were arrested for "incitement" because their mixed gender protest was offensive and provactive to the ultra-orthodox.
Random thought: I do wish for applicable quantum mechanics sometime soon.
That's the only hope I see for getting all the books I have and will have in one place.
Who knows, maybe it's the solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well.
Why would you do that, ND? What did classical music ever do to you?
I'm doing it at the request of a certain thematic rodent.
There is actually a good reason for it, and it works when installed, it just is brutal sounding in the studio. This is music that will play as background music, so the standard is to basically remove all of the dynamic range from it so that it will sit at a constant comfortable level along with the crowd noise. I go through and do volume adjustment to the track and then run it through a bit of a complicated processor chain to take it from stereo to mono and then through a few compressors while automating the threshold adjustment so that I can shoot for a maximum dynamic range of about 6dB.
omg t- soup from yesterday turned out yum. it's very stew-ish. I'm tempted to call it stoup.
Anecdotal evidence has its uses. If any doctor had ever even casually mentioned to me that taking Zoloft might cause me to lose my fucking hair, I'd never have taken the stuff, and that would've been good because it made my depression worse. Doesn't it occur to any doctor that sudden male-pattern baldness might exacerbate depression in a woman? It's been five years since I went off it, and the hair still hasn't all grown back. Though on the upside, it does seem to be slowly growing back.