Additives for Polyolefins: Getting the Most Out of Polypropylene, Polyethylene and TPO
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Additives for Polyolefins is a unique quick-reference resource for those who create or use...
Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics
Theresa Birgitta Bronnum Scavenius and Steve Rayner
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In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is quintessential to...
To Quote Myself: A Memoir
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In 2015 the first edition of To Quote Myself was published and it soon became a bestseller at the...
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
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An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series 'Uncomfortable...
Guilt-Free Quiet Times: Exposing the Top Ten Myths about Your Time with God
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Somewhere along the line, you’ve been taught some version of this: Your quiet time with God is...
The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
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The heart of Christianity is about transformation - about a God who isn't just concerned with our...
Larry Eisner (2082 KP) rated Loot Time Podcast in Podcasts
Oct 3, 2018
This podcast is well crafted from an audio quality standpoint and from a “love of the game” style genuine feeling you get from the hosts. They really love pop culture discussion and it shines through.
They are comfortable with the banter and that’s not easy to make happen, especially within just 25 episodes (when I listened).
My criticism here is a matter of what plagues great intentioned media everywhere. Everyone and everything benefits from a great editor. Now, I’m not talking about topic censure or quality of audio or what other editors of podcasts sometimes do. I’m strictly speaking of editing for content coherency and poignancy.
These guys love to talk pop culture but as any conversation with people who are passionate, they have conversations that seem less interesting if you’re not on the same page. There’s a ton of great content and a lot of boring non-essential content. The non-essential content is usually what defines a conversation-style podcast, because it’s the character of the show. However a lot of times it seems the hosts are stretching for filler. Trying to make the topic of the box more relevant or simply going on a tangent to simply fill tape.
And that is where an editor comes in. I think this could be a FANTASTIC half hour show. But with the dryness of the reaching to stay on topic versus the naturally on-topic stuff, an hour is just too much.
Again, I’m being harsh. I get it. But I think this has a ton of potential. It’s a great idea, and it’s got hosts who are genuinely fun to listen to when they’re jazzed about whatever topic they are on. But when they’re trying too hard to make you love they way they love, it’s too forced. (Loved the Evil Dead stuff, hated the gremlins on VHS stuff as one example).
Enthusiast media is great because it creates a shared space for fans to converge. You don’t have to sell us. We are on board already! So just have fun with it, don’t try to create topics, just run with it. And have someone ready to cut the audio into something more manageable to keep the sweet stuff, and trim the fat!
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Empirical Modeling and Data Analysis for Engineers and Applied Scientists: 2016
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This textbook teaches advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Engineering and...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Red Sparrow (2018) in Movies
Mar 7, 2018 (Updated Mar 7, 2018)
Now there's a discussion to be had about just how appropriate it is to be making blockbuster entertainment about Russian espionage, infiltration, and assassination these days - some would say that a taste barrier has been well and truly breached, and the depiction of the Russian state is cartoon-horrible. But surely we can agree that, at the moment if at no other time, there is something unconscionable about a movie the sine qua non of which is the depiction of an attractive young actress in various provocative situations and states of nudity. Some nastily graphic violence, too, much of it misogynistic and openly sexual. J-Law's performance is not up to the usual standard and mainly consists of doing a Rooshan oksent from behind an unflattering fringe. Competently made, but too long and too much. The kind of film you emerge from wanting to be hosed down with sheep dip. Yuck.
EKG Academy: Electrocardiogram Study Guide
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EKG Academy is a quick reference and interactive study guide for electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)...