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| author | Tony Anderson <tony_anderson@usa.net> | 2009-09-02 15:25:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tony Anderson <tony_anderson@usa.net> | 2009-09-02 15:25:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 63636bdfccca6023c50fce3b06d170ea50e062d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e5ded9e071c248746cd267699801b27baac469b | |
| parent | 3f047e2955c9913bed091da5878b9a99e8e8117b (diff) | |
remove test-items
29 files changed, 317 insertions, 488 deletions
diff --git a/activity/activity-smile.svg b/activity/activity-smile.svg index 51d0cd1..51d0cd1 100644..100755 --- a/activity/activity-smile.svg +++ b/activity/activity-smile.svg diff --git a/smils/audiom4a.smil b/smils/audiom4a.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..227b4b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/audiom4a.smil @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <audio src = "audio.m4a" dur="indefinite" region="audio"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/audiomp3.smil b/smils/audiomp3.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a022021 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/audiomp3.smil @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <audio src = "audio.mp3" dur="indefinite" region="audio"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/audioogg.smil b/smils/audioogg.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b443051 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/audioogg.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <audio src = "audio.ogg" dur="indefinite" begin="0" region="audio"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/audiowav.smil b/smils/audiowav.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55b7a0d --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/audiowav.smil @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <audio src = "audio.wav" dur="indefinite" region="audio"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/audiowma.smil b/smils/audiowma.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7924f91 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/audiowma.smil @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <audio src = "audio.wma" dur="indefinite" region="audio"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagebmp.smil b/smils/imagebmp.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff46ea6 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagebmp.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.bmp" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagegif.smil b/smils/imagegif.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fca202f --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagegif.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.gif" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagejpg.smil b/smils/imagejpg.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80fecae --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagejpg.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.jpg" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagepng.smil b/smils/imagepng.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc49855 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagepng.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.png" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagesvg.smil b/smils/imagesvg.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f41adbe --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagesvg.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.svg" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/imagetiff.smil b/smils/imagetiff.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c00eea7 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/imagetiff.smil @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <img src = "image.tiff" dur="indefinite" region="image"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/test-items/skeleton.smil b/smils/textpln.smil index 494152a..48cd50c 100755..100644 --- a/test-items/skeleton.smil +++ b/smils/textpln.smil @@ -10,21 +10,17 @@ width="800" height="600" left="100" - textMode="scroll" - textRate="6px" textColor="black" backgroundColor="white" /> - <region xml:id="audio"/> </layout> </head> <body> - <par> - <audio region = "audio" src = "2002-12-26.mp3" dur = "293s"/> - <smilText xml:id="CapF0" region="textregion" dur = "289s" begin="3s"> -<span textColor="black" textFontSize="xx-large" textFontStyle="normal" textFontFamily="serif" textFontWeight="bold"> + <smilText xml:id="txt" region="textregion" dur="indefinite" fill="hold"> +<span textColor="black" textFontSize="xx-large" textFontStyle="normal" +textFontFamily="serif" textFontWeight="bold"> +*****text goes here***** </span> </smilText> - </par> </body> </smil> diff --git a/smils/videoavi.smil b/smils/videoavi.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c445ae --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videoavi.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.avi" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videoflv.smil b/smils/videoflv.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d36a47d --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videoflv.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.flv" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videomov.smil b/smils/videomov.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f2af23 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videomov.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.mov" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videomp4.smil b/smils/videomp4.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecb97d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videomp4.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.mp4" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videompg.smil b/smils/videompg.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5a4391 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videompg.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.mpg" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videoogg.smil b/smils/videoogg.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24bc9a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videoogg.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.ogg" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/smils/videowmv.smil b/smils/videowmv.smil new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afcedd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/smils/videowmv.smil @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> +<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> + <head> + <layout> + <root-layout xml:id="Test" backgroundColor="gray" width="1200" height="900"/> + <region xml:id="image" top = "150" left = "200" width = "800" height="600" fit="meet" z-index = "1" /> + <region xml:id="audio" /> + <region xml:id="video" top = "175" left = "240" width = "720" height="550" +z-index = "1"/> + </layout> + </head> + <body> + <seq> + <video src = "video.wmv" dur="indefinite" region="video"/> + </seq> + </body> +</smil> diff --git a/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.mp3 b/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.mp3 Binary files differdeleted file mode 100755 index 113518e..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.mp3 +++ /dev/null diff --git a/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.smil b/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.smil deleted file mode 100644 index a99b168..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-11-13 lida-baker-listener-questions/2002-11-13.smil +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<head> - <layout> - <root-layout width="1200" height="900" background-color="black"/> - <region xml:id="textregion" - top="100" - width="800" - height="600" - left="100" - textMode="scroll" - textRate="6px" - textColor="black" - backgroundColor="white" - /> - <region xml:id="audio"/> - </layout> -</head> -<body> - <par> - <audio region = "audio" src = "2002-11-13.mp3" dur = "293s"/> - <smilText xml:id="CapF0" region="textregion" dur = "289s" begin="3s"> -<span textColor="black" textFontSize="xx-large" textFontStyle="normal" textFontFamily="serif" textFontWeight="bold"> -AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, -English teacher Lida Baker answers some of your questions. <p/> RS: -Starting with this from "Sunny," He Hong Feng, who asks: "May I say I -am an English teacher or should I say I am a teacher of English, as I -am a Chinese." <p/> BAKER: "If he says that he is an ENGLISH -teacher, with the stress on the word English, it means that he is a -teacher of the English language. So he is an ENGLISH teacher. Now, on -the other hand, if you say 'I am an ENGLISH TEACHER,' notice that both -of the words there are stressed equally, an ENGLISH TEACHER. That means -that you are a teacher whose nationality is English. Now I just want to -throw out a parallel case, quite a well-known one, which is: Where does -the president of the United States live?" <p/> AA: "The White House." <p/> -BAKER: "The White House. And you stressed the first word, WHITE House. -Now, one the other hand, if you stressed both words equally and you say -WHITE HOUSE, how would you use that?" <p/> AA: "I live in the white house." <p/> RS: "As opposed to the blue house or the green house." <p/> BAKER: "Correct." <p/> -AA: "Moving on, Rick Ming is a junior majoring in English in China, and -he would like to know how to get his classmates more interested in -current affairs. He says: 'Unfortunately, not all my classmates care -about current affairs. So the point is, how I am able to motivate them -to express the views on news freely in class?'" <p/> BAKER: "People -are interested in something or they're not. Most people are interested -in things that are of some kind of relevance to their lives. So I would -say if you want to discuss current events with your classmates, try to -select topics or issues that affect their lives in one way or another. <p/> -"But I suspect that a larger problem is, it's not that they're not -interested in current events, but rather it may be that his classmates -just feel that they don't have enough English to be able to do this -competently. So some ideas that come to my mind are, instead of talking -about, for example, Voice of America news headlines, to select the -feature stories, which have the scripts, posted on the Internet. <p/> -And before having the discussion with his classmates, each person could -read the scripts and that would give them the opportunity to spend some -time learning the vocabulary and thinking about the background of the -topic involved. So that's one thought that I had. <p/> "Another one -that I had was to give some thought to the linguistic skills that are -necessary in order to sustain a conversation or a discussion in -English. If you're talking about current events with somebody, you -would need to know how to express an opinion. You would need to know -how to agree with somebody or to disagree with somebody. You would need -to know how to ask questions. You would need to know how to ask -somebody to repeat what they have just said, or to explain what they -have just said. <p/> "Now all of those how-to's that I've just -mentioned are called language functions. And it might be useful for -this student to approach his English teacher and ask the teacher to -help him and his classmates learn some of these functions." <p/> RS: "It might also be a good idea for him to start a separate study group." <p/> BAKER: "I thought of that." <p/> RS: "A group that perhaps looks at an English language newspaper or looks at the VOA Web site, or -- " <p/> BAKER: "Or a club." <p/> RS: "Or a club, exactly, where interested people come together for this particular purpose." <p/> -BAKER: "Sure. One other idea that I had is to make use of the Internet. -There is a Web site, for example, called Dave's ESL Cafe. And there are -all kinds of discussion forums. But if you went to a search engine and -you typed in something like 'ESL discussion groups' I suspect you would -find others as well. So I think it's very worthwhile to make use of the -Internet, you know, via an online discussion group." <p/> RS: "And make new friends." <p/> BAKER: "That's right." <p/> -AA: Lida Baker teaches in the American Language Center at the -University of California at Los Angeles -- that is, when she's not -writing books for English learners. Lida can't answer questions -personally, but send them to Rosanne and me. <p/> RS: Write us at -VOA Wordmaster, Washington, DC 20237 USA or word@voanews.com. And our -Web site is voanews.com/wordmaster. With Avi Arditti, I'm Rosanne -Skirble. -</span> - </smilText> - </par> -</body> -</smil> diff --git a/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.mp3 b/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.mp3 Binary files differdeleted file mode 100755 index ad1c476..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.mp3 +++ /dev/null diff --git a/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.smil b/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.smil deleted file mode 100755 index 53d9bea..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-11-15 writing thank-you notes/2002-11-15.smil +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<head> - <layout> - <root-layout width="1200" height="900" background-color="black"/> - <region xml:id="textregion" - top="100" - width="800" - height="600" - left="100" - textMode="scroll" - textRate="6px" - textColor="black" - backgroundColor="white" - /> - <region xml:id="audio"/> - </layout> -</head> -<body> - <par> - <audio region = "audio" src = "2002-11-15.mp3" dur = "300s"/> - <smilText xml:id="CapF0" region="textregion" dur = "295s" begin="5s"> -<span textColor="black" textFontSize="xx-large" textFontStyle="normal" textFontFamily="serif" textFontWeight="bold"> -<p/> -RS: And I'm Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Some advice -on how to write a thank-you note, as many people will do in this season -of holiday gift giving. <p/> AA: Laura Kimoto is an instructor in -the Intensive English Program at Hawaii Community College. She's been -teaching her students from Asia what Americans learn about writing -thank-you's -- which is, above all, give details about what you're -saying thanks for. <p/> Laura Kimoto points out the need for -students to vary their writing. For instance, instead of using the word -"kindness" several times, she offers synonyms like "hospitality," -"generosity" or "thoughtfulness." <p/> RS: Some things, though, are harder to teach, like the social customs that make some words better left unsaid. <p/> KIMOTO: "For example, a girl used the word 'cute' to refer to this elderly couple: 'You are a cute elderly couple.'" <p/> AA: What's wrong with being called a "cute elderly couple"? <p/> -RS: Well, Americans generally avoid calling attention to age. And, to -refer to an older couple as "cute" might seem a little condescending. <p/> AA: Of course the student had no idea! She was just trying to thank a nice couple she had met. <p/> RS: You even have to be careful with your closing salutation. <p/> AA: "Do you not end a thank-you note with love? Is that not a good idea?" <p/> KIMOTO: "I would say that is not a good idea, depending on who the person is you are writing to, but most likely not." <p/> -RS: This time of year, Laura Kimoto suggests to her students at Hawaii -Community College: "Wishing you health and peace for the New Year." <p/> -AA: A phrase worthy of a professional greeting card -- which is what -Sandra Louden has written lots of over the years. She says a thank-you -should be "sincere" and "heartfelt" -- and, again, big on specifics! <p/> -RS: Sandra Louden says that even if a person gives you a gift of money, -you should tell the giver how you plan to use it. <p/> LOUDEN: "You -always remember, in any type of note you write, especially a thank-you -note, it should have that me-to-you quality. In other words I am -writing this note to specifically thank you, so I have you in mind when -I am writing this. So that me-to-you voice is always very nice, very -heartfelt, very successful, it makes for a very successful thank-you -note." <p/> RS: Sandra Louden says she likes to add a touch of -humor, but knows that some people are afraid to include it, afraid -that, as writers, they're too serious to be funny. If that's you, -consider this: <p/> LOUDEN: "It's really not as hard as you think, -if you think in a certain way, and one of those ways that I talk about -in classes that I teach, is to think literally. You might try something -like 'thanks a bunch' and on the front maybe draw a bunch of grapes and -have yourself smiling and sitting in those bunch of grapes, and that -would be 'thanks a bunch.' <p/> AA: "(laughing) I never thought of that!" <p/> -LOUDEN: "And if you want to do 'thanks a bunch' again, just think of -anything with a bunch. You could do a bunch of bananas. Now if you want -to get into another expression, then you say like 'thanks a million,' -maybe you want to tack some fake money on the front of the card you -make. You want to hand make a card and you get some of those -one-hundred-thousand-dollar bills that they sell in novelty shops, and -you tack that on the front of your card and you say 'thanks a ... -thanks a million.'" <p/> RS: And, she says, you can even employ humor on thank-you cards in a business setting. <p/> -LOUDEN: "For a lawyer for instance, 'There is no reasonable doubt, we -thank you very much.' Or for an accountant, 'when we tally our -blessings, we count you among them. Thank you for your patronage.' I -find that humor is a state of mind -- it cuts across age, gender, what -have you. Everyone appreciates a good laugh and a smile. And with a -thank you card, another component is to keep it very short and to the -point, and if it's based on a pun or a play on words, even if it's very -corny, it gets the message across and it adds that little extra punch -that people remember." <p/> AA: Sandra Louden is author of the book -"Write Well and Sell Greeting Cards." She also teaches an Internet -course at www.writerscollege.com. <p/> RS: And we'd like you to -remember our e-mail address: it's word@voanews.com. Or write us at VOA -Wordmaster, Washington DC 20237 USA. Oh, and thank you in advance! <p/> AA: With Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti. -</span> - </smilText> - </par> -</body> -</smil> diff --git a/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.mp3 b/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.mp3 Binary files differdeleted file mode 100755 index 392d696..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.mp3 +++ /dev/null diff --git a/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.smil b/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.smil deleted file mode 100644 index 5305128..0000000 --- a/test-items/2002-12-04 rap/2002-12-04.smil +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"> -<head> - <layout> - <root-layout width="1200" height="900" background-color="black"/> - <region xml:id="textregion" - top="100" - width="800" - height="600" - left="100" - textMode="scroll" - textRate="6px" - textColor="black" - backgroundColor="white" - /> - <region xml:id="audio"/> - </layout> -</head> -<body> - <par> - <audio region = "audio" src = "2002-12-04.mp3" dur = "300s"/> - <smilText xml:id="CapF0" region="textregion" dur = "295s" begin="5s"> -<span textColor="black" textFontSize="xx-large" textFontStyle="normal" textFontFamily="serif" textFontWeight="bold"> -<p/> -AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster --- the art of rap. This form of music sprang from the hip-hop culture -of young, urban African Americans. -<p/> RS: But, as often happens -with black music, it is a white artist who is getting lots of attention -lately -- especially now that he's starring in a semi-biographical -movie, called "8 Mile." We're talking about Eminem. That's E-M-I-N-E-M, -a play on the initials of his real name, Marshall Mathers. -<p/> AA: -A top rapper is known as an M-C, meaning "master of ceremonies" or -"microphone controller." A few years ago Priest Da Nomad, a local M-C -from Washington came into our studios to talk about rap. -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "To rap is basically just like to speak, but it's to -speak rhythmically. And when you -- you notice that when you talk -anyway, you kind of define a rhythm, but we don't really notice it. So -it's really like consciously doing it, and it's just using your brain, -which is a muscle. So it's like everything you do, it's like going to -the gym with your brain." -<p/> AA: "And you have to keep working out and working out and getting stronger." -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "And there's different aspects of rapping. The one I -specialize in is improvisational rhyming, which is called freestyling." -<p/> RS: Give him a word, he'll think up a rhyme. Here he goes off on the word "word." -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "We're going to break it down, the W, O, R to the aura -and the D -- that's me, representative from DC, calm MC's like -sedative, and that's a word, meaning to calm down, down I don't know, -maybe that's the way you go, adverb, when I come through, rhyming is -absurd. Or should I say the subject and the predicate -- before I hit -the predicate, you're looking at me, dang he got mike etiquette. Oh -goodness, smooth with this flowing eye, bust over the styles and hit -you with the flow -- it's like the Nile River, delivery, like poetry, -hit the high notes, like Al Green, on the scene, sort of like -Valvoline, my tongue was dipped in oil to slide by rhythms ... " -<p/> -AA: And he kept going. Priest Da Nomad started rapping when he was -twelve. He annoyed his teachers by tapping out rhythms on his desk. -<p/> RS: He mastered the art of freestyling with practice, but also speech training and working with others. -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "We used to take speech exercises like doing debates, -doing alliteration, going through the alphabet, doing story telling and -environment rhyming, which is just picking things out in the -environment and rhyming about them and just practicing like that. I -read the newspaper every day. I try to feed my brain with as much data -as possible, and then you practice drawing upon that data in a split -second." -<p/> AA: Priest Da Nomad says rap lyrics don't have to be violent or vulgar. But tell that to the record companies. -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "When you talk about money becoming an aspect, that -means things are going to happen to sell records. Certain artists and -certain types of music are pushed because it talks about a certain -lifestyle, and pop America -- white America -- is fascinated by that -lifestyle." -<p/> RS: "How different are you from the twelve-year-old who was pounding on his desk in junior high?" -<p/> -PRIEST DA NOMAD: "Well, I've grown and matured. I still have the same -passion, though. My whole thing with what I do is when I feel something -and when something moves me, I can't ignore it, and everyone from, like -teachers and parents -- my mother used to tell me, 'why are you doing - this?' She laughed at it at first because, she was like, 'OK, it's a -phase he's going through.' And then after high school -- we were -dealing with some record companies but before we could do a deal, one -of them folded -- I went to school for a little bit, to college, and -came back and got pulled back into music. Once I got back into it, I -was like, this is where my heart is and I'm not ever stopping." -<p/> MUSIC: "We Got" -<p/> -AA: We talked to Priest Da Nomad back in 1999, before he got the chance -to perform at a nationally televised millennium celebration here in -Washington. But, as he later told a Washington Post reporter, the -lyrics they gave him -- written by basketball star Shaquille O'Neal and -the rapper Coolio -- were "horrible." Too commercial. -<p/> RS: So -Priest ended up saying thanks but no thanks to the man who invited him: -the legendary black music producer Quincy Jones. Believe it or not, -Priest Da Nomad still has a career. -<p/> In fact, he's featured on -an album with another Washington D-C rapper, Storm the Unpredictable, -coming out in January -- plus he tells us he's working on a new album -of his own. -<p/> AA: And that's Wordmaster for this week. We're on -the Web at voanews.com/wordmaster, and our e-mail address is -word@voanews.com. 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-#download source tarball (ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-sources-2.7.1.tar.gz) from ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2 into $srcdir -LIBXML2 = ['wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-sources-2.7.1.tar.gz'] - -#download source tarball gettext-0.17.tar.gz into $srcdir -GETTEXT = ['wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz'] - -#download ffmpeg (svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg) -FFMPEG = ['svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg', 'cp -r $srcdir/ffmpeg .'] - -#Create a function, that takes a list parameter -#Function uses default keyword parameter of cmds -def runCommands(cmds): - #Iterates over list, running statements for each item in the list - count=0 - for cmd in cmds: - count += 1 - print "Running Command %s, %s" % (count, cmd) - subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True) - -#If ROOTDIR does not exist, downloads ambulant, extracts to ROOTDIR -def fetchAmbulant(): - if ROOTDIR.exists(): - fromscratch = False - return - else: - fromscratch = True - #download ambulant 2 and extract to ROOTDIR - wgetcmd = 'wget --directory-prefix ' + ROOTDIR + ' http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ambulant/ambulant-2.0.1-src.tgz' - print 'wget', wgetcmd - subprocess.call(wgetcmd, shell=True) - print 'tar', tarcmd - tarcmd = 'tar -xf ambulant-2.0.1-src.tgz' - subprocess.call(tarcmd, shell=True, cwd=ROOTDIR) - -def fetchTPP(): - print 'fromscratch', fromscratch, options.fetch - if fromscratch or "expat" in options.fetch: - wgetcmd = 'wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz' - print 'expat wget', wgetcmd - subprocess.call(wgetcmd, shell=True, cwd=ROOTDIR) - tarcmd = 'tar -xf ' + ROOTDIR + '/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz' - print 'expat tarcmd', tarcmd - subprocess.call(tarcmd, shell=True, cwd=TPPDIR) - if fromscratch or "ffmpeg" in options.fetch: - svncmd = 'svn checkout -r "{2008-06-15}" svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg' - print 'ffmpeg', svncmd - subprocess.call(svncmd, shell=True, cwd=TPPDIR) - if fromscratch or "libsdl" in options.fetch: - wgetcmd = 'wget http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz' - print 'libsdl', wgetcmd - subprocess.call(wgetcmd, shell=True, cwd=ROOTDIR) - tarcmd = 'tar -xf ' + ROOTDIR + '/SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz' - print 'libsdl', tarcmd - subprocess.call(tarcmd, shell=True, cwd=TPPDIR) - if fromscratch or "live555" in options.fetch: - wgetcmd = 'wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz' - print 'live555', wgetcmd - subprocess.call(wgetcmd, shell=True, cwd=ROOTDIR) - tarcmd = 'tar -xf ' + ROOTDIR + '/live555-latest.tar.gz' - print 'live555', tarcmd - subprocess.call(tarcmd, shell=True, cwd=TPPDIR) - if fromscratch or "libxml2" in options.fetch: - wgetcmd = 'wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz' - print 'libxml2', wgetcmd - subprocess.call(wgetcmd, shell=True, cwd=ROOTDIR) - tarcmd = 'tar -xf ' + ROOTDIR + '/libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz' - print 'libxml2', tarcmd - subprocess.call(tarcmd, shell=True, cwd=TPPDIR) - -def buildTPP(): - if fromscratch or "expat" in options.build: - configcmd = './configure --prefix=' + TPPDIR + '/expat-unix' - cwdpath = TPPDIR + '/expat-2.0.1' - subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make install', shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - if fromscratch or "ffmpeg" in options.build: - configcmd = './configure --enable-gpl' - cwdpath = TPPDIR + '/ffmpeg' - subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath) - if fromscratch or "libsdl" in options.build: - print 'build libsdl' - configcmd = './configure' - cwdpath = TPPDIR + '/SDL-1.2.13' - subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make install', shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - if fromscratch or "live555" in options.build: - print 'build live555' - configcmd = './genMakefiles linux' - cwdpath = TPPDIR + '/live' - subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath) - if fromscratch or "libxml2" in options.build: - print 'build libxml2' - configcmd = './configure' - cwdpath = TPPDIR + '/libxml2-2.7.3' - subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath) - subprocess.call('make install', shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - -def buildAmbulant(): - if not test == 'yes': - #configcmd = './configure --with-live --with-python --with-ffmpeg' - configcmd = './configure --with-ffmpeg --with-live -with-python' - cwdpath = ROOTDIR + '/ambulant-2.0.1' - retcode = subprocess.call(configcmd, shell=True, cwd=cwdpath) - if retcode > 0: - print 'ambulant configure failed' - return - logfile = open('make.log', 'w') - retcode = subprocess.call('make', shell = True, cwd=cwdpath, stdout=logfile, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT) - logfile.close() - if retcode > 0: - print 'ambulant make failed' - return - logfile = open('install.log', 'w') - retcode = subprocess.call('make install', shell=True, cwd=cwdpath, stdout=logfile, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) - logfile.close() - if retcode > 0: - print 'ambulant install failed' - return - -#builds ambulant -def main(): - temp = 'ROOTDIR= ' + str(ROOTDIR) + ' ' + str(ROOTDIR.exists()) + '\n' - print temp - print 'fetch= ' + fetch + '\n' - print 'build= ' + build + '\n' - #fetch ambulant if ROOTDIR does not exist - fetchAmbulant() - #download latest version of selected packages - fetchTPP() - #build selected packages - buildTPP() - #build ambulant - buildAmbulant() - print 'done' - -#This idiom means the below code only runs when executed from command line -if __name__ == '__main__': - sys.stdout = open("ambulant.log", "w") - parser = optparse.OptionParser("usage: %ambulant [options] ") - #option --prefix = path to ambulant folder; if ambulant folder does not exist, fetch ambulant and all third-party packages - #option --fetch=[expat, ffmpeg, ...] list of packages to download - #option --build=[expat, ffmpeg, ...] list of packages to build - - parser.add_option("-p", "--prefix", dest="prefix", - default="/home/tony/Documents/testambulant", type="string", - help="path to ambulant2 folder") - - parser.add_option("-f", "--fetch", dest="fetch", - default="[]", type="string", - help="list of packages to be downloaded, e.g. [expat, ffmpeg]") - parser.add_option("-b", "--build", dest="build", default="[]", - type="string", help="list of packages to be built, e.g. [expat, ffmpeg") - parser.add_option("-t", "--test", dest="test", default="no", type="string", help="--test to log commands but not execute") - - (options, args) = parser.parse_args() - - prefix = options.prefix - fetch = options.fetch - build = options.build - test = options.test - - print 'options prefix', prefix - print 'options fetch', fetch - print 'options build', build - print 'options test', test - - if len(prefix) > 0: - ROOTDIR = path(prefix) - else: - ROOTDIR = path('/home/tony/Documents/testambulant') - print 'ROOTDIR', ROOTDIR - TPPDIR= path(ROOTDIR / 'ambulant-2.0.1' / 'third_party_packages') - print 'ROOTDIR', ROOTDIR - print 'TPPDIR', TPPDIR - main() -sys.exit() |
